Problem

Modern sales, recruiting, and investment teams need accurate information about companies, people, jobs, and market activity, but conventional B2B databases are often stale, incomplete, or difficult to access programmatically. That creates economic costs through wasted prospecting, missed buying or hiring signals, weak prioritization, and engineering effort spent assembling data sources. Crustdata’s central pain point is making hard-to-get business data usable at scale for AI systems.

The clearest use case is powering AI-native go-to-market workflows: an AI SDR can continuously build and prioritize pipeline, monitor champions and companies, and trigger outreach when relevant events occur. Similar needs apply to recruiting platforms, investment sourcing, diligence, and internal sales or marketing tools.

Product / Service

Crustdata is an API-first, real-time B2B data layer. Its APIs and dataset products cover companies, people, jobs, social posts, and web content, supporting search, enrichment, identity resolution, autocomplete, monitoring, and content retrieval through a versioned REST interface. Customers can query indexed data, enrich known entities with fresh attributes, search the web, or receive broader company and people datasets rather than building those capabilities themselves.

The product delivers structured, fresh data that AI agents and commercial applications can act on. Crustdata supports both builders creating external platforms—such as AI SDR, recruiting, and investment products—and internal teams; it also offers integrations such as MCP access for Claude. Its stated scale is more than 1 billion people and 60 million companies, with delivery through APIs, datasets, and custom solutions.

Market

Crustdata competes in the B2B data, sales-intelligence, and data-infrastructure markets, with a positioning increasingly focused on real-time web data for AI agents. Its direct or adjacent comparison set includes established B2B data providers such as ZoomInfo, Apollo, and Cognism, API-first providers such as People Data Labs and Coresignal, and web-search or research infrastructure products such as Exa. Crustdata differentiates around freshness, API access, structured data, and use by AI-native applications rather than only by human sales users.

The company is not pre-revenue. Crustdata was a YC F24 company and reported a $6 million seed round led by Y Combinator and A Capital in October 2025, alongside growth from $770,000 to more than $4 million in revenue over seven months with a one-person sales team. Its public product launch and continued hiring indicate an early but commercially validated company, although the available evidence does not establish current revenue, customer count, or profitability as of August 2026.