🏢 Crunchbase Company API | Funding, Investors & Firmographics

The Crunchbase Company API turns public Crunchbase organization pages into clean, structured JSON. Use it as a Crunchbase API alternative or a Crunchbase data export tool: collect funding rounds, investors, founders, industries, HQ location, employee count, Crunchbase rank, growth score, and operating status for any organization, on reliable infrastructure and billed per company. No Crunchbase account, proxies, or scraping setup required.

Send one or many Crunchbase organization URLs, or just company names or website domains (no URL needed): each name resolves to its top-matching organization via companyNames, so you can chain straight from tools that output names, like the LinkedIn Company API. Either way you get one row per company, collected in parallel and ready to export as JSON, CSV, or Excel. It works as a straightforward Crunchbase scraper for company enrichment, firmographics, B2B sales intelligence, lead enrichment, CRM enrichment, startup research, competitor analysis, and venture capital research. Built API-first and MCP-ready, so Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other AI agents can call it as a tool to look up company data in-conversation.

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📋 What this API returns

Field	Description
name, legalName	Company name and registered legal name.
description	The company overview text.
website	Company website URL.
hqLocation, region, country	Where the company is headquartered.
employeeCount	Employee-count band (e.g. "1001-5000").
industries	Industry tags.
numFundingRounds, numInvestors, numLeadInvestors	Funding-round and investor counts.
fundingRounds	Per-round detail: round label (Seed, Series A, ...), stage, investors, and lead investors.
totalFunding	Total raised in USD, only when the source exposes a company-level total (often unavailable; omitted rather than guessed).
investors	Distinct investor names.
founders, keyPeople, advisors	Founders, current executives with titles, and board members.
contacts, numContacts	Named contacts with job title, departments, and LinkedIn handle, plus the total contact count.
numAcquisitions, acquisitions, subOrganizations	Acquisitions made and subsidiaries or joint ventures.
products	Named products and services with short descriptions.
similarCompanies	Similar or competing companies with profile URLs.
recentNews	Up to 5 recent news mentions with date, publisher, and URL.
cbRank, growthScore, growthTrend, heatScore, heatTrend	Crunchbase rank plus growth and heat signals.
monthlyVisits, monthlyVisitsGrowth	Website traffic and month-over-month trend.
techStack, techStackCount	Detected website technologies.
patentsGranted, trademarksRegistered, itSpendEstimateUsd, monthlyAppDownloads	IP counts, estimated IT spend, and app-download signal.
operatingStatus, companyType, ipoStatus, stockSymbol	Status and structure.
contactEmail, contactPhone, socialMediaLinks, logoUrl	Public contact info, social profiles, and logo.
hqRegions, continent	Broader headquarters geography.
searchTerm	On name-lookup rows: the name or domain from companyNames that produced the row, so you can join results back to your input list.
summary	A plain-language one-line interpretation of the company.

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📤 Example output

One JSON row per company, and every row is deep: per-round funding detail, key people, named contacts, products, news, and growth signals. This is real output for OpenAI, trimmed for length:

