BetaList API

name: BetaList API
description: Read-only REST API over the BetaList startup directory. Three documented collections — startups
  (list + detail, filterable by region_id and market_id), regions (list + detail), and markets (list;
  markets form a directed acyclic graph so a market can have multiple parents and children). Responses
  are JSON. Every request is authenticated with an access_token query-string parameter; tokens are granted
  case-by-case after a request through BetaList's contact form or the founder's Typeform. Paging is via
  per_page (max 100 for startups, 500 for regions and markets) and page. Documentation is a public GitHub
  gist maintained by BetaList founder Marc Kohlbrugge and linked from betalist.com/support.
humanURL: https://gist.github.com/marckohlbrugge/5a29bf1ba628bb4ca960
baseURL: https://api.betalist.com/v1
tags:
- startups
- startup-directory
- product-discovery
- early-adopters
- company-data
- rest
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://gist.github.com/marckohlbrugge/5a29bf1ba628bb4ca960
- type: APIReference
  url: https://gist.github.com/marckohlbrugge/5a29bf1ba628bb4ca960
- type: SignUp
  url: https://marc.typeform.com/to/KOdlOu
x-evidence:
  verified: '2026-08-13'
  method: probed
  docs_url: https://gist.github.com/marckohlbrugge/5a29bf1ba628bb4ca960
  docs_status: 200
  docs_describes: Named base URL (api.betalist.com/v1), three named collections with paths, query parameters,
    an authentication parameter, and worked example URLs.
  docs_linked_from: https://betalist.com/support
  endpoint_checks:
  - url: https://api.betalist.com/v1/startups
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.betalist.com/v1/markets
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.betalist.com/v1/regions
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.betalist.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  note: The documented routes answer 401 (token required) while undefined paths on the same host answer
    the Rails default 404, so the routes are real and gated rather than absent. No machine-readable specification
    is published anywhere; nothing was generated to fill that gap.