Just a year ago today, the small but wonderful CrunchBase team flipped the switch to launch CrunchBase 2.0, an entirely new front end built on fancy new graph technology to power the world’s definitive, crowd-sourced startup database.
Things were a bit shakey at first, but we got the new platform stabilized and then started to move forward again, earning some bragging rights along the way. Here are some highlights:
- On the product front, have released over 100 updates to the platform, including the Investor Leaderboard, Graph Insights, Follow and Events — not to mention powering the TechCruch Battlefield Leaderboard.
- We now consistently see 1 million user sessions per week, and in the past year we saw almost 20 million unique visitors to the site. Audience engagement is growing at 35% year-on-year.
- Our popular email, Crunchbase Daily, has grown 85% and now reaches 175,000 confirmed readers.
- The number of people, companies and products in CrunchBase grew 46%.
- Our CrunchBase Venture Program has grown 80% and now has 1,500 members.
That was really fun, but the year ahead will be only better. In the next quarter alone, we have a line-up of new products and enhancements coming that will be more valuable to the startup community than all we have done to date.
