Project 5.43. Web scraping – VC/PE investment events
Background
Cyzone is a platform for start-ups and investors (Venture Capital/Private Equity) in China. Their website provides a database of financing events as shown below, around 20000 events in total. These data can be used to analyze the latest trend of technological & social development of China, the investment preference of VC/PE funds and their cooperation, and also potential companies to go IPO.
Requirement: submit a code to realize the following function:
- Use web-scraping to retrieve the financing events data with the following information:
- Company name
- Amount of Financing
- Round of Financing
- Investor
- Industry
- Date
- Details link
- Users can an enter filter condition(s) in the search box, for example——
- amount of financing: >50 million
- round of financing: B round
- industry: healthcare
- date: from 2015 to 2016
Then return a filtered csv file according to the above condition(s).
- [Bonus] Picture a VC/PE network using Gephi. The picture can reveal the following information among VC/PE:
- Top investors
- Cooperation (lead-investor / co-investor)
- Competition (a cluster of investors vs. another cluster of investors)