Crunchbase Scraper: Companies, Funding, News, No Login

Crunchbase scraper for public company profiles, company search, funding signals and Crunchbase News: give it a company link or a search, and get clean JSON or CSV rows with no login or cookies. Use it to find leads, track target companies and get only new records on a schedule; one company takes 3 to 15 seconds and costs about $0.0092 on the Free plan.

Table of contents

• What it does
• How it works
• Quick start
• Use cases
• Input
• Output
• Pricing
• Limits
• API, export and integrations
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ
• Related Actors
• Support

What it does

This Actor reads what anyone can see on Crunchbase without an account. It has four jobs:

• Company profiles: full public profile for each company link, slug or exact name.
• Company search: up to 15 companies by name, country, industry, size or status.
• Public funding signals: up to 15 funding rounds by name or round type.
• Crunchbase News: public articles with full text, by search, category, tag or date.

It does not use a login, Crunchbase Pro or private contacts. Fields that Crunchbase hides from anonymous visitors, such as the founding date or total funding, come back as null.

Good fit

• You have a list of companies and want location, size, industries, website and public people in one table.
• You build a lead list by country, industry and size, and 15 matches per search are enough.
• You watch Crunchbase News or target companies and want only new records on a schedule.

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How it works

1. The Actor reads the public Crunchbase pages or Crunchbase News articles for your input.
2. It turns each page into one clean row, and skips a bad company without stopping the rest.
3. It saves the rows to a Dataset and a short report with the status and skipped items to RUN_SUMMARY.

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Quick start

1. Open the Input tab. Keep What to collect on Company profiles (box 1 in the picture).

2. In Company URLs or slugs, keep the sample link or paste your own companies, one per line (box 2).

3. Keep Maximum results at 1000 or set a lower limit (box 3).

4. Click Start.

5. Open the Output tab and the Company profiles view. Check the location, size, industries and website columns (box 5).

   

Expected result: one company row with status set to complete, in 3 to 15 seconds.

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Use cases

Buyer job	Input path	Output entity	Key fields	Next integration
Enrich a list of target accounts	companyUrls or companyNames	Company	hq, employees, categories, website	CRM import through CSV or API
Find leads by market	mode: search with country, category, employeeRange	Company	name, website, operatingStatus, people	Lead list or sales sheet
Spot companies with recent funding news	mode: funding with roundType	Funding round	name, company, companyUrl, roundType	Alert to Slack or Notion
Monitor startup and venture news	mode: news with onlyNew and a schedule	News article	title, url, publishedAt, companyPermalinks	Digest in Slack or Notion

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Input

Input fields

Field	Plain name	Type	Required	Default / prefill	Allowed values	Effect	Example	Recommendation
mode	What to collect	String	No	companies	companies, search, funding, news	Picks the job	search	Start with companies
companyUrls	Company URLs or slugs	Array of strings	For profiles, this or companyNames	Prefill: Apify link	Crunchbase company link or slug	Companies to read	https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify, apify	Best way to name a company
companyNames	Exact company names	Array of strings	For profiles, this or companyUrls	Empty	Exact name	Finds the single company with this name	Apify	Use a link for a common name
maxItems	Maximum results	Integer	No	1000	1 or more	Stops after this many saved rows	50	Set it for your first runs
query	Name contains	String	No	Empty	Text	Search words for company search and funding	robotics	Keep it short
country	Country	String	No	Empty	Country name on Crunchbase	Company search filter	United States	Write it in full
category	Industry	String	No	Empty	Industry name on Crunchbase	Company search filter	Artificial Intelligence	Write it in full
employeeRange	Employee range	String	No	any	any, or bands from 1–10 to 10,001+	Company search filter	c_00051_00100	Pick it in the form list
operatingStatus	Operating status	String	No	any	any, active, closed	Company search filter	active	Use active for leads
roundType	Funding round type	String	No	any	any, pre_seed, seed, angel, series_a to series_g, debt_financing, grant, private_equity, post_ipo_debt, post_ipo_equity, series_unknown	Funding filter	series_a	Pick it in the form list
includeDetails	Read full company profiles	Boolean	No	true	true, false	On: full profile per match. Off: search cards only	false	Off for a cheap first look
onlyNew	Return only new records	Boolean	No	false	true, false	Saves only records this history has not seen	true	Use it on schedules
stateName	History store name	String	With onlyNew	Empty	Starts with crunchbase-companies-	Where the history is kept	crunchbase-companies-sales	One name per job
newsQuery	News search	String	No	Empty	Text	Finds articles by words	robotics	Leave empty for the newest
newsCategory	News categories	String	No	Empty	Names or slugs, comma separated	News filter	venture	Use one or two
newsTag	News tags	String	No	Empty	Names or slugs, comma separated	News filter	unicorn	Use one or two
newsDateFrom	News from date	String	No	Empty	YYYY-MM-DD	Articles on or after this date	2026-01-01	Set it for a backfill
newsDateTo	News through date	String	No	Empty	YYYY-MM-DD	Articles on or before this date	2026-12-31	Set it for a backfill
newsFullText	Include article text	Boolean	No	true	true, false	On: full text. Off: description only	false	The price is the same
deliveryConnector	Send results to	String	No	Empty	Your MCP connector	Posts a short summary after the run	Pick in the form	Optional
deliveryTarget	Notion page or channel	String	No	Empty	Notion page link or Slack channel ID	Where the summary goes	C01234567	Optional

