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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…
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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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Crunchbase Starter
$29
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$49
Cloud
per month, per user
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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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November 16, 2021
Worth a purchase but not enough data on UK businesses
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- User friendly
- Good filters
- Exporting data out is easy
- Not enough data on UK businesses.
- Not much context in terms of individual businesses maturity stage.
- Categorisation of firmographic data widely varies and often wrong such as industries.
70%
7.0
60%
6.0
20%
2.0
N/A
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- It certainly was a good starting point.
- Helped build targeted data for sales prospecting.
- Covered cost.
- Limited use case as a database for the UK is fairly small.
- Tagging was poor so slowed down list building.
UK based business, good data, great insights.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
10%
1.0
10%
1.0
10%
1.0
10%
1.0
- $1600 spent zero return on investment
- Tried to cancel subs for a refund and it wasn’t possible. Customer service was rude.
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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.
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3.3
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8.3
73.33333333333333%
7.3
N/A
N/A
- Improved effciency
- Improved knowledge on companies pre-meetings
- Quick access to missing financing information - improved time spent on searches
Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides emails on c-suite. Crunchbase however is an easier tool to use so if complicated segmentation is not required, Crunchabse is a great solution. It's also super fast to access and provides a succinct and easy to read profile view.
January 09, 2020
Wonderful tool to assist in prospecting
Pretty much everyone on my product side of the sales organization uses Crunchbase to help with breaking into accounts and staying on top of news relevant to clients. It is helpful when sending cold emails or having initial convos to know where these companies stand on funding and competition in the market. Overall it just makes the sales reps seem more knowledgable when they come in already knowing details about the client's current stance in the market.
- Funding news - Huge strength to know immediately when a funding round is available.
- UX/UI super easy to navigate making it a simple tool to use for early sales reps.
- 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.
75%
7.5
90%
9.0
56.25%
5.6
N/A
N/A
- Hard to determine ROI since not quantifiable, but the tool definitely has an impact on the overall sales cycle.
- Business objectives are further supported by having knowledge about the company enterprise space.
Sales Navigator is better only because it provides you with more direct contacts to reach out to. Crunchbase only tells you really the top dogs in the company like c-level execs, not necessarily contacts that you would be having sales conversations with.
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.
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9.3
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5.7
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5.6
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N/A
- The best use we get out of Crunchbase Pro is staying on top of funding, mergers, and acquisitions. This has really helped us to identify key target accounts for our ABM strategy.
Crunchbase has far more company data than LinkedIn Sales Navigator. The thing that it lacks is data on the people at those companies. LinkedIn Sales Navigator also has a better CRM integration, from what I understand. It is more automated. For our strategy, we use both of these platforms. Both are essential for our ABM model.