{
  "result_type": "company",
  "name": "OpenAI",
  "legalName": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC",
  "cbRank": 10,
  "description": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.",
  "website": "https://www.openai.com",
  "logoUrl": "https://images.crunchbase.com/image/upload/jjykwqqhsscreywea4gb",
  "hqLocation": "San Francisco, California, United States, North America",
  "region": "California",
  "country": "United States",
  "hqRegions": ["San Francisco Bay Area", "West Coast", "Western US"],
  "continent": "North America",
  "employeeCount": "1001-5000",
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "companyType": "for_profit",
  "ipoStatus": "private",
  "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence (AI)", "Generative AI", "Machine Learning", "SaaS"],
  "numFundingRounds": 14,
  "numInvestors": 104,
  "numLeadInvestors": 18,
  "numAcquisitions": 22,
  "fundingRounds": [
    {"round": "Corporate Round", "investors": ["Microsoft"]},
    {"round": "Venture Round", "investors": ["SoftBank", "Thrive Capital", "NVIDIA", "MGX", "T. Rowe Price"]},
    {"round": "Secondary Market", "investors": ["Sequoia Capital", "Andreessen Horowitz", "Thrive Capital", "K2 Global"]}
  ],
  "investors": ["Microsoft", "Thrive Capital", "SoftBank", "Sequoia Capital"],
  "founders": ["Sam Altman", "Greg Brockman", "Ilya Sutskever", "Elon Musk"],
  "keyPeople": [
    {"name": "Sam Altman", "title": "Co-Founder and CEO"},
    {"name": "Sarah Friar", "title": "CFO"},
    {"name": "Brad Lightcap", "title": "COO"}
  ],
  "advisors": [
    {"name": "Bret Taylor", "role": "Board Member"},
    {"name": "Adam D'Angelo", "role": "Board Member"}
  ],
  "contacts": [
    {
      "name": "Aliisa Rosenthal",
      "title": "Head of Enterprise and Public Sector Accounts",
      "departments": ["management", "sales"],
      "linkedinId": "aliisa-rosenthal"
    }
  ],
  "numContacts": 1384,
  "products": [
    {"name": "ChatGPT", "description": "An AI conversational agent designed to generate human-like text responses."},
    {"name": "OpenAI API Platform", "description": "A cloud-based API service providing access to OpenAI's AI models."}
  ],
  "similarCompanies": [
    {"name": "Anthropic", "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic"},
    {"name": "Mistral AI", "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mistral-ai"}
  ],
  "recentNews": [
    {"date": "2026-07-06", "title": "Tenable joins OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program", "publisher": "Zawya.com", "url": "https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/example"}
  ],
  "acquisitions": ["Global Illumination", "Promptfoo", "Torch Health"],
  "subOrganizations": ["The Stargate Project", "Global Illumination"],
  "monthlyVisits": 561019484,
  "monthlyVisitsGrowth": 0.1509,
  "growthScore": 82,
  "growthTrend": 5,
  "heatScore": 90,
  "heatTrend": -7,
  "techStackCount": 97,
  "techStack": ["Cloudflare CDN", "HSTS", "DNSSEC"],
  "patentsGranted": 70,
  "trademarksRegistered": 26,
  "itSpendEstimateUsd": 285484278,
  "contactEmail": "support@openai.com",
  "contactPhone": "+1 800-242-8478",
  "socialMediaLinks": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai", "https://x.com/OpenAI"],
  "companyUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
  "summary": "OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), 1001-5000 employees, San Francisco, California, United States, North America"
}

A totalFunding dollar amount appears only when the source exposes a company-level total. If a URL cannot be collected you get an error row (result_type: "error") for that URL instead of a failed run.

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🎯 Use cases

• VC and PE research. Pull funding, investors, and firmographics for a list of target companies.
• Sales intelligence. Enrich account lists with company size, industry, HQ, and funding stage.
• Market mapping. Compare companies across a sector by funding, headcount, and growth signals.
• CRM enrichment. Append structured company data to records from a Crunchbase URL.
• Competitive intelligence. Track competitors' funding rounds, acquisitions, and investor networks.
• AI agent workflows. Drive this API over MCP from Claude to look up and summarize companies in-conversation.

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🔁 Use it as a Crunchbase scraper at scale

Paste a batch of Crunchbase organization URLs and this Crunchbase scraper collects them in budget-capped chunks, one row per company, so a large Crunchbase scraping run never overshoots the cap you set. Every company comes back with the same flat, predictable fields, which is what makes the output easy to load into a sheet, a database, or a CRM.

The result is ready-to-use company enrichment and venture capital data: funding rounds, investors, industries, HQ, headcount, and rank. If a URL cannot be collected, you get a clear error row for that URL instead of a failed run, so one bad link never sinks the batch. Whether you need Crunchbase data for one company or ten thousand, the shape of the output stays the same.

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⚙️ Input examples

One company

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

Several companies at once (collected in parallel)

{
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic"
  ]
}

Look up by company name (no URL needed)

{
  "companyNames": ["OpenAI", "Basecamp", "stripe.com"]
}

Each name or website domain resolves to the single top-matching Crunchbase organization and returns the same full company row, with a searchTerm field carrying the name you sent. Name lookups take a few minutes longer than URL collection. You can mix companyUrls and companyNames in one run.

