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As of July 20, 2022, Crunchbase has raised at least $50M in equity across 1 sourced funding round.
The private-company intelligence platform tracking funding data on millions of startups, now leaning into AI-driven predictive deal signals.
The company says its database covers more than six million companies and was built over nearly two decades.[1] It spun out as an independent company in 2015.[2] Crunchbase now positions its product around forecasting funding, growth and exits by combining its data and AI with engagement signals from millions of users.[1] McConnell did not disclose the valuation but called it a significant up round.[2] The company said part of the money would grow its 220-person team to about 275 by the end of 2022.[2]
Crunchbase sells private-company funding, investor and acquisition data; it last raised a $50M Series D in July 2022 and has not disclosed a valuation since.
Crunchbase sells structured data on private companies: who founded them, who runs them, and which investors funded which rounds. TechCrunch described the core of the product in 2022 as a research suite for sales teams, where entries show when a company was founded, its founders and executives, and its financing and debt rounds and their contributors, with paid plans unlocking data on competitors and history. The database is updated manually and automatically through syndication deals with partners including LinkedIn and Business Insider, and the company also runs a news operation, Crunchbase News, with its own writers covering funding rounds.[1]
In its own September 2026 press release, the company said its database, built over nearly two decades, covers more than six million companies and is continuously updated and verified, with more than 1.9 billion data updates applied each year. The company now describes its product as predictive intelligence: it combines its proprietary data and AI with engagement signals from its users to forecast funding, growth and exits across the private-company lifecycle, and it delivers the data through an MCP server, an API, CRM integrations and its web platform.[2]
Crunchbase began as a homegrown project by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to index the startups that TechCrunch wrote about. Over roughly 15 years it evolved into an API-driven database of startups and financial reports. It was spun out as an independent company in 2015, and CEO Jager McConnell has said the company has built a prospecting platform on top of the data since that spinout.[1]
The 2022 product roadmap described by McConnell shows how the business shifted toward sales tooling: discovery filters, machine-learning recommendations, a Chrome extension, Salesforce sync, email alerts on priority accounts, searchable decision-maker contact data and Gmail integration. McConnell said Crunchbase resisted adding contact data for a long time over privacy concerns but concluded it was valuable for customers, adding that the business model does not depend on contact data. He named PitchBook, CB Insights and Owler as competitors.[1]
In September 2026 Crunchbase announced that its private-company data is available inside ChatGPT for Financial Services, OpenAI's product for investment banking and equity research teams, and that financial institutions can buy access to Crunchbase data through OpenAI.[2]
On July 20, 2022, Crunchbase closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series D led by Alignment Growth, with participation from OMERS Ventures, Mayfield and Emergence Capital. The round brought total funding raised to $106.5 million. McConnell declined to reveal the valuation but described it as a significant up round; the company's post-money valuation after its Series C had been $150 million. No valuation has been disclosed since, and we found no equity round announced after the Series D.[1]
Its site features customer quotes from Clay, which says sales actions in its product are powered by Crunchbase data, and from HubSpot for Startups, whose lead marketing technical manager calls Crunchbase core infrastructure for identifying and verifying startup-program members. OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, was quoted in the 2026 release on bringing Crunchbase data into ChatGPT for Financial Services.[2]
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Crunchbase is an enterprise SaaS company, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded 2007.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2022 | Series D | $50M | — | Alignment Growthunverified | Crunchbase |
| Oct 30, 2019 | Series Cnot counted: no linked source | $30M | $150Mpost-money | — | Value Add Pulse research |
Equity only. “Equity raised” above sums the rounds with a dated, linked source; rumored rounds, tender offers and secondary sales are listed but not counted, and debt financing is listed separately.
That month it closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series D led by Alignment Growth, with OMERS Ventures, Mayfield and Emergence Capital participating.[2] Crunchbase had been valued at $150 million post-money after its Series C.[2] The Series D brought its total funding to $106.5 million.[2]
Crunchbase named eight startups as 2026's clearest IPO candidates two days ago; since then, exactly one -- Oura -- has converted to an actual public S-1, while the other seven remain unfiled.
Crunchbase data on 2026's startup-buys-startup wave shows the buying concentrated in fintech, AI and biotech, with the pace slowing sharply from over 440 deals in H1 to fewer than 100 so far in H2.
Crunchbase data shows well-funded AI unicorns making acquisitions the primary exit path for smaller startups this year, with OpenAI alone buying 8 companies in 2026 and Anthropic including a $400 million biotech deal.
Form Energy raised $750 million led by T. Rowe Price to scale its 100-hour iron-air grid battery technology, the third-largest round in Crunchbase's tracking of this week's biggest U.S. deals behind Databricks and River AI.
Crunchbase counted 40 new companies crossing $1 billion in valuation in July 2026, the highest monthly total in more than four years, led by three decacorns that added a combined $49 billion in value.
Crunchbase's new-unicorn tracker shows AI and robotics companies topping the list for consecutive months in 2026 -- 10 new unicorns in June alone, led by DeepSeek -- confirming unicorn creation is concentrated almost entirely in frontier tech.
OpenAI and Anthropic alone accounted for 43% of all global venture funding in the first half of 2026, according to Crunchbase data on a record $510 billion half-year total.
Real headline funding is bigger than ever, but a two-speed market has emerged: AI-adjacent mega-rounds keep getting bigger while everything else gets harder to raise, based on Crunchbase's H1 2026 data and this week's own deal flow.
Crunchbase data shows the count of billion-dollar-plus venture rounds climbing through H1 2026, concentrated overwhelmingly in AI, fintech and healthcare -- a structural shift in how the largest checks in venture get written.
Crunchbase News reports ten AI and semiconductor companies, led by DeepSeek, crossed the billion-dollar valuation threshold in June, showing unicorn creation is still concentrated in frontier AI.
Frontier AI labs and robotics companies topped Crunchbase's new-unicorn count for consecutive months in 2026, with DeepSeek joining Chinese peers like Moonshot AI and StepFun in raising billion-dollar rounds this quarter.
Crunchbase News analysis finds the recent wave of billion-dollar-plus seed rounds in AI and biotech function more like growth rounds, with founder-pedigree pricing replacing product validation.
Crunchbase had been valued at $150 million post-money after its Series C.[2]
Crunchbase started as a project by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to index startups featured in TechCrunch articles.[2]
Crunchbase has raised at least $50M in equity across 1 sourced funding round tracked by Value Add VC. The most recent was a $50M Series D in July 2022, reported by Crunchbase. Debt financing, tender offers and secondary sales are not counted.
Lead investors in Crunchbase's sourced funding rounds include Alignment Growth. Per round: its July 2022 Series D was led by Alignment Growth.
Crunchbase was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, according to Wikidata.
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