The fastest way to assemble an investor hit list

8 points·timrosenblatt··4 comments

Hey everyone,

My company open sourced an Angular/Rails project for querying Crunchbase data. The most useful thing I've found (for my startup friends) is that you can easily find out who has recently been investing a certain dollar amount in a certain industry. If you're looking for investment, it's good to know who is active in the space.

What do you think? Useful?

http://crunchinator.com/#/crunchinator

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Great job! I'm sure I'll be using this extensively.

For now, I've been backing into this type of information by looking at AngelList's Startups/Companies section (https://angel.co/companies) and searching for patterns with their plethora of filters. I find AngelList to have better curation such as categories like Productivity that don't exist in Crunchbase. Maybe you might have better quality data piggybacking off the AngelList API (https://angel.co/api)

There's definitely opportunities with AngelList's data as well. Please let me know if you start finding some clever use cases, I love knowing how these tools end up being used! tim @ my-HN-username . com

I think people that like this will also love https://mattermark.com/ . It's like Bloomberg for the startup world.

Yup. Mattermark is great. This is sort of dipping a toe in the water. Maybe we should start doing leadgen for Mattermark ;)

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