Crunchbase vs. Gartner Peer Insights

Looking to create lists of target companies through the advanced search feature or the query builder if one is planning to reach out to the individuals listed in the profile. Looking for investment and company history information to inform sourcing or competitive landscape research.

Incentivized

Being able to pick from a variety of providers and gauge the true effects of the tested solution on their business. There are a tons of review catalogues on Peer Insights. These are precise and pertinent. To ensure that all member reviews are fair and free of spam, they examine and review each one. This is particularly useful because it addresses every topic and element of the program, including how much it will cost your company.

• Crunchbase has an easy-to-navigate user interface. The bar at the top of the screen that shows the different data points available on companies is particularly helpful for quick navigating.
• The ability to make and import lists and save searches is helpful for customizing the software to your particular needs.
• The web and mobile app data that Crunchbase offers is very helpful to gauge trends and interest in companies for diligence purposes.

Incentivized

• Peer Insights is a website where you may read evaluations of vendors for free.
• Here, you may select from a number of software packages in the same industry.
• Reviews are detailed, real, and sincere.

Incentivized

• Notifications - Something similar to TweetDeck would be nice, so that when news breaks it could be an immediate fact.
• Honestly dont add too much because you don't want it to become more of a social tool with cluttered info, keep it straight to the point.

Incentivized

• Need to make the comparison chart more intuitive
• Provide source of data
• more recent reviews

In our experience, the customer service is horrible to non existent. If we were a fortune 100 company with a staff of computer people I am sure this would be a valuable service as they would "speak the language" but that is not us. Not being able to reach customer service when we are thinking about upgrading is, in my opinion, a crazy business model.

They give standard answers. They are not a customer first business. I tried to cancel my subscription after using it for only 1 week as we found the information was outdated and not at all useful. But they would not cancel the year long subscription I mistakenly signed up for

Crunchbase is definitely bottom of the barrel in this space. At similar pricing models, all competitors I have tried have significantly bigger and more updated databases. Crunchbase may have been great sometime in the past, but they are not worth engaging now.

Gartner Peer Insights has a rigorious validation process for reviews to ensure authenticity. Reviews can be more trusted by customers and reliable for decision making. Gartner Peer Insights also conducts indepth research on different technology solutions which provides more comrehensive understanding of the good and bad sides of software solution on the market. Gartner Peer Insights has diversed analyst expertise in different technology categories.

• Crunchbase has been great and given us a lot of new companies to go after that have received funding and turned into great meetings. We do not pay a ton, so the ROI is great.
• We have nothing but positive results using Crunchbase and rely on it heavily for prospecting.
• It might add more value if we get a more expensive or advanced version.

Incentivized

• We selected a solution that was compatible with our business based on their reviews.
• They protected us from spending money on unnecessary product trials.
• We shortened the time it took us to locate the ideal answer to our problems.