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CrunchBase is the world’s most widely used private company dataset
22MUsers in 2015
2,500Venture Partners
200kContributors
Ten Years of CrunchBase
2005 2007 2010 2015
Trust the community to report company data
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Sources of Data
Contributions to CrunchBase
¤ In the first half of 2016…
¤ 380,000 profiles updated
¤ 140,000 profiles createdCuration
Partners
Community
Contributions to CrunchBase
¤ 200,000 individual contributors
¤ 75,000 profiles updated each month
¤ Not all data can be crowd-sourced
¤ Easy to start, but hard to maintain
¤ Community norms matter from the start
Curation
Partners
Community
Contributions to CrunchBase
¤ 2,500 investment firms Venture Program
¤ Government and commercial licensees
¤ Partners are reluctant without traction
¤ Partner management requires effort
Curation
Partners
Community
Contributions to CrunchBase
¤ Crawling the web, news, and social media
¤ Teams in India provide human curation
¤ Machine learning works, but…
Curation
Partners
Community
Breadth — Depth — Accuracy
¤ Crowd sourced data is tough to measure
¤ Identify quantifiable metrics
¤ Create longitudinal analysis
¤ Partners can validate where you cannot
¤ User behavior can identify issues validate
2016 study by Kauffman Foundation
Research Driven by CrunchBase Data
Measuring the Growth of Female Founders
¤ Several studies in 2014-2015 discussed challenges
¤ CrunchBase positioned to deliver transparent analysis
¤ Automated analysis using biographical text and first-names
¤ Manual review to address limitations in automation
¤ Invite community to identify errors and make corrections
Upward Trend for Female Founders
¤ In 2009, 9.5% startups had at least one woman founder
¤ By 2014 that rate had almost doubled to 18%.
Female Founders On An Upward Trend, According To CrunchBase May 2015
Comprehensive Study of Women in Venture
62 of the 100 global largest venture capital firms have zero female partners.
7% of investing partners at the top 100 global venture capital firms are women
The first comprehensive study on women in venture capital and their impact on female founders — April 2016
Trends in Venture Investments
Early Stage Venture Trends in US
¤ Report of major drop in Seed funding was pre-mature Seed volume down 10% Q1-16 YoY
¤ Investors make bigger bets in Seed as bar rises for A Seed round size up 25% Q1-16 Y-o-Y
¤ Valuations fall for Series B as later stage contracts Series B size down 25% vs 2015 high
Growing Coverage of Israeli Startups
4,000Companies with offices in Israel
1,200Investors in
Israeli companies
60,000Web visitors from Israel each month
