What Perigon does

Perigon is an Austin, Texas-based AI-powered contextual intelligence company that operates a real-time news API and data intelligence platform serving developers, AI agents, and enterprise customers. The platform ingests content from 200,000+ global sources and processes more than 20 million data pieces daily, enriching articles with NLP-driven entity extraction, sentiment scoring, story clustering, AI summarization, and semantic search across 20 languages with auto-translation. Structured outputs (articles, stories, sources, journalists, people, companies, and 6M+ Wikipedia records) are exposed via REST APIs, official SDKs in Python, TypeScript, and Go, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that natively integrates with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex CLI, Kiro, and Antigravity.

The product portfolio centers on the News API as the foundational data layer, the Signals product for real-time monitoring and automated alerting workflows, and the MCP Server for AI agent integration, supplemented by developer tools (Top Voices, Query Copilot, Source Explorer, API Sandbox) and discovery surfaces (Pulse, Data Feeds, Trending). Perigon generates revenue through a freemium API subscription model with 150 free requests and tiered paid plans scaling with usage volume, plus quote-based enterprise and government contracts. The company sells to financial services, government agencies, media and publishing, supply chain, technology, and consumer/NGO customers, with named enterprise logos including Oracle, AllianceBernstein, The Economist, OfferUp, and Change.org.

Perigon was founded in 2022 and has raised a $5 million seed round led by LiveOak Ventures in February 2024. The company operates an API-first, product-led growth motion with self-serve signup, complemented by direct enterprise sales for government and large financial accounts. The MCP server extension represents a strategic push into AI agent ecosystems, positioning Perigon's intelligence layer as a composable building block within third-party AI workflows.

Name

Perigon

Legal name

Perigon, Inc.

Website

https://perigon.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Perigon is an Austin-based AI-powered real-time news intelligence platform that provides a structured news API from 200,000+ global sources, serving developers, AI agents, and enterprise customers across financial services, government, media, and supply chain via REST APIs and an MCP server.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

News Intelligence API

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Social, Community & Creator Platform Feeds (HDAAAGAD)

Keywords

• News intelligence API
• Real-time media monitoring
• AI data enrichment
• Developer data API
• MCP server integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. API Subscription / Usage-Based Plans: Perigon charges for API access through tiered subscription plans based on request volume (usage-based). The product is free up to 150 requests, then paid tiers apply for higher volume usage. This is the primary revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Perigon provides a real-time news intelligence API platform that ingests content from 200,000+ global sources and delivers structured, AI-enriched news data (sentiment, entities, summaries, vector embeddings) to developers and AI agents via REST APIs and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The platform's core offerings are the News API (structured data endpoints for articles, stories, sources, journalists, people, and companies), Signals (real-time event detection and automated monitoring/alerting), and the MCP Server (native integration into AI development environments). Customers use it for media monitoring, financial intelligence, risk management, supply chain visibility, and AI agent tooling.

Product overview

Perigon is an AI-powered contextual intelligence platform providing a real-time news API for developers and AI agents, drawing from 200,000+ global sources. The core platform consists of the News API (the foundational API product), Signals (real-time monitoring and alerting product), and the MCP Server (AI agent integration layer). Supporting these are developer tools including Top Voices (journalist discovery), Query Copilot (query builder), Source Explorer (source verification), and API Sandbox/MCP Playground for testing. The Discover section (Pulse, Data Feeds, Trending) provides user-facing intelligence surfaces, while a Wikipedia data layer (6M+ records) enriches entity information. The platform processes structured news enriched with NLP entity extraction, sentiment scoring, AI summarization, and vector search.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• News API The core REST API platform providing structured, AI-enriched news data from 200,000+ global sources, with endpoints for articles, stories, sources, journalists, people, companies, and Wikipedia. Includes sentiment scoring, entity extraction, AI summaries, deduplication, and filters by keyword, topic, location, language, and date. Used by developers and AI agents to power real-time news intelligence applications.
• Signals A real-time monitoring and alerting product that detects events across the web in real time, providing live intel for workflow-ready monitoring, precision monitoring, high-precision monitoring, and automated custom-tuned briefing digests. Used by decision-makers and risk teams to detect what is happening as it happens across global news.
• MCP Server Perigon's Model Context Protocol server that connects any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro, Antigravity) to the full Perigon intelligence layer via 20 MCP tools spanning Search, Stats, and Use-Case Workflows. Accessed at https://mcp.perigon.io/v1/mcp with Bearer token authentication.

Quantifiable outcome

• Real-time data from 200,000+ global sources with clean, enriched data available via API
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Datastreamer: Datastreamer provides enriched news and social data feeds via API for media monitoring and risk applications, directly comparable to Perigon's Signals and structured data API products for enterprise data teams.
• NewsAPI: NewsAPI offers a developer-focused news API aggregating headlines from tens of thousands of sources, the closest direct competitor to Perigon's News API in target customer, product form (REST API), and developer-led GTM motion.
• Aylien: Aylien provides news intelligence APIs with NLP enrichment including sentiment, entity extraction, and clustering, directly overlapping Perigon's AI-enrichment pipeline and structured data APIs for developers and enterprises.
• Webz.io: Webz.io delivers real-time web and news data feeds via API and firehose to enterprise customers, with similar dark-web and deep-web coverage and developer-oriented API-first distribution comparable to Perigon's News API.
• Exa: Exa is an AI-native search API built for developers and AI agents, offering semantic search over web content. Targets the same developer and AI-agent customer segment as Perigon with a complementary but overlapping API-first approach.
• Tavily: Tavily provides a search API specifically optimized for LLM agents and RAG workflows, directly competing for the same AI-agent developer use case Perigon targets via its MCP server integration.
• GDELT Project: GDELT monitors global news media in real time and provides open-access event data feeds, comparable to Perigon's structured real-time news data offering though as a free/open alternative rather than commercial API.

Broad incumbents

• Meltwater: Meltwater is an established media monitoring and social intelligence platform serving enterprise PR and communications teams. Overlaps Perigon's Signals product and media-monitoring use cases, but with a human-facing SaaS rather than developer API focus.
• LexisNexis Newsdesk: LexisNexis provides licensed news and business intelligence data feeds to enterprise and government customers. Comparable to Perigon's government and financial-services use cases, but as a much larger incumbent with established source licensing.
• Bloomberg Terminal: Bloomberg Terminal is the dominant real-time financial news and analytics platform serving AllianceBernstein-tier customers. Overlaps Perigon's financial-services intelligence offering as part of a much broader, vertically integrated product suite.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Perigon_io
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/perigon

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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