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GET
/
api
/
founders
/
{id}
Get single founder by ID or UUID
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api-next.dealroom.co/api/founders/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
{
  "data": {
    "id": 56789,
    "uuid": "1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7890-1234-567890abcdef",
    "name": "Patrick Collison",
    "tagline": "Co-founder and CEO of Stripe.",
    "image": "https://images.dealroom.co/people/patrick-collison.jpg",
    "dealroom_url": "https://app.dealroom.co/people/patrick-collison",
    "gender": "male",
    "is_serial_founder": true,
    "is_super_founder": true,
    "is_promising_founder": false,
    "is_strong_founder": true,
    "launch_year": 2010,
    "hq_country": "United States",
    "hq_city": "San Francisco",
    "tags": [
      {
        "id": 123,
        "name": "<string>",
        "type": "<string>"
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "university_id": 123,
        "university_name": "<string>",
        "degree": "<string>",
        "year_start": 123,
        "year_end": 123,
        "majors": [
          "<string>"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "companies": [
      {
        "entity_id": 123,
        "entity_name": "<string>",
        "is_founder": true,
        "is_past": true,
        "raw_title": "<string>",
        "year_start": 123,
        "year_end": 123
      }
    ],
    "backgrounds": [
      {
        "id": 123,
        "name": "<string>"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Documentation Index

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Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Auth0 JWT access token. Paste a token obtained from your preferred OAuth2 flow. For machine-to-machine use, the OAuth2 client_credentials scheme below can mint a token directly from your client_id / client_secret inside the Swagger UI Authorize dialog.

Path Parameters

id
string
required
Minimum string length: 1
Example:

"12345"

Response

Single founder

data
object
required