Innovator Lens API

Overview

The API gives you programmatic, on-demand access to Innovator Lens data — the same companies, SBIR/STTR grants, funding, market signals, and research intelligence you see in the app. It is a good fit for CRM enrichment, letting you pull data on an ad-hoc basis that fits how your organization works.

You can look up a specific company and apply criteria — such as sector, state, or funding agency — to narrow down the companies you retrieve. The API is read-only: it returns data to your systems and never writes to or modifies them.

Use cases

The API is a good solution if:

• You want to enrich a CRM with company, grant, and funding data.
• You do ad-hoc research on grant-backed (SBIR/STTR) companies.
• You want per-company research intelligence and enrichment in your own tools.
• Your queries and criteria change frequently and you need on-demand access.
• A RESTful, JSON integration is a system requirement.

How the API works

Accessing the API

The API is a read-only REST implementation that most HTTP clients can call in your language of choice. Requests are HTTPS GETs under the base path /api/v1 and return JSON. You authenticate with your account email and an API token using HTTP Basic auth (email as the username, token as the password).

curl https://<your-host>/api/v1/companies?q=biosensor \
  -u you@company.com:il_live_xxxxxxxx…

# → { "data": [ { "name": "…", "slug": "…", "grantCount": 12, … } ],
#     "pagination": { "total": 42, "limit": 25, "offset": 0, "returned": 25 } }

Available data

Data is drawn from public and government sources plus clearly-labeled derived signals; coverage varies by company. The API offers these endpoints:

Data provenance is labeled throughout — validated (government / SEC filings), derived (computed by Innovator Lens, e.g. sector tags and synthesized research facts), and self-reported (from a company's own website). Full parameters, response shapes, and examples are in the developer documentation (sign-in required).

Rate limits & quotas

Each key has a per-minute request limit and a per-day record quota, set by your account administrator. Responses include X-RateLimit-* headers with your remaining calls and records; exceeding a limit returns 429 Too Many Requests. Access is re-checked on every request, so revoking a token or changing a plan takes effect immediately.

Getting access

The API is available on the Enterprise plan and is enabled per account by an administrator — it isn't automatic. Once your Enterprise account is approved you can generate and manage your own API tokens, and the full technical reference becomes available.

1. Talk to us about the Enterprise plan.
2. An administrator approves API access for your account.
3. Generate an API token and start making requests.