Data Specification

Financial Orgs

Key Description Sample Value
name Short name of the financial organization. Accel
full_name Proper name of the financial organization. Accel Partners
total_invested Total capital invested. Note: this is just a sum of the amounts of all rounds the firm was involved in. So, this is a very inflated estimate (particularly for firms involved in later-stage investing). 9428541785
num_companies Integer value, total number of companies invested in. 301
industries Object with industries as keys and the number of companies of that industriy in the financial org's portfolio as values
round_codes Object with round codes as keys and the number of rounds of that type the financial org's has invested in as values

Example JSON

{
    "name": "Accel",
    "full_name": "Accel Partners",
    "total_invested": 9428541785, 
    "num_companies": 301
    "industries": {...},
    "round_codes": {...},
}

Industries

Industries, industry objects

Industries, industry objects

Key Description Sample Value
name Industry name network_hosting
children Array of company objects (see below) (see below)

Industries, company objects

Key Description Sample Value
name Company proper name Dropbox
permalink Company permalink, for lookup in other data, or from the Crunchbase API (sometimes this is different altogether from the plaintext name) dropbox
founded Integer value, year founded, may be null. 2007
industry Industry category network_hosting
tags Comma-delimited list of tags describing the company. May be null. techcrunch50, tc50, file-storage
overview Description of the company. May be null. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service [...]
city City the company is located in. May be null. San Francisco
state State the company is located in (US postal code). May be null. CA
country Country the company is located in (abbreviation). May be null. USA
twitter_handle Company's Twitter handle. May be null. Dropbox
crunchbase_url URL to the company's Crunchbase profile. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox
url URL to the company's website. May be null. http://www.dropbox.com/
image_url URL to the company's logo. May be null. http://img.talkandroid.com/uploads/2012/12/Dropbox-Logo.png
people List of founders, co-founders, CEOs, etc. Array of person objects, which have two attributes, name and title. May be null.
employees Integer value, number of employees. May be null. 642
total_raised Integer value, total amount raised (sum of all rounds) 607200000
children Array of round objects, ordered by date (see below) (see below)

Industries, round objects

Key Description Sample Value
date Date of the round as a string in form MM/DD/YY 02/05/13
amount Integer value, total raised in the round (by all investors). May be null. 2500000
currency Currency used in the amount value. Almost always USD. USD
round_code Type of round as a string. seed
investors Array of investor names (strings) that were involved in the round. These are their proper names, not permalinks. ['Accel Partners',]
source_url URL to a news article about the round. May be null http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-raises-250m-in-funding-boasts-45-million-users/
source_title Headline for the source article. May be null Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users

Example JSON

{
    "name": "network_hosting",
    "children": [
        {
            "children": [
                    {
                        "amount": 1200000,
                        "currency": "USD",
                        "date": "09/04/08",
                        "investors": [
                            "Sequoia Capital"
                        ],
                        "name": "seed",
                        "source_url": "http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/secretive-storage-company-dropbox-took-sequoia-funding-in-2007/",
                        "source_title": null,
                    },
                ],
            "city": "San Francisco",
            "company_permalink": "dropbox",
            "country": "USA",
            "crunchbase_url": "http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox",
            "employees": 642,
            "image_url": "http://img.talkandroid.com/uploads/2012/12/Dropbox-Logo.png",
            "industry": "network_hosting",
            "investors": [
                "T. Rowe Price",
                "Greylock Partners",
                "Institutional Venture Partners",
                "Goldman Sachs",
                "Sequoia Capital",
                "Valiant Capital Partners",
                "Glynn Capital Management",
                "Index Ventures",
                "Accel Partners",
                "RIT Capital Partners",
                "BlackRock",
                "SV Angel",
                "Benchmark"
            ],
            "name": "Dropbox",
            "overview": "Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email around attachments. Drew created a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on crafting a simple and reliable experience across every computer and phone. Drew and Arash moved to San Francisco in fall 2007, secured seed funding from Y Combinator, and set about building a world-class engineering team. In fall 2008, Sequoia Capital led a $7.2M Series A with Accel Partners to help bring Dropbox to people everywhere.",
            "people": [
                {
                    "name": "Drew Houston",
                    "title": "Founder & CEO"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Arash Ferdowsi",
                    "title": "Founder & CTO"
                }
            ],
            "state": "CA",
            "tags": "techcrunch50, tc50, file-storage",
            "total_raised": 607200000,
            "twitter_handle": "Dropbox",
            "url": "http://www.dropbox.com",

        }
    ]
}