What Crustdata does

Crustdata is an API-first real-time B2B data infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco that provides live people and company intelligence for AI agents, sales automation platforms, recruiting tools, and investment intelligence systems. The platform crawls the web at query time and unifies data from 16+ verified global sources into normalized schemas, covering 1B+ people and 60M+ companies with 350+ datapoints per profile. Its product suite spans nine offerings: two bulk datasets (Company Dataset at 60M+ companies, People Dataset at 1B+ profiles) and seven specialized REST APIs (Company Enrichment, Company Discovery, People Enrichment, People Discovery, Job Listing, Posts, and Watcher). The architecture supports dual enrichment modes, with real-time live web crawling (5 credits per profile, up to ~30 second latency) and cached database enrichment (1 credit per profile, sub-10 second latency), plus webhook-based event monitoring for changes such as job transitions, funding rounds, and headcount movements. A native Model Context Protocol integration with Anthropic's Claude positions the platform as the data layer for AI agents built on Claude.

Crustdata's business model combines usage-based credit pricing for API calls with subscription-based bulk dataset delivery and hybrid multi-year enterprise contracts with dedicated Slack engineering support. GTM is API-first and horizontally segmented, targeting AI SDR platforms, venture capital and growth equity funds, recruiting platforms, GTM teams, and customer success organizations. Acquisition is primarily content-led and developer-focused through extensive documentation, comparison pages against ZoomInfo, Clearbit, Clay, and other incumbents, case studies, and SEO, supplemented by direct demo-driven enterprise sales. The company reports over $4M in revenue scaling from $770K in seven months without outbound marketing, suggesting strong product-led growth dynamics. Notable enterprise customers include Perplexity, Anthropic, GitHub, Vercel, agent.ai, and MNTN.

Crustdata was founded in 2025 and is a Y Combinator W25 graduate. The company closed a $6M seed round in October 2025 led by Y Combinator and A Capital, with Garry Tan doubling down on the investment. The legal entity is Crustdata Technologies Inc., incorporated in California. The company powers 200+ platforms globally and operates as an infrastructure provider rather than a human-operated SaaS tool, selling to technical teams and developers who embed the APIs into their own products.

Name

Crustdata

Legal name

Crustdata Technologies Inc.

Website

https://crustdata.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Crustdata is an API-first real-time B2B data platform providing live people and company intelligence for AI agents, sales automation, recruiting, and investment platforms, covering 1B+ people and 60M+ companies via 16+ sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

B2B Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Semantic Layer, Metrics Store & Headless BI (HDAEAMAE)

Keywords

• B2B data APIs
• Real-time enrichment
• Company intelligence
• People search APIs
• AI data infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API Usage-based Pricing: Crustdata charges a flat rate per API call allowing customers to calculate costs with simple math (calls x price per credit). They offer real-time enrichment (higher credit cost) and database enrichment (lower credit cost) with different credit structures to suit customer needs.
2. Bulk Dataset Subscriptions: Full dataset delivery of company and people data with configurable refresh cadences (monthly, quarterly, yearly), targeting customers who need large volumes at lower cost and can accept non-real-time data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Crustdata provides a real-time B2B data infrastructure platform delivered via REST APIs that aggregates live data on 1 billion people and 60 million companies from 16+ verified sources. The platform offers both real-time and cached enrichment, covering company financials, headcount, funding, jobs, social posts, and people profiles with 350+ datapoints, designed specifically as an intelligence layer for AI agents and data-driven products.

