Legacy CSV Export

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The below details Crunchbase’s legacy CSV exports

We've updated our Bulk CSV Export as of July 2024 to have parity with our API offering. If you are looking for our Legacy CSV export page, please go here.

Legacy Crunchbase customers may have contractual access to Crunchbase data via CSV export. This legacy method provides a daily snapshot of API fields without coding against the REST API. Each morning, updated CSV files are generated for endpoint collections such as companies, people, funding rounds, acquisitions, and IPOs.

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Your API package determines which CSV files you can download.

For more information on our different API packages, check out this page. The following table outlines which packages have access to our different CSV files:

Accessing the Legacy CSV Export

The CSV export is a daily snapshot of the contents of each API endpoint collection in the Crunchbase dataset. The CSV export is broken out into individual CSV files corresponding to each endpoint collection's contents. To access these CSV files, follow these steps:

Locate your User Key. The user key is a 32 character string that you should have received after signing up for Crunchbase data. If you have not received your user key, please contact support.

Enter URL Into Your Browser. Once you’ve located your user key, type the URL address corresponding to the file you wish to download into your browser, replacing "<user_key>" with the value that you received.

Press Enter Key to Begin Download. Once the correct URL is in the address bar, press “Enter” (or "Return") and the download should begin automatically. If the download does not begin, please contact support.

Unzip the file. You will have downloaded a .zip file containing the CSV you've requested. Unzip the file to begin using the CSV.

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CSVs Format & Encoding

Our CSVs are encoded in UTF-8 and followed the standard CSV format of:

• escape character is "" (double quotes)
• field delimiter is ',' (comma)
• record delimiter is '\n' (new line)

This is a standard CSV format that should behave appropriately if opened with tools or libraries that are configured to the default CSV format listed above.

Understanding the CSV Export's Contents

As a snapshot of the contents of our API, each CSV contains the exact fields for every entity that exists for a given collection. This means that the documentation for a given API endpoint collection's fields correspond directly to each column for the matching CSV.

We recommend using our Data Dictionary to give you a picture of what fields are available in our API and CSV offerings.

By clicking on the Fields (API/CSV) tab, you can see a description of the available fields across all collections available in the API and CSV offerings. You can filter by the 'Data Entity' column to see which fields are available for each collection.

Using the CSV Export

We encourage you to leverage the CSV Export for your internal business and research needs. You are also welcome to publish analysis and aggregate statistics derived from the Crunchbase dataset. Unless otherwise noted in your license or Data Access Terms, you may not license, sublicense, sell, offer to sell, distribute or otherwise provide any of the Crunchbase data to any third parties.

Attribution Requirements

When sharing information about the data, follow these attribution requirements.

• Attribution must be accompanied by a hyperlink to Crunchbase
• If content being attributed is primarily about one entity, link must point to that entity on Crunchbase.
• Link must be plainly visible to end user
• Link must be in close proximity to the attributed data
• Link must be visible to Internet spiders (e.g. Googlebot)
• Link cannot include the “nofollow” tag"