Startup Investors Scraper — VC & Angel Investor Data from Signal NFX

Extract venture capital and angel investor profiles from Signal NFX, a free public investor directory. Get structured data on individual investors including their firm, investment focus, check sizes, sector and stage preferences, location, investment thesis, LinkedIn, Twitter, and fund details.

What it scrapes

• Investor profile: name, headline, current firm, role/title
• Investment focus: stage focus (Pre-Seed → Growth), sector focus (SaaS, FinTech, AI, etc.)
• Check size range: minimum and maximum investment amounts
• Contact details: LinkedIn URL, Twitter/X handle
• Firm data: firm name, current fund size
• Location: city and state/country of the investor

Use cases

• Fundraising targeting: Build targeted investor lists for your startup fundraising round
• LP research: Identify active VCs and angel investors in a specific sector or stage
• Market intelligence: Map the VC landscape by sector, stage, geography
• CRM enrichment: Enrich existing investor lists with structured data
• Competitor analysis: Understand who is funding companies in your space

Input

Parameter	Description	Default
searchUrls	Specific Signal NFX investor profile URLs to scrape. When provided, bypasses discovery.	(auto-discover)
stageFocus	Filter by investment stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, B, C, Growth, Late Stage	All Stages
sectorFocus	Filter by sector: SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, AI, Marketplace, etc.	All Sectors
investorType	Filter by type: VC, Angel, PE, Accelerator, Family Office, CVC	All Types
location	Filter by location string (e.g. "San Francisco", "New York", "London")	(all)
maxItems	Maximum number of investor profiles to return. Set to 0 for unlimited.	10

Output

Each record represents one investor profile:

{
  "firm_name": "NFX",
  "firm_url": "https://signal.nfx.com/investors/james-currier",
  "firm_website": "https://nfx.com/team/james-currier/",
  "firm_type": "VC",
  "firm_stage_focus": "pre-seed, seed",
  "firm_sector_focus": "saas, ai, marketplace",
  "firm_location": "Palo Alto, California",
  "firm_description": "Companies in the SF Bay Area. Anything with network effects. Consumer, crypto, fintech, connected devices.",
  "check_size_min": 500000,
  "check_size_max": 4000000,
  "investor_name": "James Currier",
  "investor_title": "Managing Partner at NFX",
  "investor_linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescurrier/",
  "investor_twitter": "http://www.twitter.com/JamesCurrier",
  "fund_size": "$450M"
}

Fields not available in Signal NFX's public profile pages are returned as null.

How it works

Signal NFX renders investor data server-side and embeds it as JSON in window.__APOLLO_STATE__. This scraper:

1. Discovers investor category lists from /investor-lists
2. Extracts individual investor profile links from each category page
3. Parses the embedded Apollo state JSON on each profile page

No authentication required. Signal NFX allows programmatic access for public profile data.

Rate limiting

Signal NFX specifies a crawl-delay: 8 in their robots.txt. The scraper respects this with low concurrency (2 simultaneous requests) to avoid rate limits and ensure long-term reliability.

Limitations

• No portfolio companies list: Signal NFX does not include a full portfolio list in the public profile HTML
• No AUM field: Assets under management are not available in public profiles
• Email not included: Contact emails are not publicly listed on Signal NFX
• Fund vintage year not available: Vintage year is not in the public SSR data

For a full-coverage investor database including portfolio data, pair this actor with Crunchbase scrapers.