generated: '2026-08-09'
method: searched
source: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/
docs:
- https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/
- https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/
summary: >-
  CB Insights publishes a substantial set of controlled vocabularies as reference pages, and they
  are not optional reading: almost every filter on the API is an integer *Id that resolves against
  one of these lists, so the API is unusable without them. They are published as HTML tables only —
  there is no downloadable CSV/JSON, no enum in the OpenAPI contract, and no versioning on any list.
  Term counts below are row counts observed in the published tables on 2026-08-09.
publication_format: HTML tables (Hugo-rendered on api-docs.cbinsights.com, Docusaurus on /portal)
machine_readable: false
versioned: false
enumerated_in_spec: false
enumerated_in_spec_note: >-
  The Swagger contract references these lists by URL inside property descriptions (e.g. "CBI industry
  IDs to match; see .../References/Taxonomy/industries") rather than declaring enum values, so a
  generated client cannot validate a filter id.
vocabularies:
- name: Organization Status
  filter_field: orgStatusIds / statusId
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/org_status/
  term_count: 7
  terms:
  - {id: 1, label: Alive / Active}
  - {id: 2, label: Acquired}
  - {id: 3, label: Assets Purchased}
  - {id: 4, label: Dead / Inactive}
  - {id: 5, label: IPO / Went public}
  - {id: 6, label: Merged}
  - {id: 7, label: Bankrupt}
- name: Investor Types
  filter_field: investorTypeIds / fundingInvestorTypeIds / investorCategoryId
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/investor_type/
  term_count: 34
  sample_terms:
  - {id: 1, label: Private}
  - {id: 9, label: Angel Investor (Individual)}
  - {id: 13, label: Corporate Venture}
  - {id: 22, label: Incubator/Accelerator}
  - {id: 29, label: Private Equity}
  - {id: 33, label: Venture Capital}
  - {id: 34, label: Sovereign Wealth Fund}
  - {id: 35, label: Growth Equity}
  - {id: 36, label: Equity Crowdfunding}
  - {id: 37, label: SPAC}
- name: Funding Types
  filter_field: lastFundingRoundIds / roundId / roundCategoryId / roundTypeId
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/funding_types/
  term_count: 702
  note: The largest deal-side vocabulary — round names mapped to round categories and types.
- name: Taxonomy (Sector > Industry > Sub-industry)
  filter_field: sectorIds / industryIds / subindustryIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/taxonomy/
  portal_url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/industries
  term_count: 747
  note: The three-level industry classification applied to every organization profile.
- name: People Titles
  filter_field: titleIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/person_titles/
  term_count: 71
- name: Stock Exchanges
  filter_field: exchange (organization identifiers)
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/stock_exchanges/
  term_count: 69
- name: Address (geography)
  filter_field: continentIds / regionIds / countryIds / stateIds / cityIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/address/
  term_count: 56359
  note: >-
    A single 4.6 MB HTML page enumerating every continent, region, country, state/province and city
    id. It is the largest reference artifact in the estate and the least practical to consume — an
    integrator must scrape a multi-megabyte HTML table to resolve a city filter.
- name: Business Models
  filter_field: businessModelIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/business-models
- name: Markets
  filter_field: marketIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/markets
- name: Technologies
  filter_field: technologyIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/technologies
- name: Awards and Spotlights
  filter_field: awardsAndSpotlightsIds
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/awards-and-spotlights
scoring_models:
- name: Mosaic Score
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/mosaic/
  current_version: v2.1
  note: >-
    Proprietary composite health/growth score with sub-scores (momentum, money, market, management).
    The mosaicScoreVersion request field is deprecated — only v2.1 is served.
- name: Credit Model
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/credit_model/
  note: The metering vocabulary — which call/datapack combination costs how many credits.
- name: Organization-based Credit Model
  url: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/org_credit_model/
gaps:
- No machine-readable form of any vocabulary (no CSV, JSON, SKOS, or API endpoint that returns the lists).
- No enum declarations in the OpenAPI contract, so filter ids cannot be validated client-side.
- No version or last-modified stamp on any reference list.
- The taxonomy is split across two doc sites — legacy lists on api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/
  and newer ones under /portal/docs/References/Taxonomy/ — with no single index.
cross_links:
  data_model: data-model/cb-insights-data-model.yml
  conventions: conventions/cb-insights-conventions.yml