Updates to Crunchbase data on Affinity

Given our recent contract renewal with Crunchbase, here are some restrictions on how Crunchbase data can be used in Affinity.

• Impact of Crunchbase restrictions
  • How is Crunchbase data within Affinity going to change?
  • What can I no longer do with Crunchbase data going forward?
  • What about the manual edits I've made to Crunchbase fields?
• Introducing Affinity Data
• Affinity APIs and Webhooks

Impact of Crunchbase restrictions

How is Crunchbase data within Affinity going to change?

• In-product functionality will not be changed - you can still access Crunchbase data (which is refreshed daily) within the Affinity CRM.
  • However, Crunchbase icons/logos that have previously linked to an organization's Crunchbase profile will be removed.
• You can no longer export Crunchbase data outside the Affinity CRM.
• You can no longer access Crunchbase data via the Affinity API.
  • This means that any previous API integrations you may have created for your organization leveraging Crunchbase data will return no values once this change is in place.

However, Crunchbase data will continue to be refreshed daily with all companies' firmographic and funding data updated accordingly in Affinity to reflect current Crunchbase data.

What can I no longer do with Crunchbase data going forward?

Though you may no longer export Crunchbase data out of Affinity, we are excited to introduce Affinity Data.

Note: The "X" indicates it is currently available in the Affinity CRM.

* - These Crunchbase fields will not be exportable or available for API access.

* - These Crunchbase fields will not be exportable or available for API access.

Crunchbase restrictions in Affinity include:

1. Saved Views - When exporting saved views within a list, Crunchbase data will not be included in the exported CSV file.
   • Solution: You can now replace Crunchbase firmographic columns (i.e. Description, Location, Industry, Number of Employees, and Year Founded) with Affinity Data's firmographic columns and export those moving forward.
2. Basic Reporting - When Crunchbase data is selected within the Group by feature in Affinity's Basic Reporting, the Export to CSV button will be disabled.
3. APIs - Existing customer APIs, Affinity integrations, and any newly created API integrations will not be able to leverage Crunchbase data.
   • You can no longer GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE for any of the Crunchbase fields for an organization.
   • If you also use Affinity webhooks, you will no longer receive webhooks for changes made to the Crunchbase columns.

What about the manual edits I've made to Crunchbase fields?

Any cells in Crunchbase columns that were manually edited are considered your Organization Data, therefore breaking the sync with Crunchbase.

• To re-enrich these specific cells with Crunchbase data, you must delete all the values and leave the cell blank - Affinity will re-enrich these cells with Crunchbase data over the next 24 hours.

Your manually added/edited field values will continue to exist in Crunchbase columns and Crunchbase column fields will continue to be editable, however Crunchbase columns containing manually edits will still not be available over APIs or exports.

Introducing Affinity Data

In order to empower our customers to generate the best insights possible, our goal is to provide the most complete, reliable, and highest quality datasets available in Affinity. As the leading relationship intelligence platform, we are excited to introduce Affinity Data (learn more).

Affinity APIs and Webhooks

Crunchbase columns and their data are not available for API access - any calls to these columns will produce empty values.

• If you also use Affinity webhooks, you will no longer receive webhooks for changes made to the Crunchbase columns.
• If you are using Crunchbase firmographic data via the API, we recommend you change the field references to use the new Affinity Data columns. Otherwise, you can remove that portion of your integration altogether.*
• If you are using Crunchbase funding data via the API, this portion of your integration should be removed*. There isn't currently an option to replace these references to Affinity Data fields yet, but we are preparing for the release of new funding data columns in the latter half of 2021 and will notify you prior to those being available.
• For any current integrations that were built via our native integrations and leverage Crunchbase data, Affinity will update these APIs by March 22, 2021 after we verify with you which changes you would like to have made to your integrations.

*If your APIs are not updated, they will still "work", but will return null values.