How is this different from the official Crunchbase API?

Official Crunchbase API access requires an enterprise data license that typically costs tens of thousands of dollars per year with annual commitments. The Crunchbase Company API is pay-per-request scraping of the public profile page: pass an /organization/ URL with your API Codex key and get the live record as JSON, starting on a free tier.

What funding data comes back for a company?

The record includes total funding raised, the most recent funding type (Seed, Series A-E, etc.), funding round entries with dates and amounts where published, and investor names and counts. Coverage matches what the public profile shows: fields Crunchbase gates behind a Pro login are not included.

How fresh is the data?

Every request triggers a live scrape of the profile at that moment, so a funding round announced this morning shows up as soon as Crunchbase publishes it, with no database refresh lag on our side. That is also why responses take 5-45 seconds instead of milliseconds.

What does an HTTP 202 response mean and how do I handle it?

If a scrape exceeds the synchronous window, the API returns 202 with a snapshot_id instead of making you wait on an open connection. Poll GET /v1/result?snapshot_id=... until it returns 200 with status "ready" and your data; results are typically ready within 1-2 minutes.

Can I use this for lead enrichment at scale?

Yes, that is the main use case. Feed company URLs from your CRM, resolve each to industries, HQ, employee range, funding stage and investor list, and use fields= to keep responses lean. The Mega plan covers 50,000 companies per month with overage beyond that.

Scrape any public company profile as clean JSON

Crunchbase Company API

Name: Crunchbase Company API
Brand: API Codex
SKU: crunchbase-company-api

The Crunchbase Company API turns any public Crunchbase company profile into structured JSON with a single GET request. Description, industries, headquarters, founding year, employee range, website, social links, total funding, funding rounds and investors, scraped live with no enterprise license or proxies on your side.

Official Crunchbase API access is gated behind enterprise licensing that starts in the tens of thousands per year. This Crunchbase scraper API works per request instead: pass a company profile URL with your key and get the live record back. Ideal for deal sourcing, lead enrichment and market maps. Most requests complete synchronously in 5-45 seconds.

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Free tier included, no credit card required. One key works across every API.

Free calls / month: 40
Endpoints: 2
Response Time: 5-45s
Data Freshness: Live

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40 free calls on the free plan

Key features

Any public company profile, no enterprise license required
Live scraping on every request, no stale cached databases
Funding data: total raised, rounds, dates and investors
Firmographics: industries, HQ, founded year, employee range
Website and social links for enrichment pipelines
fields= selection to trim responses to just what you need
Enterprise scraping infrastructure handles blocks on our side

Built for

VC and PE deal sourcing pipelines
B2B lead enrichment with funding signals
Competitive landscape and market mapping
Sales triggers on new funding rounds
Startup research datasets for analysis

MCP · for your agent

Hand the Crunchbase Company API to your agent

Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client once, then ask in plain words. Your agent finds this API, reads its docs and makes the call: 25 credits per call, the same as REST, from your team's balance.

Connect your agent

Qualify an inbound demo request

“A demo request came from [email protected]. Is that a real work address, and how much has Contoso raised?”

list_apis · get_api_docsfree

api_request GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/contoso 25 cr

+ Email Intelligence API5 cr

Email checks plus Contoso's total funding, last round, investor count and headcount range.

Map the competitive landscape

“Make a table of Globex, Initech and our 6 other competitors: founded year, HQ, total funding and LinkedIn headcount.”

list_apis · get_api_docsfree

api_request GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/globex 25 cr

+ Advanced LinkedIn API25 cr

One row per competitor with founding year, HQ, funding raised and current headcount.

Time outreach to a new round

“Has Initech raised a new round since our last call in March? If so, draft a short congratulations follow-up.”

list_apis · get_api_docsfree

api_request GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/initech 25 cr

Their latest round and total funding, with a follow-up draft if the round is new.

$ claude mcp add --transport http apicodex https://mcp.apicodex.io

Illustrative asks; the calls and prices are real. Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf setup: mcp.apicodex.io

Try it

Build the request for your data

Edit the parameters below and see the exact request and curl command you'd send. No key required to preview.

GET /crunchbase/v1/company

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Parameters

url

Request · HTTP

GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic HTTP/1.1
Host: api.apicodex.io
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Response · JSON 200 OK

{
  "type": "company",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic",
  "data": {
    "name": "Anthropic",
    "description": "AI safety and research company",
    "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning"],
    "headquarters": "San Francisco, California",
    "founded": 2021,
    "employees": "1001-5000",
    "website": "https://www.anthropic.com",
    "total_funding_usd": 14300000000,
    "last_funding_type": "Series E",
    "investors_count": 48
  }
}

Run it with your key

Documentation

Crunchbase Company API Documentation

Pass a Crunchbase company profile URL and get a complete, structured JSON record back in a single request. All endpoints are GET, and fields= lets you keep only the top-level fields you need. If a scrape exceeds the sync window you get HTTP 202 with a snapshot_id to resolve via /v1/result.

Base URL

url

https://api.apicodex.io/crunchbase

Authentication

Create a key at apicodex.io/register and send it as an X-Api-Key header (or an ?apikey= query parameter) on every request. No Crunchbase account or license key is ever involved.

headers

GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

Request and response

Illustrative values. Confirm current endpoint behavior, quotas, and data freshness in the API documentation before production use.

request · http

GET /crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic HTTP/1.1
Host: api.apicodex.io
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

response · json

{
  "type": "company",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic",
  "data": {
    "name": "Anthropic",
    "description": "AI safety and research company",
    "industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning"],
    "headquarters": "San Francisco, California",
    "founded": 2021,
    "employees": "1001-5000",
    "website": "https://www.anthropic.com",
    "total_funding_usd": 14300000000,
    "last_funding_type": "Series E",
    "investors_count": 48
  }
}

Code examples

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.apicodex.io/crunchbase/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic' \
  --header 'X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

JavaScript/Node.js

const url = new URL('https://api.apicodex.io/crunchbase/v1/company');
url.searchParams.set('url', 'https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic');

const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
    'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
});
console.log(await res.json());

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.apicodex.io/crunchbase/v1/company"
querystring = {"url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic"}
headers = {
    "X-Api-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
print(requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring).json())

Available Endpoints

GET /v1/company

Scrape a company profile by URL: funding, investors, industries, HQ, employees, socials.

/v1/company?url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anthropic

GET /v1/result

Fetch a pending result using the snapshot_id from a 202 response.

/v1/result?snapshot_id=s_abc123

Request Parameters

Required parameters

url Crunchbase company URL to scrape (a /organization/... URL). Required on /v1/company.

Optional parameters

fields Comma-separated top-level fields to keep, e.g. fields=name,total_funding_usd,employees.
snapshot_id /v1/result only: the id returned by a 202 response.

Pricing

Crunchbase Company API Pricing

This API costs 25 credits per request. Credits are shared across every API on your plan.

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FAQ

Crunchbase Company API

Key features

Built for

Hand the Crunchbase Company API to your agent

Qualify an inbound demo request

Map the competitive landscape

Time outreach to a new round

Build the request for your data

Crunchbase Company API Documentation

Base URL

Authentication

Request and response

Code examples

Available Endpoints

GET /v1/company

GET /v1/result

Request Parameters

Required parameters

Optional parameters

Crunchbase Company API Pricing

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