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🏢 Crunchbase Scraper

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

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-09 · 📊 100+ fields per profile · 🏢 Companies + people · 🚫 No auth required

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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.

📋 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.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing setup, a live run, and how to pipe results into Salesforce or HubSpot via Apify integrations.

⚙️ Input

🛡️ Proxy is required. Crunchbase is protected by Cloudflare, which blocks datacenter IPs with a security challenge that never clears. This Actor routes the browser through Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group by default, which is the only configuration confirmed to pass Cloudflare. Residential proxy usage consumes residential proxy credits. You may override the proxy in the input, but datacenter or no proxy will be blocked by Cloudflare and the run will fail fast with a clear "residential proxy required" message.

Example 1. Direct URL lookup of three companies.

{
"startUrls":[
{"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"},
{"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic"},
{"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe"}
],
"maxItems":3
}

Example 2. Keyword search for AI companies.

{
"searchQuery":"generative AI startup",
"searchType":"organizations",
"maxItems":50
}

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

📊 Output

The dataset returns one structured record per profile. Each record carries identifiers, name, logo, founders, funding, location, products, acquisitions, IPO status, and a back-reference URL. Consume the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS via the Apify console or API.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

1. High-profile company (full record)

{
"cbUrl":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
"name":"OpenAI",
"logoUrl":"https://res.cloudinary.com/abc/openai.jpg",
"description":"OpenAI develops AI products and services for businesses and consumers.",
"website":"https://openai.com",
"founded":"2015",
"headquarters":"San Francisco, California, USA",
"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Machine Learning","Software"],
"employeeCount":"1001-5000",
"totalFundingUsd":13000000000,
"lastRoundType":"Series E",
"lastRoundAmountUsd":6500000000,
"lastRoundDate":"2026-02-01",
"founders":[
{"name":"Sam Altman","role":"CEO"},
{"name":"Greg Brockman","role":"President"}
],
"leadInvestors":["Microsoft","Tiger Global","Sequoia Capital"],
"ipoStatus":"Private",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

2. Mid-stage startup (Seed)

{
"cbUrl":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/acme-ai",
"name":"Acme AI",
"description":"AI agents for B2B back-office workflows.",
"website":"https://acme-ai.com",
"founded":"2024",
"headquarters":"San Francisco, California, USA",
"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","B2B"],
"employeeCount":"11-50",
"totalFundingUsd":8000000,
"lastRoundType":"Seed",
"lastRoundAmountUsd":8000000,
"lastRoundDate":"2026-04-15",
"founders":[
{"name":"Jane Smith","role":"CEO"},
{"name":"John Doe","role":"CTO"}
],
"leadInvestors":["Y Combinator"],
"ipoStatus":"Private",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

3. Person profile (sparse)

{
"cbUrl":"https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-altman",
"name":"Sam Altman",
"description":"CEO at OpenAI",
"currentRole":"CEO at OpenAI",
"previousRoles":["President at Y Combinator"],
"education":["Stanford University (dropped out)"],
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 Production-grade structured startup data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, source-native filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

🚀 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.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

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

🔌 Automating Crunchbase Scraper

This Actor exposes a REST endpoint, so you can drive it from any language or workflow tool.

• Node.js - call it via the Apify JS SDK.
• Python - call it via the Apify Python SDK.
• REST - hit it directly through the Apify v2 API.

Schedules. Use Apify Scheduler to capture daily snapshots of target companies. Combine with the Apify dataset diff tools to track funding round changes between runs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Integrate with any app

Crunchbase Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

🔗 Recommended Actors

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• 📈 PitchBook Companies Scraper - Private company data with investors
• 📋 PitchBook Investors Scraper - Investor profiles and portfolios
• 🏢 Dun & Bradstreet Company Scraper - 500M+ business directory with DUNS
• 📋 SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper - U.S. SEC filings full-text search

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

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue.

⚠️ 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.