Operating profit added to the Companies API

18th December 2024

We have added the operating profit to the financial summary available in the Companies API. This will be included in the latest and five most recent historical accounts returned.

operating_profitis a new field you can now include in your request for example:

  "results": [
    {
      "id": "x8x47k",
      "basic": {
        "name": "Exponential-e"
      },
      "latest_accounts": {
        "year_end_date": "2024-01-31",
        "turnover": 236794000,
        "operating_profit": 24406000
      },
      "historic_accounts": [
        {
          "year_end_date": "2024-01-31",
          "turnover": 236794000,
          "operating_profit": 24406000
        },
        {
          "year_end_date": "2023-01-31",
          "turnover": 206599000,
          "operating_profit": 22030000
        },
        {
          "year_end_date": "2022-01-31",
          "turnover": 184057000,
          "operating_profit": 21476000
        },
        {
          "year_end_date": "2021-01-31",
          "turnover": 170086000,
          "operating_profit": 28982000
        },
        {
          "year_end_date": "2020-01-31",
          "turnover": 142468000,
          "operating_profit": 23570000
        }
      ]
    }
  ]

Search for people by email address

6th December 2024

You can now search for people through the People API by their email address. This will let you find and enrich data on people that you know.

We have added a new email parameter to the request where you can search over a list of email addresses.

New Investor IDs in Transactions API

7th May 2024

Through the Transactions API we returned a list of the investor names involved in a fundraising.

We have now added a new field investors which returns a list of our internal IDs for the investor along with the investor name to enable you to attribute investments to the same fund.

An example response:

 "results": [
    {
      "id": "m64ci3",
      "name": "Skyverse",
      "companies_house_id": "12928805",
      "fundraisings": [
        {
          "id": "hge4",
          "date_raised": "2024-05-08",
          "amount_raised_gbp": 171171,
          "stage_of_evolution_at_date_raised": "Seed",
          "beauhurst_url": "https://platform.beauhurst.com/transaction/fundraising/hge4/",
          "valuation_gbp": 4996435,
          "valuation_confidence": "High",
          "is_announced": true,
          "purposes_of_funding": [],
          "types_of_funding": [
            "Equity"
          ],
          "investor_names": [
            "South East Angels"
          ],
          "investors": [
            {
              "id": "r35w",
              "name": "South East Angels"
            }
          ],
          "stake_taken_percentage": "3.4"
        }

Industries added, Buzzwords improved

24th April 2024

We have added our new industry classifications to the Company API!

You may have seen on our platform we have recently launched industries improving the quality, scale and relevance of company classifications. You can now access these through the API. If you want more information on the industry classifications please reach out to your Account Manager.

Two new fields have been added to the Company API which you can now request:

industriesA list of industries for the company

top_level_industry_groups A list of top level groups for the industries the company is in

An example response:

"results": [
    {
      "id": "yrt8hp",
      "basic": {
        "name": "Quantexa"
      },
      "classification": {
        "industries": [
          "Application software",
          "Data provision and analysis",
          "Risk and compliance"
        ],
        "top_level_industry_groups": [
          "Information technology, telecommunications and data",
          "Safety and security",
          "Software"
        ]

These won't be directly replacing our previous sectors so those will continue working with this new release but we recommend moving over to using industries for better data coverage.

Alongside this we have improved our buzzwords, making them available over a larger number of companies and updating some classifications. This update will come through automatically through the buzzword field in the Company API.