Chain from the LinkedIn Company API

Run the LinkedIn Company API on your accounts, then feed its name (or website domain) output straight into companyNames to add funding rounds, investors, and firmographics; no Crunchbase URLs needed anywhere in the pipeline:

{
  "companyNames": ["Microsoft", "Anthropic", "Basecamp"]
}

URLs that are not Crunchbase /organization/ URLs are skipped with a warning. The API returns one row per company; see the example output above for the full shape.

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💰 Pricing (pay-per-event)

You pay per company returned. There is no per-run setup fee. The current per-event price is shown on the Store card and in the Actor's Monetization details. Because billing is per company, you only pay for the companies actually delivered.

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🔌 Use the Crunchbase Company API from Claude (MCP)

This Actor is MCP-server-compatible, so Claude Code (free trial), Claude (desktop and web), Cursor, and other MCP clients can call it as a tool through Apify's hosted MCP server.

Add it with this Actor-specific URL:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,johnvc/crunchbase-company-api

Apify MCP integration docs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp

Setup walkthrough:

New to Claude Code or Claude Cowork? Start a free trial.

Then ask Claude:

"Use the Crunchbase Company API to look up OpenAI and summarize its funding and investors."

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💸 Pay per run with crypto (x402)

The Crunchbase Company API supports agentic payments via the x402 protocol. AI agents and MCP clients can pay for runs in USDC (on Base) with no Apify account or API token needed: point your agent at the Apify MCP server and it can discover, pay for, and run this Actor autonomously. Read the Apify x402 announcement for details.

🔌 Integrations: run company enrichment on a schedule

This API is most useful as a recurring step in a pipeline, not a one-off run:

• Tasks and Schedules. Save a set of Crunchbase URLs as a Task, then attach a Schedule to refresh that company dataset daily, weekly, or monthly with no code.
• n8n, Make, and Zapier. Trigger a run when a new company lands in your CRM, then push the enriched funding and firmographics back. Apify has native connectors for each.
• Supabase, Google Sheets, and databases. Send the dataset straight to storage with a webhook or the Apify API so the rows land where your team already works.
• MCP. Call the API as a tool from Claude and other AI agents (see the section above) to enrich companies inside an agent workflow.
• Webhooks. Fire a webhook on run completion to kick off the next step in your own system, such as deal scoring or investor research.

n8n

Run this actor from n8n without writing code: the Collect Crunchbase funding data into Google Sheets template pastes a list of Crunchbase organization URLs and appends funding, investor, and firmographic data to Google Sheets. Works on n8n Cloud via the official Apify node; self-hosters can also use the n8n-nodes-crunchbase-company-api community node.

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🔗 Related Tools

Build a full picture of a company, its funding, and the people behind it by pairing this with related tools:

• PitchBook Company API - private-company and deal data from PitchBook.
• LinkedIn Company API - LinkedIn firmographics for the same accounts. Pipe its name or website output into companyNames here to add funding data with no URL matching.

Comparison point: some Crunchbase scrapers on the Store are unmaintained or low-rated (for example pratikdani/crunchbase-companies-bulk-scraper-no-cookies, rated 1 star). This API is built for reliability, pay-per-company billing, and MCP access from AI agents.

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📎 Applications

Ready-made task pages for common jobs. Open one, run it, or duplicate it as a starting point:

Scrape Crunchbase Company Data to Structured JSON

Turn a Crunchbase organization URL into clean JSON: name, industries, funding rounds, employee count, HQ, and rank.

Extract Funding & Investor Data from Crunchbase

Pull number of funding rounds, investor count, investor names, and IPO status from a company URL.

Collect Venture Capital Data from Crunchbase

Collect funding rounds, investors, acquisitions, and growth score for a set of companies.

Enrich Accounts with Crunchbase Company Data

Turn a company URL into CRM-ready fields for account scoring and routing.

