Crunchbase Organization Scraper

Scrape company data from Crunchbase organization pages — including company name, description, industry categories, funding information, employee count, headquarters location, and social links. Get structured data from any Crunchbase organization by providing its slug (e.g., "openai", "stripe", "airbnb"), with optional funding round details and key people metadata.

This Actor runs on the Apify platform, which provides reliable cloud infrastructure, automatic retries, proxy rotation, scheduling, and easy data export in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML formats.

What does Crunchbase Scraper do?

Crunchbase is the world's largest database of private and public company information, with data on funding rounds, acquisitions, leadership, and market categories. This Actor extracts that data from the public Crunchbase organization pages into clean, structured JSON.

Data extracted per company:

Field	Description
name	Company/organization name
description	Short company description
categories	Industry tags (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, SaaS)
founded_date	Founding date (ISO format)
headquarters	Location (city, state, country)
employee_count	Employee size range
total_funding	Total funding amount
last_funding_date	Date of most recent funding round
last_funding_round	Type of last round (Seed, Series A, etc.)
website	Company's official website
linkedin_url	LinkedIn company page URL
acquisitions_count	Number of acquisitions
funding_rounds	Detailed funding rounds (optional)

Why use Crunchbase Scraper?

Market research — Track competitors, analyze funding trends in your industry, or build investment lead lists. Scrape hundreds of Crunchbase companies to build a structured dataset of market players.

Sales prospecting — Enrich your CRM with company metadata from Crunchbase. Know when a company last raised, how many employees they have, and where they're headquartered before you reach out.

Portfolio monitoring — Keep tabs on companies in your investment portfolio. Monitor changes in funding rounds, employee count, and leadership over time.

Data science — Build training datasets for NLP models on company descriptions, industry classification, or funding prediction.

How to use Crunchbase Scraper

1. Find the Crunchbase organization slug. Go to any company's Crunchbase page. The slug is the part of the URL after /organization/. For example, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai has slug openai.

2. Configure and run. Set the slug in the Actor input, choose how many results to fetch, and optionally enable funding details and key people.

3. Get your data. Results appear in the Apify Console dataset tab. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. You can also access the data via the Apify API.

Quick start

{
    "company_slug": "openai",
    "max_results": 1,
    "include_funding": true
}

This fetches OpenAI's Crunchbase profile with full funding history.

Input

The input schema has these fields:

• company_slug (required) — The Crunchbase organization slug, e.g., "openai", "stripe", "airbnb".
• max_results (default: 1, max: 50) — Number of organization pages to scrape. Set higher for batch scraping from related company links.
• include_funding (default: true) — When enabled, includes the full array of funding rounds with dates, amounts, round types, and lead investors.
• include_people (default: false) — When enabled, includes key people associated with the organization.
• proxyConfiguration — Apify proxy settings. For Crunchbase, residential proxies are recommended to avoid rate limiting.

Output

Each result in the dataset is a JSON object with the company fields described above. Here's an example:

{
    "name": "OpenAI",
    "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
    "description": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.",
    "categories": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", "Research"],
    "founded_date": "2015-12-11",
    "headquarters": "San Francisco, California, United States",
    "employee_count": "1001-5000",
    "total_funding": "$11.3B",
    "last_funding_date": "2023-01-23",
    "last_funding_round": "Series Unknown",
    "website": "https://openai.com",
    "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai",
    "acquisitions_count": 0,
    "funding_rounds": [
        {
            "date": "2023-01-23",
            "round": "Series Unknown",
            "amount": "$10B",
            "lead_investors": "Microsoft"
        }
    ]
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console.

Pricing / Cost estimation

This Actor uses pay-per-event (PPE) pricing — you only pay for what you use. The first 10 results are free per run. After that, each result costs $0.005. The Actor start event costs $0.00005.

A typical run scraping a single company profile with full funding details costs approximately $0.00005 (just the start event, since the first 10 results are free). Even at scale, scraping 50 company profiles would cost $0.20 (40 chargeable results × $0.005 + start event).

Advanced options

Proxy configuration — Crunchbase uses Cloudflare and may rate-limit requests. For reliable scraping at scale, enable Apify Proxy with residential proxy groups in the input settings.

Batch scraping — Set max_results higher and the crawler will follow related company links on the page. This is useful for scraping competitors in the same category.

Funding data — Keep include_funding enabled to get the full picture of a company's financial history. Disable it if you only need basic company info to reduce output size.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is scraping Crunchbase legal? Crunchbase data is publicly available on their website. This Actor accesses the same information you would see by visiting the organization page in a browser. We recommend reviewing Crunchbase's Terms of Service before scraping at scale.

What proxy should I use? For small-scale scraping (1-10 profiles), no proxy is needed. For larger batches, use Apify residential proxies for best results.

Can I scrape by URL instead of slug? Currently the Actor accepts company slugs. You can easily extract the slug from any Crunchbase organization URL.

Need help? Open an issue in the project repository or contact the author. Custom modifications (different fields, additional data sources, different output formats) are available on request.

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This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Crunchbase. Crunchbase is a registered trademark of Crunchbase, Inc.