Crunchbase is a platform that helps professionals discover innovative companies, connect with the people behind them, and pursue new opportunities.

Crunchbase was originally built to track startups, and now it has information on public and private companies on a global scale. Currently, there over 55 million professionals including entrepreneurs, investors, market researchers, and salespeople who trust the site to inform their business decisions.

Those who sign up are given access to company information such as investor, and funding data via the web interface. The site sources its data in four ways, the venture program, machine learning, an in-house data team, and the Crunchbase community. The data can also be acquired from members of the public.

Crunchbase allows its users to intelligently search and target the right opportunities using their advanced search filters, analysis tools, and company alerts. Top 100,000 profiles in the site from different industries assigned a ranking called Crunchbase Rank. The higher your Rank, the more influential your profile will be compared peers. Crunchbase Rank allow users to prioritize their search results by influence.

To use the Crunchbase rank and trend score better, you can enter details in the following format:

1. To find an organization is well established, respected, and makes a high number of investments.

You search:

Headquarters – Portfolio companies

Number of investments greater than 100

Crunchbase Rank less than 1,000

This format will help narrow the search and display only top 1% of the sector.