Crunchbase

Crunchbase is the private-market data platform companies use to find, research, and track businesses. Its Data API exposes the same graph the site is built on — organizations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, investments, jobs, events, and the relationships between them — through a single, uniform REST interface.

Why Crunchbase?

• One graph, not a scrape: Companies, founders, investors, rounds, and deals are linked entities with stable UUIDs and permalinks, so a lookup resolves to the same record every time.
• Predicate search: Every collection is queryable with the same filter grammar — twenty operators over any field the collection publishes — so an ideal-customer profile becomes a query rather than a script.
• Keyset pagination: Results page forward by cursor instead of offset, so a full result set can be walked without the deep-page cost.
• Deletion feed: A dedicated endpoint reports what Crunchbase removed, so a mirrored copy can be pruned in step with the source rather than drifting.

Using Crunchbase in Sim

Sim's Crunchbase integration covers the Data API end to end with an API key. Four collections most workflows reach for — organizations, people, funding rounds, and acquisitions — get dedicated search and lookup operations with sensible default field sets. The generic Search Any Collection and Get Any Entity operations reach the remaining 39 collections, including funds, investments, IPOs, jobs, press references, layoffs, insights, and predictions.

Key benefits of using Crunchbase in Sim:

• Account enrichment: Resolve a company name to its permalink with Autocomplete, then pull headcount, headquarters, categories, and founding date onto the record.
• Target list building: Turn an ICP into search predicates, page the full result set with the returned cursor, and write the companies to a table.
• Funding and deal monitoring: Watch rounds and acquisitions announced in a window and route the summary to Slack, email, or a table.
• Deep relationship traversal: Get Entity Card pages a single related-entity card — an investor's portfolio, a company's founders, a round's investors — past the 100-item cap an inline card request stops at.
• Field discovery: Get Fields Metadata lists exactly which fields each collection publishes, which is how a query gets grounded before it runs.

Before you start

Requests authenticate with the X-cb-user-key header, and the API is rate limited to 200 calls per minute. Crunchbase sells the API in packages — Firmographic, Core Financials, Advanced Financials, Insights Only, and Predictions & Insights — and which collections and fields answer depends on the package your key is licensed for. The default field sets in this integration are drawn from the narrowest package that publishes each collection, so they resolve on the widest range of licenses; a request for a collection or field outside your license returns an error from Crunchbase rather than partial data.

Usage Instructions

Integrates the Crunchbase Data API into the workflow. Search organizations, people, funding rounds, and acquisitions with filter predicates, reach the other 39 collections through the generic search and lookup operations, page a single related-entity card past its 100-item cap, autocomplete names into identifiers, follow the deleted-entity feed, and list the fields each collection publishes. Which collections and fields resolve depends on your Crunchbase license.

Actions

Crunchbase Search Organizations

Search Crunchbase companies, investors, and schools with filter predicates on funding, headcount, location, category, and rank.

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Crunchbase Get Organization

Look up a single Crunchbase organization by permalink or UUID, returning the requested fields and related cards.

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Crunchbase Search People

Search Crunchbase people — founders, executives, and investors — with filter predicates on job title, organization, location, and rank.

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Crunchbase Get Person

Look up a single Crunchbase person by permalink or UUID, returning the requested fields and related cards.

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Crunchbase Search Funding Rounds

Search Crunchbase funding rounds with filter predicates on announced date, investment type, amount raised, and investors.

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Crunchbase Get Funding Round

Look up a single Crunchbase funding round by permalink or UUID, returning the requested fields and related cards.

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Crunchbase Search Acquisitions

Search Crunchbase acquisitions with filter predicates on announced date, price, acquisition type, and the companies involved.

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Crunchbase Get Acquisition

Look up a single Crunchbase acquisition by permalink or UUID, returning the requested fields and related cards.

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Crunchbase Search Entities

Search any Crunchbase collection — events, jobs, ipos, funds, investments, press references, layoffs, insights, predictions, and more — with filter predicates.

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Crunchbase Get Entity

Look up a single entity in any Crunchbase collection — events, jobs, ipos, funds, investments, press references, insights, predictions, and more — by permalink or UUID.

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Crunchbase Get Entity Card

Page through one related-entity card of a Crunchbase entity — an investor's investments, a company's founders, a round's investors — past the 100-item cap an inline card request returns.

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Crunchbase Autocomplete

Suggest Crunchbase entities matching a typed query, returning the permalinks and UUIDs the lookup and search operations take.

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Crunchbase List Deleted Entities

List entities Crunchbase has deleted, so a mirrored copy can be pruned in step with the source.

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Crunchbase Get Fields Metadata

List the field ids, types, and descriptions each Crunchbase collection publishes, which is how the field_ids and query predicates of the other operations are discovered.

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