Forge Global Scraper

Forge Global Scraper – Private Company & IPO Intelligence API

Extract structured data from ForgeGlobal.com and monitor private companies, funding rounds, investors, and IPO activity automatically.

This actor allows you to scrape Forge Global at scale to collect financial intelligence about private startups, unicorns, and pre-IPO companies.

Ideal for investors, analysts, funds, fintech platforms, and market researchers.

🏢 Private Company Data Extraction

Retrieve complete company profiles including:

Company name & website

Description

Sector & subsector

Founding year

Location

Total funding

Latest valuation

Share class

Last funding round type

Price per share (when available)

Outstanding shares

Financial metrics

💰 Funding & Investment History

Automatically extract:

Funding rounds

Tender offers

Secondary transactions

Amount raised

Post-money valuations

Conversion ratios

Dividend rates

Cap structure indicators

Key investors

Share classes

🧑‍💼 People & Leadership Monitoring

Collect:

Founder names

Executive roles

Titles (CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.)

Board members (when available)

📰 News Aggregation

Get the latest press & financial coverage:

Reuters

TechCrunch

The Information

Yahoo Finance

Other publications

Including:

Article titles

Source

Date

Description

Direct links

🔁 Investor Portfolio Mapping

Track other investments for investors:

Portfolio breakdowns

Cross-investment analysis

Investor exposure mapping

📈 IPO Calendar Scraping

Extract IPO pipeline data including:

Estimated IPO date

Exchange (NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.)

Ticker symbol

IPO valuation

Filing status

IPO stage (Rumored, Filed, Trading)

IPO news and analysis

Output example

Company

{
  "company": "OpenAI Stock",
  "url": "https://forgeglobal.com/openai_stock/",
  "fundings": [
    {
      "funding_date": "10/02/2024",
      "share_class": "Funding Round",
      "amount_raised": "$6.6B",
      "price_per_share": "",
      "post-money_valuation": "$157B",
      "key_investors": "--",
      "shares_outstanding": "--",
      "liquidation_pref_order": "--",
      "liquidation_pref_as_multiplier": "--",
      "conversion_ratio": "1.0x",
      "dividend_rate": "0.0%",
      "cumulative": "Non-cumulative",
      "participating": "Non-participating",
      "participation_cap": "--"
    },
    {
      "funding_date": "02/16/2024",
      "share_class": "Tender Offer",
      "amount_raised": "--",
      "price_per_share": "",
      "post-money_valuation": "$80B",
      "key_investors": "Thrive Capital",
      "shares_outstanding": "--",
      "liquidation_pref_order": "--",
      "liquidation_pref_as_multiplier": "--",
      "conversion_ratio": "1.0x",
      "dividend_rate": "0.0%",
      "cumulative": "Non-cumulative",
      "participating": "Non-participating",
      "participation_cap": "--"
    },
    {
      "funding_date": "04/23/2023",
      "share_class": "Secondary Transaction",
      "amount_raised": "$300MM",
      "price_per_share": "",
      "post-money_valuation": "$28B",
      "key_investors": "Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, K2 Global, Sequoia Capital, Thrive",
      "shares_outstanding": "580,000,000",
      "liquidation_pref_order": "--",
      "liquidation_pref_as_multiplier": "--",
      "conversion_ratio": "1.0x",
      "dividend_rate": "0.0%",
      "cumulative": "Non-cumulative",
      "participating": "Non-participating",
      "participation_cap": "--"
    }
  ],
  "description": "OpenAI is an AI research company which offers advanced AI models to organizations and individuals. OpenAI’s models are designed for tasks like language processing, coding, and problem-solving, with the goal of making AI tools accessible and effective for a wide range of users. The company aims to help users improve efficiency and build smarter systems while advancing AI research. This company was founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, Trevor Blackwell, Durk Kingma, and Pamela Vagata in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.",
  "website": "https://openai.com",
  "sector": "Enterprise Software",
  "subsector": "Data Intelligence",
  "founded": "2015",
  "post-money_valuation": "$157B",
  "total_funding": "$14.7B",
  "lfr_price_per_share": "",
  "last_funding_share_class": "Funding Round",
  "investors_other_investments": [
    {
      "name": "Y Combinator",
      "investments": [
        {
          "name": "OpenAI",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/openai_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Helion Energy",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/helion-energy_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/mark-cuban-cost-plus-drug-company_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale AI",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/scale-ai-inc_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Rippling",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/rippling_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Gecko Robotics",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/gecko-robotics_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flock Safety",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/flock-safety_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Substack",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/substack_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Gusto",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/gusto_stock/"
        },
        {
          "name": "Stoke Space",
          "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/stoke-space_stock/"
        }
      ]
    },
    // truncated for example
  ],
  "peoples": [
    {
      "name": "Greg Brockman",
      "title": "President & Co-Founder"
    },
    {
      "name": "Brad Lightcap",
      "title": "Chief Operating Officer"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mira Murati",
      "title": "Chief Technology Officer"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ilya Sutskever Ph.D",
      "title": "Co-Founder & Chief Scientist"
    },
    {
      "name": "John Schulman Ph.D",
      "title": "Co-Founder & Research Scientist"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wojciech Zaremba Ph.D",
      "title": "Co-Founder"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sam Altman",
      "title": "CEO and Co-Founder"
    }
  ],
  "news": [
    {
      "name": "The Information",
      "date": "12/04/2024",
      "link": "https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-surpasses-300-million-weekly-active-users",
      "title": "OpenAI Surpasses 300 Million Weekly Active Users",
      "description": "OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT, has surpassed 300 million weekly active users, CEO Sam Altman said at the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit on\r\nWednesday. The milestone comes a little more than three months after the chatbot reached 200 million weekly active users and a year after it reached 100\r\nmillion weekly active users."
    },
    {
      "name": "REUTERS",
      "date": "08/16/2023",
      "link": "https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/openai-acquires-start-up-global-illumination-work-core-products-chatgpt-2023-08-16/",
      "title": "OpenAI acquires start-up Global Illumination to work on core products, ChatGPT",
      "description": "OpenAI said on Wednesday it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed."
    },
    {
      "name": "YAHOO FINANCE",
      "date": "05/03/2023",
      "link": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-tentacles-hundreds-companies-heres-173000745.html ",
      "title": "OpenAI has its tentacles in hundreds of companies. Here's how it's making them more productive.",
      "description": "OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology is now baked into hundreds of apps, making it one of the key levers that help companies and their developers be more productive."
    },
    {
      "name": "TECH CRUNCH",
      "date": "05/09/2023",
      "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/09/openais-new-tool-attempts-to-explain-language-models-behaviors/",
      "title": "OpenAI’s new tool attempts to explain language models’ behaviors",
      "description": "It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Even for data scientists, it’s difficult to know why, always, a model responds in the way it does, like inventing facts out of whole cloth. In an effort to peel back the layers of LLMs, OpenAI is developing a tool to automatically identify which parts of an LLM are responsible for which of its behaviors."
    }
  ],
  "similar_companies": [
    {
      "name": "Anthropic",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/anthropic_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "CoreWeave",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/coreweave_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Databricks",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/databricks_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Helsing",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/helsing_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lambda",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/lambda_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lightmatter Innovation",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/lightmatter_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Perplexity",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/perplexity_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "SambaNova Systems",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/sambanova-systems_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scale AI",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/scale-ai-inc_stock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "xAI",
      "link": "https://forgeglobal.com/xai_stock/"
    }
  ]
}

