Crunchbase Scraper

🚀 Collect comprehensive company intelligence from Crunchbase without needing a paid subscription. Simply provide company profile URLs and get structured data ready for analysis in minutes.

Whether you're a venture capitalist screening investment targets, a sales professional building prospect lists, or a researcher mapping startup ecosystems, this tool delivers structured data ready for Excel, Google Drive, or any business intelligence tool. No technical skills required.

📊 What Does Crunchbase Scraper Do?

This tool visits Crunchbase company profiles and extracts all publicly available data, delivering:

• 🏢 Company Fundamentals - Name, logo, description, website, headquarters location, operating status, and employee count range
• 💰 Funding Data - Number of funding rounds, last funding type, and a breakdown of individual rounds with type and investor count
• 👥 Investor Profiles - Complete list of investors and total investor count for identifying backer patterns and relationships
• 🧑‍💼 Founder and Team Details - Founder names, titles, Crunchbase profile links, and profile images, plus featured current employees
• 📈 Operating Status and IPO Info - Whether a company is active, closed, or acquired, and IPO status (private or public)
• 🏆 CB Rank - Crunchbase's proprietary ranking score for quick prioritization
• 🔗 Social Media Profiles - LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other social links in one place
• 📰 Recent News - Latest news articles mentioning the company

Business Value: Make faster investment decisions, build richer prospect lists, and stay ahead of market trends with comprehensive company data at your fingertips.

🔧 Input

Configure the tool with just two simple settings:

• Start URLs - One or more Crunchbase company profile URLs. Browse Crunchbase, find companies you want to research, and copy their profile links
• Max Items - Set a limit on how many companies to process (default: 10). Great for testing before running a large batch

Example Input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai" },
    { "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic" },
    { "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

💡 Pro Tip: Start with 3-5 companies to verify results, then scale up to hundreds in a single run.

📊 Output

After the run completes, you get a clean dataset with all available company data. Download as CSV, Excel, or JSON.

Here's an example of what you get for each company:

{
  "logoUrl": "https://images.crunchbase.com/image/upload/c_pad,h_170,w_170,f_auto,b_white,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/jjykwqqhsscreywea4gb",
  "name": "OpenAI",
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
  "website": "https://www.openai.com",
  "shortDescription": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.",
  "fullDescription": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company...",
  "categories": null,
  "location": ["San Francisco", "California", "United States", "North America"],
  "employeeCount": "c_01001_05000",
  "cbRank": 3,
  "lastFundingType": "corporate_round",
  "numFundingRounds": 12,
  "numInvestors": 50,
  "ipoStatus": "private",
  "permalink": "openai",
  "investors": ["The Walt Disney Company", "MGX", "SoftBank Group", "Thrive Capital", "Sequoia Capital"],
  "founders": [
    {
      "name": "Sam Altman",
      "title": "CEO & Co-Founder",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-altman",
      "imageUrl": "https://images.crunchbase.com/image/upload/c_thumb,h_170,w_170,f_auto,g_face,z_0.7,b_white,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/eifaoe14zqiueje28oo9"
    }
  ],
  "currentEmployees": [
    {
      "name": "Greg Brockman",
      "title": "President, Chairman, & Co-Founder",
      "profileUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/greg-brockman",
      "imageUrl": "https://images.crunchbase.com/image/upload/c_thumb,h_170,w_170,f_auto,g_face,z_0.7,b_white,q_auto:eco,dpr_2/n2dmdip1asycpbhphssy"
    }
  ],
  "fundingRounds": [
    {
      "announcedOn": null,
      "fundingType": "corporate_round",
      "moneyRaisedUsd": null,
      "numInvestors": 1
    }
  ],
  "socialLinks": {
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/OpenAI",
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/openai"
  },
  "news": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-23T22:17:27.012Z"
}

Key fields explained:

Field	What It Means
cbRank	Crunchbase's proprietary ranking. Lower numbers mean higher prominence
employeeCount	Employee range code (e.g., "c_01001_05000" means 1,001-5,000 employees)
lastFundingType	Most recent round type: seed, series_a, corporate_round, etc.
ipoStatus	"private" for startups, "public" for listed companies
permalink	Crunchbase's unique identifier for the company

Download Options: CSV, Excel, or JSON directly from the Apify platform.

⚡ Why Choose the Crunchbase Scraper?

• 🎯 No Crunchbase subscription required - Collect publicly available Crunchbase data without a paid Pro or Enterprise account. Get the same company intelligence at a fraction of the cost
• 📋 Comprehensive data extraction - Captures funding round breakdowns, founder profiles, investor lists, and social media links all in a single pass
• 📦 Bulk processing made easy - Process hundreds of company profiles in a single run. No need to visit each profile manually
• 📊 Analysis-ready output - Data arrives pre-organized in clean JSON, CSV, or Excel format. Load it directly into your CRM or business intelligence tool
• 🛡️ Reliable access - Uses advanced browser automation to ensure consistent data collection from Crunchbase's protected pages
• ⏰ Timestamped records - Every result includes a scrapedAt timestamp so you always know when the data was collected

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Find the Actor - Search for "Crunchbase Scraper" on the Apify platform
3. Prepare Your URLs - Gather the Crunchbase profile URLs for the companies you want to research. Each URL follows the format https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/{company-name}
4. Paste Your URLs - Add them to the "Start URLs" field in the input form
5. Set Your Limit - Enter a number in "Max Items" if you want to cap the results
6. Run the Actor - Click "Start" and wait for the run to complete
7. Download Your Data - Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON from the "Storage" tab

No Technical Skills Required - everything is point-and-click.

🎯 Business Use Cases

Venture Capital and Investment Research

• Screen hundreds of startups quickly by filtering on funding stage and employee growth
• Identify all investors backing companies in a particular sector
• Track which founders have multiple successful companies in their history

Sales Prospecting and Lead Generation

• Build targeted prospect lists of companies at specific funding stages
• Enrich your CRM with company size, location, website, and social links
• Find key decision-makers through the founders and featured employees data

Market Research and Competitive Intelligence

• Map an entire industry vertical by collecting all companies in a category
• Compare company profiles across competitors
• Identify which companies are active vs. closed to focus research efforts

Academic and Journalistic Research

• Build datasets of startup activity by city, country, or industry for research papers
• Trace funding flows between investor groups and portfolio companies

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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