Product overview

Crustdata is an API-first real-time B2B data infrastructure platform designed as the intelligence layer for AI agents and data-driven products. The platform provides structured data on 1 billion+ people and 60+ million companies, aggregating from 16+ verified sources with real-time refresh capabilities. The product portfolio centers on two dataset products (Company Dataset and People Dataset) supplemented by seven specialized REST APIs: Company Enrichment API and Company Discovery API for company intelligence (250+ datapoints, 95+ filters); People Enrichment API and People Discovery API for professional profiling (90+ datapoints, 60+ filters); Job Listing API for hiring signals (30+ datapoints); Posts API for social media activity tracking; and Watcher API for real-time webhook-based event monitoring. All APIs support both live real-time enrichment and cached database enrichment modes, delivering data organized in AI-ready structured JSON schemas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Company Enrichment API Enriches any company with 250+ datapoints including headcount (current, historical, by department), funding history, valuation, investors, web traffic trends, SEO metrics, employee reviews, product reviews, and hiring signals. Supports both real-time enrichment (live web crawling) and database enrichment (cached monthly data).
• Company Discovery API Builds lists of companies using 95+ filters including employee headcount, headcount by department and geography, skills concentration, revenue, funding, investors, job listings, employee reviews, product reviews, SEO rankings, and ad presence. Enables finding companies actively hiring or expanding.
• People Enrichment API Enriches individual person profiles with 90+ datapoints including current and past employment with start/end dates, education history with degrees, certifications, skills, social media posts, engagement metrics, and contact information.
• People Discovery API Searches 1 billion+ people profiles using 60+ filters for database search (seniority, function, location, job changes, past companies, education) or 20+ filters for real-time search. Supports finding decision-makers and recently hired candidates.
• Job Listing API Delivers real-time job posting data with 30+ datapoints including full job descriptions, job URLs, categories, departments, number of openings, workplace type (onsite/remote/hybrid), location data with geocodes, and date posted.
• Posts API Retrieves real-time social media posts from people and companies, including content text, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares), reactor data, and metadata. Enables tracking thought leadership and personalizing outreach.
• Watcher API Enables real-time monitoring and event-driven webhooks for people and company changes. Supports Company Watcher, People Watcher, and Event Watcher for instant notifications on monitored criteria.
• Company Dataset Bulk dataset of 60+ million companies with 250+ datapoints including historical data for headcount, web traffic, social followers, and funding. Delivered monthly, quarterly, or yearly with monthly refresh recommended.
• People Dataset

Quantifiable outcome

• Revenue grew from $770K to over $4M in seven months without outbound marketing
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Anthropic (Claude MCP Integration)coreTechnology or IntegrationCrustdata integrated with Anthropic's Claude via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI models to access real-time people and company data directly within Claude. This positions Crustdata as the data intelligence layer for AI agents built on Claude.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo is the largest incumbent B2B data provider offering company and contact intelligence, intent data, and sales engagement — competing across Crustdata's full surface but with a much broader enterprise SaaS portfolio and established distribution.
• Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform with a strong European presence, offering company and contact data plus intent signals — a broader incumbent overlapping with Crustdata's sales and GTM use cases.
• Lusha: Lusha is a B2B contact and company data provider popular with sales teams for direct enrichment, overlapping with Crustdata's people enrichment and CRM-update use cases for SMB and mid-market GTM.

Direct peers

• Apollo.io: Apollo.io is a sales intelligence and engagement platform offering B2B contact data, company enrichment, and outreach automation — directly competing with Crustdata's company/people enrichment and AI SDR use cases, with overlapping APIs and bulk dataset offerings.
• People Data Labs: People Data Labs provides B2B person and company data via APIs and bulk datasets with hundreds of attributes per profile — a direct comparable to Crustdata's People Enrichment/Dataset products and a head-to-head competitor in developer-first data delivery.
• Clay: Clay is a data enrichment and outbound workflow tool that aggregates multiple data providers for GTM teams — explicitly named by Crustdata as a competitor and overlapping heavily in AI SDR / signal-driven outbound use cases.
• Clearbit (HubSpot): Clearbit provides company and contact enrichment APIs and is integrated into HubSpot's ecosystem — a direct competitor in enrichment APIs and one of the vendors Crustdata explicitly positions against in its comparison pages.
• Proxycurl (Nubela): Proxycurl offers a LinkedIn-focused people and company data API, comparable to Crustdata's People/Company Enrichment APIs in structure and developer audience; explicitly named by Crustdata as a competitor.
• Coresignal: Coresignal provides fresh employee, company, and job posting data via API and bulk delivery — directly comparable to Crustdata's company dataset, jobs API, and headcount time-series offerings.

Emerging players

• Enrich Layer: Enrich Layer provides LinkedIn profile, company, and job data via API, positioned similarly to Proxycurl and competing with Crustdata on developer-first real-time enrichment; explicitly named as a Crustdata competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/crustdata

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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