Find leads for your startup, free for students
Describe who would buy. Get companies and the right people at each. No sign-up.
Get the full list
Run any search on many more companies with your free credits from your university.
School not listed? Ask your entrepreneurship centre to request a program, or email support@crustdata.co.
- Copy your codeEvery school in the University Program has its own code.
- Sign up at app.crustdata.comClick Have a promo code? below the Continue button, then paste the code and your student email. Do not use Continue with Google, or the code is not applied.
- Run the full searchCopy your API key and run the agent with your sentence: it writes a CSV and shows the cost before a bigger run. No terminal? Add Crustdata to Claude and ask it for the same list.
Student email not accepted? Email support@crustdata.co
For developers: run it in a terminal with your own API key
# Needs Node 22.13 or newer. On Windows, run it in Git Bash or WSL.$ git clone https://github.com/crustdata/tools$ cd tools/prospecting-agent && npm install$ export CRUSTDATA_API_KEY=your_key$ npm run find -- --limit 10 \ --icp "Series A fintech startups in New York"
# It writes out/people.csv and out/accounts.csv, one row per person, like these from the example search:Rory O'Reilly, CEO and Co-Founder, Knot, work email on fileKieran O'Reilly, Chief Technology Officer, Cofounder, Knot, work email on fileIan Krotinsky, Co-Founder and CEO, Fin, work email on fileSharad Dole, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Button Finance, work email on fileJason Harris, Chief Executive Officer, Button Finance, work email on fileWalter Quiroga, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ciphertext Solutions, work email on file
How to find leads for your startup
One sentence: what the companies do, where they are, how big. Name the team you sell to if it is not the founder.
We read your sentence into filters you can see and remove, find matching companies and the decision makers at each.
Claim free credits with your university code, get your API key and run the same search with the open source agent.
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Questions about finding customers
Is this free for students?
Yes. You get 5 free searches a day here with no sign-up, about 25 leads each. Students at universities in the Crustdata University Program also get free credits to run the full search themselves.
How do I find leads for free?
Describe your buyer in one sentence at the top of this page. You get 5 free searches a day with no sign-up, about 25 leads each: matching companies and the founder, owner or team head at each. Students can then claim free credits with their university code and run the full search themselves.
How do I find customers for my startup?
Start with who has the problem you solve: the kind of company, where it is and how big. Then find the person who decides at each one, usually the founder or owner at a small company, or the head of the team that would use your product at a bigger one. This tool does both steps from one sentence.
How do student founders do lead generation?
Pick one kind of customer, list the companies that match, find the person who decides at each and send each one a short, personal note about their problem. This page builds the list and finds the decision makers from one sentence; the outreach is yours.
Is this a free B2B lead finder?
Yes. It finds companies and the people who buy at them, not consumers. It is free for students, with no sign-up and no card.
How do I claim my free credits?
Copy your university promo code, go to app.crustdata.com and click “Have a promo code?” below the Continue button. Paste the code, enter your student email and click Continue. Do not use “Continue with Google”, or the code is not applied.
Do I need a .edu email or a student email?
You need your student email. If your school's email is not accepted yet, email support@crustdata.co and the team will sort your credits out.
Can I download the leads?
Yes. The Download CSV button under your search saves the companies and people on screen as a spreadsheet for Excel or Google Sheets. For the full list, run the same search with your free credits.
How do I get the full list?
Sign up with your university code and get your API key. Then run the open source prospecting agent with the same sentence: it writes every matching company and the decision makers at each to a CSV file.
Can I email these people?
Yes, one person at a time. Say who you are and why you are writing, keep it short, follow the anti-spam rules where you live, and stop if they ask you to. People shown here can ask Crustdata to remove their data at any time.
What do you keep about me?
Nothing that identifies you: no name, no email, no sign-up. A cookie and a scrambled network id count your 5 free searches a day, and each search is kept for 24 hours so repeating it is free.
Can I get their email addresses?
Not on this page. “Work email on file” means Crustdata has a work email for that person. With your own API key you can look it up with the contact enrichment API.
Why do results change a little between searches?
Companies are ranked by how well they match your words, and that ranking can shift slightly from run to run. The filters you see as chips are always applied exactly.
Where does the data come from?
Crustdata indexes public company and professional profile data: 60M+ companies and 1B+ profiles. Each person links to their public profile.
What is Crustdata?
Crustdata is a B2B data API for company and people data: firmographics, headcount, funding, job postings and people search. Developers use it to build sales, recruiting and research tools.