Company news distilled into signal.
Specter reads 60,000+ verified sources and turns every article into structured, company-linked data: an AI summary of what changed, categories, and an importance score.
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The pulse of global intelligence on every company record.
One signal per company mention
Every article is resolved to the companies it mentions, one signal per company. Coverage lands on the records you track instead of a keyword feed.
What's new in one line
An AI summary of what the article reports for the company, figures included. Titles are translated to English with the original kept alongside.
Scored 0-5 with majors flagged
Every signal carries an importance score; 4+ is major news. One toggle in the product or one query param in the API filters the routine mentions away.
Classified for action
Publication categories like Funding Announcement, M&A, and Product & Service Updates, plus flags for revenue, profitability, traction, funding, and deal updates.
Five kinds of update from every article.
An article is only useful once you know what changed. Specter classifies every company mention by the update it carries and extracts the figures behind it, so a quarter of coverage compresses into a feed you can rank and filter.
Revenue updates
ARR and revenue figures as companies report them, with the original amount, interval, and year. Often months before any database carries them.
Profitability
Profit, loss, and break-even statements, extracted with the context they were made in.
Traction milestones
Customers, users, volumes, and growth claims, pulled from the article into the company's traction record.
Funding rounds
Rounds with amounts, valuations, and named investors, each linked to their Specter record.
Deals & M&A
Acquisitions, partnerships, and exits, with counterparty, price, structure, and status.
Your portfolio's newsroom.
Put your portcos in a list. Or your pipeline, a rival investor's portfolio, any watchlist. Specter reads the news for every member, and one click opens the feed for exactly those companies, majors first.
Turn one company into its whole market.
Every company record carries a ranked set of competitors, recomputed continuously. Turn a portco into its full market in one step: list the rivals and their coverage reads as one feed the day stories land.
“We've already found one of our investments through Specter! That being said, its value extends beyond pure sourcing. Signals provide a level of intelligence that's valuable throughout the entire investment lifecycle.”
Pietro Invernizzi
Founder of firedrop
“Specter's performance-based signals draw us towards the right startups at the right time, so we're prepared as we can be to make the right decision.”
Danny Chepenko
Corporate VC at inDrive
News Signals are first-class resources in Specter's REST API. Resolve any identifier to a company, pull its full news history, map its competitors, and fan out across a whole list. Every signal already carries the article context, the AI summary, and the score.
Get company news
GET /companies/{companyId}/news-signalsFind company ID
POST /companies/resolveGet company competitors
POST /companies/{companyId}/competitorsGet company list results
GET /lists/companies/{listId}/results// Get company news: [ { "signal_id": 538589, "article_id": 914756, "article_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petterblid_q2-report", "published_date": "2026-07-10", "fetched_at": "2026-07-10T09:19:40Z", "title": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.", "title_original": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.", "featured_image_url": "https://www.breakit.se/img/default.png", "categories": ["Revenue Update", "Profitability Update", "Growth"], "entity_id": "5e3bbea200c8f4c9669f6601", "company_name": "Litium", "company_domain": "litium.com", "meaningful_updates": ["REVENUE_UPDATE", "PROFIT_UPDATE"], "whats_new": "Litium ARR SEK 100M (prev ~SEK 90M in 2025); returned to profitability, Cash EBITDA positive in June.", "score": 4, "traction": "SEK 100M ARR, Net revenue increased 32%, ARR grew 19%" }, { "signal_id": 541203, "article_id": 918441, "article_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/acme-series-b/", "published_date": "2026-07-08", "title": "Acme raises $40M Series B led by Lead VC", "categories": ["Funding Announcement"], "entity_id": "66d926166261234567890123", "company_name": "Acme", "company_domain": "acme.com", "meaningful_updates": ["FUNDING_UPDATE"], "whats_new": "Acme raised a $40M Series B led by Lead VC.", "score": 4 } ]
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Agentic chat native to Specter. Ask what happened across your portfolio this week, which rival just raised, or what a headline means for the deal. The agent plans the work, runs the tools across the live news feed, and comes back with digests and briefs you can act on.
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Now we spend far less time on infrastructure and spend more of our time building those relationships and investing behind the best founders in our ecosystems. I think Specter will become table stakes for any fund that wants to be in the top quartile.
Richard Dulude
Partner at Underscore VC
In a short period of time, Specter has become an integral part of how we ensure we have 100% coverage of the markets we operate in.
