Goal: Prioritize accounts predicted to raise funding though a list of highly targeted companies in Crunchbase that meet your ICP. Uncover their latest Funding Prediction so your team can reach out early to establish the relationship before your competitors do. This means that when the company does receive its round of funding, your company is already their vendor of choice.

Persona: GTM

Use Case: Prioritize ICP accounts predicted to raise funding

Primary API(s): Search (Organizations) & Lookup a Funding Prediction

Step 1:

Search for a Funding Prediction

In this step, we’ll request the latest Funding Prediction for a specific company to uncover its likelihood of future funding.

Endpoint

https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/searches/funding_predictions

API Reference & Documentation

Search funding predictions
Using search APIs

Query

For the first part of this exercise, we’re going to search for the latest Funding Prediction for the company Writer via (UUID: a3674669-6d9e-4f70-895f-3c8c99bcb7ad):

Key Fields for this Query

field_id	What this field does	operator_id (these are the compatible operators per field)
organization	Filter by the organization’s UUID. For this example, we’re using the company Writer, with the UUID: a3674669-6d9e-4f70-895f-3c8c99bcb7ad)	blank;contains;eq;includes;not_contains;not_eq;not_includes;starts

Now that we have the field_id defined, here is the sample query we can run that will search for the available Funding Predictions for the company Writer:

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/searches/funding_predictions \
     --header 'X-cb-user-key: dac9eef1292e432a8a94XXXXXXXXXXXX' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "field_ids": [
    "organization"
  ],
  "query": [
    {
      "field_id": "organization",
      "operator_id": "includes",
      "type": "predicate",
      "values": [
        "a3674669-6d9e-4f70-895f-3c8c99bcb7ad"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
'

Response

The response contains 10 Funding Prediction entities, with the date of each prediction and their unique identifier (UUID). This UUID can be used to get more information about that specific Funding Prediction.

❗️
The response below is condensed to show 1 of the 10 funding predictions, and does not contain the entire response from the API

{
  "count": 10,
  "entities": [
    {
      "uuid": "3f62c086-138a-43cf-87ba-3a9e7f3f6c9c",
      "properties": {
        "identifier": {
          "entity_def_id": "funding_prediction",
          "uuid": "3f62c086-138a-43cf-87ba-3a9e7f3f6c9c",
          "value": "Funding Prediction 2025-09-22",
          "image_id": "81cfc38feb1a47878d8b160476c4144a"
        },
        "organization": {
          "permalink": "writer",
          "image_id": "jqgtyt2qclr1ikl5mpjv",
          "uuid": "a3674669-6d9e-4f70-895f-3c8c99bcb7ad",
          "entity_def_id": "organization",
          "value": "Writer"
        }
      }
    },

Outcome

By using the Search FundingPrediction Entities endpoint, we’re able to query Crunchbase for a list of all the funding predictions for specific companies within our ICP. From here, we can take the latest one and retrieve all the information about it (more on that below).

Step 2:

Retrieve the data for the latest Funding Prediction for Writer

Goal: Now that we have a list of the Funding Predictions for the company Writer, we’re now going to query Crunchbase for the latest one, and retrieve all the information we have for that prediction - including projected timing and probability score — to determine the likelihood and expected timeline of the funding event. These fields can be integrated into scoring models, CRM updates, or notification systems to trigger downstream workflows based on funding likelihood.

Endpoint

https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/entities/funding_predictions/\{entity_id}

API Reference & Documentation

Get funding prediction
Using entity lookup APIs

Query

For the second part of this exercise, we’re going to retrieve the data behind the latest funding prediction that we found in the previous query (above) using its unique identifier (UUID):

Key Fields for this Query

field_id	What this field means
created_at	The date when this prediction was created and added to our graph
probability_score	The predicted probability that this Organization will receive funding
probability_score_timeseries	Provides a timeframe for when we expect this prediction to come true
probability_tier	The predicted probability of this organization raising funds is divided into distinct tiers that quantify the likelihood of this event.

Now that we have the field_ids defined, here is the sample query we can run that will retrieve the underlying data for the Funding Prediction and the fields in the table above

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/entities/funding_predictions/81bb80ba-9bf9-4fb7-8d43-0800a09657c4?field_ids=created_at,probability_score,probability_score_timeseries,organization,probability_tier&card_ids=' \
     --header 'X-cb-user-key: dac9eef1292e432a8a94XXXXXXXXXXXX' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

Response

The response contains the specific details behind the latest Funding Prediction, including Crunchbase’s level of confidence (probability) and timeseries data (when we think the funding event will happen).

{
  "properties": {
    "organization": {
      "uuid": "a3674669-6d9e-4f70-895f-3c8c99bcb7ad",
      "value": "Writer",
      "image_id": "jqgtyt2qclr1ikl5mpjv",
      "permalink": "writer",
      "entity_def_id": "organization"
    },
    "identifier": {
      "uuid": "81bb80ba-9bf9-4fb7-8d43-0800a09657c4",
      "value": "Funding Prediction 2025-10-25",
      "image_id": "35429ad1989b4996a19407e018d6460a",
      "entity_def_id": "funding_prediction"
    },
    "probability_score": 0.9385,
    "created_at": "2025-10-25T16:58:36Z",
    "probability_tier": "p200_positive_low",
    "probability_score_timeseries": {
      "months_24_plus": 0.000007017093258889777,
      "months_00_to_05": 0.9999927168195302,
      "months_06_to_11": 1.136322591185592e-7,
      "months_12_to_24": 1.52454951763353e-7
    }
  }
}

Outcome

From this response, we’re able to conclude:

It is probable that Writer will raise another funding round

If they raise again, we believe there is a 94% chance it would happen in the next 6 months.

Having this level of detail on what’s coming around the corner allows your teams to know which companies to target before your competitors do