What is an intent data API?

An intent data API returns buying-intent signals for companies as structured data you can query and pipe into your own tools. The Signalbase Intent Signals API unifies funding, M&A, hiring, and job-change events into one scored, real-time feed, so you act on live intent instead of a static list of contacts.

Which signals are covered?

Four types today: funding rounds, mergers and acquisitions, hiring (new job postings), and job changes (people movement). Each is available on its own endpoint too, and rolls up into the scored feed here.

How does the scoring work?

Every account carries a composite intent score built from the signals firing against it, updated as new events land. You can filter and rank by score, so reps work the accounts heating up right now instead of a flat list.

How is this different from an intent-data provider database?

Providers that sell on record counts hand you a static database that was stale the day it shipped. We sell on timing and verification: every signal is detected as it happens, cross-checked, source-attached, and scored. It is a flow, not a stock.

How do I start using the Intent Signals API?

Start a 7-day trial, pull your first scored signals in a few lines, and test against real data. Full endpoints and parameters are in the documentation.

Intent Signals API

Real-time company and people signals that show who is turning in-market.

Turn siloed funding, M&A, hiring, and job-change signals into complete company intelligence, scored and delivered in one real-time feed.

Every signal type in one feed: funding, M&A, hiring, job changes
A composite score on every account
Deduped against one entity graph
1 signal = 1 complete, verified company profile

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GET /v1/signalsstreaming

NorthwindfundingSeries B · $42M

detected just now

led by Accel↳techcrunch.com/…score 92

Globexjob changenew VP of Sales

detected 41s ago

from Snowflake↳linkedin.com/…score 88

Initechhiring4 AE roles

detected 2m ago

EMEA expansion↳jobs.initech.io/…score 81

Vantiaacquisition$180M

detected 4m ago

acquired Lumen Health↳reuters.com/…score 95

Every signal type, scored, in one feed.

Powering intent signals inside leading platforms

Oxygen

Stock vs flow

Traditional lead gen databases sell you 200M contacts. We score the moment that matters.

A static intent database makes you guess who is in-market. A scored, real-time feed of funding, hiring, deals, and moves tells you which accounts are heating up right now, and ranks them, so your reps work the ones that just got budget.

What happenedThe downstream effect

Series B closes, $42M

Day 1

Recorded in Signalbase

Round not in the database

Day 10

New VP of Sales joins

Day 8

Recorded in Signalbase

Record still shows the old role

Day 17

Hiring spike, 14 roles

Day 15

Recorded in Signalbase

Headcount data stale

Day 22

Composite score crosses the threshold

Day 16

Recorded in Signalbase

You never get the alert

Day 30

signal types unified in one feed: funding, M&A, hiring, job changes

190+

countries covered, each signal contextualized into a complete company profile

<1 min

typical lag from a signal firing to it landing in your endpoint

Benchmark

Most intent data is a static list. We deliver scored events, live.

Coresignal-style vendors sell on the size of the database. We sell on the timing and the pairing: every signal verified, scored, and delivered the moment it fires.

Layer	Exa search API	Apify scraper marketplace	Traditional database	Signalbase
Sourcing: catching the signal	Search results, no events	Scraped pages, you schedule the runs	Static list, refreshed on a schedule	Four signal types detected under a minute from 7 sources
Verification: validating intent	Not provided, you build	Not provided, you build	Repurposed, not verified	Every event cross-checked and source-attached before delivery
Scoring: ranking the account	Not provided, you build	Not provided, you build	No live scoring	A composite intent score on every account, updated as signals fire

Response shape

Every field, no scraping on your side.

signalType"funding_round"Which event fired: funding, acquisition, hiring, or job_change.

companyName"Northwind"The company the signal is about.

companyCountry"US"ISO country code, for territory filtering.

occurredAt"2026-07-03"When the underlying event happened.

verificationStatus"verified"verified, unverified, or pending.

sources["techcrunch.com/…"]Source URLs attached to every signal.

Need all parameters?Check the full API docs →

Delivery

Three ways to push the data to you.

The same scored signals, delivered where you work: pull them on your schedule, have them pushed the moment they land, or wire them natively into your agents.

Pull

REST API

Poll the endpoint with a since cursor on your own schedule.

Push

Webhooks

We post the event to your endpoint the moment it lands. This is the flow, not a nightly batch.

Native

MCP

Wire the same signals straight into your agent or GTM tooling over the Signalbase MCP.

Built for

Where teams point this API.

One feed, every play

Wire a single endpoint into your GTM and let funding, hiring, deals, and moves all trigger the right motion.

Account scoring

Feed the composite score into your model so the accounts heating up right now rise to the top of every rep's list.

Territory alerts

Route each high-score account to the rep who owns it the same day it crosses your threshold, straight into your CRM.

Building internal AI SDRs

Find your ICP once and let scored signals populate while you never touch the UX again.

We have tried other financial signals providers, such as Crunchbase. Despite being more expensive, they could not match Signalbase's timeliness or the ability to trace data back to source posts.

Jack CaneRevenanas

We have been searching for a signal infrastructure for months and happily ended up with Signalbase. The data is top tier and the platform and API are very straightforward.

Tim ScheuerOxygen

Signalbase is one of the intent sources feeding our SaaS platform, and the Dutch company signals get better and better every week. Highly recommend Signalbase, the support is amazing as well!