# VC Database & Investor Watchlist — Owler-powered (`foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist`) Actor
Owler-powered investor data — VC, PE, corporate VC & sovereign wealth firms. Returns firmographics, recent deals, M\&A history, leadership, funding rounds & news as clean JSON. Public-source feed; pay-as-you-go; no login. Not a substitute for paid VC databases (IRR/DPI not included).
- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Lead generation
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## Pricing
from $4.00 / 1,000 results
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# README
## VC Database & Investor Watchlist — Owler-powered Investor Data
> **Also known as**: VC database · investor database · venture capital data API · investor portfolio tracker · VC sourcing tool · PE database · investor watchlist · deal flow tracker · M&A target research · investor firmographics · corporate VC tracker · sovereign wealth data.
### What does VC Database & Investor Watchlist do?
> **Investor-lens projection of [Owler.com](https://www.owler.com)** — feed in a VC, PE, corporate VC, or sovereign wealth fund (by name, domain, slug, or URL) and get back the investor's tracked deal history, M&A activity, firmographics, leadership, news timeline, and competitor peer-set as clean JSON. Use this when you want **Owler-grade public data** without a Pro subscription. Note: depth is bound by what Owler tracks — this is a fast, cheap public-source feed, not a substitute for paid VC databases (PitchBook, Crunchbase Pro, CB Insights) that offer IRR/DPI/TVPI, fund vintage cohorts, or proprietary LP relationships.
**VC Database & Investor Watchlist** scrapes [Owler.com](https://www.owler.com) public investor profile pages and returns structured venture capital, private equity, and corporate VC data as clean JSON — no login, no subscription, pay only for the firms you actually pull. For any list of investors (by URL, slug, plain name, or website domain) it returns:
- **Recent investments**: the investor's recently tracked deals visible on Owler — target name, amount, date, ownership label, target's Owler profile URL. Owler typically surfaces the most recent 5–20 deals per firm; `totalInvestments` shows the lifetime count.
- **First investment**: the firm's earliest tracked deal — useful for plotting fund vintages and firm-history depth.
- **Total investments & total acquisitions**: counts at the firm level — quickly rank investors by activity volume.
- **M&A history**: full acquisition timeline for PE firms and corporate VCs that also acquire — date, target, source URLs.
- **Investor firmographics**: founded year, industry, full address, AUM / revenue (where public), employee count, ownership type, business summary.
- **Leadership**: managing partners, GPs, CEOs, CIOs — with designations, photos, LinkedIn, Twitter.
- **Competitors (peer firms)**: Owler-ranked competitor list with proximity scores + per-firm firmographics. For VCs: 'funds competing for the same deals'. For PE: 'sector peers'.
- **News & event timeline (`keyHighlights`)**: typed events — fund launches, recent deals, exec moves, partnerships, sector commentary.
- **Funding raised by the firm** (where applicable): if the firm itself raised — round type, date, amount, and any **investors named in the public announcement** with their Owler profile URLs. Note: these reflect what Owler's news/filing aggregation surfaces publicly, not a complete LP cap table.
- **Social profiles**: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram firm profiles.
Output is clean JSON — ready for CRM, dashboards, Slack alerts, LLM context, Make/Zapier/n8n pipelines. Use it for **VC sourcing**, **investor watchlist building**, **portfolio mapping**, **deal-flow tracking**, **M&A target research**, **LP intelligence**, **competitive intel for funds**, or building a **VC knowledge graph** at scale.
**Three input modes — pick whichever your data has:**
| Input you have | Field to use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Investor name | `companyNames` | `Sequoia Capital`, `Andreessen Horowitz`, `KKR` |
| Investor website domain | `companyDomains` | `sequoiacap.com`, `kkr.com` |
| Owler URL or slug | `companyUrls` | `tpg` or full URL |
| Mix of the above | All three | They merge and dedupe automatically |
`companyDomains` and `companyNames` derive the Owler slug heuristically. When the heuristic matches, you get a full investor profile back. When it doesn't (rare for major funds, occasional for boutique funds with idiosyncratic slugs), an `error` row is pushed with the original input preserved so your CSV pipeline never silently drops rows — paste the URL form into `companyUrls` for those edge cases.
