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Crunchbase Scraper - Funding Rounds, Companies & Investors

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Crunchbase Scraper — Funding Rounds, Companies & Investors

Scrape Crunchbase funding rounds, company profiles, and investors without a Crunchbase Pro subscription. Three output modes, one actor.

Target site: crunchbase.com

What It Does

The actor connects to Crunchbase's internal search API to extract structured data across three entity types. You pick the mode, set filters, and get a dataset back.

Three modes:

Mode Row type Use case
rounds One row per funding round Deal sourcing, VC pipeline tracking
companies One row per company Market research, sales prospecting
investors One row per investor Finding co-investors, mapping the VC landscape

Bypasses Cloudflare managed challenge via residential proxy. No browser automation — direct API calls once the session is established.

Input

Field Type Required Description
mode string No rounds, companies, or investors. Default: rounds
companySlugs array No Crunchbase slugs for direct company lookup (e.g. openai, anthropic). Companies mode only.
investorSlugs array No Crunchbase slugs for direct investor lookup (e.g. sequoia-capital). Investors mode only.
categories array No Category slugs to filter by (e.g. artificial-intelligence, fintech). Rounds and companies mode.
locations array No Location names to filter by (e.g. United States, Europe). Companies mode.
roundTypes array No Round types to filter (e.g. seed, series_a, series_b). Rounds mode only.
announcedAfter string No Filter rounds announced on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Rounds mode only.
minAmountUsd integer No Minimum round size in USD. Set 0 for no minimum. Rounds mode only.
crunchbaseCookies string No Your Crunchbase Pro session cookies. Unlocks pre/post-money valuations and full investor data.
maxItems integer No Maximum records to return. Default: 10.
proxyConfiguration object No Proxy settings. Residential proxy recommended.

Example — Rounds

{
  "mode": "rounds",
  "categories": ["artificial-intelligence"],
  "announcedAfter": "2025-01-01",
  "roundTypes": ["series_a", "series_b"],
  "minAmountUsd": 5000000,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example — Company Slugs

{
  "mode": "companies",
  "companySlugs": ["openai", "anthropic", "mistral-ai"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example — Investors

{
  "mode": "investors",
  "investorSlugs": ["sequoia-capital", "andreessen-horowitz", "khosla-ventures"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output

All three modes produce flat records. Fields not applicable to the current mode are null.

Rounds Mode Fields

Field Description
mode rounds
record_id Crunchbase UUID for this round
permalink Round slug (e.g. openai-series-a--abc123)
crunchbase_url Full URL to the round page
company_name Funded company name
company_slug Company's Crunchbase permalink
company_url Full URL to the company page
round_id Same as record_id
round_type Round type (e.g. seed, series_a)
announced_date Announcement date — requires Pro cookies
amount_raised_usd Amount raised — requires Pro cookies
lead_investors Comma-separated lead investor names
all_investors Comma-separated all investor names
investor_count Number of investors — requires Pro cookies
pre_money_valuation_usd Pre-money valuation — requires Pro cookies
post_money_valuation_usd Post-money valuation — requires Pro cookies

Companies Mode Fields

Field Description
company_name Company name
company_slug Crunchbase permalink
company_url Crunchbase profile URL
website Company website
description Short description
founded_year Year founded
headquarters_city City
headquarters_country Country
employees_range Employee count range (e.g. 11-50)
categories Comma-separated category names
total_raised_usd Total funding raised
last_round_type Most recent round type
last_round_date Most recent round date
last_round_amount_usd Most recent round size
founders Comma-separated founder names
cb_rank Crunchbase rank (lower = more prominent)

Investors Mode Fields

Field Description
investor_name Investor or fund name
investor_type Type (e.g. venture_capital, angel)
investments_count Total investments made
portfolio_exits_count Number of exits (IPO or acquisition)
headquarters_city City
headquarters_country Country

Pro Cookies (Optional)

Without Pro cookies, the actor returns entity identifiers, round types, and investor names. Dates and amounts are typically gated behind a Crunchbase account.

To provide Pro cookies, log into Crunchbase in your browser, open DevTools → Application → Cookies → copy all cookies for crunchbase.com into the crunchbaseCookies field as name=value; name2=value2 pairs.

With Pro cookies, the following fields unlock: announced_date, amount_raised_usd, investor_count, pre_money_valuation_usd, post_money_valuation_usd.

Technical Notes

  • Cloudflare bypass via CapSolver AntiCloudflareTask + DataImpulse residential proxy
  • Dynamic field probing at runtime — automatically excludes Pro-gated fields to avoid errors
  • Server-side category filtering via funded_organization_categories predicate
  • Free-tier API page size limit: 15 records per request (actor handles pagination automatically)
  • Memory: 2 GB recommended

Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing:

  • $0.10 per run start
  • $0.01 per record scraped

Legal

Crunchbase's public search API is used. Respect Crunchbase's Terms of Service. This actor is intended for research and market intelligence use cases. Do not use it to build competing products or resell Crunchbase data.

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