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 bot 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 investor slugs (e.g. sequoia-capital). In rounds mode: only rounds these investors took part in. In investors mode: direct investor lookup.
leadInvestorOnly	boolean	No	Rounds mode with investorSlugs: keep only rounds those investors led. Default: false.
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; in rounds mode it needs Crunchbase Pro cookies and the run stops with a clear message without them.
companyLocations	array	No	Rounds mode, no cookies needed. Keep only rounds whose funded company is headquartered in these places (e.g. London, United Kingdom). Every row carries headquarters, website, description and categories and is billed at the premium record rate. Max Items counts matching rows.
includeCompanyDetails	boolean	No	Rounds mode. Fill website, description, headquarters, categories and employee range on the round rows. Rows with company details are billed at the premium record rate. Default: false (rows and billing unchanged).
roundTypes	array	No	Round types to filter (e.g. seed, series_a, series_b). Rounds mode only.
announcedAfter	string	No	Rounds announced on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Rounds mode only.
announcedBefore	string	No	Rounds announced on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Combine with announcedAfter for a date range. 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 — Daily alert: new rounds since yesterday

Rounds come back newest first, so a scheduled run with announcedAfter set to yesterday's date returns just the new rounds, most recent at the top.

{
  "mode": "rounds",
  "announcedAfter": "2026-10-22",
  "roundTypes": ["seed", "series_a"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example — Every round a given investor led

{
  "mode": "rounds",
  "investorSlugs": ["sequoia-capital"],
  "leadInvestorOnly": true,
  "announcedAfter": "2026-01-01",
  "announcedBefore": "2026-09-30",
  "maxItems": 50
}

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 (YYYY-MM-DD). Always present
amount_raised_usd	Amount raised — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null
lead_investors	Comma-separated lead investor slugs
lead_investor_names	Comma-separated lead investor names
lead_investor_urls	Comma-separated Crunchbase URLs of the lead investors
all_investors	Comma-separated slugs of all investors — requires Pro cookies
all_investor_names	Comma-separated names of all investors — requires Pro cookies
all_investor_urls	Comma-separated Crunchbase URLs of all investors — requires Pro cookies
investor_count	Number of investors in the round
last_updated_at	When Crunchbase last updated the round — 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

Company details on round rows (includeCompanyDetails, companyLocations)

By default a round row names the funded company and nothing more. With includeCompanyDetails on (or any companyLocations), these fields are filled from the company's profile: website, description, headquarters_city, headquarters_country, employees_range, categories. linkedin_url, twitter_url and facebook_url are filled only when you supply Crunchbase Pro cookies. founded_year is not available without Pro cookies and stays null. A row whose company could not be found stays on the standard record rate.

companyLocations checks each funded company's headquarters and keeps the matches, newest round first. A place that is a small share of all rounds takes more checking: in our measurement London was about 5 in 100 seed and pre-seed rounds, so 25 London rows meant checking about 460 rounds. Rounds that are checked and dropped are not billed. The check stops after about 25 minutes and returns what it found, so for a rare place narrow announcedAfter.

Round amount (amount_raised_usd) and the full investor list are not available without Pro cookies, with or without these options.

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)
stock_symbol	Stock ticker symbol — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null
ipo_status	Listing status (e.g. private)
last_updated_at	When Crunchbase last updated the profile — requires Pro cookies, otherwise null

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 round types, announcement dates, funded companies, lead investors (names and URLs), and the number of investors in each round. The amount raised, the full investor list, valuations and last-updated dates are gated behind a Crunchbase Pro account. Crunchbase also limits how many rounds a single day can show without Pro; a day with an unusually large number of rounds in one round type and size band may return only the first 15 of them, and the run log says so.

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: amount_raised_usd, all_investors, all_investor_names, all_investor_urls, pre_money_valuation_usd, post_money_valuation_usd, last_updated_at, stock_symbol.

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Technical Notes

• The bot challenge is cleared automatically
• Dynamic field probing at runtime — automatically excludes Pro-gated fields to avoid errors
• Category filtering via funded_organization_categories
• 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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