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Crunchbase solutions provide automated prospecting tools, advanced search capabilities, and actionable insights for businesses.
Provider
Crunchbase
Located In
United States
Foundation
2007
Open API
Unverified
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Support
Email/Help Desk, Chat, Phone Support
Content Source: Crunchbase
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Crunchbase Reviews
Pros
Crunchbase is a great platform to know about other companies and companies you want to know about. It offers a free trial to try out its features and functions and is great to use.
It's still the best option for what I need, highly recommend.
It's a good, cost effective tool for effective prospecting. I would highly recommend this tool for prospecting.
It's a very simple and effective prospecting tool to gain insights about companies, their financial information, technologies they use with key decision makers.
Cons
They offered a free trial and then charged my card without permission2. I contact support for hours, I got an instant response, then when they see its about a refund they stop replying everytime.3.
Sometimes it's providing the wrong employee's information or not keeping up to date.
It also happens to be noted that there are considerable amount of errors in the details that is populated as a result likelihood of time getting wasted going behind wrong details is inevitable.
The data can be patchy or just wrong for younger companys, the UI is cluttered and navigation is a mess sometimes. Feels like its stuck between free offering and paid tier.
"Very useful for prospecting"
Pros: Easy to use and search for information. Complete infor.
Cons: None really. Every feature is well organized.
"Need of the Hour - Deep Prospecting"
Overall: Overall experience was good. I would say it kind of reduced 80% of our prospecting time.
Pros: The Funding information and the decision-makers information were the more I liked about this product. The other thing is that the growth of the organization and year of incorporation were also made our prospecting simple matching our ICP criteria.
Cons: The phone numbers and email addresses can be made better and can be integrated in a better way so that we can get it all in one shot
"Terrible Software - DO NOT USE"
Overall: Extremely bad. Would never recommend to anybody to use.
Pros: Nothing. The only positive is that it is cheaper than the alternatives - AND FOR A GOOD REASON!
Cons: 1. They offered a free trial and then charged my card without permission2. I contact support for hours, I got an instant response, then when they see its about a refund they stop replying everytime.3. Overall, the platform has extremely bad filters and data. Would never recommend to anyoneTHEY ARE SCAMMERS!! DONT USE
"A great resource for startup competition research"
Overall: It's still the best option for what I need, highly recommend!
Pros: Crunchbase allows me to quickly understand the structure, financing, and key team members at competing technology startups. It allows you to save companies to a list for easy reference in future.
Cons: Crunchbase operates on a freemium pricing model, but as soon as you want to upgrade from free to paid, the price jump is fairly substantial. It would be better if you could pay monthly instead of anually, and if there was a lower starting tier for early stage startups
"Crunchbase is the best in class tool for prospecting companies based on investment data "
Overall: An exceptional tool for prospecting VCs and identifying M&A opportunities quickly and easily.
Pros: The data on VCs in Crunchbase is unparalleled and incredibly helpful whilst we were identifying targets for series round funding. The ability to construct rich lists of VCs with specifications like AUM saved countless hours looking manually online. Crunchbase is also exceptionally important for identifying M&A opportunities globally.
Cons: Crunchbase is quite expensive and doesn't need to be required daily which can make the SaaS hard to justify. I think there should be an opportunity to use Crunchbase pay as you go so you don't have to lose a subscription account each time.
