Introducing Crunchbase AI: Data Built for Agents and People

Introducing Crunchbase AI: the most interconnected Crunchbase we've ever built, designed for an agentic era where private market data needs to move with the people and agents using it. 

For the first time, we're bringing more of Crunchbase's best data, from proprietary insights and forecasts to deeper private company intelligence, into every way you work. 

It's built on the same powerful data foundation Crunchbase has always run on, now driving the agents acting on your behalf, the LLMs your team reaches for, and the applications your engineers build. That means headless access to 1.9B+ data updates a year, powered by 32M users, and 148% more global seed-stage coverage than our nearest competitor.

Whether you're putting an agent to work through the MCP, analyzing the private market with your LLMs, or strengthening your own applications and workflows, you’ll always have the world’s leading private market data at your fingertips.

Agents that research, reason, and act

Through the Crunchbase MCP, your agents can act on your behalf with direct, structured access to the full range of Crunchbase data, including financials, firmographics, insights, and predictions. They don't just get an answer. They get the context behind it and the supporting sources underneath it, grounded in Crunchbase data that's been rigorously validated and verified.

Now, your agents can independently:

• Research a target company and assemble a sourced brief, including funding history, leadership changes, growth signals, and more.
• Source high-fit opportunities at scale to align with your thesis, and then screen and summarize the best targets.
• Trace investor activity in a specific vertical, and see who’s investing, which investors are most active, and how funding activity and round sizes are changing.
• Map niche market segments based on what companies actually offer, assessing their trajectory, funding, and competitive landscape to surface insights that generic AI searches miss.

Ground every LLM in what's actually happening

Agents aren't the only ones that benefit from Crunchbase AI. You can also get Crunchbase data directly in your LLMs for leading insights unavailable on the public web.

Crunchbase AI grounds your LLM conversations in the deepest private market intelligence anywhere, including the earliest signals on emerging companies, the full map of competitor and market relationships, and forecasts no one else has compiled.

Connecting takes a minute, not a migration. Find Crunchbase in ChatGPT’s app directory or connect it to Claude, Perplexity, or other LLMs you reach for. Then, use prompts like:

• "Build a brief on companies in my target market showing signs of growth or new funding."
• "Create a market map of companies working in Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), highlighting the top competitors and why they compete.”
• “Review the AI Research Labs market and show me where momentum is building and which investors are focused there.”
• “Find Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Forensics companies that have raised a Seed or Series A and are most likely to raise, grow, or exit next."

The LLM pulls directly from Crunchbase, delivering up-to-date answers grounded in validated data that help you discover opportunities earlier, understand the context behind them, and act on what’s next.

Build products the market has never seen before

Some of the most powerful things happening in AI right now are being built on top of Crunchbase. The best AI models combine intelligent systems with data no one else has – and we’re already seeing teams unlock new possibilities when they build with Crunchbase data.

OpenAI, for example, brings Crunchbase’s private company data into ChatGPT for Financial Services, putting trusted private market data directly into an AI experience used by teams every day. In Clay, Crunchbase serves as a data source for enrichment workflows, bringing company financials, growth signals, funding forecasts, competitors, and more directly into how GTM teams work.

That's what the Crunchbase API makes possible: giving teams the same foundation to build new products, models, and workflows with data you can't get anywhere else. With the API, you can:

• Bring Crunchbase data directly into a product used by millions of people, creating richer customer experiences without needing to build or maintain the dataset themselves.
• Develop internal agents for research and diligence that combine company data with private company forecasts about where a company is headed next.
• Strengthen scoring models using growth forecasts, market momentum, and granular micro-industries to prioritize opportunities beyond historical funding and headcount.
• Enrich business intelligence dashboards with dynamic company, funding, competitor, and market data, giving teams a continuously updated view instead of relying on stale imports.

What you build is only as good as the data underneath it. With the Crunchbase API, you can count on trusted data that stays current, gives you the earliest view into private market opportunities, and forecasts what may happen next.

Experience the new Crunchbase AI today

See what Crunchbase AI can do for you. Put an agent to work, get stronger answers from the LLMs you already use, or build with the API. Wherever you work, Crunchbase AI meets you there.

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