# Crunchbase Recently Funded Monitor (`happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [HappiTap](https://apify.com/happitap) (community)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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# README

## Crunchbase Recently Funded Monitor

An Apify actor that extracts recently funded companies from the Crunchbase Data API with advanced filtering, incremental monitoring, and webhook notifications.

### Features

- **API-based extraction** using official Crunchbase Data API (compliant with ToS)
- **Advanced filtering** by date range, funding stage, amount, geography, and keywords
- **Incremental monitoring** to avoid duplicates and track new funding rounds
- **Webhook notifications** for real-time updates
- **Normalized output schema** for easy integration
- **Rate limiting and retries** for reliable operation

### Input Schema

#### Required Fields

- `mode`: Data access mode (currently only "crunchbase\_api")
- `crunchbaseApiKey`: Your Crunchbase Data API key (stored in secrets)

#### Date Filtering

- `lastNDays`: Number of days to look back (default: 7)
- `announcedAfter`: ISO date string for start date
- `announcedBefore`: ISO date string for end date

#### Funding Filters

- `fundingStages`: Array of funding stages (seed, series\_a, series\_b, etc.)
- `minRaisedUsd`: Minimum funding amount in USD
- `maxRaisedUsd`: Maximum funding amount in USD
- `includeUndisclosed`: Include rounds with undisclosed amounts (default: true)

#### Company Filters

- `hqCountries`: Array of ISO-2 country codes
- `hqRegions`: Array of regions
- `industries`: Array of industries
- `companyKeywords`: Keywords to match in company names/descriptions
- `excludeKeywords`: Keywords to exclude

#### Limits & Pagination

- `maxItems`: Maximum number of rounds to extract (default: 200)
- `maxPages`: Maximum pages to fetch (default: 20)

#### Incremental Monitoring

- `incremental`: Enable incremental mode (default: true)
- `stateKey`: Key for storing state (default: "STATE")
- `notifyOnlyNew`: Only notify for new items (default: true)

#### Output & Webhooks

- `outputMode`: "rounds" or "companies\_latest\_round" (default: "rounds")
- `outputDatasetName`: Custom dataset name
- `webhookUrl`: URL for notifications
- `webhookSecret`: Secret for webhook signatures
- `webhookBatchSize`: Batch size for webhooks (default: 50)
- `webhookOnEachItem`: Send webhook per item (default: false)

#### Performance

- `requestRetries`: Number of retries (default: 5)
- `timeoutSecs`: Request timeout (default: 30)
- `minDelayMs`/`maxDelayMs`: Delays between requests

### Output Schema

Each funding round record contains:

```json
{
  "source": "crunchbase",
  "roundId": "uuid",
  "announcedOn": "2024-01-15",
  "fundingType": "series_a",
  "moneyRaised": {
    "amount": 5000000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "usd": 5000000
  },
  "company": {
    "companyId": "uuid",
    "name": "Company Name",
    "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/company-name"
  },
  "investors": [
    {
      "investorId": "uuid",
      "name": "Investor Name",
      "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/investor-name"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
  "hash": "round-uuid",
  "raw": { /* raw API response */ }
}
```

### Usage Examples

#### Example 1: Last 7 days, US + India, Seed/Series A

```json
{
  "lastNDays": 7,
  "hqCountries": ["US", "IN"],
  "fundingStages": ["seed", "series_a"],
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

#### Example 2: Daily monitoring with webhook

```json
{
  "lastNDays": 3,
  "incremental": true,
  "notifyOnlyNew": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://your-webhook-endpoint.com/funding",
  "webhookSecret": "your-secret-key"
}
```

#### Example 3: Specific date range and amount filter

```json
{
  "announcedAfter": "2024-01-01",
  "announcedBefore": "2024-01-31",
  "fundingStages": ["series_a", "series_b"],
  "minRaisedUsd": 1000000,
  "maxRaisedUsd": 20000000,
  "hqCountries": ["US"]
}
```

### Setup

1. **Get Crunchbase API Key**: Sign up at [Crunchbase Data Access](https://data.crunchbase.com/)
2. **Store API Key**: Add your API key to Apify secrets as `CRUNCHBASE_API_KEY`
3. **Configure Input**: Set your desired filters and webhook settings
4. **Run Actor**: Execute with your preferred schedule

### Webhook Integration

The actor can send notifications to webhooks with the following features:

- **Batch notifications**: Sends multiple rounds per request
- **Individual notifications**: Option to send one webhook per round
- **HMAC signatures**: Optional SHA256 signatures for security
- **Retry logic**: Built-in retry for failed webhook deliveries

Webhook payload format:

