Crunchbase Company Scraper

"Startup Funding & Company Intelligence" by John Rippy | johnrippy.link

2025 Zapier Automation Hero of the Year — Project Phoenix: A 95-step AI sales pipeline cutting development time by 50%. Read more →

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Scrape startup and company data from Crunchbase. Extract funding information, investors, founders, and company details. Perfect for market research, lead generation, and competitive intelligence.

Features

Company Profiles: Name, description, website, headquarters, founded date
Funding Data: Total funding, rounds, amounts, investors
Team Info: Founders and key executives
Industry Tags: Categories and sectors
Social Links: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Filters: Industry, location, funding stage, minimum funding

Use Cases

Market Research: Discover competitors and market trends
Lead Generation: Find funded companies to sell to
Investment Research: Track funding activity in sectors
Competitive Intelligence: Monitor competitor funding and growth
Sales Prospecting: Build lists of well-funded startups

Input Configuration

{
"demoMode": false,
"searchQuery": "AI startup",
"category": "artificial-intelligence",
"location": "San Francisco",
"fundingStage": "series-a",
"minFunding": "$1M",
"maxResults": 50,
"includeFundingRounds": true
}

Input Parameters

Output

{
"name": "TechVenture AI",
"url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/techventure-ai",
"description": "Enterprise AI platform for workflow automation...",
"shortDescription": "Enterprise AI automation platform",
"website": "https://techventureai.com",
"headquarters": "San Francisco, CA",
"founded": 2021,
"employees": "51-100",
"industries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Enterprise Software", "SaaS"],
"totalFunding": "$45M",
"lastFundingType": "Series B",
"lastFundingDate": "2025-09-15",
"lastFundingAmount": "$30M",
"investors": ["Sequoia Capital", "Andreessen Horowitz"],
"fundingRounds": [
{
"type": "Series B",
"date": "2025-09-15",
"amount": "$30M",
"leadInvestors": ["Sequoia Capital"]
}
],
"founders": [
{
"name": "Sarah Chen",
"title": "CEO & Co-founder",
"linkedIn": "https://linkedin.com/in/sarahchen"
}
],
"socialLinks": {
"linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/techventureai",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/techventureai"
},
"rank": 1250,
"scrapedAt": "2025-12-23T12:00:00Z"
}

Funding Stages

seed - Seed Round
series-a - Series A
series-b - Series B
series-c - Series C
series-d - Series D+
ipo - IPO

Pricing

$0.03 per company scraped
$0.01 per funding round included
Demo mode is free

Integrations

Zapier

Build investment research workflows with Zapier:

1. Add the "Apify" app in Zapier

2. Select "Run Actor" as the action

3. Enter localhowl/crunchbase-scraper as the actor ID

4. Send funded startups to your CRM or Google Sheets

Make (Integromat)

Automate lead generation for B2B sales:

1. Add the Apify module to your Make scenario

2. Select "Run an Actor" action

3. Configure with industry and funding filters

4. Route companies to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Airtable

n8n

1. Add the Apify node to your workflow

2. Configure with your Apify API token

3. Set actor ID to localhowl/crunchbase-scraper

4. Enrich leads with contact data from other nodes

Webhooks

Receive startup data via webhook:

{
"webhooks": [{
"eventTypes": ["ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED"],
"requestUrl": "https://your-app.com/webhook/crunchbase"
}]
}

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/localhowl~crunchbase-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"searchQuery": "AI startup", "category": "artificial-intelligence", "maxResults": 50}'

Support

LinkedIn: John Rippy
Website: johnrippy.link

🏆 2025 Zapier Automation Hero of the Year — Project Phoenix: A 95-step AI sales pipeline cutting development time by 50%. Read more →

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Built by John Rippy | johnrippy.link