IPO calendar

{
  "ipo_calendar_company_id": "1410",
  "ipo_calendar_link": "https://forgeglobal.com/cerebras_ipo/",
  "ipo_calendar_title": "Cerebras",
  "ipo_calendar_logo": "",
  "ipo_calendar_sector": "Technology Hardware",
  "ipo_calendar_sub_sector": "Computing hardware",
  "ipo_calendar_post_money_valuation": "$2.84B",
  "ipo_calendar_ipo_status": "S1 Filed",
  "ipo_calendar_estimated_ipo_date": "2024",
  "ipo_calendar_ticker": "CBRS",
  "ipo_calendar_exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "ipo_calendar_news_desc": "Cerebras announced a potential IPO with 2024 as a targeted date. “AI chipmaker Cerebras, a competitor of industry giant Nvidia, has filed with the SEC for an IPO. Cerebras could raise up to an estimated $800M through the IPO.” ",
  "ipo_calendar_news_link": "https://forgeglobal.com/insights/blog/cerebras-upcoming-ipo-news/",
  "ipo_calendar_news_author": "Forge Global",
  "ipo_calendar_news_date": "October 4, 2024"
}

🧠 Use Cases

Perfect for:

📊 Venture capital firms

🏦 Investment banks

📈 Equity analysts

🔍 Competitive intelligence teams

🧪 Startup research

💼 Hedge funds

🤖 Financial automation

📰 Market trackers

🎯 Deal sourcing

⚡ Performance

High-speed scraping

Handles thousands of companies

JSON-ready output

Scheduler-friendly

Automated retries

Can be fully integrated into pipelines

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