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PitchBook Scraper for Company, Deal and Investor Profiles
A public PitchBook company profile opens with Year Founded, Status, Employees, Latest Deal Type and an investor count. Our PitchBook scraper turns each profile into one row.
Plans from €169 a month · Free project assessment · Reply within 1 business day
CSV · Excel · JSON · XML · FTP · SFTP · Amazon S3 · Google Cloud
pitchbook.comwhat you get
Typical fields for financial sites
tickerpricechange_pctvolumemarket_capupdated_at
Delivery
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
ScheduleOne-time, monthly, weekly, daily or 3 times a day
PitchBook Data Scraping as a Managed Service
- You send
PitchBook pages, filters, fields and a schedule
- We run the scrapers
Built, monitored and repaired by our team
- You receive the data
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
You give us the scope: a list of company names or websites, an industry page such as FinTech or SaaS, a set of investor profiles, or the portfolio behind one investor. We build the crawlers that read those public profiles, run them on your schedule and repair them when PitchBook changes its layout. The site turns away traffic it does not recognise, so anti-bot handling, pacing, proxy rotation and rendering are part of the service.
Each profile becomes one row keyed on its PitchBook ID, and the preview tables - deals, investors, competitors, patents - become linked child tables. Where a profile stops at its preview, we can add facts from the company's own website and from published funding news, each value tagged with where it came from. Every project starts with a free assessment and a sample.
PitchBook Dataset: Profile Fields We Extract
A public profile lives at /profiles/company/ or /profiles/investor/ followed by an ID in the form 432607-24, and that ID is the key on every row we deliver. Company profiles use one template for a seed-stage startup and a listed corporation, with a stock block added for the latter. What a visitor sees without a subscription:
- Overviewname, PitchBook ID, Year Founded, Status (Private or Public) and Employees, then Latest Deal Type, Latest Deal Amount and the number of investors on a private company, or Stock Symbol, the number of investments and Share Price on a listed one.
- General informationdescription, website, Formerly Known As, Ownership Status such as Privately Held (backing), Financing Status such as Venture Capital-Backed or Private Equity-Backed, and the corporate office that gives the headquarters city and country.
- IndustryPrimary Industry, Other Industries and Vertical(s) such as FinTech, SaaS or CloudTech & DevOps.
- Funding roundsthe numbered deal list with Deal Type, Date, Amount, Raised to Date, Post-Val, Status and Stage, as far as the public preview runs; post-valuation appears only where the profile prints it.
- Relationshipsthe first investors with Investor Type and Holding, competitors with Financing Status and location, acquisitions with deal date and type, subsidiaries, and the total printed beside each list.
- Patentstotal documents, families, granted and pending counts, and recent publications with title, status and first filing date.
- Listed companiesstock symbol and exchange, share price, previous close, 52-week range, market cap, shares, average volume and EPS, plus the financials summary with EV, revenue, EBITDA, net income, total assets and total debt by fiscal year.
- Investor profilesInvestor Type, Investor Status such as Actively Seeking New Investments, Primary Investor Type, year founded and website, counts of investments, portfolio companies and exits, the latest investments with deal date, type, industry and company stage, recent exits and co-investors.
Valuation detail behind the preview, full cap tables and complete deal histories belong to the paid platform and are not part of what we collect. Names of executives, partners and individual angels are personal data and stay out by default.
Building a PitchBook Company Database Over Time
One profile is a snapshot; the value is in the set. Industry pages under /profiles/industry/ - FinTech, SaaS and the other verticals PitchBook tracks - list companies to watch with their last deal type, the top private companies by last post-valuation, the top public companies by market cap and the most active investors by number of investments, under headline counts of companies, deals, investors and exits. Those lists, the competitor tables and investor portfolios are how a crawl finds the next profiles to read, so coverage grows outward from the companies you start with.
Repeat runs turn the overview into history. When Latest Deal Type moves from Early Stage VC to Later Stage VC, a new round appears at the top of the deal list, Employees changes or Status flips from Private to Public, the change is dated on our side. That is how a PitchBook company database stays current from public pages alone.
Profiles end where the preview ends, so we add what companies publish about themselves: funding announcements and press releases, office locations and product lines from company websites, all matched to the PitchBook ID.
