Crunchbase Scraper: Companies, Funding, Investors & People

🏢 What is Crunchbase Scraper?

Crunchbase Scraper extracts companies, investors, funding rounds and people from Crunchbase: name, website, industries, headquarters, headcount, last funding type, funding stage, Crunchbase rank and founders, and on request the contact e-mail and phone, team, investors, tech stack, web traffic and key contacts. It works as a Crunchbase API alternative: no Crunchbase account, no API key — run it on a schedule, call it from your code, or plug it into Make, Zapier or n8n.

Pick what to search, set the filters you need (industry, country, headcount, last funding type and date, total raised, unicorn lists, growth score…) or paste company names, domains or Crunchbase URLs, click Start, and download the results in JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, nothing to set up.

📋 What data can you extract from Crunchbase?

One item per company, investor, funding round or person, 114 fields:

Category	What you get
🏢 Company	name, Crunchbase link and id, short and long description, logo, website and domain, legal name, operating status — Mistral AI, mistral.ai
🏆 Rank and scores	Crunchbase rank, rank inside each industry, heat and growth scores with their 90-day change and history, Crunchbase's own predictions — rank 2
🏷️ Industries	industries, industry groups, unicorn tags, Crunchbase lists the company is featured in — Generative AI
📍 Location	city, region, country, continent, wider areas, office openings — Paris, France
💰 Funding	last funding type, funding stage, IPO status, ticker, number of rounds and investors, every round with its type and lead investors, every investor and its round — series_d
👥 People	headcount range, founders, team members and advisors with their title — 1001-5000, Co-Founder and CEO
📇 Contact	contact e-mail and phone, LinkedIn, X and Facebook pages, how many contacts Crunchbase lists, and (paid option) the key contacts: name, LinkedIn, job level, department
🌐 Company website	(paid option) e-mail addresses, phone numbers and social links published on the company's own website, with the page they were found on
📊 Web, tech and patents	monthly website visits and their trend, technologies used, software used, estimated IT spend, app downloads, patents, trademarks, buying-intent topics
📰 News and events	latest news, key hires and departures, layoffs, product launches, partnerships, lawsuits, awards, event appearances
🤝 Deals	acquisitions, acquirer, subsidiaries, similar companies, investments, exits, funds raised by an investor
🔁 Other kinds of row	funding round (type, company that raised, lead investors), investor (investments, exits, portfolio), person (job title, organization, jobs, education, board roles)

Every field, with an example, is listed in the Output section below.

Without Company profile, each row holds what a Crunchbase search shows: name, links, short description, industries, location, headcount, last funding type, stage, rank and founders. The other fields are filled when Company profile is ticked (a few seconds per profile, charged per profile).

✅ Why use Crunchbase Scraper?

• 🎯 Filters that work without a Crunchbase account: total raised, round amount, last funding type and date, founding date, funding stage, headcount, IPO and operating status, unicorn lists, growth score, top-ranked only, excluded industries and locations.
• 🗂️ Four kinds of row in one Actor: companies, investors, funding rounds and people, with the filters of each kind.
• 📚 Whole searches, best-ranked first: every result of a search, page after page, not just the first page.
• 🔎 Look up the companies you already have: type names, domains or Crunchbase URLs; each is matched to its Crunchbase page.
• 🧾 Pay only for what you ask for: the full profile, the key contacts and the e-mails of the company website are options, off by default.
• 🔔 Monitoring built in: tick Only new results, schedule the Actor, and each run returns (and charges) only what it has never delivered before.
• 🔌 API, scheduling, integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets…) and JSON/CSV/Excel export via the Apify platform.

🚀 How to scrape Crunchbase

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Crunchbase Scraper, choose What to search (companies, investors, funding rounds or people) and set the filters you need (e.g. industry FinTech, location Germany).
3. Or type the Companies you want (names, domains, Crunchbase URLs), or paste Crunchbase pages into Crunchbase URLs.
4. Set Max results (100 by default, 0 = no limit), tick Company profile if you want the full profiles, then click Start.
5. Download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Crunchbase?

