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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

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