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Every founder I know has burned a week building an investor list: digging through Crunchbase profiles tab by tab, copying partner names into a spreadsheet that is stale before the seed round closes. The data you want is simple, firms plus focus plus contacts, and it is weirdly hard to get in bulk. The shortcut I use now is the Startup Investors Data Scraper on Apify, a queryable investor database of 10,469 firms that returns filtered JSON in one call. Disclosure: the Apify links in this post are affiliate links. If you run the Actor, I may earn a referral commission at no extra cost to you. Is there a public API for investor data? Not really. The big commercial databases keep their APIs behind sales calls and paid plans sized for funds, not founders. Free sources are scattered lists and shared spreadsheets with no filters and no freshness guarantees. This Actor takes a different shape: a curated database of 10,469 investment firms (as of December 2025) that you query like an API, filtering by firm type, sector, stage, and country, and paying only for the records you pull. What the investor database API returns The investor database API returns one JSON record per firm: name, type, description, location, website, social links, assets under management, stages, and sector focus, with partner contacts when you ask for them. Field Example Notes firm_name Acme Ventures With firm_description alongside firm_type_name Venture Capital Investor One of 17 firm types firm_country Germany Plus firm_city and firm_state firm_website https://acme.vc Also firm_linkedin_url , crunchbase_url , twitter_url firm_aum $250M Assets under management when known investor_contacts [{ "job_title": "Partner", ... }] Names, titles, LinkedIn URLs, emails when available, and check sizes, with Include_Contacts on Who this is for Founders building a raise pipeline, sales teams selling into VC and PE back offices, and analysts mapping which firms fund a sector. If your CRM needs 200 seed funds with war

Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappointment since, typically, the Pixel a lineup kept the modern […]

Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when […]

Hands-free unlocking is the future of smart locks. The best smart home tech removes friction, and having your door unlock for you as you walk up is as frictionless as it gets - no passcodes to remember, no need to have a free hand to wave, press, or poke at the lock. One way to […]

The Sony Bravia 9 II is the most anticipated new TV in years. It's an amazing RGB LED TV. I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on the new Bravia with my son, who has been getting into the roleplaying game but had never seen the movie. The landscapes of Faerûn looked natural and […]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History […]

Wer digitale Finanzprodukte baut, trifft früh eine grundlegende Entscheidung: native App, installierbare Desktop-Software oder eine Anwendung, die komplett im Browser läuft. Capitnex hat sich für den letzten Weg entschieden. Der WebTrader ist als browserbasierte Umgebung angelegt und benötigt keine lokale Softwareinstallation. Aus Produkt- und UX-Sicht ist genau diese Weichenstellung der spannendste Ausgangspunkt, weil sie fast jede weitere Gestaltungsentscheidung beeinflusst. Auch für Leser, die nicht handeln möchten, lohnt der Blick darauf, wie ein solches Produkt aufgebaut ist. Der Browser als Laufzeitumgebung Eine Anwendung ohne Installation senkt die Einstiegshürde spürbar. Es gibt kein Setup, keine Versionskonflikte auf dem Endgerät und keine Betriebssystembindung, mit der sich Anwender beschäftigen müssen. Der Zugang erfolgt über einen gängigen Webbrowser, und die Oberfläche steht damit unabhängig vom konkreten Gerät bereit. Für Entwickler hat dieser Ansatz eine klare Konsequenz: Die gesamte Darstellung muss auf unterschiedliche Bildschirmgrößen und Eingabearten reagieren. Capitnex beschreibt die Oberfläche als responsiv und konfigurierbar, was genau diese Anforderung adressiert. Der Verzicht auf ein lokales Client-Programm ist deshalb keine Nebensache, sondern eine Produktentscheidung mit Folgen für Verteilung, Wartung und die Konsistenz über verschiedene Endgeräte hinweg. Ein weiterer Effekt betrifft die Zugänglichkeit im weiteren Sinn. Wenn eine Anwendung ohne vorherige Installation erreichbar ist, entfällt eine ganze Klasse von Hürden, die sonst zwischen Interesse und erstem Zugriff liegen. Kein Download, keine Rechteverwaltung auf dem Gerät, keine Rücksicht auf ältere Hardware-Anforderungen. Die Anwendung trifft den Nutzer dort, wo er ohnehin arbeitet, nämlich im Browser. Das ist keine formale Barrierefreiheit im engen technischen Sinn, aber es ist eine bewusst niedrige Einstiegsschwelle, die in der Produktkonzeption angelegt ist. Informationsarchitektur

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun! My attitude adjustment came a few weeks ago, the very first time I rode an Amflow PX […]

The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most […]

Portable fans are one of the easiest ways to stay cool during the summer, and you don’t have to spend much to find a decent one. If you’re looking for something more versatile, though, Shark’s ChillPill Personal Fan and Cooling System combines a rechargeable fan with a dry-touch evaporative mister in a design that can […]

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says buyers of its new e-paper smartwatches should know what they're signing up for and trust Pebble to make things right if they run into issues, despite the short warranty. "I think the most important thing is trust," Migicovsky told me in an interview this week. "Do people trust the product […]

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.

Google and Apple were sent cease-and-desist letters regarding 13 apps on their respective stores.

Leaker Evan Blass shared images of Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Z Fold 8 just days before the July 22nd launch event where Samsung is expected to officially announce the phone. The leaked images show a shorter, wider foldable matching earlier leaks of the Z Fold 8. They also reveal some of its specs, including a Qualcomm […]

David Risher insists that Lyft has lowered its prices and that customers who only check his competitor’s app are “leaving money on the table.”