How to Build a VC Portfolio Tracker with Crunchbase Scraping

Tracking venture capital investments, funding rounds, and startup valuations gives you a powerful lens into market trends. In this tutorial, we'll build a VC portfolio tracker by scraping Crunchbase data with Python. What We're Building A tool that: Tracks funding rounds for specific companies or sectors Monitors investor portfolios and new deals Alerts on significant funding events Stores historical data for trend analysis Project Setup pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas sqlite3 For scraping Crunchbase reliably, you'll need good proxy rotation. ScraperAPI handles JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHAs, which Crunchbase uses heavily. The Scraper Core import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import sqlite3 from datetime import datetime SCRAPER_API_KEY = " YOUR_KEY " def fetch_page ( url ): """ Fetch a page through ScraperAPI with JS rendering. """ params = { " api_key " : SCRAPER_API_KEY , " url " : url , " render " : " true " } response = requests . get ( " http://api.scraperap