canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/datahyena.com/datahyena # Datahyena Public API The Datahyena API serves read-only market intelligence on private-company activity, listing funding events, acquisitions, and executive moves alongside the companies and investors behind them. A per-company timeline endpoint assembles those events into a chronological history for one company, and a bulk variant returns timelines for many companies in a single request. ## For AI agents Read funding events, acquisitions, executive moves, companies, and investors from Datahyena. Pull a chronological event timeline for one company or request timelines for several companies at once. ## Scope Does not handle contact enrichment, CRM syncing, or outreach. Use for reading funding events, acquisitions, executive moves, and investor data only. ## Capabilities - List recent funding events across private-market companies - Track acquisitions and the companies involved in each deal - Monitor executive moves to see who changed roles and where - Retrieve a chronological event timeline for a single company - Fetch event timelines for a batch of companies in one request - Look up investors and the companies they are associated with ## Use cases ### Deal-Flow Monitoring Agent An AI agent watches private-market activity for a venture or corporate-development team. It lists new funding events and acquisitions, cross-references the companies involved, and builds a running digest. The agent discovers each Datahyena operation through Jentic by intent, so it reads funding events and acquisitions without hardcoding the endpoint paths. Example prompt: List the latest funding events and acquisitions, then compile a digest of the companies that raised or were acquired ### Investor Research An analyst needs the activity profile of an investor and the companies they are associated with. The agent looks up the investor, then pulls the event timeline for each company to show how recent each event is. Datahyena returns the investor and company records read-only, so the agent assembles the profile without writing any data back. Example prompt: Look up an investor by name and return the companies they are linked to with each company's event timeline ### Executive-Move Alerts A sales or recruiting team wants to know when leaders change roles at target accounts. The agent lists executive moves, filters to the companies on its watchlist, and surfaces the relevant changes. Because the endpoint is read-only, the agent polls it on a schedule and reports new moves. Example prompt: List recent executive moves and return only those at companies on a given watchlist ## Key endpoints | Method | Path | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | GET | `/v1/funding-events` | List funding events | | GET | `/v1/acquisitions` | List acquisitions | | GET | `/v1/exec-moves` | List executive moves | | GET | `/v1/companies` | List companies | | GET | `/v1/companies/timeline` | Get a single company's event timeline | | POST | `/v1/companies/timeline` | Get event timelines for multiple companies | | GET | `/v1/investors` | List investors | ## Key resources - **Funding events** — List funding events raised by private-market companies - **Acquisitions** — List acquisitions and the companies involved in each deal - **Executive moves** — List executive role changes across companies - **Companies and timelines** — List companies and retrieve single or bulk event timelines - **Investors** — List investors and the companies they are associated with ## AI readiness This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use. - **Score:** 63 / 100 - **Maturity:** AI-Aware - **Dimensions:** - Foundational Compliance: 74 / 100 - Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility: 69 / 100 - AI-Readiness & Agent Experience: 47 / 100 - Agent Usability: 94 / 100 - Security: 50 / 100 - AI Discoverability: 73 / 100 - **View full report:** https://jentic.com/apis/datahyena.com/datahyena/scorecard - **How the score is calculated:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/overview/ - **More about the dimensions:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/specification/#dimensional-model-overview ### Score it yourself Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required. - **Score your own API:** https://jentic.com/scorecard.md - **Scoring CLI agent skill:** https://github.com/jentic/jentic-api-scorecard/blob/main/skills/jentic-api-scorecard/SKILL.md ```sh npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score ``` ## Why Jentic - **Setup:** Wiring Datahyena by hand means issuing an API key, sending it in the X-API-Key header on every request, and parsing its JSON list responses yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Datahyena from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it. - **Permission scoping:** Datahyena is read-only, so the strongest rule is which datasets your agent may read: you can allow funding events and acquisitions while leaving investor or executive-move lookups out unless you add them. You choose the operations it may call. - **Credential handling:** Your Datahyena API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context. - **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as list recent funding events or get a company timeline, and Jentic returns the matching Datahyena operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the reference docs. ## Related APIs - **Crunchbase** — Crunchbase is a broad company and funding database; Datahyena focuses on a stream of funding, acquisition, and executive-move events. - **Apollo.io** — Apollo supplies contacts and prospecting data; Datahyena supplies the funding and leadership-change signals that trigger outreach. - **Clearbit** — Clearbit enriches a single company record with firmographic attributes; Datahyena adds the event history around that company. ## FAQ ### What authentication does the Datahyena API use? The Datahyena API authenticates with an API key sent in the X-API-Key request header, per its OpenAPI spec. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at call time, so it never lands in the agent's prompt or logs. ### Can I track funding events with the Datahyena API? Yes. The funding-events operation lists funding rounds raised by private-market companies, and the acquisitions operation covers M&A activity. Combine either with the company timeline operation to see how recent each event is for a specific company. ### What are the rate limits for the Datahyena API? The OpenAPI spec does not publish rate limits for the Datahyena API. Check Datahyena's own API documentation for the current per-key limits before scheduling frequent polling. ### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Datahyena API? Yes. Datahyena is read-only, so a rule can allow just the datasets the agent needs, such as funding events and acquisitions, while leaving investor and executive-move lookups out unless you add them. Every call the agent makes is logged. ### How do I pull a company timeline with the Datahyena API through Jentic? Search Jentic for an intent like get a company event timeline, store your Datahyena key once, and your agent calls the timeline operation for a single company or the bulk variant for a list. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo. ### Is there a Datahyena MCP server? You don't need an MCP server to give your agent the Datahyena API. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import it, store your key once, and your agent calls the operations it needs on demand.