Developers

Founder Ventures publishes its content library and city events as a public API for agents and developers. There is no key to request, no registration, and no OAuth. Call it.

Endpoints

GET /api/agents/search?q=activation

Keyword search over the content library. Returns title, path, and an excerpt.

curl "https://founderventures.io/api/agents/search?q=activation"

GET /api/agents/markdown?path=/glossary/product-led-growth

Markdown source of any content page, with the canonical URL in a Link header.

curl "https://founderventures.io/api/agents/markdown?path=/glossary/product-led-growth"

GET /api/agents/city-events

Curated tech-founder events by city, refreshed daily from Luma.

curl "https://founderventures.io/api/agents/city-events"

POST /api/mcp

MCP endpoint (JSON-RPC 2.0) exposing the same three tools to an MCP client.

curl -X POST "https://founderventures.io/api/mcp" -H "content-type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Markdown instead of HTML

Send Accept: text/markdown to any page under /glossary, /playbooks, /best, /alternatives, /pricing, /careers, /newsletter, /analysis, /cases, /compare, or /data and you get the markdown source instead of the rendered page.

curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" "https://founderventures.io/glossary/product-led-growth"

Discovery documents

  • llms.txt What this site is for, and when an agent should reach for it.
  • OpenAPI 3.1 Machine-readable description of every endpoint above.
  • API catalog RFC 9727 linkset pointing at the service description and docs.
  • Agent skills Skill documents describing how to use these endpoints.
  • MCP server card Transport and tool list for the MCP endpoint.
  • auth.md Authentication, or rather why none is needed.

Rate limits and usage

Identify yourself with a descriptive User-Agent and keep to a reasonable request rate. There is no published quota. Search indexing and AI input are welcome, training is not: see robots.txt for the Content Signals. Questions go to the team.