### Quick start — copy-paste recipes
Open the Actor's **Input** tab in Apify Console, switch to **JSON / Editor**, paste one of these, click **Start**.
**1) Single investor quick lookup** (~$0.004)
```json
{
"companyUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg" }],
"maxResults": 1
}
````
**2) Top 5 PE firms — investment portfolios + M\&A history** (~$0.02)
```json
{
"companyNames": ["KKR", "Blackstone", "Carlyle", "Apollo", "TPG"],
"includeInvestments": true,
"includeAcquisitions": true,
"maxResults": 5
}
```
**3) VC sourcing — 20 tier-1 VC firms by Owler slug** (~$0.08)
```json
{
"companyUrls": [
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/andreessen-horowitz" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/benchmark" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/accel" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/greylock-partners" }
],
"includeInvestments": true,
"includeLeadership": true
}
```
**4) CRM enrichment from an investor-domain CSV** (~$0.04 / 10 firms)
```json
{
"companyDomains": ["sequoiacap.com", "kkr.com", "blackstone.com", "carlyle.com", "tpg.com"],
"includeInvestments": true,
"includeFunding": false
}
```
**5) Investor-name batch from a trade-show lead list** (~$0.04 / 10 firms)
```json
{
"companyNames": ["TPG", "Sequoia Capital", "Andreessen Horowitz", "Bain Capital", "Brookfield Asset Management"],
"includeInvestments": true
}
```
### How investor lookup works
Owler stores every entity — VC firm, PE house, corporate VC, sovereign wealth fund — under the same `/company/` URL pattern as operating companies. The investor-only metadata (investment portfolio, M\&A timeline, AUM/revenue) is delivered via the same server-rendered Next.js `__NEXT_DATA__` payload as the rest of the Owler company graph. This actor leverages that single canonical endpoint and projects the output to surface investor-first fields:
1. **`investments[]`** — the firm's investment portfolio, each row = one backed company (target name, ticket size, date, ownership, target Owler profile URL).
2. **`firstInvestment`** — the earliest tracked deal for the firm (useful for fund-vintage analysis).
3. **`totalInvestments` / `totalAcquisitions`** — Owler's tracked counts at the firm level.
4. **`acquisitions[]`** — M\&A timeline (PE firms and corporate VCs that also acquire).
5. **`funding`** — if the firm itself raised funding, the rounds + LPs.
Because the data comes from Owler's official Next.js SSR, every run is **live** — today's investor graph, not last year's frozen snapshot.
### When this actor is a good fit (and when it isn't)
**Good fit:**
- You need quick, cheap, scriptable access to **public Owler-tracked** investor profiles — name, AUM/revenue (where public), recent deals, M\&A activity, firmographics, leadership, news.
- You're enriching a CRM / CSV of investor names or domains and want structured JSON back in seconds.
- You want a feed you can schedule (daily/weekly) into Slack, n8n, Make, Zapier, or an LLM agent.
**Not a fit:**
- You need **fund-level performance metrics** (IRR, DPI, TVPI, MOIC) — Owler doesn't publish these; use PitchBook or CB Insights.
- You need **GP/LP relationship maps** beyond what's in public funding announcements — Owler tracks the firm, not the LP cap table.
- You need **fund vintage cohort analysis** — Owler tracks recent deals and a `firstInvestment` timestamp but not a full vintage-year breakdown.
| | Paid VC databases (PitchBook / CB Insights / Crunchbase Pro) | This Actor |
|---|---|---|
| **Access** | Annual subscription + seat licenses | Pay-as-you-go — no login, no contract |
| **Cost** | $$$$ per year | **$4 per 1,000 firms** (~$0.004 each) |
| **Depth** | IRR / DPI / TVPI, vintage cohorts, proprietary LP maps | Public-source: deals, M\&A, firmographics, news |
| **Freshness** | Periodic refresh | **Live** — today's Owler graph |
| **Export** | Limited credits | Full JSON, CSV, Excel — unlimited |
### Why use VC Database & Investor Watchlist?
- **VC sourcing** — turn a list of investor names or domains into rich profiles (AUM/revenue, employee count, sector, full address, exec team) in seconds.
