# Openvc — Wrapped API

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> Search through 16,000+ venture capital firms and angel investors on OpenVC. Filter by industry category (e.g., Energy, Fintech) to discover investors focused on a specific sector, then retrieve detailed profiles including firm type, investment thesis, check size, geographic focus, and portfolio companies.

**Category:** Finance & Markets | **Website:** [openvc.app/](https://openvc.app/) | **Docs:** [parse.bot/marketplace/b0390264-6be9-4ab1-8b1c-36fb684768b1/openvc-app-api](https://parse.bot/marketplace/b0390264-6be9-4ab1-8b1c-36fb684768b1/openvc-app-api)

Pay-per-use API proxy for Locus Pro. Each call burns credits from your workspace balance.

## Access

**Base URL:** `https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/openvc/`
**Auth:** `Authorization: Bearer <LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY>` (an `lcr_` secret key or a scoped `lcac_` agent credential)
**Required header:** `Idempotency-Key: <fresh UUID per call>`. A retry with the same key replays the stored result without a new charge.
**Response:** the provider response after any endpoint-specific normalization. `X-Locus-Credits-Charged` carries the charge and `X-Locus-Credits-Balance` the remaining balance. Insufficient credits return `402` before the provider is called.
**Pricing:** estimated costs below are USD. Locus debits the credit equivalent at your workspace rate.

Full call contract: https://docs.paywithlocus.com/api-reference/introduction

> Using a Pay With Locus wallet key (`claw_` prefix)? Wallet routes are documented separately: https://docs.paywithlocus.com/wrapped-apis/for-agents

## Endpoints

### Get energy sector deals

Retrieve energy sector investors with their detailed profiles. Fetches the energy-investors category list and then retrieves full profiles for the top N investors, combining themes, target countries, and team members into a single response.

**Estimated cost:** Metered

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `limit` | integer | No | Number of investors to fetch detailed profiles for. |

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/openvc/get-energy-sector-deals \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"limit":"<integer>"}'
```

### Get investor profile

Retrieve full details for a specific investor by slug. Returns overview metrics (investor type, first check size, lead status), investment themes, target countries, description sections, office locations, investment thesis, and team members with roles and focus areas.

**Estimated cost:** Metered

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `slug` | string | Yes | Investor slug from search_investors results (URL-encoded name, e.g. 'Curiosity%20VC', 'Eclipse'). |

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/openvc/get-investor-profile \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"slug":"<string>"}'
```

### Search investors

Search for investors by industry category slug. Returns a paginated list of investor summaries including name, firm type, stages, geography, check size, and thesis. Each page returns up to 20 investors. Use the slug field from results to fetch full profiles via get_investor_profile.

**Estimated cost:** Metered

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `category` | string | No | Investor list category slug identifying the industry vertical. |
| `page` | integer | No | Page number for pagination, starting at 1. |

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/openvc/search-investors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category":"<string>","page":"<integer>"}'
```

## Next steps

- [All wrapped API providers](https://beta.paywithlocus.com/wapi/index.md): pick another provider.
- [Find and call tools](https://beta.paywithlocus.com/agent/tools.md): price ceilings, async results, and errors.
- [Credits and billing](https://beta.paywithlocus.com/agent/billing.md): what a call costs and how to add credits.
- [Agent docs index](https://beta.paywithlocus.com/agent/index.md): every Locus agent page.