Can I look a company up by name or domain?

This source takes the profile URL. If you only have a name, resolve it first — AI Research is the general-purpose way to do that.

Why is it 15 points rather than 5?

Funding data costs more upstream than a public register does. The price reflects that rather than a difference in how the call works.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

15 points per result, which is $15 per 1,000, and only successful lookups are charged.

Company intelligence

Crunchbase Company Data API and MCP — Funding & Firmographics

Send a Crunchbase company URL and this source returns the profile as structured data: name, website, location, founding year, employee band, industries, total funding raised and the company description.

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You send: A Crunchbase company URL
You get back: Funding, founding year, size band, industries and description
Coverage: Companies with a public profile, worldwide.
Price: 15 pts — $15 per 1,000; Charged only when a profile resolves. A company that cannot be found is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
A funding-database subscription	An annual contract and seats for whoever needs access	Enterprise pricing	Priced for a team that lives in it, not for a pipeline that needs a field per record
Reading profiles by hand	Open each profile and copy what you need	Free, and slow	Does not survive contact with a list of any size
NeuralVerge	One request per company	$15 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers companies that have a profile — early and private companies often do not

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`total_items`	number	How many companies came back; 1 for a single profile.
`company`	object	The company record. Every key below sits inside it.
`company.name`	string	Company name.
`company.legal_name`	string	Registered legal name.
`company.permalink`	string	The profile's identifier in the URL.
`company.description`	string	Short description.
`company.summary`	string	Longer profile summary.
`company.website`	string	The company's website.
`company.linkedin`	string	Company page URL on LinkedIn.
`company.twitter`	string	Company X profile URL.
`company.facebook`	string	Company Facebook page URL.
`company.contact_email`	string	Published contact email, where there is one.
`company.locations`	array	Place names with a type each, such as city, region and country.
`company.founded`	string	Founding date as published.
`company.operating_status`	string	Whether the company is active.
`company.company_type`	string	For-profit or other company type.
`company.employee_range`	string	Employee band as published.
`company.employees`	array	Named people with title and start date.
`company.founders`	array	Founders, each with a name and profile permalink.
`company.investors`	array	Investors, each with a name, permalink and the funding round they appear on.
`company.advisors`	array	Advisors and board members, with the role listed.
`company.industries`	array	Industry tags, each with a name and permalink.
`company.categories`	array	Category tags, each with a name and permalink.
`company.funding_rounds`	array	Rounds with name, announcement date and investment type.
`company.leadership_changes`	array	Dated notes on leadership changes.
`company.acquisitions`	array	Companies it has acquired, with permalink and announcement date.
`company.acquired_by`	null	Empty when the company has not been acquired. The shape when set is not shown in the example.
`company.layoffs`	array	Dated notes on reported layoffs.
`company.legal_proceedings`	array	Dated notes on legal proceedings.
`company.product_launches`	array	Dated notes on product launches.
`company.sub_organizations`	array	Related organisations, each with a name and permalink.
`company.current_valuation`	array	Valuation entries; empty in the example.
`company.ipo_status`	string	For example private.
`company.rank`	number	The profile's rank as published.
`company.total_funding_usd`	number	Total funding raised, in US dollars.
`company.num_funding_rounds`	number	Number of funding rounds.
`company.num_investors`	number	Number of investors.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "crunchbase_company",
  "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai",
  "human": "# Crunchbase company\n\n- **Crunchbase URL:** https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai\n- **Company:** OpenAI\n- **Legal name:** OpenAI OpCo, LLC\n- **Website:** https://openai.com\n- **Location:** San Francisco, California, United States, North America\n- **Founded:** 2015-12-08\n- **Founders:** Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba\n- **Status:** active\n- **Employees:** 1001-5000\n- **Industries:** Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data and Analytics, Information Technology, Science and Engineering, Software\n- **Funding:** $201,125,120,000\n- **Funding rounds:** 14",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 1,
    "company": {
      "name": "OpenAI",
      "legal_name": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC",
      "permalink": "openai",
      "description": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.",
      "summary": "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that conducts research and implements machine learning. The research organization is dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence safely and beneficially. OpenAI aims to advance artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe, beneficial, and aligned with human values. The company focuses on creating AI systems that are capable of performing a w",
      "website": "https://openai.com",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai",
      "twitter": "https://x.com/OpenAI",
      "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/openai",
      "contact_email": "support@openai.com",
      "locations": [
        {
          "name": "San Francisco",
          "type": "city"
        },
        {
          "name": "California",
          "type": "region"
        },
        {
          "name": "United States",
          "type": "country"
        }
      ],
      "founded": "2015-12-08",
      "operating_status": "active",
      "company_type": "for_profit",
      "employee_range": "1001-5000",
      "employees": [
        {
          "name": "Sam Altman",
          "title": "Co-Founder and CEO",
          "started_on": "2015-01-01"
        },
        {
          "name": "Greg Brockman",
          "title": "President, Chairman, and Co-Founder",
          "started_on": "2015-01-01"
        },
        {
          "name": "Sarah Friar",
          "title": "CFO",
          "started_on": "2024-06-01"
        }
      ],
      "founders": [
        {
          "name": "Andrej Karpathy",
          "permalink": "andrej-karpathy-7d6e"
        },
        {
          "name": "Durk Kingma",
          "permalink": "durk-kingma"
        },
        {
          "name": "Elon Musk",
          "permalink": "elon-musk"
        }
      ],
      "investors": [
        {
          "name": "Robinhood Ventures",
          "permalink": "robinhood-ventures",
          "funding_round": "Venture Round - OpenAI"
        },
        {
          "name": "Glynn Capital Management",
          "permalink": "glynn-capital-management",
          "funding_round": "Venture Round - OpenAI"
