Crunchbase Enterprise API

Name: Crunchbase Enterprise API API
Brand: Crunchbase Enterprise API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentData EnrichmentCompany DataapiKey57 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Run faceted searches and entity lookups across Crunchbase's full Enterprise dataset — organisations, people, IPOs, layoffs, ownership, key employee changes, and more.

Quickstart

Get started with Crunchbase Enterprise API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"find recent layoffs at fintech companies"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Crunchbase Enterprise API API.

Look up any of 18+ entity types (organisations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, investments, IPOs, jobs, locations, ownerships, layoffs) by Crunchbase entity ID

Retrieve a single field-card on any entity for narrow, low-cost reads

Run structured faceted searches over 20+ entity types using rich query bodies

Autocomplete identifiers across entity types for type-ahead components

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Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Crunchbase Enterprise API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Crunchbase Enterprise API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Crunchbase Enterprise tier exposes 57 endpoints covering organisations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, investments, IPOs, layoffs, key employee changes, ownership, jobs, and many other relationship entities. It supports entity lookups, per-card field-set retrieval, faceted search, autocomplete, and deleted-entity tracking. Authentication uses an API key passed in the X-cb-user-key header.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Crunchbase Enterprise API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Enterprise Account Intelligence

Build a 360-degree picture of a target enterprise account by combining organisation lookups with linked funding rounds, IPOs, key employee changes, and layoff events. The Enterprise tier exposes the full relationship graph in a single API.

GET /entities/organizations/{entity_id} for the target, then POST /searches/key_employee_changes and /searches/layoffs filtered by organization_identifier to assemble a recent-signal feed.

Investor and IPO Monitoring

Watch IPOs, ownership changes, and fund activity in real time by polling search endpoints with date filters and resolving each event to its full detail. Enables capital-markets and competitive-intelligence dashboards.

POST /searches/ipos filtering went_public_on within the last 30 days, then GET /entities/ipos/{entity_id} per result for amounts, valuation, and underwriters.

Talent and Workforce Signals

Track hiring and attrition signals at target firms by querying the key_employee_changes, layoffs, and jobs entity searches. The Enterprise API surfaces these as first-class entities rather than scraped events.

POST /searches/layoffs filtered by announced_on within the last 14 days and an industry filter, then enrich each result with GET /entities/organizations/{entity_id} for the affected company.

Card-Level Field Reads

Reduce response size and rate-limit pressure by requesting only the field card you need on an entity (e.g. just the funding summary card for an organisation) instead of the full entity payload. Useful for high-volume enrichment pipelines.

Call GET /entities/organizations/{entity_id}/cards/{card_id} with card_id=funding_rounds_summary to fetch only funding context for a target organisation.

Agent-Driven Deal Research

Allow an AI deal-research agent to answer multi-hop questions ('Which Series B fintechs in NYC had layoffs this quarter?') by chaining searches and lookups through Jentic so the API key remains in the vault.

Search Jentic for 'find recent layoffs at fintech companies', load the layoffs search operation, and execute it with the relevant filters.

Key Endpoints

57 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for crunchbase enterprise api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/entities/organizations/{entity_id}

Look up an organisation

POST

/searches/organizations

Faceted search over organisations

POST

/searches/funding_rounds

Search funding rounds

POST

/searches/ipos

Search IPO events

POST

/searches/layoffs

Search layoff events

POST

/searches/key_employee_changes

Search key employee changes

GET

/autocompletes

Autocomplete identifiers across entity types

GET

/deleted_entities

Track deleted entities

GET

/entities/organizations/{entity_id}

Look up an organisation

POST

/searches/organizations

Faceted search over organisations

POST

/searches/funding_rounds

Search funding rounds

POST

/searches/ipos

Search IPO events

POST

/searches/layoffs

Search layoff events

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Crunchbase Enterprise API keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents never see the raw key — Jentic injects it into the X-cb-user-key header at execution time.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. 'find recent layoffs at fintech companies') and Jentic returns the matching search operation along with its filter schema.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 2-4 days to wire all 57 endpoints, search query bodies, pagination, and rate-limit handling. Through Jentic: minutes per intent.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Crunchbase API

Smaller v4 surface focused on the core entity types.

Pick the lighter Crunchbase API entry when the agent only needs organisations, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, investments, events, and funds.

Alternative

Crustdata API

Alternative company and people enrichment dataset.

Choose Crustdata when coverage gaps in Crunchbase or licensing tier dictate a different data source.

Complementary

Cruise Control API

Outbound review-request automation that benefits from enriched contacts.

Pair after Crunchbase enrichment when the workflow ends in customer outreach.

FAQs

Specific to using Crunchbase Enterprise API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Crunchbase Enterprise API?

Crunchbase does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Crunchbase Enterprise API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Crunchbase Enterprise API use?

The Enterprise API uses an API key passed in the X-cb-user-key request header. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted in the vault — the agent never receives its raw value.

Can I track layoffs and key employee changes with the Crunchbase Enterprise API?

Yes. POST /searches/layoffs and POST /searches/key_employee_changes accept filter bodies and return matching events. Each result can be expanded by calling the corresponding /entities/{type}/{entity_id} endpoint for full detail.

How do I retrieve only the funding card for an organisation through the Crunchbase Enterprise API?

Use GET /entities/organizations/{entity_id}/cards/{card_id} with the card_id corresponding to funding context. This returns a narrow payload instead of the full entity body — useful in high-volume enrichment pipelines.

What are the rate limits for the Crunchbase Enterprise API?

The OpenAPI specification does not document numeric rate limits. Crunchbase enforces tier-dependent quotas — confirm your contract limits with Crunchbase support and watch for HTTP 429 responses.

How do I run a Crunchbase Enterprise search through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, search 'find recent layoffs at fintech companies', load the layoffs search operation, and execute it with your filter body. Jentic resolves the API key automatically from the vault.