- **Investor watchlist** — track a curated list of funds, schedule daily/weekly runs, get fresh investment & news data piped into Slack / Notion / your CRM.
- **Recent deal mapping** — pull each fund's recent investments visible on its Owler profile (typically the most recent 5–20 deals; the `totalInvestments` counter shows the full lifetime count); map which sectors a firm has been leaning into lately.
- **Deal-flow tracking** — `keyHighlights` returns typed deal/fund-launch/exec-move news — feed into a daily digest without scraping news sites separately.
- **M\&A target research** — full acquisition history for PE firms and corporate VCs — identify serial acquirers, hot sectors, recent activity.
- **Funding round visibility** — for firms that raised their own funding publicly, the funding rounds expose investors named in the announcement with their Owler profile URLs (note: this is public-announcement data, not a complete LP cap table).
- **Competitive intel for funds** — competitor graph with proximity scores + peer-firm firmographics — see who you're losing deals to.
- **Leadership mapping** — full GP / managing partner arrays with LinkedIn for outreach, recruiting, decision-maker mapping.
- **LLM context** — feed structured investor data + portfolio + news into RAG pipelines for investor-relations / sales co-pilots.
### How to use
1. Open the Actor's **Input** tab in the Apify Console.
2. Provide investors in **at least one** of the three input modes:
- `companyUrls` — Owler URL or slug (`tpg`, `https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital`)
- `companyDomains` — investor website domain (`sequoiacap.com`)
- `companyNames` — plain investor name (`Sequoia Capital`, `Andreessen Horowitz`)
3. Toggle which fields to include (investments / acquisitions / funding / competitors / leadership / social — all on by default).
4. Set **Max results** to control cost (default 50, max 100,000).
5. Click **Start**. Dataset populates in real time.
6. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, RSS, or XML from the **Dataset** tab.
### Input
```json
{
"companyNames": ["TPG", "Sequoia Capital", "Andreessen Horowitz"],
"companyDomains": ["kkr.com", "blackstone.com"],
"companyUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/softbank" }],
"includeInvestments": true,
"includeAcquisitions": true,
"includeFunding": true,
"includeCompetitors": true,
"includeLeadership": true,
"includeSocial": true,
"maxResults": 50,
"maxConcurrency": 10
}
```
All fields are optional with sensible defaults — but at least one of `companyUrls`, `companyDomains`, or `companyNames` must be provided.
### Output
Each dataset row represents one investor / firm profile. Example (TPG):
```json
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg",
"name": "TPG",
"legalName": "TPG Inc.",
"description": "TPG is a global alternative asset management firm with $239 billion in assets under management ...",
"website": "https://www.tpg.com",
"domain": "tpg.com",
"industry": "Investment Banking and Securities",
"ownership": "Public",
"yearFounded": 1992,
"headquarters": "Fort Worth, Texas, US",
"ticker": "TPG",
"exchange": "NASDAQ",
"employees": 1110,
"revenueAmount": 4100000000,
"revenueFormatted": "4.1B",
"totalInvestments": 305,
"totalAcquisitions": 114,
"investments": [
{
"companyName": "Achieve Life Sciences",
"teamName": "achievelifesciences",
"ownership": "Minority",
"owlerUrl": "https://www.owler.com/company/achievelifesciences",
"amount": 354000000,
"date": "Apr 15, 2026"
},
{
"companyName": "Allbirds",
"teamName": "allbirds",
"owlerUrl": "https://www.owler.com/company/allbirds",
"amount": 50000000,
"date": "Apr 15, 2026"
}
],
"firstInvestment": {
"companyName": "eSilicon",
"teamName": "esilicon",
"owlerUrl": "https://www.owler.com/company/esilicon",
"date": "Feb 20, 2002"
},
"acquisitions": [
{ "companyName": "Smile Brands", "date": "Mar 2026", "amount": null, "sources": ["..."] }
],
"ceo": {
"name": "Jon Winkelried",
"designation": "CEO",
"rating": 78,
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-winkelried/"
},
"social": {
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tpg-capital",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/TPG"
}
}
```
You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.
