Crunchbase’s Legacy CSV Exports Details
Crunchbase has made significant improvements to our data offering including broader data coverage, new endpoints, AI-powered predictive company intelligence, and more.
To support these advancements and to ensure ongoing scalability and support, you are required to migrate your Legacy Crunchbase API Key and CSV plan to a new Crunchbase API Key. This update enables access to Crunchbase’s data quality improvements, enhanced ease-of-use, and ultimately a better support experience.
What’s Changed with Key Access?
Crunchbase has moved away from legacy API keys and introduced new packaging tiers based on access to Crunchbase’s proprietary company intelligence. If you’re a legacy customer, your new API key and CSV access has been provisioned to a package that reflects your current contract and level of access.
This legacy method provides a daily snapshot of API fields without coding against the REST API.
Exports are available in two formats:
NDJSON (Recommended) – preserves nested and complex JSON structures
CSV (Legacy Flat Format) – flattened tabular structure for spreadsheet-based workflows
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:
| Collection | Core/Advanced Firmographics | Core Financials | Advanced Financials | Predictions & Insights |
| Acquisition Predictions | ✔ | |||
| Acquisitions | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Addresses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Awards | ✔ | |||
| Categories | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Category Groups | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Closure Predictions | ✔ | |||
| Competitors (Org_Similarity) | ✔ | |||
| Degrees | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Diversity Spotlights | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Event Appearances | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Events | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Funds | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Funding Predictions | ✔ | |||
| Funding Rounds | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Growth Insights | ✔ | |||
| Growth Predictions | ✔ | |||
| Investments | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Investor Insights | ✔ | |||
| IPO Predictions | ✔ | |||
| IPOs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Jobs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Key Employee Changes | ✔ | |||
| Layoffs | ✔ | |||
| Layoff Predictions | ✔ | |||
| Legal Proceedings | ✔ | |||
| Locations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Organizations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ownerships | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Partnership Announcements | ✔ | |||
| People | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Press References | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Principals | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Products Insights | ✔ | |||
| Product Launches | ✔ | |||
| Research and Development (R&D) | ✔ | |||
| Remain Private Predictions | ✔ |
Accessing the NDJSON endpoints
NDJSON (Newline Delimited JSON) preserves nested and complex JSON structures without flattening relationships or losing data fidelity.
Each export is delivered as a compressed .zip file containing a .ndjson file. Each line in the file represents one valid JSON object (one record per line).
To access these NDJSON files with your new Crunchbase API key, follow these steps:
Reminder — Unlock your New API Key Retrieve your new API key by logging in to Crunchbase. This is found within Account Settings > Integrations > Crunchbase API. As mentioned in the previous article, you’ll see your updated API package (the package will be reflective of your legacy plan’s access). Click “Show Key” to access your new API key.
Enter URL Into Your Browser. Once you’ve located your new API 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 NDJSON/CSV you've requested. Unzip the file to begin using the file.
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.
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"