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Founders and executives are the thread that connects companies: who started what, who moved where, who backed whom. Crunchbase keeps that professional record, and through AgentKey your agent reads it the same way it reads everything else — find_tools, describe_tool, execute_tool — resolving a name to a person identifier and then pulling the profile and its related cards.

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What you can ask

  • “Who is the CEO of this company, and where did they work before?”
  • “Which companies has this person founded or invested in?”
  • “Which key executives joined or left this company recently?”
  • “Where did this founder study?”
  • “Which companies announced layoffs this quarter?”
  • “Is this company involved in any legal proceedings?”
  • “Which conferences has this founder spoken at?”
  • “这位创始人的职业履历是什么？“

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What’s covered

People
  • Person lookup by identifier, with cards for degrees, event appearances, founded organizations, jobs, the primary job, participated funding rounds, funds and investments, partner funding rounds and investments, and press references
  • Search people with complex filters expressed in the request body; autocomplete a name to a person identifier
  • Principals — people and organizations under one entity type — lookup and search
Jobs and roles
  • Job lookup, with cards for the organization and the person; search jobs
  • Key employee changes — lookup and search
  • Degrees, with cards for the school organization and the person; search degrees
Workforce and legal events
  • Layoffs — lookup and search; layoff predictions
  • Legal proceedings — lookup and search
  • Event appearances — lookup and search, for speakers and participants at events

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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 — card lookups take a card name, search tools take a structured query body, and the per-call cost is shown there. Resolve the person identifier with autocomplete first.
Building with code? The same capability is available as a fixed-contract Scenario Method with automatic provider failover: business.person.get returns one normalized person profile by provider id.

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FAQ

Only Crunchbase’s professional record: roles, education, founded companies, investments, press mentions and public event appearances. It is a business dataset about public professional activity, read at request time.
Crunchbase covers founders and executives across industries. For crypto KOLs, founders and investors ranked by X influence, see Crypto projects and VCs, backed by RootData.
Yes. Past jobs and degrees sit on the person record alongside the current role, and key-employee changes, layoffs and legal proceedings are searchable records rather than a live snapshot.