### Data table
| Bucket | Key fields |
|---|---|
| 🏢 Firm identity | `name`, `legalName`, `description`, `website`, `domain`, `industry`, `ownership`, `yearFounded`, `headquarters`, `address`, `ticker`, `exchange` |
| 💼 Investment activity | `totalInvestments`, `investments[]` (target name + amount + date + Owler URL), `firstInvestment` |
| 🤝 M\&A activity | `totalAcquisitions`, `acquisitions[]` (target + date + amount + source URLs) |
| 💰 Firm financials | `revenueAmount`, `revenueFormatted`, `revenueRange`, `employees`, `employeesRange` |
| 🧑💼 Leadership | `ceo` (name + designation + LinkedIn + Twitter + photo + approval rating), `leadership[]` |
| 🥊 Peer firms | `competitors[]` (Owler proximity-ranked, with firmographics), `totalCompetitors` |
| 📰 News timeline | `keyHighlights[]` (typed events — fund launch, deal, exec move, partnership) |
| 💸 Funding raised (LP intel) | `funding.rounds[]` (date + amount + named LP investors + LP profile URLs) |
| 🌐 Social | `social.linkedin`, `social.twitter`, `social.facebook`, `social.youtube`, `social.instagram` |
### Pricing — how much does it cost to scrape Owler investor data?
**$4 per 1,000 investor profiles** (pay-per-event billing on Apify). You pay $0.004 per successfully returned profile — nothing for the actor start (rounded to fractions of a cent), nothing for failed lookups (only successful pushes are billed).
- **50 investors** ≈ $0.20
- **500 investors** ≈ $2
- **1,000 investors** ≈ $4
- **10,000 investors** ≈ $40
Apify usage (compute / proxy / data transfer) is included for paying customers on the actor.
### Tips & advanced options
- **Start with a 5-firm test run** before pushing a 1,000-firm CSV — verify the slugs resolve cleanly.
- **For batch CSV enrichment**, use `companyDomains` if you have websites (e.g. `sequoiacap.com` → cleanly hits Owler `sequoia-capital`).
- **For trade-show lead lists**, use `companyNames` — heuristic handles most major funds. Boutique funds with idiosyncratic slugs return an error row with the original input preserved; paste those URLs into `companyUrls` manually.
- **`maxConcurrency`** — default 10 is balanced; bump to 20-30 for >500-firm runs (memory permitting).
- **Cost-saving**: turn off enrichment buckets you don't need (`includeCompetitors`, `includeFunding`, etc.) — doesn't reduce the per-result price, but reduces dataset size and download time.
### FAQ
**Q: Is scraping Owler legal?** This actor accesses public investor profile pages on Owler.com — the same pages anyone can browse without logging in. Owler's data itself is aggregated from public sources (filings, news, press releases). Always check your jurisdiction's laws and Owler's [Terms of Service](https://www.owler.com/about/terms) for your use case.
**Q: How accurate is the data?** Sourced directly from Owler's server-rendered Next.js payload — the same data Owler displays in its own UI. Owler aggregates from public news/filings/press releases; quality varies by firm size (mega-funds tracked closely, boutique funds may have stale or partial data).
**Q: Why is `revenueAmount` null for some VC firms?** Most private VC funds don't disclose AUM/revenue publicly, so Owler doesn't have it. Public alternative-asset firms (KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle, TPG, Brookfield, Apollo) typically have full financials.
**Q: Can I get LP / investor names from funding rounds?** Where the firm itself raised funding publicly (rare for established VC, more common for newer funds), the `funding.rounds[].investors[]` array contains investors **named in the public announcement** — Owler aggregates these from press releases and filings. This is not a complete LP cap table — for proprietary LP relationship maps, use a paid VC database (PitchBook, CB Insights).
