Crunchbase

Crunchbase

Crunchbase is the leading platform for company intelligence. Search and look up organizations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, and investors. Requires an Enterprise or Applications license for full API access.

Data Model

• Organizations (companies; use permalink from autocomplete or search), People, Funding rounds, Acquisitions, Investors. Autocomplete returns entities with identifier.permalink. Search uses predicate queries with field_ids, operator_id, values; filter by facet_ids (e.g. company).

Gotchas

• field_ids: Always specify field_ids to reduce payload and stay within rate limits. Don't request all fields.
• Enterprise/Applications license: Required for full API access; lower tiers return partial coverage.
• Rate limit: 200 calls/minute. Use field_ids to minimize requests.