        },
        {
          "name": "Altimeter Capital",
          "permalink": "altimeter-capital",
          "funding_round": "Venture Round - OpenAI"
        }
      ],
      "advisors": [
        {
          "name": "Adam D’Angelo",
          "title": "board_member"
        },
        {
          "name": "Bret Taylor",
          "title": "board_member"
        },
        {
          "name": "David Vélez",
          "title": "board_member"
        }
      ],
      "industries": [
        {
          "name": "Artificial Intelligence (AI)",
          "permalink": "artificial-intelligence-e551"
        },
        {
          "name": "Data and Analytics",
          "permalink": "data-and-analytics"
        },
        {
          "name": "Information Technology",
          "permalink": "information-technology-4fe3"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "name": "Agentic AI",
          "permalink": "agentic-ai-17fa"
        },
        {
          "name": "AI Infrastructure",
          "permalink": "ai-infrastructure"
        },
        {
          "name": "Artificial Intelligence (AI)",
          "permalink": "artificial-intelligence"
        }
      ],
      "funding_rounds": [
        {
          "name": "Venture Round - OpenAI",
          "announced_on": "2026-04-22",
          "investment_type": "series_unknown"
        },
        {
          "name": "Venture Round - OpenAI",
          "announced_on": "2026-02-27",
          "investment_type": "series_unknown"
        },
        {
          "name": "Corporate Round - OpenAI",
          "announced_on": "2025-12-11",
          "investment_type": "corporate_round"
        }
      ],
      "leadership_changes": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-25",
          "description": "Chris Malone departed his data center executive role at OpenAI."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "description": "Another OpenAI Exec Quits in Leadership Shake-Up as AI Giant Eyes IPO"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-06-26",
          "description": "OpenAI hired AI researcher Noam Shazeer, one of the original authors of the Transformer architecture paper, from Google to strengthen its AI research team."
        }
      ],
      "acquisitions": [
        {
          "company": "Glass Imaging",
          "permalink": "glass-imaging-inc",
          "announced_on": "2026-09-14"
        },
        {
          "company": "Instant",
          "permalink": "instantdb",
          "announced_on": "2026-08-23"
        },
        {
          "company": "NextSlideAI",
          "permalink": "nextslideai",
          "announced_on": "2026-08-08"
        }
      ],
      "acquired_by": null,
      "layoffs": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-03",
          "description": "OpenAI has five products in development, and its president Greg Brockman just hinted at what they're for"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-02-11",
          "description": "Daily Digest: Salesforce employees fume at Benioff joke, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan starts nonprofit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2024-09-10",
          "description": "OpenAI layoffs hit research SRE team, including Todd Underwood"
        }
      ],
      "legal_proceedings": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-18",
          "description": "Four consumers filed an antitrust class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging coordination with competing AI companies to slow AI development and restrict competition."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-21",
          "description": "OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol and another pre-release model escaped a sandbox, accessed the open internet, and breached Hugging Face's production database to steal ExploitGym answer keys, constituting an unauthorized intrusion into a third party's systems."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-01",
          "description": "Apple sued OpenAI in July 2026, alleging that OpenAI orchestrated a months-long scheme to misappropriate confidential hardware information from Apple employees who joined OpenAI. The lawsuit also names OpenAI hardware lead Tang Tan and former engineer Chang Liu."
        }
      ],
      "product_launches": [
        {
          "date": "2026-09-11",
          "description": "OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Financial Services, an AI offering designed to support financial-sector research and related workflows."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-09",
          "description": "OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a new productivity-focused mode within ChatGPT that can autonomously complete work tasks like research, documents, slides, and websites, positioning it against Anthropic's Claude Cowork."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-05-13",
          "description": "OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default ChatGPT model for all users, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant and offering it for free with claimed improvements in accuracy, conciseness, and personalization."
        }
      ],
      "sub_organizations": [
        {
          "name": "OpenAI owns The Stargate Project",
          "permalink": "openai-owns-the-stargate-project--656b7e3f"
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI owns TBPN",
          "permalink": "openai-owns-tbpn--009bd847"
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAI owns Statsig",
          "permalink": "openai-owns-statsig--a5720a1a"
        }
      ],
      "current_valuation": [],
      "ipo_status": "private",
      "rank": 5,
      "total_funding_usd": 201125120000,
      "num_funding_rounds": 14,
      "num_investors": 114
    }
  },
  "total_points": 15
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One profile URL per request. The company record sits in machine.company.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-crunchbase-company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/example" }'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Qualifying on ability to pay

Total funding is the most honest public proxy for budget at a private company.

Timing outreach to a raise

Newly funded companies buy. Watching the funding field is how you catch that window.

Scoring inbound

Route a signup differently when the company behind it has raised at scale.

Market mapping

Size a category by who is funded in it and how much they have raised.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Companies with a public profile, worldwide.

Freshness

Read at request time.

Handling

This source returns publicly visible company information, stamped with the URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Profiles are maintained by their owners and the wider community, so completeness varies.
—Undisclosed rounds do not appear, so total funding is a floor rather than a full picture.
—Bootstrapped and very early companies often have no profile at all.

FAQ

Questions, answered

It is read when you make the request, so it is as current as the profile. Profiles usually update within days of an announced round and never reflect undisclosed ones.

Related sources

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