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Crunchbase is a provider of private-company prospecting and research solutions. The vendor boasts that over 60 million users—including salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers—use Crunchbase to prospect for new business opportunities, and that companies all over the world rely on…
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- Advanced search (16)5.151%
- Identification of new leads (15)5.151%
- Company information (17)4.949%
- List quality (15)4.343%
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What is Crunchbase?
Crunchbase is a provider of private-company prospecting and research solutions. The vendor boasts that over 60 million users—including salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers—use Crunchbase to prospect for new business opportunities, and that companies all over the world rely on Crunchbase to power their applications, making over 3 billion calls to their API each year.
Crunchbase Features
Prospecting Features
- Supported: Advanced search
- Supported: Identification of new leads
- Supported: List quality
- Supported: Email contacts
- Supported: List upload/download
- Supported: Ideal customer targeting
- Supported: Load time/data access
Sales Intelligence Data Standards Features
- Supported: Contact information
- Supported: Company information
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification Features
- Supported: Smart lists and recommendations
- Supported: Salesforce integration
- Supported: Company/business profiles
- Supported: News updates
- Supported: Prospect tracking/following
- Supported: Alerts and reminders
- Supported: Data hygiene
- Supported: Automatic data refresh
- Supported: Tags
- Supported: Filters and segmentation
- Supported: Notes
- Supported: Ability to append contact, lead, and account level data
Sales Intelligence Email Features Features
- Supported: Sales email templates
- Supported: Gmail integration
- Supported: Exchange integration
Crunchbase Video
Take the power of Crunchbase with you while browsing prospect websites, LinkedIn company pages and profiles, and sales tools such as Salesforce and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Install Crunchbase's free Chrome extension: http://cm.crunchbase.com/ChromeExtension
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Crunchbase Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Reviewers rate Alerts and reminders highest, with a score of 7.2.
The most common users of Crunchbase are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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- Recommendations
Users have made several recommendations for Crunchbase based on their experience with the tool. The most common recommendations are as follows:
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Use the free trial version before committing to a premium account. Customers suggest taking advantage of the trial period to assess whether Crunchbase meets their needs and provides the desired information about specific accounts.
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Set goals at the beginning to determine the specific information you want to gather about target companies. By setting clear objectives, users believe they can effectively evaluate the financial health of companies and gather valuable intelligence details.
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Explore all the available features and data in Crunchbase. Users recommend familiarizing themselves with the platform and its capabilities to make the most of its market research tools, such as obtaining firmographic, funding, and M&A data for private companies.
By following these recommendations, sales professionals, particularly those in tech-oriented roles, can leverage Crunchbase's reliability and improve their performance in hunting and cross-selling products. Additionally, users find that Crunchbase provides useful high-level information about a company's industry, funding, employee count, and revenue.
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December 02, 2021
So many promises, none delivered
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- We have a profile
- The data is out of date
- The data is invalid
- There is no way to update or manage the contacts listed on your profile
November 16, 2021
Great tool for startups!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it mainly as part of our research into candidate investors for our funding.
- Information on VC fund sizes.
- Information on VC investment categories and recent deals.
- Information on members of VC organizations and other investors.
- Information on other companies' fundings.
- Not all VC funds are current.
November 08, 2021
Crunch the Venture!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Crunchbase is the main source of startups, venture funds and other legal entities data & information. Its database covers almost all our informational needs.
- Venture deals data
- Getting informed about venture deals in verticals/countries we are interested in
- In some cases, data is not complete or actual.
Score 1 out of 10
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Verified User
We used Crunchbase to learn about other companies' tech stacks and funding information. It was used by our lead development team.
- Free information on companies
- The Boost feature around tech stack is not worth the price. The information is outdated and as most companies are using 3rd party applications you can not see this.
- They are very very expensive and not value for money. You can find most if not all this information with a Google search.
- Customer support is rude and unhelpful [in my experience].
- Beware of signing up for a trial - [I believe] they rely on unsuspecting people to put in their credit cards and you have to pay for the full year.
June 24, 2021
Crunchbase provides valuable, fast information so you can find and target prospective companies
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.
- Shows funding information
- Pulls reports easily
- Accurate, trustworthy company information
- Expand company information outside of AMER region (hard to find international information)
May 28, 2021
Crunchbase easy to use platform!
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.
- Financing details
- Investor information
- Succinct product description
- Links to recent news about the company
- The technology page is a list of technologies the company uses to make their website not the actual company's tech stack. Would be better to either rename this or list their tech.
- Add number of employees not just the ones that have a Crunchbase profile.
