Open Source-ish Alternative for Crunchbase?
What is the best ( preferably free ) to Crunchbase?
What I am looking for is mostly basic information about companies ( founders and sectors of functioning ) and details of their funding rounds.
If there is no alternative to this, is anybody interested in making a lightweight open-source alternative to this? I already have data for around 11K companies that I have been collecting over the past year. Would love to have something that could show simple information without forcing any sort of subscription at me.
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Alternatively, you can get good data from Parsers VC. Their data is cheaper + updated every day. https://parsers.vc/dashboard/
This was part of my motivation for creating https://corepo.org/ why not have a look and then let me know if this is what you need or ask for a feature request.
This is super valuable, but also hard. I think you should do it. How would you sustain yourself? Usually other places will pay for data access to this. Like PE, VC firms.
Since it's about hosting csv files, I believe the charges could be covered using community donations or minor ads.
There's also keeping up with news, funding rounds, etc. I don't think infrastructure is the expensive part of the equation. It's the labor.
Being a student I have lots of time for this. When Initially creating a database of fundings, I used a simple webscraper that informed me about published articles talking about funding figures and then I used to note em down. Other than stealing data directly from crunchbase, the only viable option I see is that a few moderators, in-charge of their particular sectors, help keep the site updated.
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