A short YouTube interview by Matt Wolfe (May 21, 2025) exploring how Crunchbase is used beyond venture capital. The speaker emphasizes that while VCs are a user segment, larger groups include sales teams (who track upcoming fundraises to start sales cycles early), corporate development teams acquiring companies, job seekers targeting high-growth companies, and researchers/analysts from consultancies to students studying trends.
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What's the value of Crunchbase to the people that can't write big checks and get into like early startups? It's a minority. Part of our users are actually VCs who have funding that want to go invest. So that is an important use case to us, but certainly not the biggest. You know, you'll see use cases across sales. Let me go and find the companies that are going to have money soon. I'm going to go and start a sales cycle with them is a good time because everyone knows when the fundraise happens. If you can know it six months, a year in advance, maybe you can sort of get entrenched earlier than that. So that's pretty big use case for us. I mentioned Corp Dev. Right. Anyone who's buying companies. That's important. We do have self service side. We do have job seekers who go and are paying us and say I want to find hot level companies in my area because I want to be there at their early stage. Right. So you've got that use case pretty heavy, a lot of researchers and analysts and that from the largest consulting firms all the way down to students who are trying to figure out sort of some interesting trends.
