Crunchbase Funding Data: Track Startup Investments with Python

Crunchbase is the definitive source for startup funding data — investment rounds, investors, acquisitions, and company profiles. Tracking this data helps investors, analysts, and founders understand market dynamics and spot emerging trends. What Funding Data Can You Extract? Funding rounds (seed, Series A-F, IPO) Investor names and portfolios Company valuations and revenue estimates Acquisition data and exit events Founder and executive profiles Industry and geographic trends Scraping Crunchbase Company Data import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import json import time import re class CrunchbaseScraper: BASE_URL = "https://www.crunchbase.com" def __init__(self): self.session = requests.Session() self.session.headers.update({ 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml', }) def get_company_profile(self, company_slug): """Get company overview from Crunchbase.""" url = f"{self.BASE_URL}/organization/{company_slug}" resp = s