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Who funded a company, at what stage, alongside whom, and what happened next — acquisition, IPO or quiet closure — is the core of venture research, and it lives in Crunchbase’s funding, investment and transaction records. Through AgentKey your agent reads those records the same way it reads everything else — find_tools, describe_tool, execute_tool — from a single round to a filtered search across every deal.

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What you can ask

  • “Who led Anthropic’s latest round, and how much did it raise?”
  • “List the Series A rounds in climate tech announced this quarter.”
  • “Which investors most often co-invest with a16z?”
  • “Has this company been acquired, and by whom?”
  • “Which companies went public this year in Europe?”
  • “Is this startup likely to raise again soon?”
  • “Which funds has Sequoia raised, and who invested in them?”
  • “这家公司最近一轮融资的投资方有哪些？“

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What’s covered

Funding rounds
  • Funding round lookup, with cards for investments, investors, lead investors, the funded organization, partners and press references
  • Search funding rounds with complex filters expressed in the request body
Investments and investors
  • Individual investment lookup, with cards for the funding round, investor, organization and partner
  • Search investments
  • Investor insights and investor matches — lookup and search
Funds
  • Fund lookup, with cards for the fund’s investors, its owner and press references
  • Search funds
Acquisitions and IPOs
  • Acquisition lookup, with cards for the acquiree, the acquirer and press references; search acquisitions
  • IPO lookup, with cards for the organization and press references; search IPOs
Predictions and insights
  • Funding, acquisition, IPO, growth, closure, layoff and remain-private predictions — lookup and search
  • Growth insights and research insights — lookup and search

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How to use it

Pass the request in plain language and let the router pick the tool:
Both English and Chinese phrasing work. Always describe_tool before executing — search tools take a structured query body, card lookups take a card name, and the per-call cost is shown there. Resolve the organization or person identifier first.
Building with code? The same capability is available as a fixed-contract Scenario Method with automatic provider failover: business.company.funding lists the funding rounds a company raised, newest first.

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FAQ

Crunchbase records crypto companies as it does any other. For token projects, VC funds and rounds specific to Web3, see Crypto projects and VCs, backed by RootData.
Crunchbase-derived forward-looking signals — whether an organization is likely to raise, be acquired, go public, grow, close, lay off staff or remain private — exposed as entities you can look up for one company or search across many.
Yes. Funding rounds, investments, acquisitions and IPOs are dated historical records, and the search tools filter on those dates. Everything is fetched at request time.