# Fores Media

> Fores Media is an AI-native media and data company: it keeps the record of the innovation economy, from the first paper to the exit. It publishes tech.eu, Europe's technology newsroom since 2013. Its engine, Fores Wire, reads hundreds of sources, verifies what happened and links it to companies, investors and models; it runs behind the products today and opens to licensees later. Its products serve the record to people and to AI agents through APIs and MCP servers. Live: tech.eu and the Tech.eu Funding Explorer. In build: fundingdata.com (invite-only), a network of funds, codename Ventures (private beta), and a research desk, codename Research (in development). The company is based in London.

## The record of the innovation economy.

An AI-native media and data company. An engine reads the world's sources around the clock and verifies what happened. A record keeps the facts, every figure linked to where it was published. Read by people. Called by agents.

Updated on the page: the latest verified events on Fores Wire (the funding record and the engine's AI desk), and the public record of each product.

## One engine. Many doors.

Fores Wire reads the sources and verifies what happened. The record keeps the facts and links them to companies, investors, models and papers. Each door serves one audience. Every record starts as an event the engine saw; the engine runs behind the products today and opens to licensees later.

- Sources: Hundreds of news and funding sources; The X stream, GitHub, Hacker News, Hugging Face; SEC, ESMA and Companies House filings; 10.6M papers from thousands of journals.
- Engine: Fores Wire (Running internally · public access later). Turn the world's sources into verified, labelled, linked events, once, for every Fores product.
- Record: Companies, rounds and investors (master: fundingdata.com); Models, prices and retirements (master: Fores Wire Model Tracker); Funds, firms and claims (master: Codename: Ventures); Papers, grants and fields (master: Codename: Research).
- Doors: tech.eu (Live, for Founders and investors); Tech.eu Funding Explorer (Live, for Everyone, and agents); fundingdata.com (Invite-only, for Analysts, companies, agents); Codename: Ventures (Private beta, for Fund managers, founders, LPs); Codename: Research (In development, for Investors and product teams).

Products read from the record through each other's public APIs, as any customer would, so each can stand on its own.

## Why now: Agents now read, compare and decide.

Software now reads the web on someone's behalf and wants a fact with a source attached, one it can check and cite. The market for private-markets data is already large, and agents are becoming its buyers.

- **$8B → $18B**: Private-markets data, estimated at $8B in 2024 and projected at $18B by 2030. Source: [BlackRock and Preqin estimates, Jun 2024](https://www.preqin.com/about/press-release/blackrock-to-acquire-preqin-leading-private-markets-data-solutions-provider).
- **1 : 31**: AI-bot visits to publisher sites went from one for every 200 human visits in the first quarter of 2025 to one for every 31 in the fourth. Source: [TollBit State of the Bots Q3 & Q4 2025, via The Register](https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/04/ai-bot-traffic-closing-in-on-human-web-visits-study-finds/4921090), Q4 2025.
- **−40%**: Change in Google Search referrals to publishers between July 2025 and July 2026, after −22% the year before. AI chatbots sent 0.01% of traffic. Source: [Chartbeat, via Search Engine Journal](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-decline-publishers-chartbeat/590681/), Sep 2026.

The full case, with sources: [The second reader](https://foresmedia.com/thesis.md).

## Built in months, not years.

Six products since April 2026, built by a small team and a fleet of agents. Commit counts are from the repositories as of 15 Oct 2026.

- **~1,900** commits across 8 repositories since 29 Apr 2026
- **6** products shipped or in build in six months
- **0** new hires over the same period

- 29 Apr 2026: fundingdata.com: first commit of the global funding record
- 22 Jun 2026: Tech.eu Funding Explorer opens at funding.tech.eu, free and keyless
- 26 Sep 2026: The engine's AI desk pipeline and the fund network, codename Ventures, start
- 5 Oct 2026: The AI desk runs around the clock behind the products; the research desk starts
- 15 Oct 2026: One engine, Fores Wire: the three pipelines begin to merge

Commits by repository: Fores Wire, the AI desk 503, fundingdata.com 389, Tech.eu Funding Explorer 362, Codename: Research 317, Codename: Ventures 241, tech.eu v2 82, foresmedia.com 49.

