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Access CB Insights data via API: company profiles, funding rounds, competitor maps, investor portfolios, unicorn list, and research reports. 10 endpoints.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/8955883e-2d79-4f76-890d-6c5c05d3baf5/search_companies_and_investors?query=stripe' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Search for companies and investors by query string. Returns matching suggestions with slugs, types, and URLs.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| queryrequired | string | Search keyword (e.g. 'stripe', 'fintech payments') |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"numResults": "integer total number of matching results",
"suggestions": "array of matching companies/investors with name, slug, resultType, and url"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"numResults": 5,
"suggestions": [
{
"url": "stripe.com",
"name": "Stripe",
"slug": "stripe",
"Alias": "",
"resultType": "COMPANY_RESULT_TYPE"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the cbinsights.com API
The CB Insights API covers 10 endpoints that expose company financials, investor profiles, competitor maps, the unicorn list, and research reports. Starting with search_companies_and_investors, you can resolve any company or investor name to a slug, then pass that slug to endpoints for funding history, management team data, competitor names, or a full investor portfolio with exits and investments.
Company Data
get_company_overview returns a company's name, about text, recent news articles with a result count, market positioning data (esps), key statistics, and analyst insights that include competitor references and client relationships. get_company_financials returns individual funding round objects — each with a date, round label, amount, and investor list — plus a total_raised summary. Note that some funding fields may be blurred for companies where CB Insights gates data behind a subscription. get_company_people returns a people object that includes funding detail with valuation and revenue data alongside metadata. get_company_competitors returns a flat map of competitor slugs to display names, useful for building a peer-comparison dataset.
Investor and Unicorn Data
get_investor_profile accepts an investor slug (e.g. andreessen-horowitz) and returns a portfolio of investments and exits, each with total result counts, plus recent news and any expert collections the investor appears in. get_unicorn_list requires no inputs and returns every unicorn company CB Insights tracks, with fields for company name, valuation in billions, date joined, country, city, industry, and select investors — ready for filtering and analysis without any additional parameters.
Research and Newsletters
get_research_reports returns a list of current CB Insights reports, briefs, and webinars — each with a title, URL, and summary. Passing a report's slug to get_research_report_detail retrieves the full text content of that report alongside its title and canonical URL. get_newsletter_latest returns the URL and title of the most recent CB Insights newsletter issue.
- Build a funding-round tracker by polling
get_company_financialsfor a watchlist of company slugs - Generate competitor matrices using
get_company_competitorsto map peer relationships across an industry - Monitor unicorn valuations and new entrants with
get_unicorn_listfiltered by country or industry field - Enrich CRM records with company descriptions and key stats from
get_company_overview - Analyze a VC firm's active portfolio and exits using
get_investor_profileinvestments and exits arrays - Surface the latest analyst research and report summaries with
get_research_reportsfor an internal digest - Resolve company and investor names to slugs at scale via
search_companies_and_investorsbefore downstream lookups
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does CB Insights have an official developer API?+
What does `get_company_financials` return, and are all funding fields available?+
get_company_financials returns an array of funding round objects — each with a date, round type, amount, and investor list — plus a total_raised value. For some companies, CB Insights gates detailed financial data behind a subscription, so certain amount or investor fields may appear blurred or null in the response.Does the unicorn list endpoint support filtering by industry or country?+
get_unicorn_list returns all unicorn records in a single response with fields for country, city, and industry included in each object. Server-side filtering is not a parameter — filtering must be applied client-side against those fields after you receive the full list.Does the API expose company valuation history or post-money valuations per round?+
get_company_financials returns funding round amounts and investor names, and get_company_people includes some valuation and revenue data, but a structured per-round post-money valuation history is not a dedicated field. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add an endpoint targeting that data.