# Crunchbase Company Intelligence — Firmographics & Contact (`foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence`) Actor

Give a company name, domain or Crunchbase URL and get its public Crunchbase profile: description, website, employee range, HQ, categories, CB rank, IPO/operating status, contact email & phone, and funding signals. Supply your session cookie to unlock funding amount & founded date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $12.00 / 1,000 company records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Crunchbase Company Intelligence — Firmographics, Contact & Funding Signals

Turn a list of **company names, domains or Crunchbase URLs** into clean, structured company intelligence: description, website, **employee range, HQ, categories, Crunchbase rank, IPO/operating status, contact email and phone**, and funding signals — straight from each company's public [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com) profile. No Crunchbase subscription and no API key required.

Run it on the [Apify platform](https://apify.com) for API access, scheduling, integrations, proxy rotation and run monitoring.

### What does Crunchbase Company Intelligence do?

Give it `["stripe.com", "openai", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nvidia"]` and get one clean JSON record per company. It accepts a **name, a domain, a Crunchbase URL or a permalink** and resolves each to the right company through Crunchbase's own autocomplete — then confirms a domain match against the company's real website, so `stripe.com` returns **Stripe**, not a look-alike subsidiary.

It is built for lead generation and company enrichment: the fields a sales or RevOps team actually pastes into a CRM — **contact email, phone, headcount band, HQ and rank** — in one row, without a Crunchbase Pro seat.

> Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Crunchbase, Inc. This Actor reads only publicly accessible profile pages.

### Why use Crunchbase Company Intelligence?

- **Direct contact data.** `contactEmail` and `contactPhone` where Crunchbase publishes them — the money fields for outbound.
- **Firmographics in one row.** Employee range, HQ city/country, categories, CB rank, IPO and operating status.
- **Smart resolution.** Name, domain or URL in; the correct entity out — domain inputs are verified against the company's own website.
- **Honest about the paywall.** Crunchbase hides the exact funding amount and founded date from logged-out sessions. This Actor never fabricates them — it returns `null` and flags them. Supply your own Crunchbase session cookie to unlock them (see below).
- **Pay as you go.** Look up 3 companies or 3,000; you are charged for what is delivered.

### How to use Crunchbase Company Intelligence

1. Open the Actor and go to the **Input** tab.
2. In **Companies**, add names, domains, Crunchbase URLs or permalinks (one per line).
3. *(Optional)* Paste your **Crunchbase session cookie** to unlock funding amount & founded date.
4. *(Optional)* Set **Max results** to cap how many records are delivered.
5. Click **Start**. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull them from the API.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `companies` | array (required) | Names (`"Stripe"`), domains (`"stripe.com"`), Crunchbase URLs or permalinks. |
| `sessionCookie` | string (secret, optional) | Your Crunchbase session cookie (`name=value; …`) to unlock funding amount & founded date. |
| `maxResults` | integer (optional) | Maximum records to deliver. `0` = all. |

```json
{
  "companies": ["stripe.com", "openai", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nvidia"],
  "maxResults": 0
}
```

### Output

Each company is one dataset item. Example (measured 2026-10-11, logged-out session):

```json
{
  "name": "NVIDIA",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nvidia",
  "permalink": "nvidia",
  "description": "NVIDIA is a computing platform company …",
  "website": "https://www.nvidia.com",
  "domain": "nvidia.com",
  "employeeRange": "10001+",
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "ipoStatus": "public",
  "cbRank": 15,
  "hqCity": "Santa Clara",
  "hqRegion": "California",
  "hqCountry": "United States",
  "categories": ["Artificial Intelligence", "GPU", "Hardware"],
  "contactEmail": "info@nvidia.com",
  "contactPhone": "+1 (408) 486-2000",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia",
  "lastFundingType": "post_ipo_debt",
  "fundingTotalUsd": null,
  "foundedOn": null,
  "paywalledFieldsNeedLogin": ["fundingTotalUsd", "foundedOn"],
  "source": "crunchbase.com (public profile)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T18:00:00.000Z"
}
```