Empty and repeated values:

• With no input at all, the run reads the sample company, Apify.
• With an empty companyUrls list and no names, the run saves no rows and charges only the start fee.
• Repeated companies are read once. A link with extra text after the address works: only the company slug is used.
• A line that is not a Crunchbase company is skipped and listed in failedItems. If no valid company is left, the run fails with no page charge.

Interacting settings

When	Input A	Input B	Effective behavior	Example	Cost/result effect
Company list	companyUrls	companyNames	Both are read, and repeats are read once	One link and one name for different companies	One page check per company
Search size	mode: search or funding	maxItems above 15	At most 15 rows, status partial with SOURCE_WINDOW if more matches exist	maxItems: 100	A larger value adds no rows
Cheap search	mode: search	includeDetails: false	Saves search cards, not full profiles	15 cards	One page check for the search page
Monitoring	onlyNew: true	stateName	Saves only records this history has not seen	crunchbase-companies-sales	Seen company pages still pay a page check
News monitoring	mode: news	onlyNew: true	Newest first; stops at the first page that reaches a seen article	Daily schedule	Page with no new article pays the small news page fee
Long jobs	maxItems large	Run timeout	The default 300 s stops the run early with useful rows saved	1,000 articles: set 600 s	You pay only for what was read

Input examples

One company

{
  "companyUrls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify"]
}

Expected behavior: reads one public company page.

Expected output: one row with status: complete.

Limit or cost note: 3 to 15 seconds and $0.0092 on the Free plan.

Company search with filters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "software",
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "maxItems": 15
}

Expected behavior: finds matching companies and reads each public profile.

Expected output: up to 15 company rows.

Limit or cost note: one page check per company. Anonymous search shows at most 15 matches.

Daily news monitor

{
  "mode": "news",
  "newsCategory": "venture",
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateName": "crunchbase-companies-vc-news",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Expected behavior: the first run saves up to 100 articles, and later runs save only new ones.

Expected output: one row per new article with full text.

Limit or cost note: you pay per new article, plus a small fee for a page with no new article.