**Q: My investor name didn't resolve — what happened?** The heuristic (`Sequoia Capital` → `sequoia-capital`) works for ~85% of common funds. Boutique funds with idiosyncratic slugs return an `error` row with your original input preserved. Look up the firm on Owler manually and paste the exact URL into `companyUrls`.
**Q: Can I schedule this actor to run daily?** Yes — Apify has built-in scheduling. Pair with a Slack / Make / Zapier integration for an investor watchlist that hits your inbox every morning.
**Q: How do I report a bug or request a feature?** Open an issue on the Apify Store page or DM the actor maintainer.
### Related actors in the foXLabs B2B Intelligence Suite
| Actor | Use case | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| **VC Database & Investor Watchlist** (this) | VC / PE / corporate VC firms — investment portfolio + M\&A + LP intel | $4/1K |
| Owler Scraper | General B2B company intelligence — revenue, employees, competitors, funding | $4/1K |
| Craft.co Intelligence | Deep company financials & valuation | $4/1K |
| Built In Startup Scraper | Tech startup firmographics + tech stack | $4/1K |
| Glassdoor Company Scraper | Employer intelligence — ratings, reviews, size, industry | $4/1K |
| Indian Company Data | India company data (CIN, directors, financials) | $2/1K |
| Company Data Enrichment | Lean firmographic enrichment (Owler-derived) | $1/1K |
| Free Company Lookup | Free funnel — domain, industry, HQ, logo | $0 |
# Actor input Schema
## `companyUrls` (type: `array`):
Use this when you already know the exact Owler URL or slug for the investor / VC firm:
• **Owler slug**: `tpg`, `softbank`, `sequoia-capital`
• **Full company URL**: `https://www.owler.com/company/tpg`
• **Full investor URL**: `https://www.owler.com/iaApp/138635/tpg-inc-company-profile` (both URL forms work)
Drop a `.txt`/`.csv` file or link a remote list for bulk loads. For free-text investor names or website domains, use the dedicated fields below.
## `companyDomains` (type: `array`):
Paste the investor's website domain and we derive the Owler slug heuristically (`sequoiacap.com` → `sequoiacap`). Perfect when your CRM / CSV has investor websites as the join key.
Domains whose Owler slug differs from the heuristic (e.g. `tpg.com` → Owler stores it as `tpg`, not `tpg-com`) return an `error` row with the original input preserved — retry those via `companyUrls` with the exact URL. No extra cost.
## `companyNames` (type: `array`):
Paste plain investor / fund names and we derive the matching Owler slug heuristically (lowercase + hyphenate).
• `TPG` → `tpg` ✓
• `KKR` → `kkr` ✓
• `SoftBank` → `softbank` ✓
**Heads up — heuristic isn't perfect:** common multi-word fund names often don't map (`Bain Capital` → 404, `Brookfield Asset Management` → 404, `Andreessen Horowitz` → 404 because Owler uses `a16z`). Short-name collisions also happen (`sequoia-capital` lands on Sequoia Capital China, not the US firm). When the result looks wrong or returns 404, paste the exact Owler URL into the field above instead.
## `includeInvestments` (type: `boolean`):
Each investor's investment portfolio — companies they invested into, with ticket size, date, ownership stake, target company description, target Owler profile URL. Default ON because this is the flagship signal of the actor: investor → which deals.
## `includeAcquisitions` (type: `boolean`):
Many PE firms and corporate VCs also acquire — this returns the full M\&A timeline (target, date, amount, source URLs). Default ON.
## `includeFunding` (type: `boolean`):
If the firm itself raised funding (most newer VC funds do), returns the funding rounds with named LPs / institutional investors. Useful for LP intelligence and fund-of-funds mapping.
## `includeCompetitors` (type: `boolean`):
Owler's competitor graph — up to 28 peer firms with proximity scores + their own AUM / employees / HQ. For VC: 'firms that compete for the same deals'. For PE: 'sector peers'. Default ON.
## `includeNewsEvents` (type: `boolean`):
Typed news/event stream — fund launches, recent deals, exec moves, partnerships, sector commentary. Each item has headline, date, source URL.
