Early Liquidity Event Prediction for Targeting & Research

Persona: Wealth & Asset Manager

Use Case:Prioritize companies predicted to experience a liquidity event

Primary API(s):Lookup a Funding Prediction

Goal: Prioritize companies predicted to experience a liquidity event

You’ve identified a list of target companies that fit your firm’s investment thesis or sector focus. Now you want to uncover which of those companies are most likely to raise capital or experience a liquidity event in the near term. By pulling their latest Funding Prediction and reviewing the probability score and timing window, your team can prioritize outreach and relationship-building before the event becomes public knowledge. Your team builds relationships earlier in the company lifecycle, positioning your firm as a trusted partner before liquidity events occur and gaining a competitive edge in sourcing and mandate capture.

Endpoint

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

API Reference & Documentation

Using Search APIs Search Funding Predictions

Query

Returns organizations with a funding prediction probability of at least 90%, along with their overall confidence score and how that likelihood is distributed across future time windows.

Key Entities:

field_id	What this field does	operator_id (these are the compatible operators per field)
organization	Used to identify the company receiving funding	blank;contains;eq;includes;not_contains;not_eq;not_includes;starts
probability_score	The predicted probability that this Organization will raise a funding round	blank;includes;includes_all;not_includes;not_includes_all
probability_score_timeseries	The date the funding round was announced	Not compatible with operators

Query

Returns organizations with a funding prediction probability of at least 90%, along with their overall confidence score and how that likelihood is distributed across future time windows.

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", "probability_score", "probability_score_timeseries"],
    "query": [
        {
            "field_id": "probability_score",
            "operator_id": "gte",
            "type": "predicate",
            "values": [0.90]
        }
    ]
}

Response

Shows an organization with a ~94% predicted likelihood of raising funding, with the model assigning nearly all of that likelihood to the next 0–5 months and virtually no probability to later time horizons.

{
    "count": 319528,
    "entities": [
        {
            "uuid": "00006401-4ee1-4de4-9a84-1f488bfec572",
            "properties": {
                "organization": {
                    "permalink": "navenio",
                    "image_id": "suyjvlfbt8pxyj5j80gk",
                    "uuid": "a038fe79-16dd-4c0e-aeba-f03296cd12ce",
                    "entity_def_id": "organization",
                    "value": "Navenio"
                },
                "identifier": {
                    "entity_def_id": "funding_prediction",
                    "image_id": "5da17abd92c24b0c92d38c82eb36dca1",
                    "uuid": "00006401-4ee1-4de4-9a84-1f488bfec572",
                    "value": "Funding Prediction 2025-09-27"
                },
                "probability_score": 0.9407,
                "probability_score_timeseries": {
                    "months_24_plus": 6.348899118728951E-5,
                    "months_00_to_05": 0.9999365003751475,
                    "months_12_to_24": 5.721347253335286E-10,
                    "months_06_to_11": 1.006153043838481E-8
                }
            }
        }, 
...

Outcome

In a single API call, we generated a dynamic universe of 300K+ companies with high funding probability scores, instantly surfacing near-term liquidity opportunities.

Lists like these can be fed directly into sourcing, coverage models, CRM workflows, or alerting systems, enabling your team to prioritize high-momentum companies, allocate resources more strategically, and engage decision-makers before capital events become widely known.