Company Funding Rounds Scraper
Pricing
from $0.69 / 1,000 funding rounds
Funding rounds announced in the news, worldwide: company, stage, amount in USD and original currency, lead and other investors, date, article links. One row per round, merged across 10 sources.
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FinSMEs covers the whole world every day (30-50 rounds a day, archive since 2010); the others add regional rounds. Rounds reported by several sources are merged into one row (see **Merge the same round**). 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These searches are ignored when URLs are pasted in **Article or page URLs**." }, "locations": { "title": "More locations", "maxItems": 100, "uniqueItems": true, "type": "array", "description": "Several locations in one run: every keyword is searched in every location (3 keywords × 4 locations = 12 searches, max 500). Added to **Company location**. 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