crunchbase-find-seed-frequency.js

// this script is meant to give a pretty good general idea of whether a VC is likely to invest in a seed round based on recent investments

// go to this url and paste into the javascript console (replace "founders-fund" with the appropriate VC)
// https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/founders-fund/investments

// to open the console you can right click anywhere, choose Inspect, and then click on the Console tab

// this outputs a tab separated list with:
//     total -- total number of investments that appear on the page (for crunchbase by default this is 40 unless you scroll down the page to load more)
//     seed -- total number of seed investments that appear on the page
//     seed frequency -- this is simply total / seed – a decent indicator of how often this VC has recently invested in a seed round
//     average seed round size -- in millions

// some notes and limitations:
// 1. euros are treated as dollars
// 2. averaging anything might not be a good indicator if there are outliers (exceptionally low or high investments -- those will throw the average off)

function round(value, decimals) {
  return Number(Math.round(value+'e'+decimals)+'e-'+decimals);
}

var totalAmount = 0;
var count = 0;
var allCount = $(".section-list.table.investors tr td:nth-child(3)").length;

$(".section-list.table.investors tr td:nth-child(3)").each(function(){
  if($(this).text().match(/Seed/)){
    var r = $(this).text().match(/\€?\$?([0-9.]+([Mk]))/);
    if(r && r[1] && r[2]){
      var denomination = r[2];
      var amount = parseFloat(r[1]);
      // convert to millions if under a million
      amount = denomination === 'M' ? amount : amount / 1000;
      totalAmount += amount;
      count += 1;
    }
  }
});

if(count > 0){
  var seedFrequency = round((count/parseFloat(allCount)*100), 2);
  var averageSeedInvestment = round((totalAmount / count), 2);
  console.log("total\tseed\tseed frequency\taverage seed round size (millions)")
  console.log(allCount+"\t"+count+"\t"+seedFrequency+"%\t$"+averageSeedInvestment)
}else{
  console.log(0)
}