## `includeFinancialHistory` (type: `boolean`):
For public firms (KKR, Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, Brookfield, Carlyle) — quarterly revenue history + momentum percentages. For private VC funds — usually empty.
## `includeLeadership` (type: `boolean`):
Leadership array — managing partners, GPs, CEOs, CIOs with designations, photos, LinkedIn, Twitter. Plus CEO approval rating where available.
## `includeSocial` (type: `boolean`):
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram firm profile URLs.
## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):
Hard cap on results — set per your budget. Set 0 for unlimited. PPE pricing: $4 per 1,000 results.
• 50 ≈ $0.20
• 500 ≈ $2
• 1,000 ≈ $4
• 10,000 ≈ $40
## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):
How many investor pages to fetch in parallel. Owler tolerates aggressive parallelism on datacenter proxy — default `10` is balanced.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Apify Datacenter proxy is sufficient for Owler — Residential is overkill and 5-10x more expensive. Datacenter is included free on every Apify plan.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"companyUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/softbank"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital"
}
],
"companyDomains": [
"sequoiacap.com",
"kkr.com",
"tpg.com"
],
"companyNames": [
"TPG",
"KKR",
"SoftBank"
],
"includeInvestments": true,
"includeAcquisitions": true,
"includeFunding": true,
"includeCompetitors": true,
"includeNewsEvents": true,
"includeFinancialHistory": true,
"includeLeadership": true,
"includeSocial": true,
"maxResults": 50,
"maxConcurrency": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": []
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `dataset` (type: `string`):
No description
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"companyUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/softbank"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital"
}
],
"companyDomains": [
"sequoiacap.com",
"kkr.com",
"tpg.com"
],
"companyNames": [
"TPG",
"KKR",
"SoftBank"
],
"maxResults": 50,
"maxConcurrency": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": []
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist").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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"companyUrls": [
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/softbank" },
{ "url": "https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital" },
],
"companyDomains": [
"sequoiacap.com",
"kkr.com",
"tpg.com",
],
"companyNames": [
"TPG",
"KKR",
"SoftBank",
],
"maxResults": 50,
"maxConcurrency": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": True,
"apifyProxyGroups": [],
},
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist").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 '{
"companyUrls": [
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/tpg"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/softbank"
},
{
"url": "https://www.owler.com/company/sequoia-capital"
}
],
"companyDomains": [
"sequoiacap.com",
"kkr.com",
"tpg.com"
],
"companyNames": [
"TPG",
"KKR",
"SoftBank"
],
"maxResults": 50,
"maxConcurrency": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": []
}
}' |
apify call foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=foxlabs/vc-investor-watchlist",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "VC Database & Investor Watchlist — Owler-powered",
"description": "Owler-powered investor data — VC, PE, corporate VC & sovereign wealth firms. Returns firmographics, recent deals, M&A history, leadership, funding rounds & news as clean JSON. Public-source feed; pay-as-you-go; no login. Not a substitute for paid VC databases (IRR/DPI not included).",
"version": "0.5",
"x-build-id": "IYSwJfXCydbRtAjcQ"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/foxlabs~vc-investor-watchlist/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-foxlabs-vc-investor-watchlist",
"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": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/foxlabs~vc-investor-watchlist/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-foxlabs-vc-investor-watchlist",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/foxlabs~vc-investor-watchlist/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-foxlabs-vc-investor-watchlist",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$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": {
"companyUrls": {
"title": "Investor URLs or slugs (exact match)",
"type": "array",
"description": "Use this when you already know the exact Owler URL or slug for the investor / VC firm:\n• **Owler slug**: `tpg`, `softbank`, `sequoia-capital`\n• **Full company URL**: `https://www.owler.com/company/tpg`\n• **Full investor URL**: `https://www.owler.com/iaApp/138635/tpg-inc-company-profile` (both URL forms work)\nDrop a `.txt`/`.csv` file or link a remote list for bulk loads. For free-text investor names or website domains, use the dedicated fields below.",
"default": [],
