All the founders I spoke with told me to go to Crunchbase for my investor research.
I assuming my use-case is common: 1) search for investors that have invested in similar products/space/verticals, 2) create a list, 3) find 2nd degree connections, and 4) ask for warm intros.
I found the user-experience unfriendly, the features over-blown, and the price extremely high since (they don't offer by seats, or stage, or features).
Its sounds like their biggest value-prop is the data, not the user-experience. On their FAQ, they state "public data comes from multiple channels - our active community of contributors, publicly available sources, or various data partners."
Are there alternatives? If not, would you use one if I built it?
I'm thinking: if most founders start in their own vertical, I'm wondering how one might collect the data for just one category (to start), e.g. developer tools.
I also feel the ones most to gain are early founders who don't have the resources yet to afford Crunchbase, and are in stronger need to build those connections.
Let me know what you think. Thanks!
I assuming my use-case is common: 1) search for investors that have invested in similar products/space/verticals, 2) create a list, 3) find 2nd degree connections, and 4) ask for warm intros.
I found the user-experience unfriendly, the features over-blown, and the price extremely high since (they don't offer by seats, or stage, or features).
Its sounds like their biggest value-prop is the data, not the user-experience. On their FAQ, they state "public data comes from multiple channels - our active community of contributors, publicly available sources, or various data partners."
Are there alternatives? If not, would you use one if I built it?
I'm thinking: if most founders start in their own vertical, I'm wondering how one might collect the data for just one category (to start), e.g. developer tools.
I also feel the ones most to gain are early founders who don't have the resources yet to afford Crunchbase, and are in stronger need to build those connections.
Let me know what you think. Thanks!