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Persona: Researchers / Analysts

Use Case: Prioritize ICP accounts that are predicted to experience growth

Primary API: Search (Organizations)

Goal: You’re building a market landscape and need to quickly identify which companies in your target industry or region are gaining momentum. By filtering for recent funding activity, you can surface and prioritize the companies most likely to grow. By focusing on high-momentum accounts, you enable faster prioritization and more strategic outreach to companies positioned for growth.

Endpoint

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

API Reference & Documentation

Using Search APIs
Search Organizations

Query

This query returns software companies headquartered in California that have raised funding since January 1, 2025, along with their most recent funding date, amount, and round type.

Results are sorted by most recent funding activity, highlighting the most recently funded companies first.

Key Entities

field_id	What this field does	operator_id (these are the compatible operators per field)
identifier	Identifies the company	blank;contains;eq;includes;not_contains;not_eq;not_includes;starts
location_identifiers	Identifies the headquarters of the organization	blank;includes;includes_all;not_includes;not_includes_all
short_description	Includes a short description of the company	blank;contains;not_contains
category_groups	Identifies a list of industry groups associated with the company	blank;includes;includes_all;not_includes;not_includes_all
last_funding_at	Filters by the date of company's last funding round	between;blank;eq;gte;lte
last_funding_total	Filters by the amount of company's last funding round	between;blank;eq;gt;gte;lt;lte;not_eq
last_funding_type	Identifies the company's last funding type excluding debt	blank;eq;includes;not_eq;not_includes

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/searches/organizations \
     --header 'X-cb-user-key: dac9eef1292e432a8a94XXXXXXXXXXXX' \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "field_ids": ["identifier", "last_funding_at", "last_funding_total", "last_funding_type"
  ],
  "query": [
    {
      "type": "predicate",
      "field_id": "category_groups",
      "operator_id": "includes",
      "values": ["software-85b6"]
    },
    {
      "type": "predicate",
      "field_id": "location_identifiers",
      "operator_id": "includes",
      "values": ["california-united-states"]
    },
    {
      "type": "predicate",
      "field_id": "last_funding_at",
      "operator_id": "gte",
      "values": ["2025-01-01"]
    }
  ],
    "order": [
        {
            "sort": "desc",
            "field_id": "last_funding_at"
        }
    ],
  "limit": 5
}

Response

The response shows matching companies, with each result returning the organization’s identity and most recent funding details.

In the highlighted example, MagicCube most recently raised a $10M funding round on January 11, 2026.

    {
    "count": 2663,
    "entities": [
        {
            "uuid": "baaacb59-1024-4c5c-ba71-8ff539842c07",
            "properties": {
                "identifier": {
                    "permalink": "sophia-space",
                    "image_id": "1783d14974e244f4ba61791ccf39de2b",
                    "uuid": "baaacb59-1024-4c5c-ba71-8ff539842c07",
                    "entity_def_id": "organization",
                    "value": "Sophia Space"
                },
                "last_funding_type": "seed",
                "last_funding_at": "2026-01-09",
                "last_funding_total": {
                    "value_usd": 245542,
                    "currency": "USD",
                    "value": 245542
                }
            }
        },
...

Outcome

With a single API call, we identified over thousnads of California-based companies that match your ICP, instantly forming the foundation of your market landscape.