```json
[
  {
    "source": "crunchbase",
    "roundId": "uuid",
    "announcedOn": "2024-01-15",
    "fundingType": "series_a",
    "moneyRaised": { "amount": 5000000, "currency": "USD", "usd": 5000000 },
    "company": { "companyId": "uuid", "name": "Company Name", "url": "..." },
    "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
  }
]
```

### Incremental Monitoring

When `incremental: true`, the actor:

1. **Tracks processed rounds**: Maintains a set of seen round IDs
2. **Uses date cursors**: Stores the last announced date processed
3. **Avoids duplicates**: Filters out previously processed rounds
4. **Overlap window**: Includes 2-day overlap to catch late announcements

This enables scheduled runs without duplicate data.

### Error Handling

The actor includes comprehensive error handling:

- **API rate limits**: Automatic backoff and retry
- **Authentication errors**: Clear messages for invalid API keys
- **Network failures**: Configurable retry logic
- **Partial results**: Saves available data even if some requests fail
- **Detailed logging**: Comprehensive logs for debugging

### Performance Considerations

- **Rate limiting**: Configurable delays between requests
- **Batch processing**: Efficient API usage with pagination
- **Memory efficient**: Streams data to avoid memory issues
- **Timeout handling**: Configurable timeouts for all requests

### Compliance

This actor uses the official Crunchbase Data API, ensuring compliance with Crunchbase Terms of Service. Web scraping is not implemented to respect robots.txt and API usage guidelines.

### Development

The actor is built with:

- **Node.js 18+**: Modern JavaScript runtime
- **Apify SDK**: Reliable actor framework
- **Axios**: HTTP client with retry logic
- **Moment.js**: Date handling
- **Crypto**: Webhook signature generation

### License

ISC License - see LICENSE file for details.

### Support

For issues and questions:

- Check the actor logs for detailed error messages
- Verify your Crunchbase API key and permissions
- Ensure webhook endpoints are accessible and properly configured

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Method to access Crunchbase data

## `crunchbaseApiKey` (type: `string`):

Your Crunchbase Data API key (stored in secrets)

## `announcedAfter` (type: `string`):

ISO date string (YYYY-MM-DD) - only rounds announced after this date

## `announcedBefore` (type: `string`):

ISO date string (YYYY-MM-DD) - only rounds announced before this date

## `lastNDays` (type: `integer`):

Number of days to look back for funding rounds (overrides announcedAfter if not set)

## `fundingStages` (type: `array`):

Filter by funding stages

## `minRaisedUsd` (type: `integer`):

Minimum funding amount in USD

## `maxRaisedUsd` (type: `integer`):

Maximum funding amount in USD

## `includeUndisclosed` (type: `boolean`):

Include funding rounds with undisclosed amounts

## `hqCountries` (type: `array`):

Filter by company headquarters countries (ISO-2 codes)

## `hqRegions` (type: `array`):

Filter by company headquarters regions

## `industries` (type: `array`):

Filter by industries

## `companyKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to match in company names/descriptions

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to exclude from company names/descriptions

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

Maximum number of funding rounds to extract

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages to fetch

## `incremental` (type: `boolean`):

Enable incremental monitoring to avoid duplicates

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Key for storing incremental state

## `notifyOnlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Only notify/send webhook for new items in incremental mode

## `outputMode` (type: `string`):

Output format: rounds (one per funding round) or companies\_latest\_round (one per company)

## `outputDatasetName` (type: `string`):

Custom name for the output dataset

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

URL to send notifications to

## `webhookSecret` (type: `string`):

Secret for webhook signature verification

## `webhookBatchSize` (type: `integer`):

Number of items to send per webhook batch

## `webhookOnEachItem` (type: `boolean`):

Send webhook for each individual item

## `requestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Number of times to retry failed API requests

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Request timeout in seconds

## `minDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Minimum delay between requests in milliseconds

## `maxDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum delay between requests in milliseconds

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "crunchbase_api",
  "announcedAfter": "2024-01-01",
  "lastNDays": 7,
  "fundingStages": [
    "seed",
    "series_a",
    "series_b"
  ],
  "includeUndisclosed": true,
  "hqCountries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPages": 20,
  "incremental": true,
  "stateKey": "STATE",
  "notifyOnlyNew": true,
  "outputMode": "rounds",
  "webhookBatchSize": 50,
  "webhookOnEachItem": false,
  "requestRetries": 5,
  "timeoutSecs": 30,
  "minDelayMs": 100,
  "maxDelayMs": 1000
}
```

# 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 = {
    "announcedAfter": "2024-01-01"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor").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 = { "announcedAfter": "2024-01-01" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "announcedAfter": "2024-01-01"
}' |
apify call happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,happitap/crunchbase-recently-funded-monitor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/aLk8bngKcbnRgsJq2/builds/EbyTrfMbmxGKy0dYR/openapi.json