This Actor uses pay per event pricing: you pay for the results saved, for the options you tick and for the run start. The amounts are shown in the Pricing tab.

What you pay for	Event
Each result saved: a company, investor, funding round or person, found by a search, a name or a URL	result
Each result saved with its company or investor profile, only with Company profile	company-details
Each result saved with its person profile, only with Company profile (People mode, an angel investor, a person URL)	person-details
Each result saved with at least one key contact, only with Key contacts	key-contacts
Each result saved whose company website gave an e-mail address its profile did not, only with Find e-mails on the company website	email-enriched
Each result saved whose company website gave a phone number its profile did not, same option	phone-enriched
A profile opened only to check Only results that have (e-mail, phone, LinkedIn) when the result is then dropped: not saved, not charged as a result	detail-filter-check
Run start (once per GB of the run's memory: 2 GB by default)	apify-actor-start

Company profile, Key contacts and Find e-mails on the company website are off by default: nothing is charged for them unless you tick them. A result left out by a filter Crunchbase applies (industry, location, headcount, funding, rank…), dropped by Exclude keywords or skipped by Only new results costs nothing. A company website read and then dropped by Only results that have is not charged, and an e-mail or phone number the profile already gave is never charged twice. Platform usage (compute, proxy) is included in the price.

⚙️ Input

Companies of one industry and country:

{
    "mode": "companies",
    "categories": ["Artificial Intelligence (AI)"],
    "location": "France",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Recently funded startups, with their full profile and a contact e-mail:

{
    "mode": "companies",
    "location": "Germany",
    "lastFundingTypes": ["seed", "series_a"],
    "fundedAfter": "3 months",
    "employeeRanges": ["11-50", "51-100"],
    "extractDetails": true,
    "requireFields": ["email"],
    "maxItems": 200
}

The new Series A rounds of at least $10M, at each scheduled run:

{
    "mode": "fundingRounds",
    "roundTypes": ["series_a"],
    "announcedAfter": "7 days",
    "minRoundAmountUsd": 10000000,
    "onlyNew": true,
    "stateKey": "series-a-weekly"
}

Or the companies you already have, by name, domain or Crunchbase URL:

{
    "companies": ["Mistral AI", "openai.com"],
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic" }],
    "extractDetails": true,
    "includeKeyContacts": true
}

