How fresh is the people data?

People profiles are enriched live from 15+ sources at query time. Role changes and employer updates reflect what is true right now.

How much does a typical sourcing workflow cost?

People search is 1 credit per 100 results. Enrichment is 1 credit per profile. Watcher alerts are 1 credit per event. Most sourcing teams spend $500 to $2,000 per month.

How does this compare to Harmonic or Dealroom?

Harmonic and Dealroom index companies after formation signals. Crustdata searches 1B+ people profiles by role change and employer exit. You own the query logic and pipe results into your own system.

What about niche sectors like crypto, climate, or defense?

Crustdata enriches from 15+ sources beyond startup databases. Profiles in those sectors surface through people data and activity signals.

Find founders before they come out of stealth.

Manual profile scanning misses founders who go quiet before they announce. By the time Crunchbase or Harmonic surfaces them, competitor funds already have meetings. You find out on Thursday.

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1B+

people profiles

60M+

companies

350+

people and company search filters

Harmonic, Dealroom, and Crunchbase all wait for the same company signals.

Five funds get the same alert on Monday.

Harmonic sends identical daily digests to every subscriber in your category. By the time you review the list, three other funds already have meetings scheduled.

The founder moved two months before the company existed.

Manual profile scanning breaks at fifty operators.

Your sourcing tools track the company, but nothing in your stack tracks the founder who started it.

Harmonic, Dealroom, and Crunchbase all wait for the same company signals.

Five funds get the same alert on Monday.

Harmonic sends identical daily digests to every subscriber in your category. By the time you review the list, three other funds already have meetings scheduled.

The founder moved two months before the company existed.

Manual profile scanning breaks at fifty operators.

Your sourcing tools track the company, but nothing in your stack tracks the founder who started it.

Harmonic, Dealroom, and Crunchbase all wait for the same company signals.

Five funds get the same alert on Monday.

Harmonic sends identical daily digests to every subscriber in your category. By the time you review the list, three other funds already have meetings scheduled.

The founder moved two months before the company existed.

Manual profile scanning breaks at fifty operators.

Your sourcing tools track the company, but nothing in your stack tracks the founder who started it.

What changes when you spot founders before they announce.

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With Crustdata

Harmonic and Dealroom alert you after a company is indexed.

Search 1B+ profiles by title change, employer exit, and sector.

You scan profiles one at a time for recent role changes.

Filter 60+ dimensions: previous employer, seniority, role change recency.

Context requires four tabs: funding page, news, profile, company site.

250+ company and 90+ people datapoints in one API response.

Weekly digest or manual check for new activity.

Watcher webhooks fire when a tracked person changes roles.

Search for the founder before the company exists

Pass a previous employer, a sector, and a recency window. The API returns every matching person with role, work history, skills, and location. 1 credit per 100 results.

Get alerted when thesis-relevant founders move

Set a watcher on operators at your target companies. You receive a webhook when someone changes roles or posts about a new project. 1 credit per event delivered.

Pull the full founder profile in one call

The watcher fired. Now enrich the person to get work history, skills, education, and contact details before your first outreach. 1 credit per person enriched.