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

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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.

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👁 📰 Crunchbase News Scraper — Daily Funding & M&A Headlines sample output — 📰 Crunchbase News Scraper — Daily Funding & M&A Headlines, premium API, JSON output, NexGenData premium dataset for analysts,

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

🎯 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.

💸 Pricing

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.

📥 Inputs

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

📤 Output schema

Each article record (one dataset row):

🆚 Crunchbase News vs the alternatives

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

🧪 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"}

🧱 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).

🪜 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.

🔗 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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📰 The NexGenData Newswire & News Suite

Don't monitor one wire — cover them all. Pair this with the rest of the suite for complete PR, press-release, and news coverage from a single vendor with one consistent output schema.

Press-release wires

• PR Newswire — US corporate announcements & earnings releases
• PR Newswire Asia — APAC corporate announcements
• Business Wire — company press releases & disclosures
• GlobeNewswire — listed-company news & regulatory filings
• EIN Presswire — broad-distribution press releases
• PR Web — SMB & small-business press releases

News & headlines

• AP News — Associated Press breaking news & articles
• BBC News — global BBC headlines & articles
• Google News — aggregated headlines & trending topics
• Hacker News — tech & startup stories and discussion
• Crunchbase News — funding rounds, M&A & startup headlines (← you are here)

Regional / regulatory

• Investegate RNS — UK LSE/AIM regulatory (RNS) announcements

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