Crunchbase Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used to ID decision makers in companies. Primarily for M&A projects. We have found that 40% of the emails are invalid. We have never been able to reach customer support in the one year period we have tried to use their products. In my opinion, customer support apparently is a concept but not practiced.

Likelihood to Recommend

In theory, they have a lot of useful information but accessing it as a small user is difficult at best. Not having any real customer support makes this much more aggravating for us. The You Tube Videos can help but are generic and cannot address specific issue we have. A real customer support team could do this I would think.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mainly to create lists from zero to approach new leads via outbound efforts. It's now the only way we use to create those lists so we can have accurate companies according to our ICP and the filters that crunchbase is able to provide to us

Likelihood to Recommend

I do believe Crunchbase is well suited for list creation and market research, since they do have a really good database for this kind of information it's the only place I believe that actually has updated information when researching

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Crunchbase to make our profile accessible to potential employment candidates and venture capitalists. We also use Crunchbase for research on potential customers and contacts at that organization that may be a good fit for our products.

Likelihood to Recommend

[In my opinion] let me say I am only giving a 1 because less than that is not an option. [I feel that] I would not waste my time investing or using Crunchbase. [In my experience] most of the contact information found at [these] companies [are] out of date. [In my experience] on our own profile, over 1/2 the company contacts listed were either no longer with the company or had incorrect titles or titles they never had, and in some cases never worked for our company. Even CEO information was 12 months out of date. As companies cannot update their own information, even with a paid account, we inquired about how to update the incorrect data. This took 3 weeks and multiple tickets to get a response. We then provided a list of all the correct information and after 2 more weeks requested a status. The response was that "this data (on their site) comes from 3rd party partners. Crunchbase provides the information to those partners to update on their side, but Crunchbase does not control their editing cadence. [In my opinion] you will need to regularly check the page for updates", to translate that response, it basically says that Crunchbase is an aggregator of data. They own the site, but none of the information on it is owned or managed by Crunchbase. [in my personal opinion] I am not sure why anyone would use Crunchbase. [I feel] It is not a reliable source of information about the companies on its pages, and their customer service is less than stellar.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I wanted to find a database that would let me find early-stage tech startups in the UK for both me and my clients. Finding reliable data sources is tough as they usually rely on a company investing in both good tech to create the data and real humans to check it and add context. Often it is just one or the other, rarely both.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great if you have no data and need to find a starting point but it’s too US-centric. There’s not enough investment into finding data on UK-based businesses.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it mainly as part of our research into candidate investors for our funding.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great tool for companies preparing for new funding rounds.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We find new entrants (startups and venture) into our ecosystem - and do basic research on them. We will reach out to relevant companies to join our incubator, accelerator, or apply to our venture fund for investment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Basic research on companies' senior exec team and funding rounds (without valuation).

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Crunchbase is the main source of startups, venture funds and other legal entities data & information. Its database covers almost all our informational needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is perfectly well for individual investors and small venture capital funds.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Crunchbase to learn about other companies' tech stacks and funding information. It was used by our lead development team.

Likelihood to Recommend

I don’t believe Crunchbase adds any real value [because] all the information they have is available via a Google search. They are very expensive and [in my opinion] not value for money.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Crunchbase to find accurate information about prospective companies. In particular, we were interested in Crunchbase's tool to find funding information of startups from accelerators, incubators, and investors.

Likelihood to Recommend

Crunchbase is reliable data to find the following information:

1) Funding information (funding rounds, investors, etc.)

2) Company details

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Crunchbase to find information about startups. Usually investor information and past financings, team, and links to any resources. Most people in my organization use it to get a quick view at a startup's profile.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.