search_companies
Search Companies
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Finds companies by firmographics — country, headcount, funding stage — within the
set BounceWatch actively observes, most recently refreshed first.
By default it returns only companies we have observed in the last 90 days, so the
firmographics you get are backed by recent observation rather than a record we
last touched years ago. Each result reports its signal activity, so you can tell a
closely-watched company from a thinly-covered one.
If you want companies selected by what HAPPENED to them rather than by what they
ARE — recently funded, hiring, expanding — use search_signals instead. That is the
stronger discovery path and usually the one you want.
Cost: 5 credits per call. Failed calls are not charged.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the company HQ, e.g. "NL", "DE", "US". |
| min_employees | integer | no | Minimum headcount. Companies whose headcount we do not hold are excluded when this is set — same rule as founded_after, and for the same reason: not knowing a number is not evidence it falls outside the range. |
| max_employees | integer | no | Maximum headcount. Same exclusion of unknown headcounts as min_employees. |
| funding_stage | string | no | Funding stage, e.g. "Seed", "Series A", "Pre Seed". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know. |
| observed_within_days | integer | no | Only companies we observed within this many days, 30-365. Default 90. Widening it grows the result set but lowers confidence in the firmographics, because the record is older. There is no way to switch this off — pass 0 and the widest available window (365) runs instead, and the answer says so. This tool covers the companies we watch, not the whole market. |
| founded_after | integer | no | Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so. |
| founded_before | integer | no | Only companies founded in or before this year. Same exclusion of unknown founding years as founded_after. |
| limit | integer | no | Max companies to return. Default 20, max 50. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the company HQ, e.g. \"NL\", \"DE\", \"US\"."
},
"min_employees": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Minimum headcount. Companies whose headcount we do not hold are excluded when this is set — same rule as founded_after, and for the same reason: not knowing a number is not evidence it falls outside the range."
},
"max_employees": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum headcount. Same exclusion of unknown headcounts as min_employees."
},
"funding_stage": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Funding stage, e.g. \"Seed\", \"Series A\", \"Pre Seed\". Spacing, case and hyphens are normalised; a value that matches nothing is rejected with the valid list rather than returning a near-empty result. This is the costliest filter here: a company whose stage we do not hold is excluded rather than guessed at, so it narrows the field twice — once by stage, once by what we know."
},
"observed_within_days": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only companies we observed within this many days, 30-365. Default 90. Widening it grows the result set but lowers confidence in the firmographics, because the record is older. There is no way to switch this off — pass 0 and the widest available window (365) runs instead, and the answer says so. This tool covers the companies we watch, not the whole market."
},
"founded_after": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only companies founded in or after this year, e.g. 2023. Companies whose founding year we do not hold are excluded when this is set, and the result says so."
},
"founded_before": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only companies founded in or before this year. Same exclusion of unknown founding years as founded_after."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max companies to return. Default 20, max 50."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}