📰 Crunchbase News Scraper — Daily Funding & M&A Headlines

VC funding rounds. Acquisitions. IPOs. Quarterly recaps. Startup launches. One Actor, the full firehose from news.crunchbase.com — the editorial side of Crunchbase, not the locked-down data platform. Pay-per-article, no $30K/seat Bloomberg or $20K/year Mergermarket contract.

▶️ Try this Actor → — first article on us, $0.10 per article after.

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🎯 Who this is for

• VC associates running daily intel — every Series A/B/C ann, every M&A whisper, in one structured JSON feed.
• Sales / BD teams chasing founders who just raised. Trigger an outreach the morning the round is announced.
• Corporate development tracking acquisitions in their sector — see who Adobe, Salesforce, Cisco, Snowflake just bought.
• Investor relations running competitive intel for their portfolio companies.
• Journalists & analysts building newsletters, Substacks, sector reports.
• Quant funds wiring "headline alpha" feeds into event-driven strategies.

If you've ever paid $1,800/year for Term Sheet, $20K/year for Mergermarket, or $24K/seat for Reuters Eikon just to get the same headlines that Crunchbase News publishes for free — this Actor turns that page into structured rows with entity extraction, funding amount parsing, and round-type classification.

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💸 Pricing

What you pay	When
$0.01 actor start	Once per run (covers compute kickoff)
$0.10 per article	Each article record pushed to dataset (the primary unit)

A typical daily intel run pulling the last 24 hours across all categories (~15 articles) is $1.51. A weekly bulk run pulling 100 articles is $10.01. A monthly back-fill of 500 articles is $50.01.

That's <1% of what a Bloomberg Terminal seat costs to surface the same M&A and funding stories — and ours is structured, queryable, and merges cleanly into your data warehouse.

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📥 Inputs

Field	Type	Description
limit	int	Max articles to return (1–500). Default 25.
category	array	Restrict to Crunchbase News sections (venture, ma, startups, business, public-markets, ai, fintech, cybersecurity, crypto, climate-sustainability, health-wellness-biotech, quarterly-and-annual-reports, sales-marketing). Empty = ALL.
date_range	string	today (last 24h), week (last 7d), month (last 30d), or all. Default week.
keyword_filter	array	Case-insensitive substrings matched against title + excerpt. Examples: ["Series A","Series B"], ["IPO","SPAC"], ["acquires","acquired"].
include_full_text	boolean	If true, body_markdown contains the full article body and full_content=true. Default true.

All fields are optional. An empty input runs the default "last 7 days, 25 articles, with full text" preset.

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📤 Output schema

Each article record (one dataset row):

Field	Type	Example
title	string	"Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer 'Automation As A Service' To Construction Sites"
slug	string	"xpanner-automation-as-a-service-for-construction-sites-..."
url	string	https://news.crunchbase.com/real-estate-property-tech/xpanner-...
published_at	ISO 8601	"2026-05-14T14:00:23+00:00"
author	string	"Marlize van Romburgh"
category	string	"Artificial intelligence"
tags	array	["Manufacturing","Real estate & property tech","Robotics","Startups","unicorn"]
excerpt	string	First 200 chars of body text
mentioned_companies	array	["Xpanner"] — entity-extracted from anchor links to crunchbase.com/organization/*
mentioned_investors	array	["Korea Investment Partners","KB Investment Co."] — entity-extracted using investor heuristics
funding_amount_usd	int/null	18000000 — parsed from headline + first 400 chars
round_type	string	"Series B" — Pre-Seed / Seed / Series A–G / Bridge / IPO / M&A
full_content	boolean	true if body_markdown is populated
body_markdown	string	Full article body in markdown (paragraphs, links, headings)
data_source	string	"news.crunchbase.com/feed (RSS)" or "news.crunchbase.com (HTML)"

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🆚 Crunchbase News vs the alternatives

Tool	Cost	Funding rounds	M&A	IPO	Entity extraction	Structured JSON	API access
This Actor	$0.10/article	✅ Daily	✅ Daily	✅	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Apify
Bloomberg Terminal	~$30K/yr/seat	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ Terminal-only	Limited
Reuters Eikon / LSEG	~$24K/yr/seat	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ Terminal-only	Limited
Refinitiv Workspace	~$22K/yr/seat	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ Terminal-only	Limited
Mergermarket	~$20K/yr/seat	Partial	✅✅✅	✅	✅	❌ Web-only	❌
TechCrunch (free)	$0	✅	✅	✅	❌ Unstructured	❌ HTML only	❌
This Actor	$0.10/article	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅ JSON	✅ REST

You pay per useful row. No per-seat licence, no annual lock-in, no terminal install. Wire it into your warehouse on day one.

