> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.spidra.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Crunchbase

> Get the Crunchbase Unicorn Board, the Emerging Unicorn Board, Crunchbase News articles and the week's biggest funding rounds as structured data. Company and people pages on crunchbase.com aren't available.

Spidra reads Crunchbase News (`news.crunchbase.com`), the part of Crunchbase anyone can open without an account. That covers the Unicorn Board, the Emerging Unicorn Board, every article, and the weekly roundup of the biggest funding rounds. Send a link with `"output": "json"` and each one costs 1 credit.

Company, people, funding round and search pages on `www.crunchbase.com` aren't available. Crunchbase blocks automated visits to them, so those links fail and you aren't charged.

## Example

Filter the Unicorn Board by `country`, `continent` or `investor`:

```json theme={null}
{ "urls": ["https://news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/?country=FR"], "output": "json", "wait": true }
```

The item's `result`, shortened to one company:

```json theme={null}
{
  "type": "unicornBoard",
  "board": "unicorns",
  "title": "The Crunchbase Unicorn Board",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-11-04",
  "boardCount": 1920,
  "totalRaisedUsd": 1620000000000,
  "totalValueUsd": 9500000000000,
  "count": 33,
  "companies": [
    {
      "rank": 32,
      "name": "Mistral AI",
      "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mistral-ai",
      "postMoneyValueUsd": 24413807054,
      "postMoneyValueText": "$24B",
      "totalEquityFundingUsd": 6523735802,
      "totalEquityFundingText": "$7B",
      "leadInvestors": ["EQT", "PSG Equity"],
      "country": "France",
      "continent": "Europe",
      "becameUnicorn": null
    }
  ]
}
```

`rank` is the company's place on the whole board, so with a filter on, the first row isn't number 1. `boardCount` is the size of the whole board and `count` is how many rows matched. The result also has the board's chart data: companies by country, industry and founding year, funding by year, and the investors with the most deals.

## Links that work

| Link | Example | You get |
| - | - | - |
| Unicorn boards | `news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/`, `/emerging-unicorn-list/` | Every company on the board in the board's order, as above |
| Article | `news.crunchbase.com/<section>/<slug>/` | Title, dates, authors, excerpt, the full text, sections, tags, reading time, and the companies and people the article links to |
| Article lists | `/`, `/page/2/`, `/sections/<name>/`, `/tag/<tag>/`, `/author/<name>/`, `/?s=<words>` | 20 articles a page, each with everything an article link gives. `perPage` goes up to 100, and `after` and `before` take dates |
| Weekly rounds | `news.crunchbase.com/?weeks=4` | The last 4 weekly "Biggest Funding Rounds" roundups and every deal in them, as one list. `weeks` goes from 1 to 52 |

## The week's biggest rounds

Each week Crunchbase News lists the ten biggest funding rounds. A roundup article comes back with its deals already parsed, and `weeks` collects several roundups at once:

```json theme={null}
{ "urls": ["https://news.crunchbase.com/?weeks=1"], "output": "json", "wait": true }
```

The first deal, shortened:

```json theme={null}
{
  "weekOf": "2026-10-30",
  "period": "Oct. 24-30, 2026",
  "rank": 1,
  "company": "Re:Build",
  "crunchbaseUrl": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rebuild-770e",
  "amountUsd": 2100000000,
  "amountText": "$2.1B",
  "sector": "manufacturing",
  "roundType": null,
  "leadInvestors": ["General Catalyst", "JPMorganChase"],
  "valuationUsd": null,
  "city": "Framingham, Massachusetts"
}
```

`roundType` and `valuationUsd` are `null` when the article doesn't say them.

## Credits

Each link is 1 credit, including a `weeks` link. A link that can't be read is free: a page that doesn't exist, a list with no articles, or a `www.crunchbase.com` page.

## Limits

* Company profiles, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, hubs, search and anything behind a Crunchbase sign-in aren't available.
* The Megadeals and Billion-Dollar Exits boards load their tables from another site's embed. Spidra scrapes them like any other page, so they don't come back as rows.
* The `crunchbaseUrl` on each row is a link you can open in a browser. Spidra can't read it.

## Templates

[Templates](https://docs.spidra.io/templates.md) cover the main Crunchbase jobs: unicorn companies and their valuations, the biggest startup funding rounds each week, and Crunchbase News articles.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Check Crunchbase's terms before you collect data from it. You're responsible for how you use what you collect.


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