Crunchbase API & Search: Find Investors, VC List, Startup Data

Get Crunchbase company data as clean JSON: funding total, every funding round, investors (lead investors first), acquisitions, founders and key people, employee range, headquarters, website, LinkedIn / X / Facebook links, industries, CB rank, web traffic and news.

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• No Crunchbase account, no login, no cookies, no API key. A Crunchbase API alternative that you pay per company.
• Crunchbase search by filters: find investors and companies by keywords, industry and location: a VC list of Paris investors, fintech startups in Berlin, seed funds in London. A startup database you query by filters.
• Or bring your own list: paste Crunchbase organization URLs, or just type company names or domains (stripe.com, Mistral AI).
• Pay only for results delivered. Pages not found, results dropped by your filters and searches with no result are free.
• Search: $6.50 per 1,000 results, plus $7.90 per 1,000 if you enrich them with the full record. URLs / names: $7.90 per 1,000 companies. Founders & key people: optional, +$2 per 1,000.
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or call it from your code, Zapier, Make, n8n or an AI agent.

What you can do with it

• Find investors: build a VC list by city or sector ("venture capital" in Paris, "seed fund" in Berlin), with number of investments and HQ.
• VC and startup research: funding history, round sizes, lead investors and co-investors for any startup.
• Lead generation: recently funded companies, their website, socials and founders.
• Market maps and competitor analysis: industries, headcount ranges, HQ location, similar companies.
• CRM enrichment: turn a list of domains into Crunchbase profiles with funding data.

Input

1. Scrape Crunchbase URLs

{
  "mode": "urls",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apify"
  ],
  "includeKeyPeople": true
}

Sub-pages (/company_financials, /people…) are mapped to the company. Duplicates are removed automatically.

2. Find companies & investors (Crunchbase search by keywords, industry, location)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": "venture capital",
  "location": "Paris",
  "entityType": "investor",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "country": "fr",
  "enrich": true,
  "hqCountry": "France"
}

• Searches Crunchbase organization pages matching your keywords, industry and location (through Google, so no Crunchbase account is needed). Results that do not mention your keywords / industry are dropped for free.
• entityType: investor keeps VC firms, funds, angel groups and other investors; company or any keeps everything.
• Without enrich: name, Crunchbase URL and Google snippet of each organization, $6.50 / 1,000.
• With enrich: the full Crunchbase record of each result (funding, rounds, investors, HQ, website, socials, number of investments), +$7.90 / 1,000. Then hqCountry, minFundingUsd and maxFundingUsd filter on that record; dropped results are not charged.
• country / language: the Google locale (fr for Paris, de for Berlin) gives more local results.
• A search with no result returns one free no-results row explaining why.

3. Look up by company name or domain (no URL needed)

{
  "mode": "names",
  "searchQueries": ["openai.com", "Mistral AI", "stripe.com"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 1
}

• A domain is looked up by its name and the company whose website matches the domain is returned first (domainMatch: true).
• maxResultsPerQuery: 1 = best match only, up to 20.

Field	Type	Description
mode	urls / search / names	Scrape URLs, search by filters, or look up by name / domain.
urls	array	Crunchbase organization URLs.
keywords, industry, location	string	Search filters (at least one).
entityType	any / company / investor	Search: kind of organization.
maxResults	integer	Search: organizations returned (1 to 100, default 20).
enrich	boolean	Search: add the full Crunchbase record (billed as company).
hqCountry, minFundingUsd, maxFundingUsd	string / integer	Search with enrich: filters on the record.
country, language	string	Search: Google locale (default us / en).
searchQueries	array	Company names or domains, one per line.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	Companies returned per search (1 to 20, default 1).
includeKeyPeople	boolean	Adds founders, keyPeople and advisors (paid option).

