crunchbase-company

Crunchbase Company MCP server

Registry name: io.github.johnisanerd/crunchbase-company. Maintained by AlphaOSINT (Apify developer johnvc, GitHub johnisanerd).

What it does

Look up companies by Crunchbase organization URL and get funding rounds and totals, investors, industries, headquarters, employee count, rank and operating status.

When to use it

Funding and investor data for named companies, rather than a search across the whole database. Use it for account research, investor diligence and enriching a company list.

How it works

The server runs on Apify's hosted MCP endpoint, so there is nothing to install or host. Its URL pins one Actor with ?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api, which gives your agent a single tool, johnvc--crunchbase-company-api, whose parameters are the Actor's typed input schema. The agent can call that tool directly without searching for an Actor first, and it can't start other Actors through this server. For general access to the whole Apify Store, use https://mcp.apify.com without the tools parameter.

Pricing

Each tool call runs the Apify Actor johnvc/crunchbase-company-api on your own Apify account and is billed there at the Actor's prices:

Charge	Price (USD)	What it covers
Company scraped	$0.006	Fee per company returned. Charged once for each company pushed to the dataset.
Name or domain lookup	$0.002	Fee per company name or website domain looked up (companyNames), charged whether or not a match is found. Organization URLs (companyUrls) never pay it.

Free-plan rates as of 2026-11-13; paid Apify plans pay less per event. Apify also bills a token amount per run start and stored row ($0.00001, $0.00001). Current prices are on the Actor's page: https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api

Endpoint

• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api
• Auth: Apify OAuth (opens on first use), or the header Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> (Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations)

Setup

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http crunchbase-company "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

{
  "servers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
    }
  }
}

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL. Older versions without remote connectors can bridge through mcp-remote in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Tools

Tool	What it does
johnvc--crunchbase-company-api	Runs the Actor with the parameters below and returns the result rows.
get-actor-run	Status of a run the tool started (for long runs).
get-dataset-items	Pages through a run's full output when it is larger than the inline result.
get-key-value-store-record	Reads a record a run stored.
abort-actor-run	Stops a run.

Apify's endpoint adds the four helper tools whenever an Actor tool is loaded.

Parameters of johnvc--crunchbase-company-api

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
companyUrls	array		["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"]	One or more Crunchbase organization URLs, e.g. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai. URLs that are not Crunchbase /organization/ URLs are skipped. Up to 100 per run. Need larger batches? Contact us and we can…
companyNames	array			Look companies up by name or website domain, e.g. "OpenAI" or "basecamp.com". Each entry resolves to the single top-matching Crunchbase organization and returns the same full company row as a URL, at the same per-compan…

Example

Ask the agent in plain language, or call johnvc--crunchbase-company-api with arguments such as:

{
  "companyUrls": [
    "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"
  ]
}

Output

JSON rows with these fields:

Field	Type	Description
result_type	string	Either 'company' (a collected company) or 'error' (a validation or collection error row).
searchTerm	string	The company name or website domain from companyNames that produced this row. Only present on rows resolved by name lookup; use it to join results back to your input list.
name	string	The company name.
legalName	string	The registered legal name, when available.
cbRank	integer	The company's Crunchbase rank (lower is more prominent).
description	string	The company overview / about text.
website	string	The company website URL.
logoUrl	string	Company logo image URL.
hqLocation	string	Headquarters location (city, region, country).
region	string	Headquarters region or state.
country	string	Headquarters country.
hqRegions	array	Broader regions for the headquarters location.
continent	string	Headquarters continent.
employeeCount	string	Employee-count band as reported by Crunchbase.
operatingStatus	string	Operating status (e.g. active, closed).
companyType	string	Company type (e.g. for_profit, non_profit).
ipoStatus	string	IPO status (e.g. private, public).
stockSymbol	string	Public stock ticker, when the company is public.
industries	array	Industry tags.
totalFunding	string	Total funding raised in USD, only when the source exposes a company-level total (currently often unavailable). Never estimated or derived; omitted rather than guessed.
numFundingRounds	integer	Number of funding rounds.
numInvestors	integer	Number of investors.
numLeadInvestors	integer	Number of lead investors.
numAcquisitions	integer	Number of acquisitions the company has made.
investors	array	Distinct investor names.
founders	array	Founder names.
fundingRounds	array	Per-round detail: round label, stage, investors, and lead investors. The source exposes structure publicly but gates dollar amounts and dates behind login, so those are never included. The source caps this list; numFund…
keyPeople	array	Current executives and key people with titles.
advisors	array	Board members and advisors.
contacts	array	Named contacts with job title, departments, and LinkedIn handle, as listed publicly by the source.
numContacts	integer	Total number of contacts the source lists for the company.
products	array	Named products and services with short descriptions.
similarCompanies	array	Similar or competing companies with profile URLs.
recentNews	array	Up to 5 recent news mentions with date, publisher, and URL.
acquisitions	array	Names of companies this company has acquired.
subOrganizations	array	Subsidiaries and joint ventures.
contactEmail	string	Public contact email, when listed.
contactPhone	string	Public contact phone number.
monthlyVisits	integer	Estimated monthly website visits.
monthlyVisitsGrowth	number	Month-over-month change in website visits as a fraction (0.15 means +15%).
growthScore	integer	Crunchbase growth score.
growthTrend	integer	Growth score change over the past quarter.
heatScore	integer	Crunchbase heat score.
heatTrend	integer	Heat score change over the past quarter.
techStackCount	integer	Number of technologies detected on the company website.
techStack	array	Detected website technologies (sampled by the source).
patentsGranted	integer	Number of granted patents.
trademarksRegistered	integer	Number of registered trademarks.
itSpendEstimateUsd	integer	Estimated annual IT spend in USD.
monthlyAppDownloads	integer	Estimated monthly mobile app downloads.
socialMediaLinks	array	Social media profile URLs.
companyUrl	string	The Crunchbase organization URL.
summary	string	Plain-language one-line interpretation of the company.
cached	boolean	True when this row was served from a company record collected earlier (within the last 30 days) instead of collected live. Charged like a live row. Also true on a stale row. Present only when caching is enabled.
cacheAgeDays	integer	Whole days between fetched_at and this run. Only on cached or stale rows.
stale	boolean	True when the live collection of this company did not complete and the row is the last good copy, older than 30 days but at most 45 days old. Never charged. See note.
note	string	Explains an unusual row, for example why a stale copy was returned.
fetched_at	string	ISO 8601 time the company data was collected from the source. On a cached or stale row this is the time of the original collection, not of this run.
error_message	string	Human-readable error description. Only present on rows with result_type='error'.
error_type	string	Machine-readable error category (e.g. 'MissingRequiredParameter', 'MissingApiKey', 'CollectionError').

Data source and terms

Crunchbase's public organization pages, collected by scraping. The server returns the data as published at the time of the call. You are responsible for using it in line with the source's terms and the laws that apply to you. AlphaOSINT is not affiliated with the source.

Links

• Actor on Apify: https://apify.com/johnvc/crunchbase-company-api
• Docs page: https://alphaosint.com/mcp/crunchbase-company/
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