Crunchbase Scraper — Funding Rounds, Companies & Investors

Scrape Crunchbase funding rounds, company profiles, and investors without a Crunchbase Pro subscription. Three output modes, one actor.

Target site: crunchbase.com

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What It Does

Returns structured records across three entity types — companies, funding rounds and investors. You pick the mode, set filters, and get a dataset back.

Three modes:

Mode	Row type	Use case
rounds	One row per funding round	Deal sourcing, VC pipeline tracking
companies	One row per company	Market research, sales prospecting
investors	One row per investor	Finding co-investors, mapping the VC landscape

Clears Crunchbase's Cloudflare challenge automatically, then pulls records fast.

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	No	rounds, companies, or investors. Default: rounds
companySlugs	array	No	Crunchbase slugs for direct company lookup (e.g. openai, anthropic). Companies mode only.
investorSlugs	array	No	Crunchbase slugs for direct investor lookup (e.g. sequoia-capital). Investors mode only.
categories	array	No	Category slugs to filter by (e.g. artificial-intelligence, fintech). Rounds and companies mode.
locations	array	No	Location names to filter by (e.g. United States, Europe). Companies mode.
roundTypes	array	No	Round types to filter (e.g. seed, series_a, series_b). Rounds mode only.
announcedAfter	string	No	Filter rounds announced on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Rounds mode only.
minAmountUsd	integer	No	Minimum round size in USD. Set 0 for no minimum. Rounds mode only.
crunchbaseCookies	string	No	Your Crunchbase Pro session cookies. Unlocks pre/post-money valuations and full investor data.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum records to return. Default: 10.

Example — Rounds

{
  "mode": "rounds",
  "categories": ["artificial-intelligence"],
  "announcedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "roundTypes": ["series_a", "series_b"],
  "minAmountUsd": 5000000,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example — Company Slugs

{
  "mode": "companies",
  "companySlugs": ["openai", "anthropic", "mistral-ai"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example — Investors

{
  "mode": "investors",
  "investorSlugs": ["sequoia-capital", "andreessen-horowitz", "khosla-ventures"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

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Output

All three modes produce flat records. Fields not applicable to the current mode are null.

Rounds Mode Fields

Field	Description
mode	rounds
record_id	Crunchbase UUID for this round
permalink	Round slug (e.g. openai-series-a--abc123)
crunchbase_url	Full URL to the round page
company_name	Funded company name
company_slug	Company's Crunchbase permalink
company_url	Full URL to the company page
round_id	Same as record_id
round_type	Round type (e.g. seed, series_a)
announced_date	Announcement date. Always present
amount_raised_usd	Amount raised. Always present
lead_investors	Comma-separated lead investor names
all_investors	Comma-separated all investor names
investor_count	Number of investors — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null
pre_money_valuation_usd	Pre-money valuation — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null
post_money_valuation_usd	Post-money valuation — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null

Companies Mode Fields

Field	Description
company_name	Company name
company_slug	Crunchbase permalink
company_url	Crunchbase profile URL
website	Company website
description	Short description
founded_year	Year founded
headquarters_city	City
headquarters_country	Country
employees_range	Employee count range (e.g. 11-50)
categories	Comma-separated category names
total_raised_usd	Total funding raised
last_round_type	Most recent round type
last_round_date	Most recent round date
last_round_amount_usd	Most recent round size
founders	Comma-separated founder names
cb_rank	Crunchbase rank (lower = more prominent)

Investors Mode Fields

Field	Description
investor_name	Investor or fund name
investor_type	Type (e.g. venture_capital, angel)
investments_count	Total investments made
portfolio_exits_count	Number of exits (IPO or acquisition)
headquarters_city	City
headquarters_country	Country
website	Investor/fund website
description	Short description

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Pro Cookies (Optional)

Without Pro cookies, the actor returns entity identifiers, round types, dates, raised amounts, and investor names for free. Valuations and the investor-count field are gated behind a Crunchbase Pro account.

To provide Pro cookies, log into Crunchbase in your browser, open DevTools → Application → Cookies → copy all cookies for crunchbase.com into the crunchbaseCookies field as name=value; name2=value2 pairs. An expired or invalid paste degrades to the free-tier field set rather than failing the run.

With Pro cookies, the following fields unlock: investor_count, pre_money_valuation_usd, post_money_valuation_usd.

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Technical Notes

• Cloudflare is cleared automatically
• Dynamic field probing at runtime — automatically excludes Pro-gated fields to avoid errors
• Server-side category filtering via funded_organization_categories predicate
• Free-tier API page size limit: 15 records per request (actor handles pagination automatically)
• Memory: 2 GB recommended

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Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing:

• $0.10 per run start
• $0.01 per record scraped

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Legal

Crunchbase's public search API is used. Respect Crunchbase's Terms of Service. This actor is intended for research and market intelligence use cases. Do not use it to build competing products or resell Crunchbase data.

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