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Spivack: Crunchbase data is almost always wrong
“The crunch-based data is almost always wrong, and everybody in the industry knows that.”
Messer: Collective[i] never raised a $20M Series A
“There is no twenty million dollars series A. It's actually much more money than that into this company.”
Crunchbase's historical network moat is nearly impossible to recreate from scratch
“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.”
Less than a third of Crunchbase's original users were actually investors
“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…”
Crunchbase organically became the system of record for private companies
“Crunchbase has become the system of record for private companies, and they have done that organically without any major investment or any defined strategy.”
Emergence invested just $7 million to spin Crunchbase out of AOL
“So we invested seven million dollars.”
Emergence spun Crunchbase from AOL to build a next-gen Dun & Bradstreet
“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…”
Ryan Buckley: AirNow raised far more capital than reported on Crunchbase
“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.”
Islay: Crunchbase's $50M funding figure for Cognism double-counts rounds
“Yeah, I asked that to be corrected. There's like a double count there.”
Andy MacMillan: UserTesting has raised about $74 million in total funding
“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.”
Emergence interviewed 85 CEO candidates before hiring Jager McConnell for Crunchbase
“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”
Crunchbase rebuilt its entire software architecture after the AOL spinout
“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.”
Hossain: Founder-CEO transitions typically occur 6-7 years in before an IPO
“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…”
Unomy licenses Crunchbase's entire database and partners with ZoomInfo
“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.”
Vasikhar: Spaceship is pivoting toward a Mattermark-style automated database
“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…”
Isilay: Crunchbase double-counted Cognism's funding rounds
“I asked that to be corrected.
Yeah.
There's like a double count there.”
Skubana raised only $880,000 in outside capital
“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.”
Emergence spent nine months negotiating the Crunchbase spinout from AOL
“So it was a long process. It took us, I think, nine months.”