Fund Momentum

START HERE for any question about limited partners (LPs). Answers "does Fund Momentum cover my geography and LP type" with COUNTS ONLY: how many disclosed LPs match, and how many of those have backed emerging managers. It never returns a name, slug, website or commitment. COST: free, works with no API key at all (counts against the keyless daily allowance), and is never billed to agent credits or a monthly quota. Counts below 5 are reported as "<5" and zero as "none". Call this before search_lps to find out whether LP Radar covers what you need.

FOR STAYING CURRENT, not for discovery: return only the funds whose data changed since a given timestamp. COST: free, no API key required. With no key it reaches back at most 7 days; a free key widens that to 30 days, and a paid caller is not limited. A shortened window is declared as since_floor_applied, never silently truncated. Designed for cheap repeated polling: send the `next_since` AND the `etag` from your previous response, and an unchanged window answers with `unchanged: true` and no rows. Each row has change_type created, signal_updated or close_updated; close_updated means Fund Momentum published a new first, interim or final close for that fund and carries a last_close block with type, date, size and source URL. Use this instead of re-running search_funds on a schedule. One call here replaces a full re-crawl. Polls that return no changes are free: they do not count against quotas or credits (the per-minute pace limit still applies).

THEN: get the detailed profile of one fund, using a slug returned by search_funds. COST: free, no API key required. Every response carries a `provenance` block stating where each field came from (including per-field sources), when it was last verified, and how confident Fund Momentum is in it, plus a `last_close` block (close type, date, amount and currency as stated, source URL) when Fund Momentum has covered a close of this fund. Do not guess the slug from a fund's display name; it will usually be wrong and the call is wasted. A near-miss is resolved only when exactly one fund matches, and the result then carries `resolved_from`; a name matching several funds is listed, not guessed.

DRILL DOWN on a fund you already identified with search_funds or get_fund. Returns investor signals: GP thesis, bullish and contrarian signals, founder dos and don'ts, deployment status and source URLs. This is the tool to use before writing an outreach message to a specific fund. COST: included in Pro, or €0.10 per call over MPP if you have no key. Roughly 96% of funds carry signals; the rest return not_found BEFORE any payment is taken, so a wrong slug is never charged for.

DRILL DOWN to the people: General Partner profiles for a fund you already identified. Use this when the question is who to approach and what they personally focus on, rather than what the fund does. COST: included in Pro, or €0.10 per call over MPP if you have no key. A fund with no published GP data returns not_found before any payment. Requires a slug from search_funds.

START HERE for 'how many calls or credits do I have left'. COST: free, no API key required, and it does not count against the keyless 10 calls per day (it is subject to the per-minute pace limit like every call). Returns your tier (keyless, free, starter, pro, enterprise or agent), calls used and remaining for the current window (daily for keyless, monthly for plans), credits remaining for agent keys, when the window resets (resets_at), and your per-minute pace limit. Never charges anything.

ALTERNATIVE ENTRY POINT when you do not know what to search for. Describe a startup in plain language and receive the top 10 matching funds, each with a slug, a reason and a score. Use this instead of search_funds when the brief is qualitative ('climate hardware, pre-seed, Europe') rather than a filter. Slower than the other tools, three to ten seconds, because it reasons over every tracked fund: allow for that before you time out and retry. COST: included in Pro, or €0.25 per call over MPP if you have no key.

START HERE for any question about funds. Search actively deploying venture capital funds by stage, country, industry and recent closes. COST: free, and it works with no API key at all. Returns name, slug, country, stage, fund size, industries, the latest published close (lastCloseDate, lastCloseType) and a durable profile URL. For 'which funds just closed', pass closed_since: results then come newest close first. The `slug` in each result is what every other tool takes as input, so run this first and copy the slug rather than constructing one from a fund's name.

THEN, for LP Radar subscribers: return limited partner records (name, slug, LP type, HQ country and city, geographic focus, website, emerging-manager backing, verified flag) filtered by country, LP type and emerging-manager backing, at most 25 per call. Set backs_emerging_managers=true to see only LPs that have already backed a first or second fund — for a first-time manager that is usually the only filter that matters. Requires LP Radar (EUR 199 per month or EUR 1,499 per year, https://fundmomentum.vc/lp-radar). Not available per call, on agent credits or on the keyless trial. Unlimited calls for subscribers. Use check_lp_coverage first — it is free and tells you whether the dataset covers your geography and LP type before you pay anything. Send the API key of the account that holds LP Radar. A caller without it gets error_reason "lp_access_required" together with the coverage count for its filters, never a payment challenge. website is null when no website is on record; it is never omitted.

Tell the Fund Momentum team about a bug, a data problem or a missing feature. COST: free, no API key required, and it does not count against the keyless 10 calls per day; limited to 5 per caller per UTC day. Stores one short message and nothing else happens: nobody is notified instantly and there is no reply. Describe the problem generically and leave out names, email addresses and other personal details of third parties (founders, GPs, LPs); never paste private documents or credentials.