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Output

Output fields

Field	Meaning	Type	Can be empty?	Example / enum	Source / notes
recordType	Kind of row	String	No	company, news, funding_round	All rows
status	Result of this row	String	No	complete, not_found, partial	All rows
source	Source used	String	No	crunchbase, crunchbase-news	All rows
url	Public page	String	No	https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify	All rows
fetchedAt	When it was read, UTC	String	No	2026-11-05T09:11:41.916Z	All rows
name	Company or round name, or article title	String	Yes	Apify	Empty when not found
description	Full company description or article summary	String	Yes	Apify is the largest…	Companies, news
foundedOn	Founding date	String	Yes	null	Often hidden; see unavailableFields
hq	Headquarters	String	Yes	Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe	Also city, region, country, continent
employees	Size band, not an exact count	String	Yes	251-500	Companies
categories	Industries or news categories	Array	Yes	["Developer APIs","Software"]	Companies, news
website	Company website	String	Yes	https://apify.com	Companies
fundingTotal	Total funding	Number	Yes	null	Hidden is null, not zero
operatingStatus	Active or closed	String	Yes	active	Companies
people	Public founders and people with job titles	Object	Yes	{"founders":["Jakub Balada"]}	No private emails or phones
funding	Public round count, investors and round list	Object	Yes	{"numFundingRounds":5}	Amounts may be hidden
socials	Public social links	Object	Yes	{"linkedin":{…}}	Companies
products, similar, techStack	Public products, similar companies and technologies	Array	Yes	[{"name":"Actors"}]	Companies
signals, predictions, ma, investor	Public traffic, prediction, deal and investor blocks	Object	Yes	{"technology":{…}}	As Crunchbase shows them
unavailableFields	Fields hidden in this row	Array	Yes	["foundedOn","fundingTotal"]	Companies, funding
fieldErrors	Fields that could not be read	Array	Yes	["aliases"]	Only on partial rows
title, publishedAt, text	Article title, date and full text	String	Yes	2026-11-04T19:47:54Z	News
companyPermalinks	Companies linked in the article	Array	Yes	["apify"]	News
company, companyUrl	Funded company	String	Yes	SpaceX	Funding
roundType	Type of round	String	Yes	post_ipo_debt	Funding
amountUsd, announcedOn	Round amount and date	Number, String	Yes	null	Often hidden for anonymous visitors

Output entities and surfaces

Situation	Dataset/API/KVS/live view	Result shape	User action
Normal item	Dataset views Company profiles, News articles, Public funding signals	One row per record, status: complete	Export or read through API
Domain-empty result	Dataset row, RUN_SUMMARY	Missing company: status: not_found. Search with no matches: no rows, run succeeds	Check the slug or filters
Partial result	Dataset, RUN_SUMMARY with status: partial, stopReason, failedItems, unprocessed	Rows saved so far, and a list of what was not read	Run again with the unprocessed items
Technical failure or retry	RUN_SUMMARY, OUTPUT, run status Failed	No rows, with stopReason	Check the input, then run again

Output example

{
  "recordType": "company",
  "status": "complete",
  "source": "crunchbase",
  "name": "Apify",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify",
  "foundedOn": null,
  "hq": "Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe",
  "employees": "251-500",
  "categories": ["Developer APIs", "E-Commerce", "Enterprise Software", "Information Technology", "Internet", "Software"],
  "website": "https://apify.com",
  "fundingTotal": null,
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "unavailableFields": ["foundedOn", "fundingTotal"],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-05T09:11:41.916Z"
}

Send results to Slack or Notion

Pick your connector in the optional deliveryConnector field. After the run saves its data, the Actor posts a short summary (up to 25 rows and a link to the full dataset) there. Put a Notion page link or a Slack channel ID in deliveryTarget: in Notion every run is added on top of that one page, so your workspace does not fill up with new pages. A delivery error never fails the run and costs nothing extra. Connect a service once in Apify Console → MCP connectors.

Use case → fields

Buyer job	Input path	Output entity	Key fields	Next integration
Account enrichment	companyUrls	Company	hq, employees, categories, website	CRM import
Market lead list	mode: search	Company	name, website, people	Sales sheet
Funding watch	mode: funding	Funding round	company, roundType, url	Slack alert
News digest	mode: news, onlyNew	News article	title, publishedAt, text	Notion page

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Pricing

Pricing unit

You pay per event. Platform usage is included in the price: the developer pays for it, not you.