Bulk Collect Crunchbase Companies from a URL List

Paste up to 1000 Crunchbase organization URLs and get one clean row each.

Crunchbase Company Data API for Python

Call the API from Python: a company URL in, structured funding and firmographics out.

Get Crunchbase Company Data in Claude via MCP

Use company lookup as a tool in Claude and other AI agents over MCP.

List a Company's Board Members and Key People

Board members and advisors with roles, executives with titles, and founders from a company URL.

Look Up Any Company's Tech Stack from Crunchbase

Detected website technologies with a count, plus web traffic and firmographics per company.

Find Competitors of Any Company from Crunchbase

Similar and competing companies with names and profile URLs, plus industries and growth score.

Get a Company's Funding Round History from Crunchbase

Every listed round with its label, stage, investors, and lead investors, one row per company.

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🚀 How to get started

1. Open the Actor and paste one or more Crunchbase organization URLs into companyUrls.
2. Run it and read the results from the dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, or API).

View on Apify Store

Example code: Python quick-start + MCP setup on GitHub - call the API from Python, or install it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT.

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❓ FAQ

What URL should I provide?

A Crunchbase organization URL, for example https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai. Pass one or many in companyUrls. No URL handy? Pass the company name or website domain in companyNames instead.

Can I look up companies by name instead of URL?

Yes. Put names or website domains in companyNames (for example "OpenAI" or "basecamp.com") and each resolves to its top-matching Crunchbase organization, returned as the same full company row at the same per-company price. The row's searchTerm field carries the name you sent so you can join results back to your list. This is the easiest way to chain from tools that output company names, such as the LinkedIn Company API. Two tips for clean results: prefer the website domain for ambiguous or generic names (it disambiguates far better than a short name), and sanity-check the returned name and website against your searchTerm downstream, because the lookup always returns the closest match it can find, even for misspelled or unknown names.

What does the Crunchbase Company API return?

Each row includes firmographics (name, industries, HQ location, employee count), funding data (per-round detail with stages and lead investors, investor names and counts, plus a total-funding amount when the source exposes one), key people and advisors, named contacts with titles and LinkedIn handles, products, similar companies, recent news, acquisitions, IPO status, Crunchbase rank, growth and heat signals, web traffic, tech stack, and a plain-language summary.

Is this a Crunchbase scraper too?

Yes. You call it like an interface (a Crunchbase organization URL in, structured JSON out), and under the hood it works as a Crunchbase scraper that reads public organization pages. You never touch scraping infrastructure; you get clean, one-row-per-company data back.

Can I collect many companies at once?

Yes. Provide a list in companyUrls; they are collected in parallel and returned one row per company, up to 1000 per run.

Do you return funding and investor data?

Yes. Each row includes per-round detail in fundingRounds (round label, stage, investors, and lead investors), the number of rounds, investor counts, and distinct investor names, where Crunchbase lists them. A totalFunding dollar amount is included only when the source exposes a company-level total; when it does not, the field is omitted rather than estimated. Switch to the funding dataset view for a funding-first table.

Is it legal to scrape public Crunchbase data?

This actor collects only public company data. Public-data scraping has been addressed in court cases such as hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, but you are responsible for your own use, including GDPR and platform terms. Consult your own counsel for your use case.

Can I run it from Claude or another AI agent over MCP?

Yes. The Actor is MCP-server-compatible, so Claude Code (free trial) and other MCP clients call it as a tool. See the MCP section above for the setup URL.

Can I schedule it or connect it to my other apps?

Yes. Save your Crunchbase URLs as a Task and attach a Schedule for recurring runs, and connect the output to n8n, Make, Zapier, Supabase, or your own system by webhook. See the Integrations section above.

What if a company cannot be collected?

The API returns a clear error row for that URL explaining why, so a single bad URL does not fail the whole run.

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🌐 About Alpha OSINT

This Actor is part of Alpha OSINT, toolset of financial and operations data sources and APIs. See the Crunchbase Company API source page for related tools and use cases. For support or requests for this actor, please start a ticket directly on our support page.

Last Updated: 2026.08.19