Build a deal sourcing
tool to find, enrich
& monitor founders.
Crustdata’s APIs detect and deliver the earliest signals of new founders and startups.
From title changes to stealth announcements and detailed people history, we help your team be first to reach the right founders.
Your competitive advantage,
powered by Crustdata
Crustdata is the data layer VCs use to programmatically express their thesis.
Our APIs power 20+ deal sourcing workflows.
Realtime search API
Instantly surface every founder or startup that matches your filters at this moment in time.
Watcher APIs
Be alerted the second an employee leaves their company and becomes a founder, a stealth startup forms, or a team spikes in hiring.
Enrichment APIs
See the full pedigree of founders such as education, employment history and 90+ datapoints and company context such as headcount, location, job openings and 250+ datapoints in one call.
Multi-signal coverage APIs
We get data from 10+ sources to provide firmographic, web traffic, employee reviews, product reviews, funding, news mentions and more, all combined in one API.
Workflows top funds
are building with our APIs
Sourcing
Find the exact companies and founders you want to invest in using 340+ indepth filters and realtime search APIs.
Powered by our person search and company search APIs.
Find founders that fit your criteria
Find new stealth founders
Discover startups as they form
Build lists that update themselves in realtime
Enrichment
Understand the full history of a person and a company to get context before investing.
Powered by our people and company enrichment APIs.
Build full founder profiles with career history, education, funding, & more
Map team pedigrees against your thesis
Monitoring
Get notified instantly when a new match fits your investment thesis or there’s a new signal that you care about.
Powered by our Watcher API
Be the first to know when a founder posts a milestone on social media
Track people changing their current company to 'stealth'
Keep tabs on portfolio companies for new hires, web traffic increase, and more
Keep tabs on interesting and talented individuals
APIs built for
internal sourcing platforms
The biggest funds have moved beyond dashboards.
Crustdata powers the internal sourcing platforms of some top 10 VCs worldwide.
Real-time infrastructure
Low-latency, high uptime robust realtime APIs.
Deep people &
company profiles
Comprehensive data with 340+ datapoints across 10 sources.
Advanced filters for accurate search
150+ filters to find the exact people and companies that fit your criteria.
Customizable signals
Monitor specific signals, even custom ones that matters to your thesis.
1:1 customer support
Clear documentation and Slack support with our engineers.
avoid outreach to wrong fits due to outdated data