Event	What it covers	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold and higher
Public page check	One company page read, or one search page	$7.20 / 1,000	$6.48 / 1,000	$5.76 / 1,000	$5.04 / 1,000
New article	One new article saved	$7.20 / 1,000	$6.48 / 1,000	$5.76 / 1,000	$5.04 / 1,000
News page with no new articles	One news page read with nothing new	$1.30 / 1,000	$1.17 / 1,000	$1.04 / 1,000	$0.91 / 1,000
Actor start	One run	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002

• The start fee is for the default 256 MB run. It scales with run memory (per GB).
• Companies: a checked company costs one page check, even when it is not found, already seen in onlyNew, or a name with no single match.
• Search and funding: with includeDetails on, you pay one page check per company. With it off, and for funding, you pay one check per search page. A search with no matches pays one check when includeDetails is off, and nothing beyond the start fee when it is on.
• News: no new articles means one small page fee. An empty news result has no event charge.
• Failed requests: a request that fails at the source has no page charge. A partial run pays only for what was read.

Cost examples

Measured on real runs. Prices are for the Free plan.

Scenario	Input scope	Expected item/event count	Base charge	Optional charge	Stop/cap behavior
One company	1 link	1 check	$0.0092 with start	None	3 to 15 s
50 companies	50 links	50 checks	$0.362 with start	None	199 to 284 s, close to the default 300 s timeout
Company search	15 matches with profiles	15 checks	$0.110 with start	None	At most 15 matches, 66 to 93 s
Funding signals	Up to 15 rounds	1 check	$0.0092 with start	None	At most 15 rounds
1,000 new articles	News with full text	1,000 new articles	$7.20 + $0.002 start	None	Estimate, not a full run: about 6 minutes, from 341 articles in 123 s. Set the timeout to 600 s
Unchanged news monitor	News, nothing new	1 page	$0.0033 with start	None	Stops after the first page

Set Maximum cost per run in Run options to cap your spend. The run stops before going over it, and rows saved so far stay.

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Limits

• Only public data: fields hidden from anonymous visitors are null and listed in unavailableFields.
• Company search and funding show at most 15 matches per search. Split a large market into smaller filters.
• A bad company does not stop the batch: it goes to failedItems. Three failures in a row stop the run, and the rest goes to unprocessed. If every company fails, the run fails. A list of names where no name has a match also fails, and it still pays one check per name, because the lookup was made.
• Each request waits up to 25 seconds. A refused page (HTTP 403) gets up to 6 attempts. Rate limits, server errors and network errors get up to 3. A slow response or a retried refused page can make a one-company run longer than 15 seconds.
• If the source asks to wait more than 10 seconds (Retry-After), that request fails at once and the Actor does not wait.
• A response can be up to 4 MiB, or 8 MiB from Crunchbase News. One larger page stops the whole run at once with RESPONSE_TOO_LARGE, even in a batch, and the rest of the list goes to unprocessed. If only an extra block of a company page is too large, the row is saved as partial with fieldErrors.
• A row with one unreadable block is saved as partial with fieldErrors.
• When the timeout is near, the run stops and keeps the rows it saved. With useful rows the run succeeds with status: partial; with no rows it fails.
• The default 300 s timeout fits about 50 companies. For more, set a longer timeout or split the list.
• History with onlyNew keeps the newest 100,000 records. Use a separate name for each job, and do not run two jobs on one name at the same time.
• A news monitor reads newest first and stops at the first seen article. To load older articles, use a new history name, or date filters with onlyNew off.
• The Actor does not read remote files or arbitrary Crunchbase Discover links. Its output does not follow the format of other Crunchbase scrapers, so check your field names when you switch.
• Rows can include public names and job titles. Private emails and phones are not collected.
• Crunchbase terms restrict automated collection. Check that your use fits them and the laws that apply to you. This Actor is not connected to Crunchbase.

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API, export and integrations

• API: start a run with the JSON input from this page, and read rows from the Dataset items endpoint.
• Export: download the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the Output tab.
• Scheduling: create an Apify schedule with onlyNew and a stateName, and each run saves only new records.
• Webhooks / no-code: start your next step when a run ends, and read url and name from the Dataset.
• SDK / MCP / agent: use the Apify SDK or client with the same input, or the MCP server below.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

MCP server URL with only this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cliqtomedia/crunchbase-companies

Smallest useful input:

{
  "companyUrls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify"]
}

Key output fields:

• name: company name.
• hq: public headquarters.
• employees: size band, not an exact count.
• website: company website.
• status: complete, not_found or partial.

