USE CASE:
The hard part of funding signals for biotech companies
Everything below is about one job: funding signals for biotech companies, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Funding Record is the one that does this for biotech companies.
The problem
Biotech companies distort funding signals, for a reason specific to them. Biotech companies spend for years before they sell anything, so revenue is the wrong qualifier entirely, and funding signals has to work around it. Know this about biotech companies before any funding signals: employee count tracks the trial stage, not the market, and a 40 person company can be the bigger opportunity. There is 1 runnable example of funding signals for biotech companies below.
What is at stake
A raise puts one of the biotech companies onto forty sequences the same week, which is why the signal is real and the opening line is dead.
Traditional Search Tools
- ClinicalTrials.gov, for biotech companies. Free, authoritative, and it dates the pipeline better than any press release.
- Crunchbase. The obvious answer, good coverage, and a paid tier for anything programmatic. Everyone targeting funded companies is looking at the same rows.
- SEC EDGAR Form D. Free, authoritative, and earlier than the press by weeks in some cases. US only, and the filings are unpleasant to parse.
- An investor's portfolio page. If you sell to one kind of company, three funds cover most of your market and both publish every new investment.
- Read the announcements. TechCrunch, the SEC Form D feed, the company's own blog. Free, public, and about twenty minutes a day to keep up with one sector.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Funding Record1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.