What does Crunchbase do?
- Holds company profiles with firmographics, funding history, investors, acquisitions and press references, searchable through Advanced Search, AI Search and its Scout assistant.
- Scores companies with growth and heat scores and publishes forecasts: funding, acquisition, IPO and remain-private predictions, which Crunchbase says refresh weekly.
- Exports up to 2,000 rows a month on Pro, with up to 1,000 results per search and up to 100 saved lists and searches.
- Pushes companies and contacts to Salesforce or HubSpot on Business, up to 50 accounts at a time, and filters searches to exclude accounts already in the CRM.
- Connects ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity through its MCP server on every paid plan, with higher MCP usage on Business.
- Feeds Clay through 17 listed actions, from latest funding round and investors to competitors, acquisitions and funding predictions.
Where does Crunchbase fit in a GTM engineering stack?
Crunchbase is the funding and private-company signal layer in a GTM engineering stack: it tells you which accounts just raised, who backed them and which are predicted to raise next, so outbound lands at a moment of new budget.
- 1Clay pulls a target account list and runs Crunchbase's latest funding round and investors actions
- 2A formula keeps accounts that raised Series A to C in the last 90 days
- 3Prospeo or FullEnrich finds and verifies emails for the relevant buyers
- 4Copy references the round and investors, and contacts enter a Smartlead or lemlist sequence
- 5Business users push won-fit accounts to HubSpot or Salesforce with funding fields attached
See how every layer connects in Clay integrations: how the GTM engineering stack fits together.
How do you use Crunchbase?
Crunchbase's official walkthrough, from the Crunchbase YouTube channel.
How much does Crunchbase cost?
Prices as shown on Crunchbase's pricing page on 17 October 2026 (USD). Free plan: Yes. A free account gives access to company profiles, search results, AI-powered research and Crunchbase MCP, with usage limits. Free trial: 7-day free trial on Pro (monthly or annual). Data exports start when the paid subscription begins.
Free
$0
Free
Company profiles, search results, AI research and MCP, with usage limits.
Pro
$49/month billed annually, or $99/month billed monthly
Annual or monthly
1 seat. Annual price shown against $79 with 'Save 38% on Annual first Year'. Full private-company profiles, insights and forecasts, AI Search, Scout, base MCP usage, up to 100 lists and saved searches, 2,000 export rows/month, up to 1,000 results per search, Chrome extension. No CRM integrations.
Business
Starting at $199/month billed annually
Annual, via sales
Everything in Pro plus higher MCP usage, CRM and workflow integrations, more export capability, SSO and team management.
Custom Data Solutions
Custom
Contact sales
Enterprise MCP access, scaled API access, cloud storage and data-warehouse delivery, dedicated support.
The $49 annual Pro price is a first-year discount for new annual users (38% off a $79 list price). Cancel Pro from Subscriptions & Billing; cancelling during the trial keeps access until the trial ends. Licensed data for your own applications and programmatic API access are sold as Custom Data Solutions.
Who is Crunchbase best for?
A good fit if you
- Funding-triggered outbound: reaching companies shortly after a round, or before one when using Crunchbase's funding predictions.
- Selling to startups and venture-backed companies, where funding stage and investors are part of the ICP.
- Clay tables that need investor, funding and acquisition columns, since Clay lists 12 Crunchbase actions that run on Clay credits.
- Account research inside AI assistants, with Crunchbase MCP included on Pro and Business.
Look elsewhere if you
- Finding verified emails at scale: Crunchbase is a company dataset first, so contacts still need a provider such as Prospeo or FullEnrich.
- Teams wanting CRM sync on a single-seat plan, because CRM and workflow integrations are on Business, not Pro.
- Bulk data pulls on Pro: exports are capped at 2,000 rows a month and only start once a paid subscription begins.
- Mature, non-venture-backed companies whose growth is not marked by funding events.
Does Crunchbase integrate with Clay and your CRM?
