Organization

An Organization, in Crunchbase, is a business. That generally means that it can employee People, receive Funding Rounds, launch Products, and have both Competitors and Customers.

Currently, Organizations can be one of the following types:

Company
Investment Firm / Group
School

Organizations can also "belong" to other Organizations. For example, Crunchbase was once a Brand of AOL.

Properties

property	type	description
permalink	String	unique identifier within "Organization" namespace
api_path	Path
web_path	Path
name	String	User-friendly name (as presented on CrunchBase)
also_known_as	Array of String	Aliases and previous names
short_description	String	<= 140 characters
description	String	Long description.
profile_image_url	String
primary_role	String	"company","investor","school", "group"
role_company	Boolean	Does this Organization act as a Company?
role_investor	Boolean	Does this Organization act as an Investor?
role_group	Boolean	Does this Organization act as a Group?
role_school	Boolean	Does this Organization act as a School?
founded_on	Date	YYYY-MM-DD
founded_on_trust_code	TrustCode
is_closed	Boolean
closed_on	Date	YYYY-MM-DD
closed_on_trust_code	TrustCode
num_employees_min	Integer
num_employees_max	Integer
total_funding_usd	Integer
stock_exchange	String	See Stock Exchanges
stock_symbol	String	The symbol under which the Organization trades on the stock_exchange
number_of_investments	Integer
homepage_url	Url	Fully-qualified URL
created_at	Timestamp
updated_at	Timestamp
permalink_aliases	String
api_url	URL
investor_type	String
contact_email	String
phone_number	String
rank	Integer

Relationships

name	cardinality	type
primary_image	one-to-one	Image
founders	one-to-many	Person
featured_team	one-to-many	Job
current_team	one-to-many	Job
past_team	one-to-many	Job
board_members_and_advisors	many-to-many	Job
investors	many-to-many	Organization or Person
owned_by	many-to-one	Organization
sub_organizations	one-to-many	Organization
headquarters	one-to-one	Address
offices	one-to-many	Address
products	one-to-many	Note: This node has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
categories	many-to-many	Category
customers	many-to-many	Note: This data has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
competitors	many-to-many	Note: This data has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
members	many-to-many	Note: This data has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
memberships	many-to-one	Note: This data has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
funding_rounds	one-to-many	FundingRound
investments	one-to-many	InvestorInvestment
acquisitions	one-to-many	Acquisition
acquired_by	one-to-one	Acquisition
ipo	one-to-one	Ipo
funds	one-to-many	Fund
websites	one-to-many	Website
images	one-to-one	Image
videos	one-to-many	Note: This data has been deprecated so this will return an empty array
news	many-to-many	News