# NewsCatcher

> NewsCatcher is a news and web search API company that turns the open web into a clean, structured database of real-world events. It pulls from 90,000+ global sources, then deduplicates, enriches, and standardizes the articles so risk, finance, and AI teams can query news the way they query a database. Founded by Artem Bugara and Maksym Sugonyaka, it went through Y Combinator in Summer 2022.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Artem Bugara (Co-Founder & CEO), Maksym Sugonyaka (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~22-29
- **Products:** News API (v3), CatchAll (Web Search API), Local News API, Open-source newscatcher (Python)
- **Notable:** Grew from a free open-source Python package into a YC-backed enterprise API company., Indexes 90,000+ (and by some counts 120,000+) global news sources., Launched a US Local News API covering 31,000+ locations.

## Products & services

- **News API (v3)** — Search and retrieval API over 90,000+ global sources with NLP enrichment, entity extraction, sentiment, deduplication, and near real-time updates. v3 added finer query control and richer response data.
- **CatchAll (Web Search API)** — Recall-first web search API for 'long-list' questions - retrieves a large candidate set across hundreds or thousands of pages, validates them, and returns structured records of real-world events rather than a ranked top 10.
- **Local News API** — Hyper-local US news coverage spanning 31,000+ locations for geographic and regional monitoring.
- **Open-source newscatcher (Python)** — The original free Python package for programmatically collecting normalized news from almost any website - the seed the company grew from.

## Achievements

- Grew from a free open-source Python package into a YC-backed enterprise API company.
- Indexes 90,000+ (and by some counts 120,000+) global news sources.
- Launched a US Local News API covering 31,000+ locations.
- Achieved SOC2 Type II compliance and ISO certification for enterprise trust.
- Publicly cited adoption by the US Department of State and Samsung.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Pushing the AI platform and 'BeyondNews' initiatives, expanding global coverage and hardening security/performance.
- **2024-11** — News API v3 improvements - 188% more Chinese and 32% more Japanese article coverage vs Q1 2025 for regional risk and supply-chain signals.
- **2024-06** — Enterprise focus, US Local News API launch (31,000+ locations), better translation and author extraction.

## Links

- Website: https://www.newscatcherapi.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newscatcherapi
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bugaralife
- GitHub: https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher

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Last updated: 2026-07-30