Field	Notes
mode	What to search: companies (default), investors, fundingRounds or people. A filter that does not apply to the chosen kind is ignored and named in the log.
startUrls	Crunchbase company, investor or person pages, one row each (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mistral-ai). Max 1,000 URLs. When it is filled, the search fields are ignored.
companies	Names (Mistral AI), websites or domains (mistral.ai), Crunchbase slugs (mistral-ai) or URLs, one per line, each matched to its best Crunchbase match (searchTerm shows what you typed; a website shows as its domain). In Companies and Investors modes these companies are read instead of a search (the search fields are ignored); in People mode they are ignored and the people search runs without them; in Funding rounds mode they filter the search: the rounds of these companies. Max 1,000.
query, searchQueries	Words of the short description (drone, payments); searchQueries adds more keywords, one search each.
nameContains	Results whose name contains this text (labs).
location, locations	Headquarters country, region or city as named on Crunchbase (France, California, Berlin). Every keyword is searched in every location (max 500 searches per run). Empty = worldwide.
excludeLocations	Drop the results headquartered there (China); results with no known location are dropped too.
categories, excludeCategories	Crunchbase industries (Artificial Intelligence (AI), FinTech, Biotechnology): a result matches one of them at least; excludeCategories drops the results in any of them. Companies and investors.
industryGroups	Broader industry groups (Financial Services, Health Care, Software). Companies and investors.
maxItems, maxItemsPerQuery	Results to save for the whole run (0 = no limit), and for each search (keyword × location) so that the first search cannot use up the whole budget.
extractDetails	Company profile: open each company or investor profile for the contact e-mail and phone, social links, long description, team, rounds and investors, acquisitions, tech stack, web visits… In People mode: each person's profile (jobs, education, board roles). Charged per profile, off by default.
includeKeyContacts	With extractDetails: the contacts Crunchbase lists for the company (name, LinkedIn, job level, department). Paid option, off by default.
enrichEmails	Visit each company's own website (home page, then up to 2 contact, legal or about pages) for its e-mails, phone numbers and social links. Works without extractDetails (an investor search needs it: its results carry no website). Paid option, off by default.
employeeRanges	Headcount ranges: 1-10, 11-50, 51-100 … 10001+.
lastFundingTypes, roundTypes	Type of the latest round (companies) or of the rounds returned (funding rounds): pre_seed, seed, series_a, series_b…
fundedAfter, fundedBefore	Date of the latest round: 2026-09-01, or a period before now (30 days, 3 months). The date itself stays hidden by Crunchbase without a paid account.
foundedAfter, foundedBefore	Founding date: 2023-01-01, or 2 years.
fundingStages	seed, early_stage_venture, late_stage_venture, private_equity, m_and_a, ipo.
ipoStatuses	private, public or delisted.
hubTags	Unicorn lists: unicorn, emerging_unicorn, exited_unicorn.
operatingStatuses	active or closed.
companyTypes	for_profit or non_profit.
maxRank	Keeps only results whose overall Crunchbase rank is ≤ N (not the N best of your search): 1000 with location France = the French companies in the global top 1,000 (0 = any). All 4 modes.
minFundingTotalUsd, maxFundingTotalUsd	Total raised, in US dollars (10000000 = $10M). Applied by Crunchbase, although the amount itself stays hidden without a paid account.
minFundingRounds, minGrowthScore	At least this many funding rounds (3); growth score at least this value, from 0 to 100.
announcedAfter, announcedBefore	Funding rounds announced in this range: 2026-09-01, or 7 days, 1 month.
minRoundAmountUsd, maxRoundAmountUsd	Round amount in US dollars (50000000 = $50M), applied by Crunchbase while the amount stays hidden.
investors	Only the rounds these investors took part in: names (Sequoia Capital) or Crunchbase URLs. Max 100.
investorTypes	venture_capital, angel, accelerator, corporate_venture_capital…
investorStages	seed, early_stage_venture, late_stage_venture, private_equity, debt.
minInvestments, minExits	Investors with at least this many investments (50), or exits.
jobTitle	People whose main job title contains this text (CEO, Founder, CTO).
excludeKeywords	Drop the results whose name or short description contains one of these words (crypto), case and accents ignored.
requireFields	Keep only the results that have all of: website, email, phone, linkedin. LinkedIn needs extractDetails; e-mail and phone need extractDetails or enrichEmails. In an investor search, all four need extractDetails (its results carry no website).
onlyNew, stateKey, resetState	Monitoring: only the results never delivered under this memory key (fr-seed-rounds); resetState forgets the memory.
Advanced	proxyConfiguration (Apify Proxy by default, included in the price; the Apify residential group is refused), maxConcurrency, maxRequestsPerMinute, minRequestIntervalMs, maxRequestRetries, debugLog.

📦 Output

One company with Company profile on, shortened (lists cut to their first entries, most columns left out):

{
    "id": "00e32424-3cc3-4798-8361-78914c212fb0",
    "type": "company",
    "slug": "mistral-ai",
    "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mistral-ai",
    "name": "Mistral AI",
    "shortDescription": "Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers.",
    "rank": 2,
    "rankOrg": 2,
    "website": "https://mistral.ai",
    "domain": "mistral.ai",
    "categories": ["Agentic AI", "Artificial Intelligence (AI)", "Foundational AI", "Generative AI"],
    "city": "Paris",
    "region": "Ile-de-France",
    "country": "France",
    "continent": "Europe",
    "employeeRange": "1001-5000",
    "lastFundingType": "series_d",
    "fundingStage": "late_stage_venture",
    "ipoStatus": "private",
    "founders": [{ "name": "Arthur Mensch", "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/arthur-mensch" }],
    "numContacts": 17,
    "legalName": "Mistral AI SAS",
    "operatingStatus": "active",
    "companyType": "for_profit",
    "hubTags": ["unicorn"],
    "contactEmail": "press@mistral.ai",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mistralai",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/aimistral",
    "numFundingRounds": 10,
    "numInvestors": 56,
    "fundingRounds": [
        {
            "name": "Series D - Mistral AI",
            "type": "series_d",
            "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/mistral-ai-series-d--c0e31665",
            "numInvestors": 24,
            "leadInvestors": [{ "name": "EQT", "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eqt-holdings" }]
        }
    ],
    "people": [
        {
            "name": "Arthur Mensch",
            "title": "Co-Founder and CEO",
            "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/arthur-mensch",
            "startedOn": "2023-05"
        }
    ],
    "monthlyVisits": 8778920,
    "itSpendUsd": 46694609,
    "heatScore": 97,
    "growthScore": 92,
    "categoryRanks": [{ "category": "Foundational AI", "rank": 1, "count": 368 }],
    "numTechnologies": 51,
    "searchQuery": "AI · France",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T12:00:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel.

