# Crunchbase

Crunchbase is a business intelligence platform that provides company information, funding data, and market insights for private and public companies worldwide.

## Overview

Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies.

## Authentication

To authenticate with the Crunchbase connector you will need a user key which is emailed to you following registration.
![auth.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-f36c33a6_auth.png)

## Using Search operations

The connector has a number of multi purpose operations that allow you to search several endpoints to generate a variety or responses depending on your needs.
As an example we'll look at how you can use the Search Organization endpoint.

### Search for a list of organization summaries

* A basic search operation that will return a list of all organizations on the crunchbase database along with their summaries
  ![empty-search.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-64e2d20e_empty-search.png)

### Search for an organization

* Narrow the above search by querying the crunchbase API with a search **query** that could be an alias or a short description
* For example in the below search we query 'alphabet' which returns a list of 8 potential matches including the organization summary of Google's parent company Alphabet
  ![alphabet-query-input.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-6a2d7bed_alphabet-query-input.png)
  ![alphabet-output.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-ccecf9f9_alphabet-output.png)

### Search for information on organization

* To get more detailed information on a company and its relationships we can make a GET request by passing in the organizations permalink (a unique identifier that can be found a previous response). The response will include a list of all the organizations relationships capped at 10 per relationship.
  ![tray-info.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-2fc13efe_tray-info.png)
* Note that all other inputs must be excluded
  ![tray-org-summary.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-db843289_tray-org-summary.png)

### Search for an organization's relationships

* The crunchbase API also makes it possible to filter the relationships that is returned from the API
* To do this under the **Filter** input we need to first select 'Search relationships'
* Then from the drop down you select the relationship(s) for the endpoint you want returned from the API
* Below we search the orgnizations endpoint that returns a response that contains Tray.io's **Founders** relationship
  ![tray-rel-founders-panel.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-d80e963c_tray-rel-founders-panel.png)
  ![tray-rel-founders-output.png](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/connectors/service/crunchbase/0745c457-e5d35564_tray-rel-founders-output.png)