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Topic filterStartups and entrepreneurship news API
Founding, funding, accelerators and the startup economy. Pass topic=ECON_ENTREPRENEURSHIP to filter.
What does the startups and entrepreneurship topic actually cover?
Company formation and funding, accelerators and ecosystems, founder and hiring coverage, and the policy built around encouraging any of it. Announcement-driven to an unusual degree even by the standards of business coverage.
How do I filter news to startups and entrepreneurship?
Pass topic=ECON_ENTREPRENEURSHIP on /search or /stories. Pair with a country or a city — ecosystems are local and the coverage is produced by local technology press. Keyword mode works for named companies; hybrid is better for the ecosystem and policy layer, which is written in abstractions.
GET /stories?topic=ECON_ENTREPRENEURSHIP&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20What catches people out with startups and entrepreneurship coverage?
Survivorship, in the most literal sense. Funding rounds are announced and covered; failures are not announced and are covered rarely and late, if at all. A series built on this topic shows an ecosystem that only grows, because the exits from it are invisible. The absence of a company from recent coverage is the only signal you get, and it is indistinguishable from the company simply being quiet.
Who publishes on it
Technology trade press, which is close to its sources and reprints announcements with light scrutiny. Local business press for ecosystems outside the major hubs. National press for the largest rounds only. Company and investor communications are the origin of most of it.
In the sample, 259 outlets carry startups and entrepreneurship coverage at about 2
articles each. The busiest is iheart.com at roughly 22%,
and iheart.com, 163.com, sina.com.cn account for about 27% between them.
Concentrated enough that a large result count on this topic can still be a small number of newsrooms — scope by outlet if you want breadth rather than volume.
What it is best for
Best for tracking funding activity, ecosystem policy and who is backing what. Weakest for company health, valuation reality and failure, none of which are announced by anyone with an interest in announcing them.
Monitoring it over time
Volume follows announcement rhythms and quarter ends rather than activity. If you are tracking a named company, absence is the thing to alert on rather than presence — a company that stops appearing after a period of regular coverage is a signal, and it will never trip a volume threshold.
Which signals pair with startups and entrepreneurship?
Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.
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GET /search?topic=ECON_ENTREPRENEURSHIP&signal=economy&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
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Who covers it
iheart.com · 163.com · sina.com.cn · tribunnews.com · china.com · kompas.com · baidu.com · zazoom.it · jrj.com.cn · inewsgr.com · cnfol.com · cfi.net.cn
Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.