The data industry is changing. Historical company data is no longer useful when it comes to making decisions about private markets.
I know that’s a surprising thing for me to say as CEO of a data company. But that’s the point: We’re not just a data company anymore.
Today, we’re relaunching Crunchbase as an AI-powered, predictive company intelligence solution. We’re moving beyond historical data, showing people not just what happened to a company yesterday or today, but what will happen to that company tomorrow.
Say Goodbye to Historical Data
Historical data is dead. If you still rely on static data from the past to make your business decisions, you’re at risk of becoming obsolete. AI has upended the status quo, compelling businesses to act quickly and think ahead in ways that standard data analysis cannot support.
We’re leading the shift away from traditional data by offering real-time predictions that help you maintain a competitive edge. The new Crunchbase – which analyzes billions of live signals to anticipate future company movements – provides a dynamic, forward-looking view of the market.
Is a company growing? We’ll tell you. Will it get acquired? We’ll tell you that, too. Will it raise funding soon? We have the answer.
The Future is Predictive — and You Need to Keep Up
Here’s the reality of traditional data analysis: by the time you consume even live information, it’s already a thing of the past. That data, whether it’s a funding round or acquisition, remains unchanged and accessible to everyone, and any robust analysis of these facts will consistently lead to the same insights and next steps.
AI has set a new paradigm for how we look at data, giving us the power to process data en masse, detect patterns, and foresee company activity before it happens. Rather than look at past funding or growth, we leverage our proprietary data and AI to look forward at projections of future funding, growth and more. Think about ChatGPT: it makes sense of the entire internet and predicts the next word to answer your questions. When applied to Crunchbase, AI can interpret our data in the same way, gathering, analyzing and extrapolating to make predictions about market behavior.
While historical data prompts reactive measures based on past events, predictive data offers foresight, enabling proactive decision-making. After all, it’s predictive data that drives action. When you look at funding data, you don’t actually want funding data. What you really want is to know whether a company is the right one to approach, and if it’s the right time to approach them. Having foresight, and not just hindsight, is priceless when it comes to navigating uncertainty, outpacing competitors, and uncovering opportunities.
The Unmatched Predictive Power of Crunchbase
If you think this is unbelievable, you aren’t alone. We’ve tapped into a technology so powerful that it feels more like magic. Our predictions are transformative when it comes to winning in private markets — internal backtesting showed our funding predictions to have up to 95% accuracy and 99% recall. These insights empower Crunchbase users to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions.
Recently, for instance, Coda was acquired by Grammarly, less than 60 days after Crunchbase gave it a 93% chance of acquisition. Imagine you’d had this information beforehand — before the news broke and your competitors got in on it. Crunchbase would’ve given it to you, and will give you predictions that are equally prescient every single day from now on.
A Look at Our Reinvention
We teased our reinvention with the launch of Predictions and Insights in our API in September 2024. The new Crunchbase uses this predictive technology as a starting point, but takes it ten steps further.
Now, we’re not only offering you more predictions, but we’re making them richer and infusing this technology across our software, integrations, and API. We’ve added advanced capabilities like heat mapping so you can see which companies are generating interest, and we’re also making it easier to understand and act on our predictions with charts and other data visualizations. On top of that, we’re predicting what information you care about, showing you exactly what you want to see so you don’t have to sift through a bunch of noise.
Crunchbase has the only combination of data that can predict trends and major milestones across millions of private companies. We integrate vast amounts of data from the internet, government filings, direct input from knowledgeable investors and employees, thousands of data partners, an internal team of hundreds of experts, and aggregated usage data from Crunchbase’s 80 million active users. We cleanse and analyze that data to uncover actionable patterns with incredible accuracy, predicting emerging startups and unicorns, acquisitions and investments, and more.
We’re continuing to disrupt the data industry with predictive intelligence, and we have the cutting edge technology to take predictions into uncharted territories as we continue to grow. If you’re as thrilled about predicting the future as we are, we invite you to take that journey with us. In the meantime, take the new Crunchbase for a spin at crunchbase.ai. I can’t wait for you to see it.
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