Output

One row per company. Example (shortened):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "name": "CleanCapital",
  "legalName": "CleanCapital Holdings LLC",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cleancapital",
  "website": "http://www.cleancapital.com",
  "domain": "cleancapital.com",
  "description": "CleanCapital accelerates clean energy with an online marketplace…",
  "industries": ["Energy", "FinTech", "Renewable Energy"],
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "foundedDate": "2015-01-01",
  "employees": "101-250",
  "cbRank": 2218,
  "location": { "city": "New York", "region": "New York", "country": "United States", "continent": "North America", "countryCode": "US" },
  "socials": { "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleancapital", "twitter": "https://www.twitter.com/cleancapital", "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/cleancapitalco" },
  "funding": { "totalUsd": 1063700000, "numRounds": 7, "lastRoundDate": "2023-06-07", "lastRoundType": "private_equity", "numInvestors": 11 },
  "fundingRounds": [
    { "date": "2023-06-07", "type": "Private Equity Round", "moneyRaisedUsd": 500000000, "leadInvestors": ["Manulife Investment Management"] }
  ],
  "investors": [
    { "name": "Manulife Investment Management", "type": "organization", "lead": true, "rounds": ["Private Equity Round - CleanCapital", "Corporate Round - CleanCapital"] }
  ],
  "acquisitions": [{ "company": "BQ Energy", "date": "2022-06-29" }],
  "acquiredBy": null,
  "founders": [{ "name": "Jon Powers", "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jon-powers" }],
  "keyPeople": [{ "name": "Thomas Byrne", "title": "Co-founder", "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/person/thomas-byrne-4" }],
  "monthlyVisits": 4800,
  "similarCompanies": [{ "name": "d.light", "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/d-light-design" }],
  "news": [{ "date": "2024-02-15", "title": "CleanCapital and Available Power form joint venture…", "publisher": "Renewable Energy Magazine" }],
  "scrapedAt": "2024-07-22 00:00:00.000"
}

Other fields: uuid, logo, fullDescription, companyType, ipoStatus, stockSymbol, ipo, numAcquisitions, numInvestments, numExits, investorType, investmentStage (for investors), numContacts, monthlyVisitsGrowth, techCount, numNews, inputUrl, searchQuery, domainMatch, fromCache.

founders, keyPeople and advisors are only present with Include founders & key people.

Rows with "status": "not-found" (page removed, renamed, or a search with no result) are free and say so ("charged": false).

Contact emails and phones: Crunchbase hides them from logged-out visitors, so contactEmail / contactPhone are usually null. A masked value is never returned.

Pricing

Store discounts: on Apify Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond plans, some events cost up to 20 % less. The Pricing tab of the Store page shows the exact price for each plan.

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	Price	When
search-result	$0.0065 ($6.50 / 1,000)	Each organization found by the keyword / industry / location search.
company	$0.0079 ($7.90 / 1,000)	Each company delivered with its full record (URL, name lookup, or a search result with enrich).
key-people	$0.002 ($2 / 1,000)	Only with "Include founders & key people", and only when the company has at least one person listed.

• Not found, invalid input, failed pages, search results dropped by your filters, empty searches: free.
• Example: 1,000 Paris investors with full records = $6.50 + $7.90 = $14.40.
• Your Maximum cost per run is respected before any scraping: the actor never scrapes more companies than it can bill.
• Results may be served from a 30-day cache when another run scraped the same company recently. They are billed at the same price, and delivered faster.

Free Apify plan

Works with a free Apify account too. Free-plan accounts can use every feature at the same per-result prices, paid from their monthly Apify credit. Limit: free accounts share a daily capacity; once it is used up, the remaining inputs are skipped with one free-plan-limit row (not charged). Retry the next day, or switch to a paid Apify plan to run without this limit.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pnda~crunchbase-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"search","keywords":"venture capital","location":"Paris","entityType":"investor","maxResults":20}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("pnda/crunchbase-scraper").call(run_input={"urls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"]})
for company in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(company["name"], company["funding"]["totalUsd"])

FAQ

Do I need a Crunchbase account or API key? No. The actor reads public Crunchbase pages; no login, no cookies, nothing to configure.

Is this a Crunchbase API alternative? Yes: send search filters, URLs, names or domains, get structured JSON. The official Crunchbase API needs an enterprise plan; here you pay per company.

How fresh is the data? Pages are scraped on demand. A company scraped by any run in the last 30 days may be served from the cache (fromCache: true, scrapedAt shows the date).

Why is a field empty? Crunchbase only shows part of its data publicly (for example, emails and phones are hidden, and small companies have no funding data). Empty fields are null or [], never invented.

Can I find investors (VC firms) in a city? Yes: search mode with entityType: "investor", keywords such as "venture capital" or "seed fund" and a location. With enrich, rows include numInvestments, investorType and investmentStage when Crunchbase shows them. You can also paste investor URLs.

Is this a Crunchbase search export? It works like a Crunchbase search without an account: keywords, industry and location in, a list of organizations out, optionally with full records. It finds the organizations Google has indexed, so a very narrow search may return fewer results than Crunchbase Pro.

Is it legal? The actor only collects publicly available company data. You are responsible for how you use it, in particular for personal data (founders, team) under the privacy laws that apply to you.

A run says "You were not charged". Invalid input, a page not found, or a temporary outage of the scraping service: nothing is billed, and the run explains why in its dataset and status message.

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