CB Insights Unicorn Companies List Scraper

Extract the complete CB Insights unicorn company list — the canonical reference of every private company valued at $1 billion or more. Returns company name, valuation, date joined, country, city, industry, and notable investors for all 1,200+ unicorns on the list.

What It Does

The CB Insights Complete Unicorn List is the most widely cited dataset of private $1B+ companies, updated monthly. This actor fetches the full inline HTML table and returns every row as a structured record.

Sample output:

{
  "company_name": "OpenAI",
  "valuation_usd": "$840",
  "date_joined": "7/22/2019",
  "country": "United States",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "industry": "Enterprise Tech",
  "select_investors": "Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T00:21:13.399Z"
}

Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of records to return. Leave blank or set to a high value to get the full list (~1,200+ companies). Default: 10 for quick test runs.

Output

Each record in the dataset contains:

Field	Description
company_name	Company name
valuation_usd	Valuation in USD (e.g. $840)
date_joined	Date the company reached unicorn status (M/D/YYYY)
country	Country where the company is headquartered
city	City where the company is headquartered
industry	Industry vertical
select_investors	Notable investors and backers
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was scraped

Usage Notes

• Set maxItems to a high number (e.g. 2000) or leave it out to capture the entire list.
• The list is updated monthly by CB Insights — re-run periodically to stay current.
• Single-page extraction: no pagination, no authentication required.
• Typical run time: under 30 seconds for the full list.

Use Cases

• VC and investor research — build deal flow pipelines from the full unicorn universe
• Market research — segment by country, industry, or valuation band
• Competitive intelligence — track which sectors are producing unicorns fastest
• Data enrichment — join with Crunchbase or LinkedIn data for deeper company profiles