Crunchbase Keyword Scraper

Discover Crunchbase companies by keyword and extract structured business intelligence — funding rounds, leadership teams, contact details, financial metrics, and more. No login required.

Features

• Keyword discovery — Find companies by industry terms, sectors, or search phrases.
• Complete company profiles — Name, description, industries, headquarters, technologies, contact data, and more.
• Bulk keywords — Process up to 50 keywords in a single run, with automatic de-duplication across keywords.
• Built-in filters — Narrow results by industry, country, or operating status.
• Structured JSON — Clean output ready for analysis, lead generation, or investment research.

How many companies will I get?

Crunchbase's keyword search returns a single page of up to 25 companies per keyword. This is a limit of Crunchbase's search itself, so no scraper can page beyond it for a single term. To gather more companies, use several related keywords — the Actor merges the results and removes duplicates automatically. For example, 20 keywords can return up to ~500 unique companies in one run.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["Fintech", "Payments", "Digital Banking"],
  "industries": ["Financial Services"],
  "countries": ["United States"],
  "operating_status": "active"
}

Input parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
keywords	array of strings	Yes	Search terms to discover Crunchbase companies (up to 50 per run). Results are de-duplicated across keywords.
industries	array of strings	No	Keep only companies tagged with at least one of these Crunchbase industries (e.g. "Payments", "Machine Learning").
countries	array of strings	No	Keep only companies headquartered in one of these countries (e.g. "United States"; US, UK, UAE shorthands accepted).
operating_status	string	No	any (default), active, or closed.
limit_per_input	integer	No	Max companies per keyword (1–25, default 25).

Filters are applied to the discovered companies. Because this Actor is billed per delivered result, filtering also lowers your run cost — companies removed by a filter are never charged.

Need data for specific company URLs instead of keyword search? Use our Crunchbase Company Scraper.

Free plan limits: Free Apify accounts are limited to 1 keyword and 5 companies per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to unlock the full limits (up to 50 keywords and 25 companies per keyword).

Usage examples

Broaden coverage with multiple keywords

{
  "keywords": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", "Computer Vision", "NLP"]
}

Fintech companies in the US, active only

{
  "keywords": ["Fintech", "Payments", "Lending", "Wealth Management"],
  "industries": ["Financial Services", "Payments"],
  "countries": ["United States"],
  "operating_status": "active"
}

Single keyword

{
  "keywords": ["Cybersecurity"]
}

Output

Each dataset item is one Crunchbase company profile. Records include an input_keyword field so you can trace which search term produced each result.

{
  "name": "Example Corp",
  "about": "AI-powered analytics platform",
  "website": "https://example.com",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example-corp",
  "country_code": "United States",
  "region": "California",
  "industries": [{ "id": "analytics", "value": "Analytics" }],
  "operating_status": "active",
  "input_keyword": "AI"
}

Use cases

• Market research — Map companies in a sector or emerging technology space.
• Lead generation — Build prospect lists from industry keywords.
• Investment research — Discover companies by theme, stage, or vertical.
• Competitive analysis — Find peers and adjacent players in a market.

How it works

Provide one or more keywords (and optionally some filters), then run the Actor. Each keyword triggers a discovery pass against Crunchbase's search, which returns up to 25 companies per keyword. Results from all keywords are merged, de-duplicated, filtered, and stored in your dataset.

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