🏢 Crunchbase Scraper

🚀 Pull company and person profiles from Crunchbase in minutes. 100+ fields per profile. Funding, investors, founders, products, acquisitions. No login.

Pull structured records from Crunchbase — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/crunchbase-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/crunchbase-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: startUrls (array, default [{"url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"}, ), maxItems (integer, default 10), searchQuery (string), searchType (string, default "organizations"). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~crunchbase-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

Pull live company and person profiles from Crunchbase, the canonical record of startup, VC, and tech-company data. The actor accepts Crunchbase URLs (companies or people) or a keyword search, walks the result pages, and returns one structured record per profile ready for VC research, sales prospecting, M&A intelligence, or founder-discovery workflows.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of Crunchbase at run time. Records include the company name, logo, founders, employees, funding rounds, total funding raised, investors, location, founding year, products, acquisitions, IPO status, web traffic estimates, patents, and a back-reference URL.

👥 Built for	🎯 Primary use cases
Venture capital	Track new companies and funding rounds
Sales and BD teams	Build startup prospect lists with funding context
M&A advisors	Source target candidates by stage and sector
Researchers	Study startup ecosystem dynamics
BD and partnerships	Map ecosystem players for partner programs
Recruiters	Identify well-funded hiring companies

📋 What the Crunchbase Scraper does

• 🏢 Company or person mode. Scrape company profiles (organizations) or person profiles.
• 🔗 Direct URL. Pass a list of Crunchbase URLs.
• 🔍 Keyword search. Search by name, sector, or keyword (mutually exclusive with URLs).
• 💰 Funding history. Total funding, last round, last round amount, lead investors.
• 👥 Team data. Founders, key people, total employees.
• 📊 Operational signals. Web traffic, patents, acquisitions, IPO status.

The scraper walks each Crunchbase profile, extracts 100+ fields, and pushes structured records to the dataset.

💡 Why it matters: Crunchbase is the canonical record of startup data but its API is paywalled and its UI lacks bulk export for free users. A live, structured pull beats manual lookup for VC research, sales prospecting, and M&A intelligence.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: acquisitionPredictionGeneratedOn, acquisitionPredictionScore, acquisitionPredictionTier, acquisitions, advisors, aliases, awards, categories, categoryRanks, cbRank, companyType, contactEmail, crunchbaseUrl, currentEmployees, diversitySpotlightInvestments, diversitySpotlights, employeeCount, exits, founders, fullDescription, fundingPredictionGeneratedOn, fundingPredictionScore, fundingPredictionTier, fundingRounds, funds, growthPredictionGeneratedOn, growthPredictionScore, growthPredictionTier, growthScore, growthScoreDeltaD90, heatScore, heatScoreDeltaD90, hubTags, hubs, investmentThesis, investments, investors, ipoPredictionGeneratedOn, ipoPredictionMediaSentiment, ipoPredictionScore. All 40 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: when startUrls is set, searchQuery is ignored. URL mode is more precise; search mode is broader.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Crunchbase Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set inputs. Either paste Crunchbase URLs or set a search query and search type.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more reference-data scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Crunchbase. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service and applicable law.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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