- Clay
- Native Clay integration. Clay lists a Clay-built Crunchbase integration on all Clay plans. Twelve actions run on Clay credits or your own account, including basic company info, financials, growth and heat scores, investors, latest funding round, press references, acquisitions and person profiles. Funding predictions, company insights and predictions require your own Crunchbase account. Competitors and principal investment activity are also listed. (source)
- Integrations
- Crunchbase Business integrates with Salesforce and HubSpot (push companies and contacts, bulk push of 50 accounts, CRM-aware search filters, shared CRM connection). All paid plans include ChatGPT and Claude via MCP and a Chrome extension; Custom Data Solutions adds API and data-warehouse delivery. Clay is a separate native integration. (source)
- GDPR
- Crunchbase's GDPR Privacy Notice (effective 26 November 2024) names Crunchbase as controller of personal data it processes, including person-profile data gathered from users, public web sources and third-party data providers, and lists legal bases such as legitimate interests and consent. Requests go to privacy@crunchbase.com, with EEA and UK representatives named. Crunchbase says it has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance. (source)
- Data coverage
- Crunchbase says it tracks 39B live private-market signals, processes 30M+ verified updates a year and refreshes 15M+ predictions weekly, and claims to have predicted 84% of real-world funding rounds. It describes its pipeline as direct input, engagement signals, proprietary ingestion, trusted sources and analyst validation. It also says 2.6 million actions have been run on Crunchbase data in Clay. These are vendor claims. (source)
What are the best Crunchbase alternatives?
Other enrichment and orchestration tools that do the same job in a GTM engineering stack, with their own trade-offs.
Company signals API: job openings, news events, technologies, financing and connections, sourced from company websites.
- Pricing
- Free 100 credits/mo; then $40/mo min
- Free trial
- Trial API access is mentioned; duration and credit amount are not stated.
Public web data provider selling company, employee and job-posting records through credit-based APIs and bulk datasets.
- Pricing
- $49/mo
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial (2,000 credits).
Enterprise B2B data and intelligence platform: contacts, company records, intent topics and workflows, sold by annual contract.
- Pricing
- Contact sales
- Free trial
- A free trial is offered for the sales plans (Professional, Copilot Advanced, Copilot Enterprise). The marketing plans are 'Get a demo' only.
Developer-first person, company, job posting and IP data via API or bulk licence, billed per match.
- Pricing
- Free plan; Pro from $98/mo
- Free trial
- None listed
Crunchbase FAQs
How do I find recently funded companies with Crunchbase?
Crunchbase surfaces recently funded companies through Advanced Search, AI Search and its Scout assistant, and you can keep the results as saved searches and lists. In Clay, the 'latest funding round' action adds the round to each account so a formula can filter by recency. Pro caps direct exports at 2,000 rows a month.
Does Crunchbase have contact emails?
Crunchbase includes people and contacts in its plans, and Business allows pushing contacts to HubSpot or Salesforce. It is built around company and funding data rather than verified email coverage, so most GTM engineers run a dedicated email provider after Crunchbase identifies the accounts.
Is the Crunchbase API included with Pro?
No. Crunchbase sells scaled API access and data delivery as Custom Data Solutions, priced through sales. Pro and Business include MCP access for AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT, with usage limits per plan. Clay users can reach Crunchbase data through Clay's integration on Clay credits.
What are Crunchbase funding predictions?
Crunchbase forecasts which private companies are likely to raise funding, be acquired, go public or stay private, and says it refreshes 15M+ predictions weekly. In Clay, the funding predictions action requires your own Crunchbase account rather than Clay credits.
Can I use Crunchbase for free?
Yes, a free Crunchbase account gives access to company profiles, search results, AI research and the MCP server, with usage limits. Exports, full-depth profiles, forecasts and higher limits need Pro, which includes a 7-day free trial.
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Checked on 17 October 2026.
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