# Crunchbase Scraper (`goat255/crunchbase-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Crunchbase company profiles and funding data by company name or organization link, without a login. Returns the company profile (description, website, socials, location, categories, employee and revenue range, funding totals) plus its funding rounds (date, type, amount, investors). Walks.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/goat255/crunchbase-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Goutam Soni](https://apify.com/goat255) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $8.00 / 1,000 company scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Crunchbase Scraper

Extract public Crunchbase company data without a login. Give it company names or organization links and it returns a clean company profile plus the company's funding rounds. Pagination is walked automatically up to the limit you set.

### What it does

- **Company profile** by name or organization link. Description, website, social links, location, categories, founded date, operating status, company type, employee range, revenue range, and headline funding figures.
- **Funding rounds** for each company. Date, round type, amount raised, valuations, lead investors, and all investors, walked across pages up to your limit.

No account, no password, no API key. Give it a company name (Acme Co), an organization URL, or a bare organization slug, and it returns structured rows.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `companies` | array | Company names or Crunchbase organization links to look up. Accepts a name, an organization URL, or a bare slug. |
| `maxFundingRounds` | integer | Cap on funding rounds returned per company. Default 100. |
| `includeFundingRounds` | boolean | Include the funding-rounds list per company. Turn off for profile-only output. |
| `concurrency` | integer | Companies processed in parallel. Default 5. |
| `proxyConfig` | object | Proxy used for requests. Residential is recommended. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "Acme Co",
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-co",
    "example-startup"
  ],
  "maxFundingRounds": 200,
  "includeFundingRounds": true
}
```

### Output

One row per company, with funding rounds nested inside:

```json
{
  "type": "company",
  "name": "Acme Co",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-co",
  "shortDescription": "An example company.",
  "websiteUrl": "https://example.com",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example-co",
  "country": "United States",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "categories": ["Software", "Analytics"],
  "foundedOn": "2015-01-01",
  "operatingStatus": "active",
  "employeeRange": "101-250",
  "fundingTotalUsd": 45000000,
  "fundingStage": "series_b",
  "lastFundingType": "series_b",
  "lastFundingAt": "2024-03-01",
  "numFundingRounds": 4,
  "numInvestors": 12,
  "founders": ["Jane Doe"],
  "fundingRounds": [
    {
      "name": "Series B - Acme Co",
      "announcedOn": "2024-03-01",
      "investmentType": "series_b",
      "moneyRaisedUsd": 30000000,
      "moneyRaisedCurrency": "USD",
      "numInvestors": 5,
      "leadInvestors": ["Acme Ventures"],
      "investors": ["Acme Ventures", "Example Capital"]
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Notes

- Funding figures and counts reflect the values at scrape time.
- `maxFundingRounds` walks as many pages as needed to reach your target.
- A company that cannot be found returns a row with `ok: false` and a `not_found` reason, so a single bad input never fails the run.
- Routing requests through a residential proxy is recommended for reliable access.

To improve our actors we collect anonymized usage telemetry (run stats and input patterns). No personal account data is collected.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Company names or Crunchbase organization links to look up. Accepts a company name (Acme Co), an organization URL (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-co), or a bare organization slug (example-co).

## `maxFundingRounds` (type: `integer`):

Cap on funding rounds returned per company. Pagination is walked across multiple pages until this is reached or the company's rounds are exhausted.

## `includeFundingRounds` (type: `boolean`):

When on, each company row includes its list of funding rounds (date, type, amount, investors). Turn off for profile-only output.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many companies to process in parallel.

## `proxyConfig` (type: `object`):

Proxy used for requests. Residential proxy is recommended for reliable access.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "Acme Co"
  ],
  "maxFundingRounds": 100,
  "includeFundingRounds": true,
  "concurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `companies` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "Acme Co"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("goat255/crunchbase-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": ["Acme Co"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("goat255/crunchbase-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "Acme Co"
  ]
}' |
apify call goat255/crunchbase-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=goat255/crunchbase-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/MhF8KIGI6dtdPffyc/builds/yKecjNaidOjrq2Y84/openapi.json