# GET /v1/company/:handle/founders

> Source: https://www.frontrun.vc/docs/endpoints/company-founders
> Raw markdown: https://www.frontrun.vc/raw/docs/endpoints/company-founders.md
> Full docs (single file): https://www.frontrun.vc/llms-full.txt

Founder intelligence for a company. Identifies founders via social graph analysis and enriches with LinkedIn data.

**Cost:** Draws on your monthly usage.

```bash
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

```json
{
  "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,
  "usage_pct": 12,
  "usage_resets_at": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"
}
```

| 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": []` and a `resolution_status` of either `resolving` (live discovery is still running, retry in about a minute) or `none_found`.