April 07, 2020
Quality, Functional Data at Your Fingertips
Crunchbase is being used primarily, although not exclusively, by the research division within my organization. When conducting diligence on companies, Crunchbase serves as a source of quality information on companies. Because of the wide breadth and unique data points Crunchbase offers, the software is a crucial provider of data that my organization is not able to find elsewhere.
- 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.
- There is not much support for a mobile interface. The interface on mobile devices is difficult to navigate.
- Sometimes, there is not enough detailed data on private companies, which is the primary reason my organization uses the software.
- Data can sometimes be out of date. For paid software (my organization has the Pro version), I would expect the data I am viewing to always be correct.
Crunchbase is a part of my sales research methodology today. When wanting to understand the financials of any client/prospective client, I look to Crunchbase first to see the recency and frequency of funding rounds. Also, the ability to see a snapshot of their competitors through the Owler integration is killing two birds with one stone! It is easy to read through, and helps me to be more through prospecting.
- Detailed view of funding rounds and its frequency.
- Additive information on company's competitors, rank in the market, and more.
- A LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration would be helpful to see recommended people within the org to reach out to.
January 22, 2020
Powerful source of information on new companies
Crunchbase is primarily used by the SDR team to prospect start-up companies who've recently grown in size or raise capital. It is our de facto source for funding/growth information and a great all-in-one for insights into harder to find, early stage companies. Would be very hard to prospect other startups without it.
- Easily compiles all relevant company information on one page.
- Useful links to other websites and platforms.
- Some tempting information is locked behind the paid version.
- Can have multiple pages for the same account.
November 09, 2019
Crunchbase is an essential tool for our ABM strategy
We use Crunchbase as a data source for our account information in our CRM. We do not use the Enterprise version with a SFDC integration currently. I use Crunchbase to stay on top of major funding rounds for our key prospect accounts--this is a major buying signal that we track as part of our ABM strategy. We have also used add ons for Bombora, Builtwith, and Siftery.
- Account-Based Data. Employee range, website, industry, company description, chief executives, latest news, etc. All for the given company you are researching.
- Salesforce integration. I have not used it, but the functionality is supposed to be great. You can run data enrichment in your CRM with the Crunchbase data.
- Funding, mergers, and acquisitions data. Crunchbase has relationships with thousands of VC firms throughout the world and followup with each very regularly to be able to serve up the latest data to their users.
- Tech integrations. Integrations with tools like Bombora, Builtwith, Siftery, and others are really useful because you can use Crunchbase's company profile-based research method, and see the data from these tools specifically related to the given company.
- There are data discrepancies sometimes between a company profile on Crunchbase vs that company's profile on LinkedIn. It could be that Crunchbase is more accurate, but we just don't know.
October 15, 2019
Crunchbase is crunching it!
We use Crunchbase to find companies that have received funding that fit into our ideal customer profile to target for prospecting. I get the daily emails with funding and descriptions of companies and then look them up to make sure they would be a good company to go after. We can also find competitors and search for similar companies to target more ideal prospects.
- Crunchbase provides profiles for many companies and what industries and keywords they fall under.
- Crunchbase will show us who got funding and how much funding and what round of funding etc.
- We can create saved searches of specific keywords to see if new companies meet the criteria.
- It would be nice to have some of the data go directly into our CRM.
- Some of the keywords are a little too broad and it would be nice to search by industry instead.
- There is nothing else I can think of offhand!
September 13, 2018
Crunchbase to Crunch time!
CrunchBase is currently being used by multiple Business Development Representatives across our Sales department. We use it to filter through and find net new accounts to a prospect based on various aspects of an organization.
- Crunchbase does a great job at providing the most up to date information in regards to when a company recently received funding and approximately how much they got
- When determining acquisition information, CrunchBase is extremely accurate and provides the necessary details required (i.e. the name of the transaction, name of the organization being acquired/who they are being acquired by etc.)
- One of the coolest CrunchBase features is a list of trending profiles, based on page views - making it easier to see what companies might be worth prospecting as they are growing
- I would like to see Crunchbase provide better packages for users who are not purchasing this for an entire department but on an individual user basis.
- I wish there were certain features included in the free version (i.e. "my searches" and "my list")
I work in our inside sales team and we focus on mostly startups and small firms. These companies are often involved in fundraising to get off the ground. Crunchbase is an excellent resource for news about recent funding activity. I also love that alerts will come not only to my email but to my mobile device.
- Custom filters are a great way to follow companies, people or investors.
- Companies that are acquired can be filtered by the company name and or the name of the acquiring firm.
- There are many events by industry and geo and Crunchbase allows me to search by popular events that I follow.
- Crunchbase also offers the ability to save searches and to keep a list of companies that you're watching.
- Honestly I don't have any constructive suggestions. I love the product as is, I wish the "my searches" and "my list" features were included in the free version.