# VC Portfolio Change Monitor — What Changed Since Last Run (`nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-monitor`) Actor Monitors VC firm portfolio pages and returns what changed since the last run — companies added, removed, or edited — for a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Greylock, Bessemer, Index, Lightspeed, or any portfolio URL. Schedule it and get a clean change feed. - **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-monitor.md - **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community) - **Categories:** Business, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $100.00 / 1,000 portfolio change records This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. 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. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. 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/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## VC Portfolio Change Monitor — What Changed Since Last Run **Stop re-scraping whole VC portfolios to find the handful of changes. This monitor diffs each firm's portfolio page against its previous run and returns only the delta — companies *added*, *removed*, or *edited* — as clean change records you can schedule, pipe into a CRM, or hand to an AI agent.** Point it at a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Greylock, Bessemer, Index, and Lightspeed (all seeded), or any portfolio URL. Built for VC associates, competitive-intelligence teams, biz-dev, and recruiters who need to know *the moment* a fund's book moves — not to re-read 800 companies every week. ### ⏱ Made to run on a schedule The core value is **"what changed since last run."** Each run stores a per-URL snapshot; the next run compares against it and emits only the differences. Put it on an Apify schedule (daily/weekly) and each run is a tidy change feed. **The first run on each firm is a baseline capture — it stores the current portfolio and emits every company as `added` (this is expected and honest; deltas start from run two).** ### 💵 Pricing — pay per change record - **Portfolio change record — $0.10** (the value event: one added/removed/modified company). - Actor start — $0.00005 (nominal). - **$1 ≈ 10 change records.** On steady-state runs a portfolio moves by a few companies, so ongoing runs are cheap; the one-time baseline run emits more (one record per current company) — budget for it on the first run of each firm. ### 📦 Output — field table (from a real run on Founders Fund) | field | example | notes | |---|---|---| | `firm` | `Founders Fund` | firm name derived from the URL | | `firm_url` | `https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/` | the page monitored | | `company` | `SpaceX` | portfolio company name | | `change_type` | `added` | `added` · `removed` · `modified` | | `baseline` | `true` | true on a URL's first (baseline) run | | `before` | `null` | prior state (`null` for added/baseline) | | `after` | `{"name":"SpaceX","url":null,"description":null}` | new state (`null` for removed) | | `detected_at` | `2026-07-06T06:20:00Z` | UTC run timestamp | Real companies captured on the Founders Fund baseline run include SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, and Stripe. ### 🤖 Use with AI agents The change feed is agent-ready. Example prompts: - *"Run vc-portfolio-page-monitor on my 7 seeded funds and tell me which companies were **added** this week."* - *"Diff today's run against last week and draft an outreach note for each newly-added Founders Fund company."* - *"Watch these 3 competitor VC portfolios daily and alert me when any company is **removed** (a possible exit or failure signal to research)."* Pair it with an LLM step to summarize the delta into a Slack digest, or push `added` records straight into your CRM. ### 🔗 Related NexGenData actors **Portfolio scrapers (full snapshot of one firm):** [a16z](https://apify.com/nexgendata/a16z-portfolio-scraper) · [Sequoia](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sequoia-portfolio-scraper) · [Founders Fund](https://apify.com/nexgendata/founders-fund-portfolio-scraper) · [Greylock](https://apify.com/nexgendata/greylock-portfolio-scraper) · [Bessemer](https://apify.com/nexgendata/bessemer-portfolio-scraper) · [Index](https://apify.com/nexgendata/index-ventures-portfolio-scraper) · [Lightspeed](https://apify.com/nexgendata/lightspeed-portfolio-scraper) **Funding cluster:** [Startup Funding Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/startup-funding-tracker) — new funding rounds across the market. Use the **portfolio scrapers** for a full company list; use **this monitor** to track how that list *changes over time*. ### ⚠️ Honest capability & coverage caps - This is a **records / monitoring** tool. It reports observed changes to public portfolio pages. It does **not** provide investment signals, alpha, edge, or recommendations, and change records are not predictions. - **Coverage depends on how a firm publishes its portfolio.** Firms that render their portfolio in server HTML are fully captured (e.g. Founders Fund, Greylock, a16z-partial). Pure client-side (JavaScript-only) portfolios — currently Sequoia, Bessemer, Lightspeed, Index — return only their static shell to a plain HTTP fetch, so those runs are deterministic but may track few or no companies until a browser-rendered variant is enabled. Extraction is deterministic run-to-run, so it never invents false changes; it can only miss ones on JS-only pages. - `description`/`status` edit detection is best-effort and depends on the field being present in the page markup. # Actor input Schema ## `portfolioUrls` (type: `array`): VC firm portfolio pages to monitor. Seeded with 7 major funds; add any portfolio URL. Each URL is diffed against its own snapshot from the previous run. ## `useProxy` (type: `boolean`): Route fetches through Apify RESIDENTIAL (US) proxy for reliability against anti-bot. Recommended on. ## Actor input object example ```json { "portfolioUrls": [ "https://a16z.com/portfolio/", "https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/", "https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/", "https://greylock.com/portfolio/", "https://www.bvp.com/companies", "https://www.indexventures.com/companies/", "https://lsvp.com/portfolio/" ], "useProxy": true } ```` # 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 = { "portfolioUrls": [ "https://a16z.com/portfolio/", "https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/", "https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/", "https://greylock.com/portfolio/", "https://www.bvp.com/companies", "https://www.indexventures.com/companies/", "https://lsvp.com/portfolio/" ], "useProxy": true }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "portfolioUrls": [ "https://a16z.com/portfolio/", "https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/", "https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/", "https://greylock.com/portfolio/", "https://www.bvp.com/companies", "https://www.indexventures.com/companies/", "https://lsvp.com/portfolio/", ], "useProxy": True, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-monitor").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 '{ "portfolioUrls": [ "https://a16z.com/portfolio/", "https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/", "https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/", "https://greylock.com/portfolio/", "https://www.bvp.com/companies", "https://www.indexventures.com/companies/", "https://lsvp.com/portfolio/" ], "useProxy": true }' | apify call nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-monitor --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/vc-portfolio-page-monitor", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "VC Portfolio Change Monitor — What Changed Since Last Run", "description": "Monitors VC firm portfolio pages and returns what changed since the last run — companies added, removed, or edited — for a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Greylock, Bessemer, Index, Lightspeed, or any portfolio URL. Schedule it and get a clean change feed.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "cqQfLuVATNjJ2cc5d" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/nexgendata~vc-portfolio-page-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-nexgendata-vc-portfolio-page-monitor", "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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~vc-portfolio-page-monitor/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-nexgendata-vc-portfolio-page-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/nexgendata~vc-portfolio-page-monitor/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-nexgendata-vc-portfolio-page-monitor", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "portfolioUrls": { "title": "Portfolio page URLs", "type": "array", "description": "VC firm portfolio pages to monitor. Seeded with 7 major funds; add any portfolio URL. Each URL is diffed against its own snapshot from the previous run.", "default": [ "https://a16z.com/portfolio/", "https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/", "https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/", "https://greylock.com/portfolio/", "https://www.bvp.com/companies", "https://www.indexventures.com/companies/", "https://lsvp.com/portfolio/" ], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "useProxy": { "title": "Use residential proxy", "type": "boolean", "description": "Route fetches through Apify RESIDENTIAL (US) proxy for reliability against anti-bot. 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