# Crunchbase Company API | Funding, Investors & Firmographics (`johnvc/crunchbase-company-api`) Actor Collect Crunchbase company data as clean, structured JSON. Send one or many organization URLs and get funding, investors, industries, HQ location, employee count, rank, and status. Reliable, pay per company, MCP-ready for Claude and AI agents. - **URL**: https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api.md - **Developed by:** [John](https://apify.com/johnvc) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, AI - **Stats:** 4 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks - **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars ## Pricing from $0.01 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 🏢 Crunchbase Company API | Funding, Investors & Firmographics The **Crunchbase Company API** turns public [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com) organization pages into clean, structured JSON. Use this actor with Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI agent to collect funding, investors, industries, HQ location, employee count, rank, and status for any organization, on reliable infrastructure and billed per company. Send one or many Crunchbase organization URLs and get one row per company, collected in parallel. It works as a straightforward **Crunchbase scraper** for company enrichment, funding data, and venture capital research, and it is built API-first and MCP-ready so AI agents can call it as a tool. --- ### 📋 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. | | `totalFunding`, `numFundingRounds`, `numInvestors` | Funding summary. | | `investors` | Distinct investor names. | | `founders` | Founder names. | | `numAcquisitions` | Acquisitions the company has made. | | `cbRank`, `growthScore`, `monthlyVisits` | Crunchbase rank, growth score, and web-traffic signal. | | `operatingStatus`, `companyType`, `ipoStatus`, `stockSymbol` | Status and structure. | | `contactEmail`, `socialMediaLinks` | Public contact email and social profiles. | | `summary` | A plain-language one-line interpretation of the company. | --- ### 🎯 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. --- ### 🔁 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 totals, 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. --- ### ⚙️ Input examples #### One company ```json { "companyUrls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"] } ```` #### Several companies at once (collected in parallel) ```json { "companyUrls": [ "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic" ] } ``` URLs that are not Crunchbase `/organization/` URLs are skipped with a warning. The API returns one row per company. *** ### 📤 Example output Each company is returned as one JSON row: ```json { "result_type": "company", "name": "OpenAI", "legalName": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC", "cbRank": 10, "description": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company.", "website": "https://www.openai.com", "hqLocation": "San Francisco, California, United States", "country": "United States", "employeeCount": "1001-5000", "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning"], "numInvestors": 104, "numAcquisitions": 22, "operatingStatus": "active", "companyType": "for_profit", "ipoStatus": "private", "contactEmail": "support@openai.com", "companyUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai", "summary": "OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, 1001-5000 employees, San Francisco, California, United States" } ``` *** ### 💰 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. *** ### 🔌 Use the Crunchbase Company API from Claude (MCP) This Actor is MCP-server-compatible, so [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/referral/uIlpa7nPLg) (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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREWahDGhJM **New to Claude Code or Claude Cowork?** Start a [free trial](https://claude.ai/referral/uIlpa7nPLg). Then ask Claude: > *"Use the Crunchbase Company API to look up OpenAI and summarize its funding and investors."* *** ### 🔌 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. *** ### 🔗 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](https://apify.com/johnvc/pitchbook-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3) - private-company and deal data from PitchBook. - [LinkedIn Company API](https://apify.com/johnvc/linkedin-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3) - LinkedIn firmographics for the same accounts. Comparison point: some Crunchbase scrapers on the Store are unmaintained or low-rated (for example [pratikdani/crunchbase-companies-bulk-scraper-no-cookies](https://apify.com/pratikdani/crunchbase-companies-bulk-scraper-no-cookies?fpr=9n7kx3), rated 1 star). This API is built for reliability, pay-per-company billing, and MCP access from AI agents. *** ### 📎 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](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/scrape-crunchbase-company-data-to-structured-json?fpr=9n7kx3) Turn a Crunchbase organization URL into clean JSON: name, industries, total funding, employee count, HQ, and rank. #### [Extract Funding & Investor Data from Crunchbase](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/extract-funding-investor-data-from-crunchbase?fpr=9n7kx3) Pull total funding, number