Fundraising & Startup Deals Tracker: TechCrunch, Crunchbase

🚀 Startup Fundraising Ideas & Tracker

Never miss a funding round, capital injection, or market trend again. This Actor is a specialized web scraper built for B2B sales teams, venture capitalists, market researchers, and entrepreneurs looking for fresh fundraising ideas, high-intent lead lists, and real-time startup investments.

It monitors the "Big Three" news sources (TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and FinSMEs) and extracts clean, structured data directly into a ready-to-use dataset.

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🌟 Why Use This Fundraising Tracker?

Manual lead generation from news sites is slow, tedious, and filled with noise. This tool automates the process and cleans the data instantly:

• High-Intent B2B Lead Generation: Identify companies with fresh "cash injections", the exact moment they have open budgets to buy software, services, or partnerships.
• Aggregating the "Big Three": Monitors TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, and FinSMEs simultaneously.
• Smart Data Extraction: Automatically separates real company names from complex journalism headlines.
• Funding Details: Isolates exact dollar amounts ($M/B) and investment rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, Venture, IPO).
• Noise Filtering: Automatically skips articles about events, ticket sales, or awards so you only get real funding data.

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⚙️ Key Features

• Flexible Time Range Filter: Choose to scrape leads from Today, the Last 7 days, or up to 30 days of historical data.
• Cost-Optimized Engine: Built on high-performance Cheerio crawler logic combined with Residential Proxies to run reliably and cost-effectively.
• Export & Automation Ready: Seamlessly exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets via Apify Webhooks, APIs, and Make.com/Zapier.
• AI Agent & MCP Ready: Fully compatible with LLMs, Claude, LangChain, and Apify's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for autonomous workflows.

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📥 Input Configuration

Configure the scraper using a simple JSON payload:

{
  "dateFilter": "7",
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 50
}

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
dateFilter	String / Integer	Number of days back to scrape articles (e.g., 1, 7, 30).	"7"
maxRequestsPerCrawl	Integer	Limit crawl depth and control compute costs.	50

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📤 Output Structure (What You Get)

The Actor outputs clean, tabular JSON and CSV records directly to your default Apify dataset.

Sample Table View

Company	Funding	Round	Source	Scraped At
Wonder	$650 million	Venture	techcrunch.com	2026-11-10
Harbinger	$240M	Venture	techcrunch.com	2026-11-10
Axiom Math	$1.6 billion	Venture	techcrunch.com	2026-11-10

Sample JSON Record

{
  "company": "Harbinger",
  "funding": "$240M",
  "round": "Venture",
  "source": "techcrunch.com",
  "title": "Harbinger raises $240M after expanding into defense",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/harbinger-raises-240m-after-expanding-into-defense/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T07:40:01.394Z"
}

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💡 Pro-Tips for Users

• Daily Automation: Set up a daily Schedule in the Apify Console so your sales team walks in every morning to a fresh list of funded companies ready for outreach.
• Sales Outreach: Target newly funded startups immediately. They are actively scaling their teams and infrastructure.

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🛠️ Support & Issues

If you encounter any bugs, missing fields, or need a custom feature added to this scraper, please reach out via the Apify Issues tab or contact the developer directly through your profile.