Use case β€” VC deal flow

Scrape Crunchbase company profiles and funding rounds

Build a clean deal-flow list from Crunchbase Pro searches. Company, total raised, last round, stage, founders, HQ β€” straight to your Airtable or Google Sheet.

The problem

Why your current scraper doesn't cut it

Crunchbase Pro is the closest thing VCs, scouts, and BD teams have to a canonical funding dataset. The problem is getting it out. The Crunchbase export API is gated, costs thousands per year, and enforces strict rate limits.

Stekpad scrapes Crunchbase from the same Pro session you already pay for. Open any saved search or filter result, click a company name, and Stekpad extracts the full company card with every funding round and founder.

Step-by-step

How to do it with Stekpad

  1. 1

    Log into Crunchbase Pro and open a search

    Build your filter (stage, industry, region, total raised, last funding date) and open the results list.
  2. 2

    Click a company name

    Stekpad detects the list pattern and highlights every company row. Add fields: name, description, total raised, last round, stage, HQ, founders count.
  3. 3

    Drill into individual profiles (optional)

    Save a second recipe that opens each company profile and captures the full funding history table. Useful for cohort research.
  4. 4

    Push to Airtable for deal-flow triage

    Every run writes fresh rows to your deal-flow base. Re-run weekly for a fresh pipeline refresh.
Why Stekpad

What you get that other tools miss

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No Crunchbase API

Skip the €thousands-per-year export tier. Use the Pro seat you already have.

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Funding detail

Total raised, last round, stage, investors, founders β€” the full card.

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Reusable for every thesis

Save one recipe per search filter. Re-run weekly for fresh deal flow.

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Airtable-ready

Structured output drops straight into your deal-flow base with zero cleanup.

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