CB Insights
 CB Insights Logo | |
| Industry | Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital |
|---|---|
| Founded | New York, NY - June 2008 |
| Founders | Anand Sanwal, Jonathan Sherry |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Revenue | $100 Million (Est. 2022)[1] |
Number of employees | 400 (Est. 2021)[2] |
| Website | cbinsights |
CB Insights is a private company with a business analytics platform and global database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities.[3] The platform provides summaries of private companies to private equity, venture capital, investment banking, angel investing, and consulting professionals.[4]
Founding
[edit]CB Insights was founded on January 1, 2008, by Anand Sanwal, and Jonathan Sherry and is headquartered in New York.[5]
The company has raised capital in three rounds of funding with the most recent one being $10 million in series A funding raised in 2015, led by the growth stage investment firm RSTP.[6] The company had previously raised $1.15 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for its private company scoring software, called Mosaic.[7]
Business
[edit]CB Insights uses a combination of big data tools and algorithms, as well as sentiment analysis on publicly available signals to gather and analyze data about private companies, investors, and industries.[8][9][10]
The company's reports on the health of private companies, growth startups, and venture capital across industries have been published in work by The New York Times and PwC.[11][12]
Since 2017, CB Insights publishes an annual rating of companies in artificial intelligence.[13][non-primary source needed]
The company announced acquisition of VentureSource data assets from Dow Jones & Company on July 15, 2020.[14]
CB Insights' primary competitors include Crunchbase, and Owler.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "CB Insights nears one million email subscribers". Axios. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
- ^ "CB Insights People". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
- ^ Lougen, Colleen (2017-10-02). "CB Insights". Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. 22 (3–4): 247–250. doi:10.1080/08963568.2017.1372018. ISSN 0896-3568. S2CID 216139809.
- ^ Shapiro, Zina. "Research Sources & Guides: Database Guide: CB Insights: Overview and How to Search". Stanford Graduate School of Business Library. Archived from the original on 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Anand Sanwal is bringing love to finance data – Tearsheet". tearsheet.co. 23 August 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "CB Insights raises $10M and launches a bot for making email introductions". VentureBeat. 2015-11-09. Archived from the original on 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "CB Insights Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding". TechCrunch. 9 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Press, Gil. "CB Insights: Predicting Startup Unicorns And Mastering Big Data Analytics For Private Companies". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Seave, Ava. "Predictive Analytics And Novel Visualization Draw Customers To 'Must Have' Data". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ Weissman, Cale Guthrie (2016-06-29). "How Emailing "I Love You" Translated Into $1 Million In Data Analysis Revenue". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ Tam, Pui-Wing (2017-03-27). "Tech Roundup: The World's Top Venture Capitalists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "PwC MoneyTree Report". PwC. Archived from the original on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "AI 100: The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2025". CB Insights Research. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ Torres, Alexander. "CB Insights acquires 27 years of private company data from Dow Jones to broaden its power to inform business customers". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a 'LinkedIn for company data'". TechCrunch. 31 October 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2020-07-08.