New investment

Description

A New Investment event tracks when an organization or investor makes a strategic investment in a company. This data helps identify market movements, strategic partnerships, and industry growth patterns.

Important: The New Investment event surfaces only recent investment activities within the last quarter (timestamp_from should be set to the past 3 months). If there was no investment recorded during this period, the response will be empty.

For historical investment records, use the Funding & Acquisitions Enrichment API.

Use cases

  • Investor Tracking: Monitor investment activity from venture capitalists, private equity firms, and corporations.
  • Market Trends: Understand which sectors and companies are receiving financial backing.
  • Competitive Intelligence: Gain insight into competitor investments and expansion plans.
  • Strategic Partnerships: Identify relationships between investors and businesses.

Data Schema

Event Name: "new_investment" (Use this value in the event_types parameter when querying this event.)

SignalAPI NameDescriptionData Type
Type of investmentinvestment_typeType of investment extracted from the report or article.string
Event timeevent_timeThe timestamp indicating when the event actually occurreddatetime
Target of investmentinvestment_targetText extracted from the article describing the target of the investment.string (nullable)
Snippet of articlesnippetSnippet of the published article or report on company's new investment.string
Title of new investment articletitleTitle of published news report or article on company's new investment.string
Link to articlelinkLink to article announcing the company's new investment.url
Amount of investmentinvestment_amountSize of investment in dollars extracted from the article.number (nullable)
Investment Currencyinvestment_amount_currencyThe currency code (ISO 4217) that specifies the currency of the investment amount. For example, USD for US Dollars or EUR for Euros.currency_code (nullable)

Query Example

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/events" \
  -H "API_KEY: your_api_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "event_types": [
    "new_investment"
  ],
  "business_ids": [
    "8adce3ca1cef0c986b22310e369a0793"
  ],
  "timestamp_from": "2025-01-01T10:03:03.050Z"
}'

Best Practices

  • Filter by investment type to track strategic vs. financial investments.
  • Analyze investment targets to identify high-growth companies and sectors.
  • Monitor investment amounts to assess the scale of market movements.

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