Crustdata

Crustdata is a San Francisco-based B2B data provider that delivers real-time company and people data through APIs, webhooks and bulk dataset delivery. Its products include Company Enrichment, Company Search, People Enrichment, People Search, Jobs, Posts and Watcher APIs, plus company and people datasets. The platform aggregates and maps data from more than a dozen verified sources, and company materials cite coverage of over 60 million companies with 250+ datapoints each, including firmographics, taxonomy, competitors, review-platform and social signals, Product Hunt launches, press mentions, founders and key decision makers, headcount (current, historical and by department), funding rounds and investors, web traffic and SEO metrics, hiring signals, executive movements, news and product launches. Historical time series are offered for six datapoints, and webhooks push notifications when monitored companies or people change.

The company positions the dataset as an intelligence layer for AI agents and automated workflows. Stated use cases include AI SDRs and sales automation, internal sales tools and CRM enrichment, recruiting and applicant-tracking platforms, investment and deal-sourcing platforms, and private equity/M&A portfolio work. A more recent product, the Web Search API, is described as a search engine for agents that performs real-time search and fetch and applies a proprietary indexing algorithm to map web documents back to a canonical person or company entity, returning structured rather than link-based results.

Crustdata was a Y Combinator Fall 2024 company and announced a $6M seed round in October 2025 led by Y Combinator and A Capital, with General Catalyst, SV Angel and Phosphor Capital participating. Named users cited in the company's own funding announcement include Y Combinator (founder discovery and recruitment), agent.ai (Dharmesh Shah) and MNTN.

Founding story

According to the company's funding announcement, co-founders Abhilash Chowdhary and Chris Pisarski met through Y Combinator's co-founder matching tool in 2023 — one based in San Francisco, one in New York — and Manmohit Grewal joined as the third co-founder. Chowdhary previously led engineering teams at Uber/Postmates building the robotics platform for autonomous delivery robots, and his YC bio also lists roles at Robotwits (acquired by Waymo), a NASDAQ-listed robotics company from day zero to IPO, and petabyte-scale data pipelines at Yahoo!, with a BS in CS from IIIT Hyderabad. Pisarski was previously CEO of PrivCo, a private company database used by Microsoft, AmEx and Deloitte, and is a Cornell graduate. Grewal previously built and sold data products for D2C enablers and POS companies and is a Northeastern CS graduate. The company's about page frames the origin as a question of why activity inside companies is only visible once it is old news, with signals such as new domains, stealth hires and quiet launches scattered across the web.

Business model

Crustdata sells access to company and people data as a product, primarily through paid APIs and bulk data delivery. Access to real-time signals is sold on a credit-based usage model with monthly and annual payment plans, developer support and API key management. A separate flat-file offering delivers fully refreshed company and people datasets, unified from multiple sources, as CSV or JSON without integration work. Enterprise pricing, custom datasets and dedicated support are available via direct contact with the sales team.

Subscription and usage-based data access: credit-based tiers for real-time API access billed monthly or annually, on-demand bulk dataset delivery, and custom enterprise contracts. The company describes itself as profitable, having reached profitability without significant outbound marketing spend.

Traction

Company-reported traction includes growth from $770K to more than $4M in revenue in seven months with one salesperson and no outbound marketing spend, reaching profitability, and a current website claim of $10M ARR reached in about 1.5 years from $600K. Named users include Y Combinator (founder discovery and recruitment), agent.ai by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah, and MNTN for an automated AI SDR. Team size is listed at 30, with five open roles posted in San Francisco.

Latest developments

In October 2025 Crustdata announced a $6M seed round led by Y Combinator and A Capital with General Catalyst, SV Angel and Phosphor Capital participating, and stated plans to hire engineers and expand the GTM team while targeting enterprise customers. The company launched a Web Search API for AI agents, an entity-linked real-time search and fetch product intended to complement its People Search API. The website currently advertises $10M ARR, up from $600K over about 1.5 years, and the YC profile lists a team size of 30 with multiple open engineering roles in San Francisco.