Today we’re excited to announce a free, open, and easily-accessible API for all data included in CrunchBase, our tech company database. It is available immediately to all developers.

Since we relaunched the property five months ago, we’ve focused on accumulating and structuring the world’s most useful data about technology. And we’ve worked to make this data available in a variety of ways. For example, we’ve aggregated funding rounds and acquisitions, and we’ve built out maps and advanced search. This next step - opening up our data completely so that anyone can use it however they want - is not only logical but central to our mission as well.

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Welcome to the new CrunchBase blog! We’ll be writing here about new features on CrunchBase, interesting startup related news that on the site, and the Rails code that powers the back end.