All 114 fields

Fields	What you get
id, type, slug, url, name	Crunchbase id, company / investor / fundingRound / person, mistral-ai, Crunchbase page, Mistral AI
shortDescription, description, logoUrl	one-line description, long description (profile), logo image
rank, rankOrg, rankDelta90, categoryRanks	rank within its kind and among all organizations (2), its change over 90 days, rank inside each industry (Foundational AI: 1 of 368)
website, domain	https://mistral.ai, mistral.ai
categories, categoryGroups, hubTags, featuredLists	industries, industry groups, tags such as unicorn, a few Crunchbase lists it appears in, picked by the site at each visit (title, link, number of companies)
city, region, country, continent, locationGroups, offices	Paris, Ile-de-France, France, Europe, wider areas (European Union (EU)), office openings (date, description, link)
employeeRange, numEmployeeProfiles	1001-5000, employee profiles on Crunchbase
lastFundingType, fundingStage, ipoStatus, stockSymbol, stockExchange	series_d, late_stage_venture, private, ticker and exchange of a listed company
numFundingRounds, numInvestors, numLeadInvestors, fundingRounds, investors	counts; each round (name, type, link, number of investors, lead investors); each investor with the round it joined and whether it led
founders, people, advisors	name, Crunchbase page and, for the team and the advisors, title and start date (2023-05; dates keep the site's precision, 2011 when only the year is known)
legalName, operatingStatus, companyType, aliases	Mistral AI SAS, active, for_profit, other names
contactEmail, phone, linkedin, twitter, facebook	public contact e-mail and phone of the company, its social pages
numContacts, numContactEmails, numContactPhones, keyContacts	how many contacts, e-mails and phones Crunchbase lists; with Key contacts: name, LinkedIn, job levels, departments, number of e-mails on file
acquisitions, numAcquisitions, acquiredBy, subOrganizations, numSubOrganizations, similarCompanies	companies it acquired, its acquirer, its subsidiaries, companies Crunchbase shows as similar
investments, numInvestments, numLeadInvestments, numPortfolioOrganizations, exits, funds, numFunds	investors: companies invested in (with the round), lead investments, portfolio size, exits, funds raised
technologies, numTechnologies, softwareProducts, monthlyVisits, monthlyVisitsGrowth, itSpendUsd, appDownloads, numMobileApps	technologies of the website and their count, software used, visits last month (8778920) and their monthly change, yearly IT spend, mobile apps
patentsGranted, popularPatentCategory, trademarksRegistered	granted patents, most frequent patent class, registered trademarks
heatScore, heatScoreDelta90, heatScoreHistory, growthScore, growthScoreDelta90, growthScoreHistory, predictions, bomboraTopics	Crunchbase heat and growth scores (0-100), their change over 90 days and recent values, Crunchbase's predictions, topics of rising interest
numArticles, news, keyEmployeeChanges, layoffs, productLaunches, partnerships, legalProceedings, awards, eventAppearances, numEventAppearances, diversitySpotlights	news count and latest news (date, title, publisher, link), dated events of each kind with their link, diversity spotlights
roundType, fundedCompany, leadInvestors	funding round rows: series_a…, the company that raised, the lead investors
jobTitle, organization, currentJobs, pastJobs, education, boardRoles, numFoundedOrganizations, numPartnerInvestments	person rows: main title and organization; with the profile, jobs and schools with their dates (2023-05, 2011), board and advisory roles, companies founded, investments as a partner
emails, emailSource, websitePhones, phoneSource, websiteSocialLinks	with Find e-mails on the company website: e-mails, phone numbers and social links of the company's own website, and the page they came from
searchTerm, searchQuery, scrapedAt	what you typed in Companies, the search that found the result (AI · France), ISO timestamp

