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Overview
Crunchbase is a private company data and predictive intelligence platform that combines live private company data, AI and market activity drawn from over 80 million users. The company aims to anticipate private market movements, helping investors, dealmakers and analysts make decisions about companies that are not publicly listed. Private companies are not required to publish the financial disclosures that listed firms do, so buyers of this kind of data often rely on aggregated signals to assess opportunity and risk.
Its data pipeline combines direct input, engagement signals, proprietary ingestion systems, external sources and analyst validation. AI models trained on nearly two decades of private market data generate predictions covering funding, growth, acquisitions, IPOs, companies likely to remain private, closures and layoffs. The company cites 39 billion live private market signals, more than 30 million verified updates per year and over 15 million predictions refreshed weekly. Anticipating events across a private company's lifecycle goes beyond what a conventional company database offers, since such databases record activity only after it has happened.
Beyond the investors, dealmakers and analysts it names as core users, Crunchbase addresses product developers, go-to-market teams, wealth managers and entrepreneurs seeking investors. Product teams can build tools on its data, and the platform is offered as enterprise-grade and ready for API and agent integration. Organizations featured as customers include Atomico, Clay and HubSpot for Startups, which has built key parts of its startup program on the data. This mix reflects how private company data has become an input for sales prospecting and software products as well as for investment research.
Funding rounds
Disclosed funding: $106.6M across 6 rounds. Latest: Series D, 20 Jul 2022.
| Date | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2022 | Series D | $50M |
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