## The newsroom makes the data.

tech.eu has reported European technology since 2013. Its reporting is written into the Funding Explorer the same day, and fundingdata.com draws on 279 sources worldwide.

- 59.7% of euros (36.7% of rounds) raised in European rounds in 2026 have a tech.eu article among their sources (924 of 2,520 rounds, 1 Jan to 9 Oct 2026).
- 54% of rounds of €100M or more since 2023 have a tech.eu article among their sources (204 of 376 rounds of €100M or more).
- 86.6% of tech.eu-reported rounds are recorded the day the article runs, 98.7% within a day (n = 299, rounds ingested 1 Jul to 9 Oct 2026).
- On the tech.eu Summit stage: OpenAI, London Stock Exchange Group, Lightspeed, Morgan Stanley.

Computed 12 Oct 2026 from the open Funding Explorer API (non-debt rounds). Method and caveats: https://foresmedia.com/evidence.

## Products

### [tech.eu](https://tech.eu)

*A Fores Media brand*

Newsroom. Status: Live. For: Founders and investors. Job: Europe's human newsroom and the tech.eu Summit. The engine works behind the desk; editors decide.

European technology news since 2013. Daily reporting on startups, scale-ups, funding and policy across the continent, plus the tech.eu Summit in London, a podcast and research. Its reporting is the first source of most of the European funding record.

- For people: News, newsletters, podcast, Summit, reports
- For agents: Structured archive in development
- Founded 2013 · tech.eu Summit, London · Podcast and research · On the tech.eu Summit stage: OpenAI, London Stock Exchange Group, Lightspeed, Morgan Stanley

### [Tech.eu Funding Explorer](https://funding.tech.eu)

*Data by Fores*

Open dataset, Europe. Status: Live. For: Everyone, and agents. Job: The free, open window on European funding, and the top of the fundingdata.com funnel.

European startup funding as cited, structured data. Every round links to its published source, carries a confidence tier and is converted to euros at the ECB reference rate on the round's date.

- For people: Explorer, market maps, signals, period reports
- For agents: REST API and MCP server, no key needed
- 52,000+ rounds · 38,000+ companies · 30,000+ investors · 8,800+ exits · €720B+ tracked

### [fundingdata.com](https://fundingdata.com)

*Powered by Fores*

Global funding record. Status: Invite-only. For: Analysts, companies, agents. Job: The paid global record of who got funded, every figure cited. The main revenue product.

Startup funding rounds from every region as structured records, each linked to the source it was published in, with companies, investors and deal sourcing on top. Prices are published; access is by invitation while self-serve opens.

- For people: Search, alerts, exports and daily digests
- For agents: REST API, MCP server with OAuth, signed webhooks and incremental sync

### Codename: Ventures

*Powered by Fores*

Network of funds, codename Ventures. Status: Private beta. For: Fund managers, founders, LPs. Job: Every investor firm and fund has a profile the fund claims and keeps current; founders and LPs come to find them.

Profiles of venture firms and their funds, built from SEC Form ADV and Form D, ESMA registers, Companies House, with co-investor links and the rounds each firm took part in. Cheque ranges are labelled as estimates. Founders and LPs use it free; funds claim their profile free. It gets its name when it opens.

- For people: Profiles, search, lists and a daily brief, in private beta
- For agents: API and MCP server, in private beta
- 56,867 investor profiles · 10,861 verified websites

### Codename: Research

*Powered by Fores*

Science desk. Status: In development. For: Investors and product teams. Job: What science is about to change in a market, before money and attention arrive, and which findings can be borrowed across fields.

The research desk, codename Research. Reads the scientific literature every day and finds the fields that are accelerating, with the grants, companies and funding rounds around them. Every run is hashed into a public ledger and timestamped before anyone can know how it turns out. In development, with a design partner programme; it gets its name when it opens.

