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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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$29
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$49
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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
- No ROI
- Waste of money
November 16, 2021
Worth a purchase but not enough data on UK businesses
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
November 16, 2021
Great tool for startups!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Too early to tell.
November 16, 2021
Pretty Terrific - just needs one more thing...
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Helps us ID new prospects
- Helps us ID likely venture needs (without valuation though)
November 08, 2021
Crunch the Venture!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It is a primary source of intelligence data
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- $1600 spent zero return on investment
- Tried to cancel subs for a refund and it wasn’t possible. Customer service was rude.
June 24, 2021
Crunchbase provides valuable, fast information so you can find and target prospective companies
- Quick, easy-to-find company information
- Narrows down our search of target startups and its companies
- Accuracy
May 28, 2021
Crunchbase easy to use platform!
- Improved effciency
- Improved knowledge on companies pre-meetings
- Quick access to missing financing information - improved time spent on searches
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- ROI is largely zero as the data is outdated and with significant gaps.
April 07, 2020
Quality, Functional Data at Your Fingertips
- Crunchbase has enabled my company to be more efficient in determining whether or not to conduct further diligence on companies.
- Tailoring searches for certain criteria has been helpful for aggregating competitors and companies of similar profiles.
- The software is not only powerful, but also affordable!
January 22, 2020
Powerful source of information on new companies
- Necessary to effectively prospect early-stage companies.
- The version we use is free of charge.
January 09, 2020
Wonderful tool to assist in prospecting
- 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.
November 09, 2019
Crunchbase is an essential tool for our ABM strategy
- 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.
October 15, 2019
Crunchbase is crunching it!
- 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.
August 18, 2019
Crunching the data on Crunchbase
- Productivity is increased substantially
- Gives a better understanding of industry, improving customer calls
- Another tool to enhance prospecting, yielding more sales.
September 13, 2018
Crunchbase to Crunch time!
- Crunchbase has made it easier to find valuable companies to prospect
- I use the free version, and I don't use it heavily so the impact on my business is difficult to measure.
- This is one of many tools that I use in prospecting and researching leads or companies that I follow, and I would not want to be without it.