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Python class "HTGF_portfolio" for scientific and research purposes: Structuring public data about German High-Tech Gründerfonds' investment and startup portfolio (HTGF, said to be Germany's largest sventure capital firm)

Python Class for Investment and Startup Research

Python class "HTGF_portfolio" for scientific and research purposes: Structuring public data about German High-Tech Gründerfonds' investment and startup portfolio (HTGF, said to be Germany's largest venture capital firm)

• Purpose: Provide simple functionality for researching data about HTGF investment portfolio.
• Sources used: Webpages stored locally (e.g. in browser cache) and contain lists of startups
• The class provides some methods for extracting relevant company data from local HTML files.
• It uses BeautifulSoup and stores the data extracted in a CSV file on a local storage, too.

Output: Target data model and data types

• The output data has the following data types: String and Integer
• Columns/ attributes are as follows:
  • company_name: String - contains company name (usually including its legal form)
  • company_description: String - contains company's business model and product(s)
  • company_branch: String - contains the industry/ branch the company is active in
  • company_address: String - contains the company's full location and address
  • company_address_street, company_address_zip, company_address_city: see above
  • company_url_website: String - contains URL of the company's corporate website
  • company_url_htgf: String - URL of HGTF portfolio page for the respective company
  • htgf_category: String - HTGF's own types/ categories of branches/ industries
  • htgf_in_portfolio: String - time period in which HTGF was or still is invested
  • htgf_exit_likelihood: Integer - contains 1 if startup is still in portfolio, 0 otherwise
  • htgf_date_investment: YYYY-MM-DD - contains the date by when HTGF invested in company
  • htgf_date_investment_year, htgf_date_investment_month, htgf_date_investment_day: see above
  • htgf_date_exit: YYYY-MM-DD - contains the date by when HTGF sold hir shares (=exit)
  • htgf_date_exit_year, htgf_date_exit_month, htgf_date_exit_day: see above
  • source_filename: String - contains the source's filename (see structure given above)
  • source_date: YYYY-MM-DD - contains the date according to source filename