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🧪 Quick-start examples

Daily morning brief — every story in the last 24h (~12 articles, ~$1.21):

{ "limit": 25, "date_range": "today" }

M&A radar — weekly acquisitions (~30 articles, ~$3.01):

{ "category": ["ma","business"], "date_range": "week", "keyword_filter": ["acquires","acquired","acquisition","merger"], "limit": 50 }

Series A/B watcher (~40 articles, ~$4.01):

{ "keyword_filter": ["Series A","Series B"], "date_range": "week", "limit": 50 }

AI funding firehose (~60 articles, ~$6.01):

{ "category": ["ai"], "date_range": "month", "include_full_text": true, "limit": 100 }

Headlines-only monitoring (no body — cheapest, ~$2.51 for 25 rows):

{ "limit": 25, "date_range": "today", "include_full_text": false }

Monthly backfill — entire month, all categories (~150 articles, ~$15.01):

{ "limit": 500, "date_range": "month" }

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🧱 How extraction works

• Funding amount: regex over title + first 400 chars of body, matching patterns like $5M, $1.2 billion, $500K. Converted to USD integers ($18M → 18000000).
• Round type: pattern-matched against Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A through Series G, Bridge, IPO, M&A. First match wins, ordered by specificity.
• Mentioned companies vs investors: anchor links inside the body pointing at crunchbase.com/organization/* are classified by sentence context — anchors near led by, backed by, invested, or whose link text contains Ventures / Capital / Partners / Fund are tagged as investors; everything else is the operating company.
• Categories & tags: pulled from the WordPress taxonomy attached to each post (multiple per article — an AI fintech story might be tagged AI, Fintech, Startups).
• Date filtering: applied against the published-at timestamp from RSS / <meta property="article:published_time">. Articles without parseable dates are kept (rather than silently dropped).

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🪜 Source strategy & rate-limit posture

1. Primary — news.crunchbase.com/feed/ RSS. Server-rendered, 10 freshest articles, full body in content:encoded. Zero anti-bot, polite User-Agent.
2. Pagination — when limit > 10, we walk /sections/<slug>/page/N/ HTML pages, harvest article URLs, fetch each one individually with a 400ms delay.
3. Headers — desktop Chrome User-Agent, no JS execution required (WordPress is server-rendered).
4. Failure modes — if a category index 404s, we fall back to the all-category feed and filter client-side. Articles with missing fields keep best-effort partial records (no silent drops).

Crunchbase News is a WordPress site, not the locked-down Crunchbase data platform. The data platform requires a $999+/mo enterprise contract and aggressive anti-bot. The news site is editorially free, publicly indexable, and the legal grey-zone risk is the same as scraping any open WordPress blog.

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🔗 Sister actors in the NexGenData fleet

If Crunchbase News headlines are useful to you, these adjacent Actors are the natural pair:

• Startup Funding Tracker — round-by-round funding events with lead investor, valuation, post-money. The #1 companion to this Actor: news headlines tell you what happened, this tells you how much and who led.
• YC Companies Directory Scraper — Y Combinator alumni, every batch since S05 (5,000+ companies). When a YC company shows up in Crunchbase News, this Actor gives you the rest of their profile.
• Techstars Companies Directory — Techstars accelerator alumni (5,591 companies, 128 programs). Same play as YC: enrich news mentions with full founder/program/cohort context.
• SEC Form 8-K Material Events Scraper — real-time SEC 8-K filings (acquisitions, departures, material events). Crunchbase News covers private-market events; 8-K covers the public-market regulatory disclosures.
• IPO Tracker — upcoming + recent IPOs with lockup expirations, pricing, valuations. Crunchbase News announces the IPO; this Actor gives you the structured pricing data.
• Finance MCP Server — Claude / ChatGPT MCP server bundling the entire NexGenData finance fleet so an LLM can call any of these Actors as a tool.

Stack four of these and you've replicated a Bloomberg + PitchBook + CB Insights workflow for under $100/month.

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