GET /v1/company/:handle/founders
Founder intelligence for a company. Identifies founders via social graph analysis and enriches with LinkedIn data.
Cost: 100 credits per call
curl "https://frontrun.vc/v1/company/stealth_ai_co/founders" \
-H "X-API-Key: your_api_key"Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
handle | string (path) | -- | X username of the company. Required. |
Response
{
"company": "stealth_ai_co",
"company_name": "Stealth AI",
"founders": [
{
"handle": "janesmith_ai",
"name": "Jane Smith",
"role": "CEO & Co-Founder",
"bio": "Building Stealth AI. Previously ML lead at Google Brain. Stanford PhD.",
"previous_companies": ["Google", "DeepMind"],
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janesmithai",
"linkedin_headline": "Co-founder & CEO at Stealth AI",
"confidence": "high",
"discovered_via": "frontrun_v2",
"evidence": []
},
{
"handle": "bob_eng",
"name": "Bob Chen",
"role": "CTO",
"bio": "Infrastructure. Ex-Stripe.",
"previous_companies": ["Stripe", "Square"],
"linkedin_url": null,
"confidence": "medium",
"discovered_via": "company_following",
"evidence": []
}
],
"sources_used": ["pipeline_cache", "linkedin"],
"total_found": 2,
"cost_credits": 100,
"balance_credits": 9440
}| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
confidence | string | How sure we are that this person is a founder of the company. high when the match is verified (evidence-gated resolver or an explicit founder link), medium otherwise. Not a numeric score. |
discovered_via | string | Which discovery layer produced this founder, for example frontrun_v2, pipeline, company_following, tweet_search. |
linkedin_url | string | LinkedIn profile URL when a match was found, otherwise null. |
linkedin_headline | string | LinkedIn headline. Only present when LinkedIn enrichment ran and matched. |
previous_companies | array | Notable previous employers identified from LinkedIn and bio. Empty when no work history was resolved. |
sources_used | array | The discovery layers that contributed to this response. |
Founders are returned sorted by confidence (high first). When no founders are found, the call is free: you get "founders": [], "cost_credits": 0, and a resolution_status of either resolving (live discovery is still running, retry in about a minute) or none_found.