Crunchbase retired the Basic API and stopped issuing new keys — so every remaining integration runs on a credential with no recovery path. If you were using it to track funding and M&A, Fundz is a direct replacement with published pricing, redistribution rights included, and an MCP server for agent-based teams.
“We are no longer offering our Basic API.”
“If you have already generated a Basic API Key, you may still view it but you will no longer be able to regenerate new ones.”
— Crunchbase developer documentation, data.crunchbase.com
Read that the way an engineer reads it. The key still works — until the day it doesn't. Rotate it during a security review, lose it in a departing employee's account, leak it in a client bundle, and there is no self-serve way to issue another one. That is a production dependency with no recovery path, and it is not a risk that improves with time.
Crunchbase is two products sold as one: a research terminal that analysts browse, and a data feed that engineers call. If your team lives in the UI building lists and reading profiles, a feed is not a replacement and we will not pretend otherwise.
But a large number of API customers only ever wanted the second thing — a reliable stream of who just raised, who just got acquired, who just changed leadership — piped into a product, a CRM, a dashboard, or lately an agent. If that is you, you have been buying a terminal to power a feed. Fundz sells only the feed, at a published price, with redistribution included.
| What you were calling Crunchbase for | The Fundz equivalent |
|---|---|
| Organization lookup + funding_rounds endpoint | GET /companies/:id — funding, investors, exec moves, M&A and SEC filings in one response |
| Polling for new funding rounds | The funding feed, filtered to your criteria |
| Acquisitions endpoint | M&A events in the same fused company object |
| People / leadership changes | Executive-change signals on the company record |
| (no Crunchbase equivalent) | SEC Form D fund-formation feed — new private-fund raises, direct from EDGAR |
Most funding-tracking code gets shorter, because one call returns the fused company object instead of several endpoints you were joining yourself. Send us the filter you care about and we will build it and hand back the exact API call — that is ten minutes of our time and it is usually the whole migration.
Increasingly the thing that wants this data is not a dashboard — it is an agent. Fundz ships a published MCP server (@fundzwatch/mcp-server, also on Smithery), so funding, executive-change, M&A and SEC-filing signals arrive as 14 tools your agent calls directly — seven of them work with no key at all. There is no client library to write and no schema to learn before you can evaluate it. Works in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and Cline; requires Node 18+.
The whole path is: grab a free key, paste the config block it hands you, and your agent is querying live funding data. For agent-native teams that is the shortest route there is from “someone should look at this” to running in production.
Published, priced on API volume rather than seats, redistribution rights included at every tier: $149/mo (5,000 calls) · $500/mo (25,000) · $1,500/mo (100,000) · $3,000/mo (250,000). Effective cost per lookup falls from $0.030 to $0.012 as you climb. Crunchbase's published API rates are $49/mo Basic (retired) and $99/mo Pro. See the full ladder.
Test it first. Get a working key on the spot — no card, no sales call — and let your engineering team check coverage and response shape on the companies you actually care about before anyone signs anything. Get a free API key now, or read the API overview first.
Yes. Crunchbase's own documentation states "We are no longer offering our Basic API," and adds that if you have already generated a Basic API Key, "you may still view it but you will no longer be able to regenerate new ones." Crunchbase also ended free API access. In practice that means existing Basic integrations run on a credential that cannot be replaced if it is ever rotated, leaked, or lost.
It depends on what you use it for. If you use Crunchbase mainly as a research terminal — browsing, list-building, analyst workflows — replacing it with a feed will not suit you. If you use the API to power funding and M&A signals inside your own product or workflow, that is exactly what the Fundz API does, at published prices: $149/mo for 5,000 API calls, $500/mo for 25,000, $1,500/mo for 100,000, and $3,000/mo for 250,000, with redistribution rights included at every tier.
For most funding-tracking integrations it is a field-mapping exercise rather than a rewrite. One GET /companies/:id call returns funding, investors, executive moves, M&A and SEC filings fused into a single response, so code that previously stitched several Crunchbase endpoints together usually gets shorter. There is a field-mapping guide, and we will build your first filter and hand you the exact API call.
Yes — that is data licensing, and redistribution rights are included at every published tier. This is a common reason teams move: it is priced on API volume rather than per seat, and the rates are published so you can budget it without a sales cycle.
Yes. Fundz publishes an MCP server — @fundzwatch/mcp-server on npm, and listed on Smithery — exposing 14 tools covering funding events, executive changes, M&A, market pulse and watchlists. Seven work with no API key at all. It runs in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and Cline and requires Node 18 or later. Get a free key at /api-trial and it hands you the config block to paste, so there is no client library to write and no integration project before you can evaluate it.
Yes. You can request a free API key in seconds at /api-trial — no card and no sales call — so your engineering team can verify coverage and response shape on the companies you actually care about before anyone signs anything. It includes 500 API calls a month against live production data.
Fundz data licensing: $149 / $500 / $1,500 / $3,000 per month, published. Redistribution rights at every tier.