Crunchbase sends the first 10 entries of each list on a profile (fundingRounds, investors, investments, technologies, news, people…): the matching count gives the total (numInvestors: 56 for 10 investors listed). On people and angel investors found by a search, Crunchbase cuts shortDescription at 140 characters (it ends with ...); description holds the full text with Company profile.

💡 Tips

Find the companies that just raised

Search companies with fundedAfter set to 30 days (and lastFundingTypes if you only want seed or Series A), or switch to Funding rounds mode with announcedAfter and roundTypes. Add Only new results and a daily schedule: each run returns only what it has never delivered before.

How to get more results

Set maxItems to 0 and widen the filters. A search is read to its end, best-ranked first; maxRank keeps only results whose overall Crunchbase rank is ≤ N (not the N best of your search).

How to reduce costs

Every row costs one result: the levers are maxItems, maxItemsPerQuery, the filters (a result left out by a filter Crunchbase applies costs nothing) and onlyNew for recurring runs. Tick Company profile, Key contacts and Find e-mails on the company website only when you need what they add. requireFields with website is free for companies: it reads the search result (investors: their profile).

Several searches in one run

Fill searchQueries and / or locations: the Actor runs one search per keyword × location (3 keywords × 4 locations = 12 searches, up to 500 per run). The single query and location fields still work and are added to the lists. A result found by several searches is saved — and charged — once. Set maxItemsPerQuery to give every search its own cap: without it the first searches can use up the whole maxItems budget.

Monitoring: only the new results

Tick Only new results (onlyNew) and schedule the Actor. The first run returns everything; each later run skips the results already delivered: they are not saved, not charged, and their profile is not even opened. The memory lives in a named key-value store of your account (crunchbase-companies-scraper-seen, up to 150,000 results per key) and is only updated with results that really reached the dataset, so a failed run never hides anything. Give each schedule its own stateKey (two schedules sharing a key would hide each other's results), and tick resetState once to start over.

Names Crunchbase does not know

Locations, industries, investors and companies are matched to their Crunchbase names before the search starts, and the log says when a name was read as its closest match. A name with no match is skipped with a warning, and a location with no match skips its own searches. When no name of a filter has a match, an exclusion included, no search is run at all (the filter is never dropped, which would widen the search or bring back the results you excluded): the run returns nothing and charges nothing but the run start.

🔌 Integrations and API

Call the Actor via the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python clients, or connect it with integrations and webhooks (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, HubSpot…). The dataset can be fetched as JSON or CSV from any tool.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…) can find and run this Actor through the Apify MCP server, billed to their Apify account like any run. It returns one item per Crunchbase company, investor, funding round or person. Actor id: nice_dev/crunchbase-companies-scraper; MCP server with this Actor only: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nice_dev/crunchbase-companies-scraper.

Smallest input, for a cheap first call:

{
    "query": "drone",
    "maxItems": 10
}

Key output fields: name, url, website, country, employeeRange, lastFundingType, rank, and contactEmail (with extractDetails).

Cost: one result event per row, plus the options ticked; the amounts are in the Pricing tab. Cap each call with maxItems and, through the API, with the run option maxTotalChargeUsd.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Crunchbase?

The Actor only reads what Crunchbase shows publicly to any anonymous visitor. It logs in to nothing and needs no Crunchbase account. Results can contain personal data (names, job titles and LinkedIn pages of founders, team members and key contacts), which is protected by GDPR: do not store it without a legitimate reason. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Crunchbase's Terms of Use and applicable law. This Actor is not affiliated with Crunchbase.