One company takes 3 to 15 seconds and costs about $0.0092 on the Free plan. Search and funding return at most 15 matches. Hidden fields are null, not zero.

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Troubleshooting

A company is missing from the results

• Symptom: you added a company, but it has no row.
• Likely reason: the line is not a Crunchbase company link, or the name has no single match.
• Check: failedItems in RUN_SUMMARY. The reason is INVALID_COMPANY_URL, COMPANY_NAME_NOT_FOUND or AMBIGUOUS_COMPANY_NAME.
• Action: use the link from the company's Crunchbase page.

A row says not_found

• Symptom: the row has status: not_found and an empty name.
• Likely reason: this company page does not exist on Crunchbase.
• Check: open the url from the row in a browser.
• Action: fix the slug and run again.

Search returned only 15 rows

• Symptom: stopReason is SOURCE_WINDOW and sourceTotal is much larger.
• Likely reason: anonymous visitors see at most 15 matches.
• Check: sourceTotal in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Action: narrow the search by country, industry, size or status, and run several searches.

The run failed with FILTER_NOT_FOUND

• Symptom: the run fails and has no rows.
• Likely reason: the country, industry, category or tag name is not on Crunchbase.
• Check: how Crunchbase writes this name on its site.
• Action: write the full name, for example United States.

The run stopped with BLOCKED or RATE_LIMITED

• Symptom: stopReason or a reason in failedItems is BLOCKED, RATE_LIMITED, SOURCE_ERROR or NETWORK_ERROR.
• Likely reason: Crunchbase refused the request or did not answer after all attempts. In a company list, or when search loads full profiles, three failures in a row stop the run. If the search, funding or news request itself fails, the run stops at once.
• Check: failedItems and unprocessed in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Action: run those items again later. A request that fails at the source has no page charge.

The run stopped with RESPONSE_TOO_LARGE

• Symptom: stopReason is RESPONSE_TOO_LARGE, and the rest of the list has no rows.
• Likely reason: one page was above the size limit, so the run stopped to protect your cost.
• Check: failedItems shows which company it was, and unprocessed shows what is left.
• Action: remove that company and run the unprocessed items again.

Status is partial with ITEM_ERRORS

• Symptom: the run succeeded, status is partial and stopReason is ITEM_ERRORS.
• Likely reason: some companies failed or have an unreadable block, and the other rows are saved.
• Check: failedItems, partialCount and fieldErrors in the rows.
• Action: run the failed items again.

The run stopped with CHARGE_LIMIT

• Symptom: stopReason is CHARGE_LIMIT, and there are fewer rows than you asked for.
• Likely reason: the maximum cost you set for the run does not cover the next paid item.
• Check: savedCount and unprocessed in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Action: raise the maximum cost per run, or run the unprocessed items again.

The run stopped with DEADLINE

• Symptom: stopReason is DEADLINE, and only part of the list has rows.
• Likely reason: the list needs more time than the run timeout.
• Check: unprocessed in RUN_SUMMARY.
• Action: set a longer timeout in Run options, or run the unprocessed items again.

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FAQ

Do I need a Crunchbase account or cookies?

No. The Actor reads public pages only, and you do not need a login, cookies or an API key.

Why are the founding date and funding total empty?

Crunchbase often hides them from anonymous visitors. These fields are null, not zero, and unavailableFields lists them for that row.

Can I get more than 15 search results?

Not from one search. Anonymous search shows at most 15 matches. Run several narrower searches, or list the companies by link.

Do I pay when a company is not found?

Yes, one page check, because the page was read. A link to a missing page gives a not_found row and the run succeeds. A name with no match goes to failedItems, and if no name in the list has a match, the run fails. A request that fails at the source has no page charge.

How fresh is the data?

Each row shows what the public page had at fetchedAt. The Actor reads the page live on each run. It does not use a saved copy.

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Related Actors

• YC Companies Scraper: Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs.
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• Website Tech Stack Detector: what a company website runs on.
• Website Contact Scraper: contacts and social links from company websites.

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Support

Use the Issues tab on this page. Include the run ID, the input mode and a non-sensitive error message. Never send tokens, cookies, private source data or billing data.

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