Companies Mentioned in the News

Reverse discovery: which companies have been mentioned across press + podcasts recently, ranked by mention count. Each entry links to the company profile and gives its latest mention. Great for "who is getting buzz" monitoring and building lead lists from media momentum. Costs 2 credits.

GEThttps://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/news/mentions

Request

curl "https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/news/mentions?source=all&since=7d&limit=25" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

Parameters

sourcestringoptionaldefault: all

Which sources to scan: news | podcast | all

sincestringoptionaldefault: 7d

Lookback window. Relative days ("7d") or an ISO date.

limitintegeroptionaldefault: 50

Max companies returned (1-100)

Response

json

{
  "data": {
    "since": "2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "all",
    "companies": [
      {
        "company": {
          "id": "uuid",
          "name": "Cursor",
          "slug": "cursor",
          "startuphub_url": "https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/cursor"
        },
        "mention_count": 12,
        "news_count": 9,
        "podcast_count": 3,
        "latest": "2026-06-23",
        "latest_title": "Cursor hits $200M ARR as AI coding heats up"
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits": { "cost": 2, "remaining_period": 9999, "remaining_balance": 1999 }
}

Errors

401Invalid or missing API key

429Insufficient credits