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

### Data table

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `name`, `permalink`, `crunchbaseUrl` | Company identity and its Crunchbase profile link |
| `description` | The company's own short description |
| `website`, `domain` | Official website and bare domain |
| `employeeRange` | Headcount band (e.g. `1001-5000`, `10001+`) |
| `hqCity`, `hqRegion`, `hqCountry` | Headquarters location |
| `categories` | Industry / category tags |
| `cbRank` | Crunchbase rank (lower = more prominent) |
| `ipoStatus`, `operatingStatus` | `public`/`private`, `active`/`closed` |
| `contactEmail`, `contactPhone` | Public contact details where Crunchbase lists them |
| `linkedin`, `facebook`, `twitter` | Social profiles |
| `lastFundingType`, `lastFundingAt` | Latest funding round type and date |
| `fundingTotalUsd`, `foundedOn` | **Paywalled** — `null` unless a session cookie is supplied |

### Unlocking funding amount & founded date (BYOC)

Crunchbase paywalls the exact total funding and founded date for logged-out sessions, so this Actor returns them as `null` and lists them in `paywalledFieldsNeedLogin`. To unlock them, log in to Crunchbase in your browser, copy your session cookie, and paste it into the **Crunchbase session cookie** input. Your account, your responsibility.

### How much does it cost to scrape Crunchbase?

Pay-per-event:

| Event | Price | When |
|---|---|---|
| Company record | **$0.012** | per company delivered |
| Crunchbase session | **$0.02** | once per run, on the first company delivered — it covers clearing Crunchbase's anti-bot challenge, which every run pays before it can read anything |

A company that cannot be resolved, or that Crunchbase refuses, is **free**, and a run that delivers nothing costs nothing — not even the session. Example: 25 companies in one run = $0.02 + 25 × $0.012 = **$0.32**. [View current pricing.](https://apify.com/foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence)

The session fee is why batching pays: 100 companies in one run cost $1.22, the same 100 one at a time cost $3.20.

### Tips & advanced options

- **Batch, don't drip.** The anti-bot challenge is cleared once per run and reused for the whole list, and the session fee is charged once, so one run of 100 companies costs a third of 100 runs of one.
- **Use domains when you can.** Domain inputs are verified against the company's real website, which is the most reliable way to hit the exact entity.
- **Supply the cookie only if you need funding/founded** — every other field is free.

### FAQ, disclaimers & support

- **Is this legal?** The Actor reads only publicly accessible Crunchbase profile pages and does not bypass any login or payment wall (paywalled fields are left `null` unless you supply your own cookie). You are responsible for your use of the data and compliance with Crunchbase's Terms of Service and applicable law.
- **Why are funding and founded date empty?** They are paywalled for logged-out sessions. Supply your session cookie to unlock them.
- **A company wasn't found.** Try the domain or the exact Crunchbase URL. Very small or ambiguous companies may not surface via autocomplete.
- **Feedback / bugs:** use the **Issues** tab. Custom enrichment pipelines available on request.

### Changelog

#### 0.1.0 — 2026-10-11

- Initial release. Name/domain/URL → public Crunchbase profile: firmographics, contact email & phone, categories, HQ, CB rank, IPO/operating status, funding signals.
- Clears Crunchbase's Cloudflare managed (Turnstile) challenge with a self-hosted hardened Firefox (Camoufox), headless — no paid unblocking service.
- Domain inputs resolved via Crunchbase autocomplete (brand label) and **verified against the company's own website** so `stripe.com` → Stripe, `nvidia.com` → NVIDIA.
- Funding amount & founded date returned as `null` with a `paywalledFieldsNeedLogin` flag when logged out; unlockable with a user-supplied session cookie (BYOC).

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Companies to look up — a name ("Stripe"), a domain ("stripe.com"), a Crunchbase URL, or a permalink ("stripe"). Names/domains are resolved via Crunchbase's own autocomplete.

## `sessionCookie` (type: `string`):

Crunchbase paywalls the exact funding amount, founded date and valuation for logged-out sessions. Paste your own Crunchbase session cookie (name=value; …) to unlock them. Leave blank for the free firmographics + contact fields. Your account, your responsibility.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum company records to deliver (0 = all).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Crunchbase scores datacenter IPs, so a residential proxy is needed for the Cloudflare challenge to clear. Defaults to Apify Residential — leave as is unless you have your own clean proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "stripe.com",
    "airbnb",
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"
  ],
  "maxResults": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "stripe.com",
        "airbnb",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companies": [
        "stripe.com",
        "airbnb",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "stripe.com",
    "airbnb",
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,foxlabs/crunchbase-company-intelligence"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/h8dstj2WLZdIeZ4T3/builds/DKuVdiOnBLfnRqv6y/openapi.json