About PitchBook and Its Public Profiles
- Source
- pitchbook.com
- Category
- financial sites
- Delivery
- API, JSON feed, CSV, XLSX
- Plans
- From €169 a month
PitchBook is a private market data company, part of Morningstar, and its main product is a subscription platform for venture capital, private equity and M&A research. Alongside it, pitchbook.com publishes free profile pages for companies and investors, built to show how much the platform holds: preview lists stop after the first rows, closed by a You're viewing line that names the total or by a link to request the complete history.
Three page types matter for data work. Company profiles cover startups, PE-backed businesses and listed corporations on one template, and the page title follows the type - a private company is titled Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors, a listed one Stock Performance & Earnings. Investor profiles cover venture firms, accelerators and other backers, with their investments, exits and co-investors. Industry pages summarise a vertical such as FinTech. Profiles also link to PitchBook's own news and analyst research on the same companies and sectors.
Coverage is international: the competitor table of a San Francisco fintech lists peers in Curitiba, Amsterdam and Welwyn Garden City, each with its own profile on the same template.
25Developers
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1.5BPages extracted
15,000+Hours saved for our clients
PitchBook scraping plans and pricing
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsWhy Scrape PitchBook Profiles
The public layer of PitchBook answers questions a plain company list cannot.
- Deal sourcingfilter by Latest Deal Type, Financing Status and Vertical(s) to find companies that just closed a seed round or moved to Later Stage VC.
- Market mapscompetitor tables give each company a peer set with financing status and location, ready to join into a landscape of a sector.
- Investor researchinvestment lists with deal date, type and company stage show where a firm has been active lately and which co-investors it keeps returning with.
- Account targetingemployees, headquarters, primary industry and website give sales and partnership teams firmographics for venture-backed and PE-backed accounts.
- M&A watchacquisitions and subsidiaries show which companies are buying and what they bought.
- Innovation trackingpatent counts and recent publication titles show where a company files and how fast.
Combined with funding news, the same rows feed CRM enrichment and quarterly reviews of a portfolio's peers.
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About ScrapeIt
ScrapeIt is a managed web scraping service. We build, run and repair crawlers for company-data and financial sites and deliver the result as CSV, Excel, JSON or through our API. For PitchBook that means public company and investor profiles, joined with funding news and company websites, with field documentation for every column. Runs are one-off or on the schedule you set - daily, weekly or on demand. Plans start from EUR 169 a month, or EUR 199 for a one-time extract.
FAQ
Still unsure? Write to info@scrapeit.io
Do you offer a PitchBook API for company profiles?
Yes. The ScrapeIt PitchBook API returns the PitchBook ID, Year Founded, Employees, Latest Deal Type, Financing Status and Primary Industry of each profile as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same data also comes as CSV or XLSX files, a JSON feed or straight into your database.
Is it legal to scrape PitchBook?
Yes. Company, investor and industry profiles on pitchbook.com open to any visitor without a subscription, and that public layer is what we collect. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on PitchBook - and we collect it legally. Personal details such as executive names are left out by default and handled under GDPR.
Can you build a PitchBook investor database?
Yes. Investor profiles show investor type and status, counts of investments, portfolio companies and exits, the latest deals and co-investors. We reach them through the investor tables on company profiles and industry pages, so the database grows with every company you add. Names of individual partners stay out by default.
Do you deliver valuations and full funding histories?
We deliver what the public profile shows: the deal rows in the preview with type, date, status and stage, amounts and post-valuation where the profile prints them, and the latest deal type and amount in the overview. Full valuation histories and cap tables sit in the paid platform, and we do not promise them. Published funding announcements often fill the gaps, tagged with their source.
How often should PitchBook profiles be refreshed?
Weekly suits most deal-watch projects: the overview changes when a new round, an acquisition or a status change is recorded, and employee counts move slowly. Share price and market cap of listed companies change every trading day, so those fields can run daily. Each run is dated, so the differences between runs become a history.
How it works
- 1
Make a request
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
- 2
We configure the crawlers
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
- 3
Collect and deliver
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
- 4
Maintain and support
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Request a quote
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
- We reply within 1 business day
- A sample dataset before the full run
- We sign an NDA on request
- Delivery by API, JSON feed or files