In today’s competitive sales landscape, you’re only as good as your next deal. That’s why gathering industry data, researching prospects, and maintaining competitive intelligence is critical to finding the next big prospect to close. As companies grow, there are key moments in their development that can tell you the right moment to reach out. Which...
Crunchbase is an international community of individuals and businesses, built by a team with heritage from around the world. The administration’s recent actions regarding immigration impact everyone, including our friends and families. It’s important to take a stand for inclusion, and support of humans everywhere. Today Crunchbase made a $10,000 donation to the ACLU in…
Crunchbase Pro changes the way salespeople, consultants, and business development professionals search for qualified prospects. In this post, you’ll learn about the tools to automatically discover new qualified prospects. One of the best ways to search for prospects is to create a list that matches the profile of your ideal customer. For example, using Crunchbase…
Want to check out all the news about drone companies with over $10M in funding? Or dig into the history of startups with a female founder? Or maybe discover a hot new trend in artificial intelligence? You can now quickly learn and research the latest news and events about any group of companies or people…
The new year is upon us, and it’s a great time to set out on the right foot by incorporating data into decision-making and business strategy. Crunchbase has access to all data around the innovation economy, and we’re illuminating the trends from 2016 – and what to look out for in 2017. Here’s a peek…
Startups and investors have to make critical partnership decisions that have a lasting impact on their companies. Who should be my investor? Who should I invest in? The more information you have, the more confident your decisions will be. As a research destination, Crunchbase Pro can elucidate the history, people, funding, and background of a…
Many investors use Crunchbase to identify today’s fastest growing companies, and we’re sharing their secrets with you! We’ve teamed up with Emergence Capital Associate, John Chen, to discuss how to leverage Crunchbase Pro as an investor. Topics include: Identifying potential new investments Tracking your own investments Research overall market trends Watch this recording…
Seed investors are, by definition, the first ones to back startups and technologies that go on to become world-changing forces. So when they collectively raise their bets about something, it’s a reasonable indication that thing is poised for explosive growth. With that in mind, we set out to determine which sectors and technology categories are…
Jon Swartz of USA Today reviews Q3 2016 venture funding trends, citing strong investor interest in selective markets based on Crunchbase data. Seed funding in 2016 is up for the following five sectors: augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, automotive, food and beverage, and agriculture. All isn’t gloom and doom in tech. In key categories, fewer start-ups are…
Crunchbase data changes rapidly. New companies start up, new products are launched, new rounds of funding are announced. People change jobs. To help users prioritize the profiles in their lists and searches, Crunchbase Pro provides users with two specialized tools to leverage this dynamic information: Crunchbase Rank and Trend Score. How It Works: Crunchbase Rank…
U.S. companies have a massively greater appetite for startups than their European counterparts, according to a new report on transatlantic M&As from Crunchbase and entrepreneurship foundation, Mind the Bridge. Over the past five years, U.S. companies have purchased about four times as many startups as European buyers. U.S. based companies also accounted for all of…