# Crunchbase

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/crunchbase/  
**Website:** https://www.crunchbase.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Crunchbase is a business data platform tracking companies, investors, funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPOs across the global startup and private market ecosystem. Its REST API (v4) provides programmatic access to over 600 endpoints powering customer-facing products, workflow enrichment, and AI training data.

## Kin Score — 44.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 60.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 22.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Crunchbase Autocomplete API** — Type-ahead suggestions for entities.
- **Crunchbase Deletes API** — Feeds of deleted entities for downstream sync.
- **Crunchbase Entities API** — Entity lookup endpoints for organizations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPOs.
- **Crunchbase Search API** — Full-text and faceted search across entity types.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Crunchbase Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 3 acting

## Security (3)

- **Crunchbase Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Crunchbase Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Crunchbase Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Crunchbase Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Business Data, Funding, Investments, Startups, Private Markets, Firmographics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/crunchbase/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.