of rounds, investor count, investor names, and IPO status from a company URL. #### [Collect Venture Capital Data from Crunchbase](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/collect-venture-capital-data-from-crunchbase?fpr=9n7kx3) Collect total funding, funding rounds, investors, acquisitions, and growth score for a set of companies. #### [Enrich Accounts with Crunchbase Company Data](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/enrich-accounts-with-crunchbase-company-data?fpr=9n7kx3) Turn a company URL into CRM-ready fields for account scoring and routing. #### [Bulk Collect Crunchbase Companies from a URL List](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/bulk-collect-crunchbase-companies-from-a-url-list?fpr=9n7kx3) Paste up to 1000 Crunchbase organization URLs and get one clean row each. #### [Crunchbase Company Data API for Python](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/crunchbase-company-data-api-for-python?fpr=9n7kx3) Call the API from Python: a company URL in, structured funding and firmographics out. #### [Get Crunchbase Company Data in Claude via MCP](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api/examples/get-crunchbase-company-data-in-claude-via-mcp?fpr=9n7kx3) Use company lookup as a tool in Claude and other AI agents over MCP. *** ### 🚀 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](https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api?fpr=9n7kx3) **Example code:** [Python quick-start + MCP setup on GitHub](https://github.com/johnisanerd/Apify-Crunchbase-Company-API) - call the API from Python, or install it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT. *** ### ❓ FAQ #### What URL should I provide? A Crunchbase organization URL, for example `https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai`. Pass one or many in `companyUrls`. #### What does the Crunchbase Company API return? Each row includes firmographics (name, industries, HQ location, employee count), funding data (total funding, number of rounds, investor count and names), acquisitions, IPO status, Crunchbase rank, a growth score, 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 a funding summary (total funding, number of rounds, investor count) and distinct investor names, where Crunchbase lists them. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn), but you are responsible for your own use, including [GDPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation) 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](https://claude.ai/referral/uIlpa7nPLg) (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. *** Last Updated: 2026.07.11 # Actor input Schema ## `companyUrls` (type: `array`): One or more Crunchbase organization URLs, e.g. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai. URLs that are not Crunchbase /organization/ URLs are skipped. Up to 1000 per run. Need larger batches? Contact us and we can raise this limit for your account. ## Actor input object example ```json { "companyUrls": [ "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai" ] } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `allResults` (type: `string`): Every dataset item from this run: collected companies and any error rows. ## `overview` (type: `string`): Tabular overview of every dataset item using the dataset schema's default view. Columns: type, company, industries, total funding, employees, HQ, CB rank, summary. ## `funding` (type: `string`): Total raised, rounds, investor names, acquisitions, and growth score. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "companyUrls": [ "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("johnvc/crunchbase-company-api").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "companyUrls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("johnvc/crunchbase-company-api").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "companyUrls": [ "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai" ] }' | apify call johnvc/crunchbase-company-api --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Crunchbase Company API | Funding, Investors & Firmographics", "description": "Collect Crunchbase company data as clean, structured JSON. Send one or many organization URLs and get funding, investors, industries, HQ location, employee count, rank, and status. Reliable, pay per company, MCP-ready for Claude and AI agents.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "Z7NFAEFe0gWe0kwgQ" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/johnvc~crunchbase-company-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-johnvc-crunchbase-company-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/johnvc~crunchbase-company-api/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-johnvc-crunchbase-company-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/johnvc~crunchbase-company-api/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-johnvc-crunchbase-company-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "companyUrls" ], "properties": { "companyUrls": { "title": "Company URLs", "maxItems": 1000, "type": "array", "description": "One or more Crunchbase organization URLs, e.g. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai. URLs that are not Crunchbase /organization/ URLs are skipped. Up to 1000 per run. Need larger batches? 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