Where do the e-mail addresses come from? With Find e-mails on the company website on, the Actor reads the pages each company publishes on its own website (home page, contact page, legal notice) and returns the business contact addresses shown there — what any visitor sees. On those websites it does not log in, guess addresses or fill in contact forms. Some of these addresses are personal data under GDPR (e.g. firstname.lastname@company.com): you are responsible for having a lawful basis before using them, for informing the people concerned and for honouring opt-outs. Rules for B2B e-mail prospecting differ by country (opt-out in some, prior consent in others).

And the phone numbers? The Actor also returns the phone numbers the company publishes on those same pages. It never guesses a number, never dials and sends no message. A number can be personal data (a founder's mobile): the same responsibilities apply, and rules on phone prospecting (opt-out registers, prior consent in some countries) differ by country.

Does it need a login or a proxy?

No login, no cookie. The proxy is included in the price: leave the default setting (the Apify residential group is refused, it would bill you a second time). A request the site turns away is tried up to 4 times at once — a new check, then a new browser on a new IP address — before it uses up one of the retries (without a proxy, on the same IP address, the next retry comes after a pause of 5 seconds, doubled at each retry up to 150 seconds).

Why are funding amounts and dates missing?

Crunchbase hides the amounts (total raised, round amounts, valuations) and most dates (round dates, founding date) from visitors without a paid account, so the Actor never returns them — it never guesses them either. The filters on them still work: minFundingTotalUsd, minRoundAmountUsd, fundedAfter, announcedAfter and foundedAfter are applied by Crunchbase itself. Rounds still come with their type and their lead investors.

Is the data safe to open in Excel or to show on a web page?

Descriptions, news titles and job titles are copied as Crunchbase shows them. A text can begin with -, +, = or @: Excel and Google Sheets may read such a cell of a CSV file as a formula or as a number. The Actor leaves the text as it is, so that the JSON and the API give the real value: when you open a CSV, import these columns as text. On a web page, escape every field like any text written by a stranger.

Known limitations

• Search results always come best-ranked first: no other order is offered.
• In Funding rounds mode no profile is opened: a round row holds its type, the company that raised and the lead investors.
• Without a Crunchbase account the key contacts come without their e-mail address or phone number: keyContacts gives the name, LinkedIn, job level and department.
• onlyNew remembers result ids, not their content: a company whose profile changed is not returned again.
• Two runs sharing the same stateKey at the same time may both return the same new result.

A run that reaches its timeout stops itself about 45 seconds before it: no new page is asked, what it read is saved and, with onlyNew, remembered, and the run ends Succeeded with "Stopped before the run's timeout". Resurrect it to go on from there, or give the next run a longer timeout (Run options).

A run the platform stops without warning (out of memory)

• Resurrect it: it goes on from where it stood at most a minute before the stop. What it had read since is read again, and the results already saved are skipped: none is delivered or charged twice, and maxItems still counts them.
• With onlyNew, the results it had saved join the memory when you resurrect it; leave it stopped for good, and the next run may return its last few results once more.

Something doesn't work?

The summary line at the end of the log (Done — …) counts the results saved; the line after it counts the requests that failed after every retry or, when none failed, the profiles no longer on Crunchbase. Those requests and the missing profiles are listed, with the reason, in the FAILED_REQUESTS record of the run's key-value store. A run that saved nothing and had failed requests fails, and its last message gives the cause.

If Crunchbase changes its pages, you are told instead of paying for blank rows. If the first 20 results read all lack their name, their rank, a company's short description or — with Company profile — its operating status, the run saves nothing more, stops and fails, and its last message names the missing field: at most those first results are charged. What a small company may lack (its website and country, and with Company profile its LinkedIn page and long description) is checked the same way on the first 100 results read — a result Only results that have left out for lacking it counts too. A run of fewer results (a scheduled onlyNew run that finds a few new ones, a small Max results) is checked at its end, from 3 results: its results are already saved, and the run fails with the missing field instead of ending green.

🛟 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab with a link to your run: the run log and the FAILED_REQUESTS record of the key-value store show exactly which URLs failed and why.