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Opinion
D&B and ZoomInfo are handicapped by relying on inaccurate public data
“All these other sources, whether it's done in Bradstreet or Mattermark or DataFox or, you know, NetProspects or ZoomInfo, these are all really handicapped by the fact that they're relying on publicly available data sources that tend to be very inaccurate.”
Darian Shirazi Jan 9, 2017 ▶ 6:36 EP 534: 29yo Radius CEO Raises $100M, Helping Expand B2B Sales Pipelines with Darian Shirazi
Opinion
Owler's crowdsourced data is more accurate than Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet
“Pick five private companies that, you know, go pull the data off of Hoover's, which has done a Bradstreet data and pull the data off of our. And see who wins. We're kicking their butts. our crowd is, is just far more powerful than the few employees they can, …”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 6:01 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: Versium owns its data and doesn't license from Acxiom or D&B
“So what's interesting, we own all of our data, right? So we're not licensing data from the axioms and DMVs. In fact, we supply data to companies like that.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 12:15 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Disclosure
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…”
Santi Subotovsky Jun 22, 2018 ▶ 4:16 1063 How We Spent $7m To Spin Crunchbase Out of AOL
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yates: Sales intelligence consolidation is inevitable after D&B Avention deal
“I think that a market consolidation exercises is, is, is inevitable. If you look at the, you know, recent acquisition of invention by Dun & Bradstreet, I think that's going to create a little bit of a ripple effect.”
Andrew Yates May 30, 2017 ▶ 11:52 675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates
Opinion
Porat: Dun & Bradstreet lacks quality data on small businesses
“Dunbar actually does an awesome job at public companies and large private companies, but when you get down to the small business level, you know, they just don't have that great information.”
Sean Porat Nov 6, 2016 ▶ 5:58 EP 470: How He Got 10,000 Interested In Product Before Launch with Scorely CEO Shawn Porat
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Porat: Dun & Bradstreet vastly misreported my previous company's data
“For that company, we checked our credit report and it said that our credit score was like 25 out of a hundred. Undone. Yeah, undone. It had it had our address from six years ago. It said that we spend 50 dollars a month on expenses. Meanwhile, we're spending a…”
Sean Porat Nov 6, 2016 ▶ 6:16 EP 470: How He Got 10,000 Interested In Product Before Launch with Scorely CEO Shawn Porat
Assertion Supported
Radius partners and co-sells with Dun & Bradstreet
“We've got partnerships. We just announced a big partnership. We're doing some co-selling with the folks over at Dun & Bradstreet. So the DMB global file is part of our ecosystem as well.”
Joel Carusone Oct 17, 2019 ▶ 2:51 1545 Radius CEO on 3 Pricing Axis, 100 Customers, 150%+ Net Revenue Retention, $100m ARR by 2020?
Disclosure
Godley: HG Data has 50 OEM partners spending $80K-$100K annually
“OEM partners who use our data set as part of their product. And those folks are names like the data.coms of the world, the discover orgs of the world, the Dun & Bradstreet's of the world. The predictive vendors like lattice engines and lead spaces and these ki…”
Mark Godley Jan 11, 2017 ▶ 5:13 EP 536: HGData $24M Raised, $10M 2016 Revenue Helping B2B Companies Get Accurate Data with Mark Godley
Assertion Supported
Porat: Dun & Bradstreet charges $120 to $200 per credit report
“Take for example, Dun & Bradstreet charge anywhere between about, I think, a 120 to 200 bucks a report, depending on what you're getting.”
Sean Porat Nov 6, 2016 ▶ 5:21 EP 470: How He Got 10,000 Interested In Product Before Launch with Scorely CEO Shawn Porat
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