Search Crunchbase acquisitions by buyer, target and deal filters
View all Crunchbase Company & Investment Data endpoints →Search acquisition records with optional query filters for acquirer, acquiree, the target's last funding type, acquisition type, target industry and target location. Acquirer and acquiree accept an organization permalink, UUID or Crunchbase organization URL; category and location accept a permalink, UUID or name. announced_after and announced_before define an inclusive announcement-date window, while completed_after is an inclusive lower bound on the closing date, all in YYYY-MM-DD format. min_price and max_price are nonnegative integer USD amounts. The documented page range is 1-100 with default 1; sort defaults to announced. Only rank is documented to support deeper pagination: announced and price each return one page. The visible portion of the documented response example contains count, current_page and an items array. Visible item fields include id, uuid, name, link, rank, acquisition_type, status, announced_on, completed_on, price, terms and short_description; acquirer and acquiree contain id, uuid, name, type, image and link. The example also shows buyer and target categories with id and name, funding totals, location objects with city, region, country, continent, groups and ids, and acquiree_last_funding_type. No live probe is recorded for this endpoint, and the supplied source example is truncated, so this is an unverified partial field inventory, not a complete response schema or a verified definition of count. Financial amounts and deal dates are null in the visible example, as are several other deal attributes. Do not interpret missing prices as zero or treat a price-filtered result set as every acquisition in the market.
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/api/project/crunchbase/search-acquisitions API Response (JSON)
{} curl -X GET 'https://api.opendata-api.com/api/project/crunchbase/search-acquisitions?key=<API_KEY>&sort=announced'
Query Result
Use Cases
- Build a target-industry and location acquisition watchlist for an announcement window, then pass selected deal IDs to acquisition details for closer review.
- Map a chosen acquirer's transaction landscape by target funding stage and deal type when planning a corporate-development competitive review.
- Screen acquisitions within a reported USD price range for a comparable-deal research shortlist, explicitly separating it from transactions with unknown prices.
- Create a review cohort using a closing-date lower bound without confusing completed_after with the announcement-date window.
- Walk rank-sorted result pages to gather deal candidates for analyst triage instead of assuming announced or price sorting supports deeper retrieval.
Frequently asked questions
Which company do category and location filter?
Both filters apply to the acquired company, or target. Use acquirer for the buyer and acquiree for a specific target; those organization filters accept a permalink, UUID or Crunchbase organization URL. Category and location accept a permalink, UUID or name.
Can I request more than one page with every sort mode?
No. The documentation says rank supports deeper pagination, while announced and price return one page. Page defaults to 1 and the documented range is 1-100. This is not a promise that every search has 100 pages or that a particular page size is available.
How do the announcement and completion filters differ?
announced_after and announced_before are inclusive announcement-date bounds. completed_after is an inclusive lower bound on the closing date. All use YYYY-MM-DD, and there is no documented completed_before input for this operation.
Do price bounds include acquisitions with undisclosed prices?
The supplied documentation does not specify treatment of unknown prices. min_price and max_price accept nonnegative integer USD amounts, and the visible response example contains null prices. Treat a price-filtered result set as a research subset, not proof of all market activity.
What response fields are documented for acquisition search?
The visible example prefix shows count, current_page and items, with deal identifiers, buyer and target identities, categories, locations, funding totals, target funding type, dates, price, type, status, rank and terms. The example is truncated and no live probe is recorded, so this inventory is partial and unverified; count is not independently confirmed as a total-match count.
Is acquiree_last_funding_type the way the acquisition was financed?
No. It describes the acquired company's latest funding-round type, such as seed, series_a or private_equity. Use acquisition_type for the deal category, with documented values acquisition, merge, acquihire, lbo and management_buyout.