Crunchbase Scraper

Scrape Crunchbase company profiles, funding rounds, founders/executives, and investor data without a Crunchbase Pro subscription.

What data can you extract?

Organization profiles

• Name, description, founded date, headquarters location
• Employee count range, operating status, website
• Social links (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook)
• Industry categories and category groups
• Total funding raised, last funding type and date
• IPO status, stock symbol, revenue range
• Crunchbase rank

Funding rounds

• Announced date, funding type (Seed, Series A, etc.)
• Money raised (USD), pre-money valuation
• Lead investors with names and Crunchbase links
• All investors for each round
• Number of investors

People (founders and executives)

• Name, title, current organization
• LinkedIn and Twitter profiles
• Crunchbase profile URL
• Employment history

Investor profiles

• Name, type, location, description
• Number of investments, exits, and funds
• Lead investments count
• Portfolio companies list
• Website and social links

How to use

Search companies by keyword

{
    "action": "searchCompanies",
    "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "includeFunding": true,
    "includePeople": true
}

Search with filters

{
    "action": "searchCompanies",
    "searchQuery": "fintech",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "industryFilter": "Financial Services",
    "fundingStage": "series_a",
    "maxResults": 100
}

Scrape specific company profiles

{
    "action": "scrapeProfiles",
    "directUrls": [
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic"
    ],
    "includeFunding": true,
    "includePeople": true
}

Scrape investor profiles

{
    "action": "scrapeInvestors",
    "directUrls": [
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sequoia-capital",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/andreessen-horowitz"
    ]
}

Scrape people profiles

{
    "action": "scrapePeople",
    "directUrls": [
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-altman",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/elon-musk"
    ]
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
action	string	searchCompanies	What to scrape: searchCompanies, scrapeProfiles, scrapeInvestors, scrapePeople
searchQuery	string		Keyword to search for
location	string		Filter by HQ location
industryFilter	string		Filter by industry category
fundingStage	string		Filter by last funding stage (seed, series_a, etc.)
directUrls	array	[]	Crunchbase URLs to scrape directly
maxResults	integer	100	Max results (0 = unlimited)
includeFunding	boolean	true	Include funding rounds for profiles
includePeople	boolean	true	Include founders/executives for profiles
includeInvestors	boolean	false	Include detailed investor info
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel pages (lower = safer)
requestTimeout	integer	90	Page load timeout in seconds
proxyConfiguration	object	Residential	Proxy settings (residential recommended)

Output format

Each item in the dataset is a JSON object with a type field (organization, investor, person, or searchResult).

Organization example

{
    "type": "organization",
    "name": "OpenAI",
    "shortDescription": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company.",
    "foundedDate": "2015-12-11",
    "headquartersLocation": "San Francisco, California, United States",
    "website": "https://openai.com",
    "employeeCount": "1001-5000",
    "totalFunding": "$11,300.0M",
    "totalFundingUsd": 11300000000,
    "lastFundingType": "Series Unknown",
    "operatingStatus": "Active",
    "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning"],
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/OpenAI",
    "fundingRounds": [
        {
            "announcedDate": "2023-04-28",
            "fundingType": "Series Unknown",
            "moneyRaised": 10000000000,
            "leadInvestors": [{ "name": "Microsoft" }],
            "numInvestors": 1
        }
    ],
    "people": [
        {
            "name": "Sam Altman",
            "title": "CEO",
            "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/samaltman"
        }
    ],
    "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
    "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing: $2.00 per 1,000 results ($0.002 per result).

Each saved item (organization profile, investor profile, person profile, or search result) counts as one result.

Tips for best results

1. Use residential proxies — Crunchbase has strong anti-bot detection. Residential proxies are strongly recommended.
2. Keep concurrency low — 2-3 concurrent pages reduces blocking risk significantly.
3. Start with direct URLs — Scraping specific profile URLs is more reliable than search-based scraping.
4. Use reasonable limits — Start with smaller maxResults to verify output before large runs.

Technical details

• Built with Apify SDK v3 and Crawlee PlaywrightCrawler
• Uses response interception to capture Crunchbase's internal API data
• Falls back to DOM extraction when API data is not available
• Extracts JSON-LD and NEXT_DATA structured data
• Includes stealth measures (navigator overrides, random delays, human-like scrolling)
• Automatic session rotation and retry logic