Equity Crowdfunding Leads Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Three equity-crowdfunding platforms, one schema. This Wefunder scraper — and the Republic and StartEngine scrapers bundled alongside it — collapses three separate platforms into a single normalized equity crowdfunding leads dataset:

1. Wefunder — wefunder.com (primary source; full founder + tagline + raise progress + valuation payload via the internal JSON API the Wefunder SPA itself calls) 2. Republic — republic.com (secondary; slug + company name from trending carousel + JSON-LD breadcrumb) 3. StartEngine — startengine.com (secondary; slug + company name from offering sitemap; financials nullable in v1 — detail pages are JS-gated)

What we handle for you

• Three platforms, one schema — drop straight into your CRM, spreadsheet, or BI tool with no per-source normalization.
• Wefunder primary path — full founder + tagline + raise progress + valuation per row via the internal JSON API the Wefunder SPA itself calls.
• Pre-money valuation parsing — Wefunder's $62.1M-style shorthand auto-converted to a numeric USD float.
• Per-source isolation — one source going down does not abort the run; the remaining sources still produce data and stream results.
• Pydantic v2 validation — both input and dataset rows are model-validated; invalid input fails fast with a clear error before any network call.
• Filter knobs — restrict by source list, funding status (active / funded / all), industry substring, or hard row cap per source.
• Exponential backoff on 429 / 503 with Retry-After honored; up to 5 attempts per page.
• We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi impersonation (Chrome 131 / Chrome 124 / Firefox 147) so the platforms see real-browser TLS handshakes, not Python.
• We rotate residential proxies through Apify Proxy on every block — fresh session ID, fresh exit IP.
• You pay only for results that land. No data pushed to the dataset means no result-row charges.

Use cases

• VC scout pipelines — schedule weekly runs, enrich with LinkedIn lookups on founders[], build a "first dollar in" tracker for sub-seed deals currently raising on Wefunder.
• SDR founder outreach — filter by industry substring (e.g. "fintech", "climate", "AI"), drop founders into your email tool, reach them before a Series A bump.
• Competitive intelligence — track which sectors are over-raising vs under-raising quarter-over-quarter; spot whitespace before incumbents do.
• Crowdfunding leaderboards — publish a public site ranking the fastest-growing campaigns this week; update daily on a scheduled run.
• Cap-table benchmarks — pre-money valuation distribution by sector at the Reg CF stage, cleanly covered by Wefunder's terms.nb field.
• Form C deep dives — pair this Actor with sec-edgar-filings-scraper to follow the slug from Wefunder back to the canonical Form C / Form C-AR PDF on EDGAR for revenue, expense, and SAFE term extraction.
• Equity crowdfunding data API replacement — no Crunchbase contract, no manual exports. One Apify run returns the same structured equity crowdfunding data an API subscription would, on pay-per-result pricing with no contract.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "sources": [],
  "maxPerSource": 50,
  "statusFilter": "active",
  "useProxy": true
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

sourcecampaign_slugcompany_nametaglineindustrylocationfounderswebsite_urltarget_amount_usdraised_amount_usdnum_investorsvaluation_usdrevenue_usdfunding_stagecampaign_urlscraped_at

{
  "source": "wefunder",
  "campaign_slug": "riserobotics",
  "company_name": "RISE Robotics",
  "tagline": "Electrifying heavy machines",
  "industry": null,
  "location": "MA",
  "founders": [
    "Hiten Sonpal"
  ],
  "website_url": null,
  "target_amount_usd": null,
  "raised_amount_usd": 17448682.0,
  "num_investors": 417,
  "valuation_usd": 62100000.0,
  "revenue_usd": null,
  "funding_stage": "raising",
  "campaign_url": "https://wefunder.com/riserobotics",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-16T13:40:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• StartEngine detail pages are JavaScript-gated. v1 emits one row per offering slug from the public sitemap-private-offerings.xml with name derived from the slug; live raise progress, valuation, and investor count stay nullable on this source. A v2 Camoufox-backed full-render path is planned.
• Republic financials are client-rendered. v1 surfaces ~10 trending campaign slugs per run from the SSR shell with company name from the JSON-LD breadcrumb. Raised amount, valuation, and investor count are out of reach without a real browser.
• Wefunder is the data-rich source. Run Wefunder-only (sources: ["wefunder"]) when you need the most fields per row.
• Authoritative campaign data only. No SEC EDGAR Form C parsing (use sec-edgar-filings-scraper), no investor identity scraping (privacy), no comment threads or campaign updates.
• 7-day default-storage retention on the Apify free plan. Schedule runs and export to your own storage for time-series tracking.
• No historical tracking. Every run is a fresh snapshot. Pipeline runs into BigQuery / S3 / Snowflake to build deltas.