# PitchBook Investors Scraper (`crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public investor profile metadata from PitchBook without a subscription. Supports text search, direct profile URLs, and bulk sitemap discovery. Returns name, description, location, investor type, status, metrics, social links, and more.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 7 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## PitchBook Investors Scraper

Extract public investor profile data from PitchBook — no subscription required. Scrape venture capital firms, private equity funds, angel investors, and more from PitchBook's database of 200,000+ publicly accessible investor profiles.

### What It Does

This actor fetches investor profiles from PitchBook's public profile pages and extracts structured metadata including firm name, location, investor type, investment metrics, social links, and more. No login or PitchBook subscription needed.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `profileUrls` | string[] | No | Direct PitchBook investor profile URLs or bare IDs |
| `searchQuery` | string | No | Text search (e.g. `"venture capital Berlin"`) |
| `maxItems` | integer | No | Max records to return (default: 10) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Yes | Apify proxy (residential recommended — required to bypass Cloudflare) |

**Input mode selection:**
- If `profileUrls` are provided → scrape those specific profiles
- If only `searchQuery` is provided → paginate search results
- If neither is provided → bulk mode: stream from PitchBook's public sitemaps (229,000+ investors)

#### Example Input

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "andreessen horowitz",
  "maxItems": 5
}
````

#### Direct URL Example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/11295-73",
    "11295-73"
  ]
}
```

### Output

One record per investor profile. Empty fields are omitted.

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `name` | string | Investor/firm name |
| `profileUrl` | string | PitchBook profile URL |
| `description` | string | Firm description |
| `website` | string | Company website |
| `city` | string | HQ city |
| `state` | string | HQ state/region |
| `country` | string | HQ country |
| `streetAddress` | string | Street address |
| `postalCode` | string | Postal code |
| `yearFounded` | integer | Year the firm was founded |
| `investorStatus` | string | e.g. `Actively Seeking New Investments` |
| `primaryInvestorType` | string | e.g. `Venture Capital` |
| `otherInvestorTypes` | string\[] | Additional investor type classifications |
| `tradeAssociation` | string | Industry trade association |
| `professionalCount` | integer | Number of investment professionals |
| `totalInvestments` | integer | Total number of investments made |
| `activePortfolio` | integer | Number of active portfolio companies |
| `totalExits` | integer | Number of exits |
| `logoUrl` | string | Firm logo image URL |
| `socialLinks` | object | `{ twitter, linkedin, facebook }` |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO 8601 UTC timestamp |

#### Example Output

```json
{
  "name": "Sequoia Capital",
  "profileUrl": "https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/11295-73",
  "description": "Founded in 1972, Sequoia Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Menlo Park, California.",
  "website": "https://sequoiacap.com",
  "city": "Menlo Park",
  "state": "California",
  "country": "United States",
  "streetAddress": "2800 Sand Hill Road",
  "postalCode": "94025",
  "yearFounded": 1972,
  "investorStatus": "Actively Seeking New Investments",
  "primaryInvestorType": "Venture Capital",
  "otherInvestorTypes": ["Growth/Expansion"],
  "tradeAssociation": "Indian Venture Capital Association (INVCA)",
  "professionalCount": 45,
  "totalInvestments": 2998,
  "activePortfolio": 896,
  "totalExits": 990,
  "logoUrl": "https://image.pitchbook.com/3m9ATgSWiMb...",
  "socialLinks": {
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/SequoiaCap",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/sequoia",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

#### Error Record

When a profile cannot be scraped:

```json
{
  "inputUrl": "https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/00000-00",
  "error": "Profile not found",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

### FAQ

**Does this require a PitchBook subscription?**
No. All data is extracted from PitchBook's publicly accessible investor profile pages.

**What data is NOT available?**
AUM (assets under management), contact details (email, phone, contact name), and preferred investment criteria are behind PitchBook's paywall and are not included.

**How many investors can I scrape?**
PitchBook's public sitemap contains ~229,000 investor profile URLs. Set `maxItems` up to 100,000 for large runs.

**What is bulk mode?**
When you provide no `profileUrls` and no `searchQuery`, the actor streams investor URLs directly from PitchBook's public gzipped sitemap files.

**Do I need a proxy?**
Yes. PitchBook uses Cloudflare protection that blocks repeated requests from the same IP. The actor defaults to Apify residential proxy, which rotates IPs automatically to bypass this. Without proxy, only 1–2 profiles can be scraped before requests are blocked.

**How long does it take?**
Each profile takes 1–3 seconds to fetch. A run of 100 profiles takes approximately 2–5 minutes.

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

Direct PitchBook investor profile URLs or bare IDs (e.g. https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/11295-73 or 11295-73). When provided, searchQuery is ignored.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Text search for investors (e.g. 'venture capital Berlin' or 'sequoia capital'). Used when no profileUrls are provided.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of investor records to return. Ignored when profileUrls are provided (all URLs are always processed).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy configuration. Residential proxy is required for reliable scraping — PitchBook's Cloudflare protection blocks repeated requests from the same IP.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "venture capital",
  "maxItems": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing scraped investor profile records

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "venture capital",
    "maxItems": 3,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "venture capital",
    "maxItems": 3,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "venture capital",
  "maxItems": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/pitchbook-investors-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "PitchBook Investors Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape public investor profile metadata from PitchBook without a subscription. Supports text search, direct profile URLs, and bulk sitemap discovery. Returns name, description, location, investor type, status, metrics, social links, and more.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "yKNNWFKBCJV3LxfRG"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/crawlerbros~pitchbook-investors-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-crawlerbros-pitchbook-investors-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/crawlerbros~pitchbook-investors-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-crawlerbros-pitchbook-investors-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/crawlerbros~pitchbook-investors-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-crawlerbros-pitchbook-investors-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "profileUrls": {
                        "title": "Profile URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Direct PitchBook investor profile URLs or bare IDs (e.g. https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/11295-73 or 11295-73). When provided, searchQuery is ignored.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "searchQuery": {
                        "title": "Search Query",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Text search for investors (e.g. 'venture capital Berlin' or 'sequoia capital'). Used when no profileUrls are provided.",
                        "default": "venture capital"
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of investor records to return. Ignored when profileUrls are provided (all URLs are always processed).",
                        "default": 3
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Apify proxy configuration. Residential proxy is required for reliable scraping — PitchBook's Cloudflare protection blocks repeated requests from the same IP.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true,
                            "apifyProxyGroups": [
                                "RESIDENTIAL"
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                            },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```