- For people: Sample reports; design partners get private reports
- For agents: MCP server, for design partners
- 1.0M grants · top 100 signals beat the base rate in 4 of 6 backtests

### Fores Wire

*A Fores Media brand*

The engine. Status: Running internally · public access later. For: Every Fores product; later, licensees. Job: Turn the world's sources into verified, labelled, linked events, once, for every Fores product.

Reads hundreds of sources around the clock, verifies what happened, labels each event official, confirmed or reported, and links it to companies, investors, models and papers, with every source attached. Three pipelines built since April are merging into one engine with one event store and one cost dashboard. It runs behind the products today; licensed access comes once they all read from it. It sells events, facts and source links, never other publishers' text.

- For people: Not a product for people: it feeds the products below
- For agents: Licensed event feed and API, later
- 578 sources plus the X stream on the AI desk · 277 funding sources · SEC, ESMA and Companies House filings · 10.6M papers from thousands of journals · about 170 verified items a day · Public corrections log · Model Tracker: releases, prices, retirements

Statuses: Live is open to use. Running internally means the engine works behind our products and is not offered outside yet. Invite-only, Private beta and In development are not launched; nothing is claimed for them beyond the facts listed.

## What a sourced fact is worth.

Three buyers, three costs: the agent that guesses, the analyst who searches, and the AI company that needs live, attributable data.

- **Teams building agents: 8×** lower cost per correct answer through the Funding Explorer MCP than through web search ($0.0035 against $0.029), at 92% accuracy against 97%. Answers cite funding.tech.eu records. Source: Fores Media agent test, v2, Oct 2026.
- **Investors and analysts: 6+ hours** a week spent searching for information in documents, by half of the US finance professionals surveyed. About £12,900 a year at a London associate's cost (our estimate). Incumbent data seats: Crunchbase median $20,000 a year; Dealroom €250 per seat a month. Source: [Hebbia survey (n = 525, US); Vendr; dealroom.co](https://www.hebbia.com/resources/financial-documentation-survey), 2026.
- **AI companies: 2 → 18** public AI content deals for live, attributable access, 2023 to 2025, with 34 projected for 2026. Reported: Reddit “other revenue”, mainly content licensing, $140M (FY2025); Wiley AI licensing $49.1M (FY2026). Source: [Media and the Machine; Reddit and Wiley filings](https://mediaandthemachine.substack.com/p/ai-content-licensing-deals-june-2026), Jun 2026.

The agent test, the agent-readiness board, Codename: Research backtests and the ledger: https://foresmedia.com/evidence.

## 2030: The map of where the future gets funded.

Paper (Research Radar) → Lab (Research Radar) → Startup (fundingdata.com) → Round (fundingdata.com, Funding Explorer) → Exit (Funding Explorer)

## Company

Fores Media Limited, London.

*fores*: forēs (Latin, plural of foris): the two leaves of a door; double doors. Figuratively, an entrance.

## Contact: Build it with us.

- **AI companies and platforms:** Licensing, data feeds, MCP and API access at any volume. [hello@foresmedia.com](mailto:hello@foresmedia.com?subject=Data%20and%20licensing)
- **Brands and partners:** tech.eu Summit, research and sponsorship. [hello@foresmedia.com](mailto:hello@foresmedia.com?subject=Partnerships)
- **Builders:** Engineers, editors, researchers and designers. [hello@foresmedia.com](mailto:hello@foresmedia.com?subject=Careers)
- **Press:** Interviews, data requests and background. [hello@foresmedia.com](mailto:hello@foresmedia.com?subject=Press)
- **Investors:** Questions about the company, answered in person. [hello@foresmedia.com](mailto:hello@foresmedia.com?subject=Investors)

Agents: start at https://foresmedia.com/llms.txt, or connect to the MCP server at https://foresmedia.com/api/mcp. Funding data is at https://funding.tech.eu/api/mcp.