Gideon Hayden
Partner at Leaders Fund
We continually evaluate tools on the market, and Specter repeatedly stands out with its highly differentiated UX and comprehensive data.
Andrea Gurnari
Partner at 2100 Ventures
We are embedding Specter into all our workstreams, and it is showing significant promise as part of our strategy to find the next company we will back.
Ozge Sevim
Investor at 212 Ventures
Specter enhances the efficiency of our operations, and contributes to the in-house data systems we build to generate alpha. Covering both bases makes it a highly versatile and valued part of our tech stack.
Abhijay Thacker
VP at Picus Capital
Specter allows me to narrow or expand the scope of searches at will, without needing to build or maintain any of the data pipelines and infrastructure myself. Using it on a daily basis is super powerful.
Timothy Chen
Partner at Essence VC
We've already found one of our investments through Specter! That being said, its value extends beyond pure sourcing. Signals provide a level of intelligence that's valuable throughout the entire investment lifecycle.
Pietro Invernizzi
Founder of firedrop
Specter's performance-based signals draw us towards the right startups at the right time, so we're prepared as we can be to make the right decision.
Danny Chepenko
Corporate VC at inDrive
We've invested in a founder with roots at Stanford and Wharton. They were a rising star in their industry with a strong technical background. We found them as a Stealth signal through Specter.
Iynna Halilou
Partner at The MBA Fund
Tools like Specter surface early talent signals, company foundations, team moves, and nascent traction, beyond what internal scouts can manually track. We see companies we wouldn't see otherwise.
Ben Urwin
Data at Giant Ventures
Specter has been a useful addition to our sourcing stack - it's surfaced interesting companies we might have otherwise missed and helps keep our pipeline fresh.
Dominique Yadegar
VP at Bonfire Ventures
Specter is my go-to for founder outreach before anything else. My time on LinkedIn is substantially reduced; I open Specter, run our saved searches, look at Talent and Investor signals, and reach out
Aarushi Sharma
Investor at BEENEXT
Now we spend far less time on infrastructure and spend more of our time building those relationships and investing behind the best founders in our ecosystems. I think Specter will become table stakes for any fund that wants to be in the top quartile.
Richard Dulude
Partner at Underscore VC
In a short period of time, Specter has become an integral part of how we ensure we have 100% coverage of the markets we operate in.
Gideon Hayden
Partner at Leaders Fund
We continually evaluate tools on the market, and Specter repeatedly stands out with its highly differentiated UX and comprehensive data.
Andrea Gurnari
Partner at 2100 Ventures
We are embedding Specter into all our workstreams, and it is showing significant promise as part of our strategy to find the next company we will back.
Ozge Sevim
Investor at 212 Ventures
Specter enhances the efficiency of our operations, and contributes to the in-house data systems we build to generate alpha. Covering both bases makes it a highly versatile and valued part of our tech stack.
Abhijay Thacker
VP at Picus Capital
Specter allows me to narrow or expand the scope of searches at will, without needing to build or maintain any of the data pipelines and infrastructure myself. Using it on a daily basis is super powerful.
Timothy Chen
Partner at Essence VC
We've already found one of our investments through Specter! That being said, its value extends beyond pure sourcing. Signals provide a level of intelligence that's valuable throughout the entire investment lifecycle.
Pietro Invernizzi
Founder of firedrop
Specter's performance-based signals draw us towards the right startups at the right time, so we're prepared as we can be to make the right decision.
Danny Chepenko
Corporate VC at inDrive
We've invested in a founder with roots at Stanford and Wharton. They were a rising star in their industry with a strong technical background. We found them as a Stealth signal through Specter.
Iynna Halilou
Partner at The MBA Fund
Tools like Specter surface early talent signals, company foundations, team moves, and nascent traction, beyond what internal scouts can manually track. We see companies we wouldn't see otherwise.
Ben Urwin
Data at Giant Ventures
Specter has been a useful addition to our sourcing stack - it's surfaced interesting companies we might have otherwise missed and helps keep our pipeline fresh.
Dominique Yadegar
VP at Bonfire Ventures
Specter is my go-to for founder outreach before anything else. My time on LinkedIn is substantially reduced; I open Specter, run our saved searches, look at Talent and Investor signals, and reach out
Aarushi Sharma
Investor at BEENEXT