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"url"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"title": "URL of a web page",
"format": "uri"
}
}
}
},
"companyDomains": {
"title": "Or: investor website domains (CRM enrichment mode)",
"type": "array",
"description": "Paste the investor's website domain and we derive the Owler slug heuristically (`sequoiacap.com` → `sequoiacap`). Perfect when your CRM / CSV has investor websites as the join key.\n\nDomains whose Owler slug differs from the heuristic (e.g. `tpg.com` → Owler stores it as `tpg`, not `tpg-com`) return an `error` row with the original input preserved — retry those via `companyUrls` with the exact URL. No extra cost.",
"default": [],
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"companyNames": {
"title": "Or: investor names (free-text)",
"type": "array",
"description": "Paste plain investor / fund names and we derive the matching Owler slug heuristically (lowercase + hyphenate).\n• `TPG` → `tpg` ✓\n• `KKR` → `kkr` ✓\n• `SoftBank` → `softbank` ✓\n**Heads up — heuristic isn't perfect:** common multi-word fund names often don't map (`Bain Capital` → 404, `Brookfield Asset Management` → 404, `Andreessen Horowitz` → 404 because Owler uses `a16z`). Short-name collisions also happen (`sequoia-capital` lands on Sequoia Capital China, not the US firm). When the result looks wrong or returns 404, paste the exact Owler URL into the field above instead.",
"default": [],
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"includeInvestments": {
"title": "Investment portfolio (companies this investor backed)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Each investor's investment portfolio — companies they invested into, with ticket size, date, ownership stake, target company description, target Owler profile URL. Default ON because this is the flagship signal of the actor: investor → which deals.",
"default": true
},
"includeAcquisitions": {
"title": "M&A history (acquisitions this firm made)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Many PE firms and corporate VCs also acquire — this returns the full M&A timeline (target, date, amount, source URLs). Default ON.",
"default": true
},
"includeFunding": {
"title": "Funding rounds raised (for fund-of-funds / LP intel)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If the firm itself raised funding (most newer VC funds do), returns the funding rounds with named LPs / institutional investors. Useful for LP intelligence and fund-of-funds mapping.",
"default": true
},
"includeCompetitors": {
"title": "Competitor firms (Owler-ranked, with firmographics)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Owler's competitor graph — up to 28 peer firms with proximity scores + their own AUM / employees / HQ. For VC: 'firms that compete for the same deals'. For PE: 'sector peers'. Default ON.",
"default": true
},
"includeNewsEvents": {
"title": "News & event timeline (deals, fund launches, exec moves)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Typed news/event stream — fund launches, recent deals, exec moves, partnerships, sector commentary. Each item has headline, date, source URL.",
"default": true
},
"includeFinancialHistory": {
"title": "Quarterly AUM/revenue + momentum signals",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "For public firms (KKR, Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, Brookfield, Carlyle) — quarterly revenue history + momentum percentages. For private VC funds — usually empty.",
"default": true
},
"includeLeadership": {
"title": "Executive team (managing partners, GPs, CIO)",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Leadership array — managing partners, GPs, CEOs, CIOs with designations, photos, LinkedIn, Twitter. Plus CEO approval rating where available.",
"default": true
},
"includeSocial": {
"title": "Social media profiles",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram firm profile URLs.",
"default": true
},
"maxResults": {
"title": "Maximum number of investors to scrape",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100000,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Hard cap on results — set per your budget. Set 0 for unlimited. PPE pricing: $4 per 1,000 results.\n• 50 ≈ $0.20\n• 500 ≈ $2\n• 1,000 ≈ $4\n• 10,000 ≈ $40",
"default": 50
},
"maxConcurrency": {
"title": "Concurrent page fetches",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How many investor pages to fetch in parallel. Owler tolerates aggressive parallelism on datacenter proxy — default `10` is balanced.",
"default": 10
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "Proxy configuration",
"type": "object",
"description": "Apify Datacenter proxy is sufficient for Owler — Residential is overkill and 5-10x more expensive. Datacenter is included free on every Apify plan.",
"default": {
"useApifyProxy": true,
"apifyProxyGroups": []
}
}
}
},
"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",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"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": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"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": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```