Roadmap

Continuous data innovation

We work relentlessly to provide real-time global coverage, advanced AI-driven analytics, and intelligence solutions continuously shaped by customer needs.

2025
Q4

NewsCatcher’s deep web search API

Released our coverage-first web search API that finds every relevant event across the open web and assembles them into structured datasets for AI workflows.

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Q3

NewsCatcher MCP

Develop MCP servers, enabling natural-language access to news data via MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot.

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BeyondNews initiative

Expand data sourcing beyond traditional news into regulatory and municipal intelligence, providing access to government data, policy changes, and official announcements before they become news stories.

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Q2

Signal-ready news

Launched a service that converts raw news into structured, fact-based signals, retaining 96% of core information and built to meet enterprise legal standards.

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Global coverage expansion

Expanded Local News API coverage to Canada and Great Britain with over 71,000 new locations. Enhanced News API v3 with 188% more Chinese article coverage and 32% more Japanese coverage compared to Q1 2025, providing financial institutions and supply chain teams with critical regional signals.

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Entity disambiguation

Extended service to include person entities with rich attributes, including name variations, designations, and employer information.

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Events intelligence

Added Supply Chain Disruption as a new event type for tracking production stoppages, component shortages, and facility disruptions.

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Q1

Breaking and trending news

Launched a real-time news detection system with early detection algorithms for breaking stories and trending content identification.

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Search in translations

Implemented search capabilities in translated content, eliminating language barriers for global monitoring.

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SOC 2 Compliance

Achieved full SOC 2 compliance across infrastructure, enhancing customer data security and operational trust through comprehensive controls for security, availability, and privacy.

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Enhanced company disambiguation

Improved Entity Disambiguation pipeline with automation, bug fixes, and advanced LLM integration for better precision.

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2024
Q3-4

Shifting focus to enterprise

NewsCatcher starts shutting down their v2 to focus all resources on their v3 and large enterprise clients.

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Local news API launch

NewsCatcher launches their US local news API, covering 31,000+ locations and the translation of non english articles is introduced.

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Q1-2

Author extraction upgrade

NewsCatcher’s author extraction is significantly improved.

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2023

Adopted by major enterprises

NewsCatcher is adopted by large companies, organisations and government bodies, like the US Department of State and Samsung.

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Building v3

NewsCatcher starts working on their v3, tailored to the demand of large enterprise customers.

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2021-22

First versions

NewsCatcher starts working on the v.1 followed by the v.2, catering mainly to small companies and startups with a self-serve API.

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Backing by leading investors

NewsCatcher partners with investors including Y Combinator, TinySeed, Uncommon Capital and others.

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Founding

NewsCatcher is founded by Artem Bugara and Maksym Sugonyaka, two childhood friends who met in school back in Donetsk, Ukraine.

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