Crunchbase Company MCP server

Registry name: io.github.johnisanerd/crunchbase-company. Maintained by AlphaOSINT (Apify developer johnvc, GitHub johnisanerd).

What it does

Look up companies by Crunchbase organization URL and get funding rounds and totals, investors, industries, headquarters, employee count, rank and operating status.

Funding and investor data for named companies, rather than a search across the whole database. Use it for account research, investor diligence and enriching a company list.

Paid service on Apify’s hosted endpoint

This server is not self-hosted. It runs on Apify’s hosted MCP endpoint (mcp.apify.com), which starts the Apify Actor johnvc/crunchbase-company-api for each tool call. You need an Apify account, and every call is billed to that account at the Actor’s prices below. Apify’s own pricing and terms apply to the account.

Prices shown are Apify’s free-plan rates; paid Apify plans get lower per-event prices. Apify also bills a token amount per run start and per stored row ($0.00001, $0.00001). Prices change from time to time; the Actor’s page on Apify shows the current ones.

Data source and terms

Crunchbase’s public organization pages, collected by scraping. The server returns the data as published at the time of the call. You are responsible for using it in line with the source’s terms and the laws that apply to you. AlphaOSINT is not affiliated with the source.

Endpoint

• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api
• Auth: Apify OAuth, or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>

Setup

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http crunchbase-company "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

{
  "servers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
    }
  }
}

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop (Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL). Older versions without remote connectors can bridge through mcp-remote in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crunchbase-company": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=johnvc/crunchbase-company-api"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Each client opens an Apify sign-in (OAuth) on first use. To use a token instead, send Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN> as a header; create one under Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.

Tools

Apify’s endpoint adds the four helper tools automatically whenever an Actor tool is loaded.

Parameters of johnvc--crunchbase-company-api

Example arguments:

{
  "helloWorld": 123
}

Output

The tool returns JSON rows with these fields.

Links

• Actor on Apify: johnvc/crunchbase-company-api
• Data source page on AlphaOSINT: /sources/crunchbase-company-api/
• All AlphaOSINT MCP servers: /mcp/