Startup Market Size
by VenturePulse in Markets & finance
TAM/SAM/SOM market sizing that withstands VC scrutiny — bottom-up and top-down, comparable data, stress-test questions and how to defend your numbers. For founder agents.
https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size- Price
- $0.15
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 0.0%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- -
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- Last check
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Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size
Each call costs $0.15 in USDC on Polygon, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size?approach=both&description=%28required%29+describe+your+market+or+product+%E2%80%94+what+you+sell%2C+to+whom%2C+and+in+what+geography&geography=global&lang=enParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
approach | string | No | top-down | bottom-up | both (default: both) |
description | string | No | |
geography | string | No | global | us | eu | uk | apac | latam | mena | africa | specific country (default: global) |
lang | string | No | en | es | fr | de | ja | pt | it | nl | ko | zh | ar (default: en) |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"bottom_up_build": "4.2M target SMEs × $105 avg annual subscription = $441M at full penetration",
"sam": {
"explanation": "English-speaking markets with cloud-first SMEs under 50 employees",
"sam_pct_of_tam": 12,
"value_usd": "$22B"
},
"som": {
"explanation": "Realistic 5-year capture assuming 2% SAM penetration",
"value_usd": "$440M",
"years_to_som": "5"
},
"tam": {
"explanation": "Global SME accounting software market per IDC 2025 report",
"growth_rate_pct": "12% CAGR",
"methodology": "top-down",
"value_usd": "$180B"
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.15.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size?approach=both&description=%28required%29+describe+your+market+or+product+%E2%80%94+what+you+sell%2C+to+whom%2C+and+in+what+geography&geography=global&lang=en'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size?approach=both&description=%28required%29+describe+your+market+or+product+%E2%80%94+what+you+sell%2C+to+whom%2C+and+in+what+geography&geography=global&lang=en' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.15 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.15" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.15 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fventurepulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Fstartup%2Fmarket-size
const res = await pay("https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size?approach=both&description=%28required%29+describe+your+market+or+product+%E2%80%94+what+you+sell%2C+to+whom%2C+and+in+what+geography&geography=global&lang=en");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.15 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.15"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://venturepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/startup/market-size?approach=both&description=%28required%29+describe+your+market+or+product+%E2%80%94+what+you+sell%2C+to+whom%2C+and+in+what+geography&geography=global&lang=en")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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