Hedge funds, VCs, and financial analysts use Firecrawl to monitor portfolio companies and gather market intelligence.

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Start with a Template

Firecrawl Observer

Monitor portfolio companies for material changes and trigger events
Get started with the Firecrawl Observer template. Monitor portfolio companies and market changes.

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How It Works

Extract financial signals from across the web. Monitor portfolio companies, track market movements, and support due diligence workflows with real-time web data extraction.

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What You Can Track

  • Company Metrics: Growth indicators, team changes, product launches, funding rounds
  • Market Signals: Industry trends, competitor moves, sentiment analysis, regulatory changes
  • Risk Indicators: Leadership changes, legal issues, regulatory mentions, customer complaints
  • Financial Data: Pricing updates, revenue signals, partnership announcements
  • Alternative Data: Job postings, web traffic, social signals, news mentions

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Customer Stories

Athena IntelligenceDiscover how Athena Intelligence leverages Firecrawl to fuel its AI-native analytics platform for enterprise analysts.

CargoSee how Cargo uses Firecrawl to analyze market data and power revenue intelligence workflows.

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FAQs

Yes, you can monitor publicly available information about private companies from their websites, news mentions, job postings, and social media presence.
Firecrawl extracts data in real-time when called. Build your own monitoring system to fetch data at intervals that match your investment strategy - from minute-by-minute for critical events to daily for routine tracking.
Public web sources such as company websites, news sites, job boards, review sites, forums, social media, government filings, and open-access industry data.
Extract data from company ESG reports, sustainability pages, news mentions of environmental initiatives, and regulatory filings. Build tracking systems to identify changes in sustainability commitments or ESG-related developments.
Yes. Extract recent company updates, product launches, executive changes, and industry trends before earnings calls. Combine with competitor data to anticipate questions and identify key discussion points.