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Crunchbase company intelligence: firmographics, contact and funding signals, no Pro seat

The Crunchbase Company Intelligence Scraper turns a list of company names, domains or Crunchbase URLs into clean records — description, website, employee range, HQ, categories, Crunchbase rank, IPO/operating status, contact email and phone, and funding signals — straight from each company's public Crunchbase profile. It resolves a name, domain or URL to the right entity through Crunchbase's own autocomplete and verifies domains against the real website. No Crunchbase subscription, no API key.

Who it's for

• Sales and RevOps teams pasting contact email, phone, headcount band, HQ and rank into a CRM — without a Pro seat.
• Lead-gen and enrichment pipelines resolving a column of names or domains to the correct company.
• Researchers who need firmographics and funding signals in one row.
• AI agents paying per company over x402.

What you get

A real row (logged-out, 2026-10-11): NVIDIA — employeeRange "10001+", ipoStatus "public", cbRank 15, HQ Santa Clara, contactEmail info@nvidia.com, with fundingTotalUsd and foundedOn as null and listed in paywalledFieldsNeedLogin.

Input

{ "companies": ["stripe.com", "openai", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nvidia"], "maxResults": 0 }

Honest limits

• Two fields are paywalled — Crunchbase hides the exact total funding and founded date from logged-out sessions, so they come back null and flagged in paywalledFieldsNeedLogin, never fabricated. They unlock only if you supply your own session cookie; everything else is keyless.
• Very small or ambiguous companies may not surface via autocomplete — try the domain or the exact Crunchbase URL.
• A company that can't be resolved or that Crunchbase refuses is free, and a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.012 per company delivered, plus a $0.02 Crunchbase-session event charged once per run (it covers clearing the anti-bot challenge every run pays before reading anything). Unresolved or refused companies are free. 25 companies = $0.32; 100 in one run = $1.22 (the same 100 one at a time would be $3.20 — batching pays). Current prices are on the actor's Pricing tab on Apify.

Related

For a startup directory use the Y Combinator Company Directory; for named decision-makers from official registries the Europe Company Officers & Directors and the B2B Company & Decision-Maker Finder; and for fresh raises, SEC Form D.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Crunchbase subscription or API key?

No. The Actor reads only publicly accessible Crunchbase profile pages — no Crunchbase Pro seat and no API key. It clears Crunchbase's anti-bot challenge itself with a self-hosted hardened browser, no paid unblocking service.

How does it resolve the right company?

It accepts a name, domain, Crunchbase URL or permalink and resolves each through Crunchbase's own autocomplete, then verifies a domain input against the company's real website — so stripe.com returns Stripe, not a look-alike subsidiary.

Why are funding amount and founded date empty?

Crunchbase paywalls the exact total funding and founded date for logged-out sessions, so the Actor returns them as null and lists them in paywalledFieldsNeedLogin rather than fabricating them. Every other field is free; those two can be unlocked with your own session cookie if you need them.

Why batch instead of one at a time?

The anti-bot challenge is cleared once per run and reused for the whole list, and the session fee is charged once, so 100 companies in one run cost about a third of 100 single-company runs.

Why use a domain as input?

Domain inputs are verified against the company's real website, which is the most reliable way to hit the exact entity rather than a similarly-named one.

Using the data lawfully

The Actor reads only publicly accessible Crunchbase profile pages and does not bypass any login or payment wall — paywalled fields stay null unless you supply your own cookie. You are responsible for your use of the data and compliance with Crunchbase's Terms and applicable law. Not affiliated with Crunchbase, Inc.