Wefunder Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes detailed startup and investment data from Wefunder.com, a crowdfunding platform for early-stage companies. It extracts structured information about active and past fundraising campaigns, including company details, funding metrics, founder information, and tags.

Key Features

• Scrapes comprehensive company profiles from Wefunder.
• Extracts financial data (funding amount, revenue, valuation terms).
• Captures founder bios and company details (location, description, tags).
• Outputs structured JSON data suitable for analysis or integration.
• Handles pagination to collect multiple listings.

How to Use

Run the actor on the Apify platform. You can configure it using the following input parameters:

• Start URLs: (Optional) Specific Wefunder company or listing page URLs to scrape.
• Max Items: Limit the total number of profiles to scrape.
• Proxy Configuration: Use Apify Proxy or your own proxies if required.

The actor will automatically navigate Wefunder's pages, extract the data, and save it to the dataset. You can then download the results in JSON, CSV, or other formats via the Apify console or API.

Input/Output

Input: The actor primarily crawls Wefunder directly. Optionally provide start URLs via the input configuration.

Output: The dataset contains items in the following JSON structure. This example shows a subset of key fields:

{
  "id": 117635,
  "name": "Cognate Language Learning, Inc.",
  "legal_name": "Cognate Language Learning, Inc.",
  "tagline": "The first truly customizable language learning solution.",
  "city": "Wilmington",
  "description": "Hyper-personalization is the future of language learning...",
  "tags": ["edtech", "language_learning", "artificial_intelligence"],
  "funding_amount": 60100,
  "percent_funded": 0,
  "total_investors_this_campaign": 11,
  "terms": {
    "eb": "$3.5M",
    "nb": "$4.5M",
    "txt": "valuation cap"
  },
  "founder_info": {
    "name": "Alejandro Paschalides",
    "title": "CEO & Founder",
    "bio": "Learned German to C1 level..."
  },
  "quality_score": 8.77,
  "slug": "cognatelanguagelearning"
}