Crunchbase

“No, I don't think Crunchbase has it, not really. That's more like, I'm in there by myself, and I'm looking at data, and like, yeah, that's a little bit more, sort of, replaceable.”

“Crunchbase had things alphabetically listed, and I realized if my firm started with an A, it would be at the top of the list on everything. So I wanted a firm that started with A, and so that's kind of where I started.”

“Crunchbase did an article this week. There's no such thing as unicorns anymore, because forget about AI. Only the money goes to five billion and up. It's got to be five billion corns. Like, 50% of all the unicorn money is north of five billion.”

“There were never VC funds piling into this. I just pulled up Crunchbase. And it was the US Department of Energy CNH Industrial, General Motors, California Transportation Commission.”

“If you look at angel and seed funding by month, January, 20, 22. So two years ago, about four and a half billion dollars raised globally, just an angel and seed that was down to like. 2.5 billion last January and down to about 2.1 billion this January.”

“If you look at climate tech compared to, like, the broader data coming out of PitchBook or Crunchbase, overall venture deployment decreased to a third of what it was in twenty-twenty-two, you know, so instead of being down by 30%, down by 60%.”

“If you go back the past 20 years or so, it's a single digit number, right? And in fact, for some vintages, that number is two percent, for some it's three, some it's four. But it's not eight percent or 10% of companies end up becoming public companies.”

“There is no twenty million dollars series A. It's actually much more money than that into this company.”

“We use a number of different things. I would say the three major ones are LinkedIn sales nav. Zoom info. Crunchbase. So those are really the three major Yeah. Three major tech and tools.”

“So I think that crunch based data is probably off and, you know, overseas investments some private deals don't all get cataloged in crunch based, but they have a whole network of European investors.”

“I asked that to be corrected. Yeah. There's like a double count there.”

“Yeah, I asked that to be corrected. There's like a double count there.”

“Before people cared about their Crunchbase profile, TechCrunch just built the profiles on Crunchbase. With media reports and so on and so forth, and then after a while, people cared about their profile, and so they tried to keep it updated.”

“I think we're at about 74 right now. It depends. If you look at crunch base, some of it was secondary, so it's always a little tough to map that in. But that's about what we've raised.”

“Nope. And only 880,000 of that was actually, and you can see it's on crunch base, was actual like investors outside of myself.”

“We published an annual review on the amount of series A funding that went to female founders in 2014. And, you know, since then we've seen Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and a host of other journalists in the tech industry really follow suit in terms of recognizing t…”

“Crunchbase has become the system of record for private companies, and they have done that organically without any major investment or any defined strategy.”

“So when we spun it out of AOL, we had the thesis that we could create a next gen B to B database. So think of next gen Dan and Bradstreet with a much more efficient and organic data acquisition model. So think of LinkedIn, but for companies instead of for peop…”

“So it was a long process. It took us, I think, nine months.”

“More than one third of the use case for Crunchbase, the lookup use case, original Crunchbase use case, We're not investors. We're salespeople. They were using Crunchbase for prospecting, and that's what got us excited. One-third was HR-related, people in the r…”

“We talked to over 85 CEO candidates for that process, and we ended up getting, I mean, we're fortunate to get Jagger McConnell from Salesforce”

“The power of the network is something that is very hard to recreate. If you were starting from scratch, then you can create a great tool, a great platform. But if you don't have the history that crunch base has, it's going to be very hard to build that.”

“Over the last couple of years, we rebuilt everything to make it scalable, because it was a great asset when it comes to data, not necessarily a great asset when it comes to software architecture, and also when it comes to business model.”

“So we invested seven million dollars.”

“You look at Crunchbase you know, you see typically the transitions happen six to seven years in at least the ones you hear about the ones that, you know, the company goes out of business, obviously, you transition into oblivion but typically it is a little bit…”

“I think I made the mistake that a lot of first-time founders make, which is you raise you go and look at your competitors, right? You go look stocks on AngelList, you look at them on Crunchbase, and you're like, okay, well, who invested in them? We're like the…”

“A seed company that maybe, you know, angel funded and has some sort of party round and there's no clear lead venture person has a much lower chance of getting to a series A than a company that has a lead seed fund behind it.”

“Yeah, I mean, we're using Angelless Crunchbase those two things for sure. But then the other ones are, a lot of them are spiders. So they're basically just looking at open HTML pages.”

“We use, you know, we use a lot of tools, but probably Crunchbase is, you know, when we use the most.”

“For example, Crunchbase. So we've licensed their entire database. You can find it on Unami, every single company from Crunchbase. And we have a lot more built with Alexa, ZoomInfo, And many, many, many others.”

“Basically, my co-founder is now taking over and he's planning to pivot our business a bit to make it a bit more scalable and automated. So let's say somewhere close to, a bit closer to, let's say, Mattermark or Crunchbase or so when, where you have some kind o…”

“The crunch-based data is almost always wrong, and everybody in the industry knows that.”