CB Insights API v1

The original CB Insights REST API — 11 documented GET operations over organizations, deals (fundings, investments, portfolio exits), people, business relationships, expert collections and the credit ledger, authenticated with a 24-hour JWT from /v1/authorize. Fully documented in a static Hugo reference site with a dated change log through v1.9.0 (2024-07-26), but CB Insights publishes no OpenAPI for it and directs new integrations to v2.

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name: CB Insights API v1
description: The original CB Insights REST API — 11 documented GET operations over organizations, deals
  (fundings, investments, portfolio exits), people, business relationships, expert collections and the
  credit ledger, authenticated with a 24-hour JWT from /v1/authorize. Fully documented in a static Hugo
  reference site with a dated change log through v1.9.0 (2024-07-26), but CB Insights publishes no OpenAPI
  for it and directs new integrations to v2.
humanURL: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/endpoints/
baseURL: https://api.cbinsights.com
tags:
- market-intelligence
- private-company-data
- funding-data
- investor-data
- company-data
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/endpoints/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/tutorials/authentication_flow/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/change_log/
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/rate_limiting/
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/error_codes/
x-spec-note: No machine-readable contract exists for v1. The reference is fully public and richly documented
  at api-docs.cbinsights.com, but CB Insights ships only Hugo-rendered HTML endpoint pages — probes of
  /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml and /swagger.json on that host all returned 404 on 2026-08-09. The v2 contract
  in openapi/ does not cover these operations.