{"id":84955,"title":"Crustdata: Live Company and People Data via APIs","tagline":"Enrich, search, or watch any person or company in real-time","body":"**TL;DR**\n\nWe’re building Crustdata which provides live company and people data via APIs and webhooks. We let you watch, enrich, or search for any person or company on LinkedIn - and get updates in real-time.\n\n**🚩 Problem**\n\nGetting fresh, reliable, accurate B2B data at scale is hard.\n\nIn 2024, data needs to be live and pinpoint accurate, but most data platforms source from unreliable, poorly maintained 3rd party sources. And the data isn’t updated frequently — monthly, if you’re lucky.\n\nAny company trying to add an intelligence layer to their system or process needs data.\n\nProblem: it’s an incredible technology challenge to do that at scale.\n\n**✅ Solution**\n\nWe have developed technology that allows us to index and pipe in live data from almost any data source. Currently, we do this at scale from sources including LinkedIn, the SEC, funding announcements and milestones, employee ratings, product reviews, web traffic -  and deliver this data instantly to our customers.\n\nOur technology also enables you to ‘watch’ companies and people on a live basis. Get monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, or instant updates when a predefined event happens.\n\nEvents like:\n\n\\- Company grows or declines in headcount\n\n\\- Company grows in headcount by certain role\n\n\\- Company grows in certain headcount in specific regions\n\n\\- Company hires for specific technologies or titles in specific regions\n\n\\- Company lists a job posting for a certain title or technology\n\n\\- Company announces or closes funding round\n\n\\- Company gets a new product review\n\n\\- Person changes jobs\n\n\\- Person gets a promotion\n\n\\- Person adds a new skill\n\n\\- Company or Person makes a LinkedIn post\n\n▶️ **Demo**\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/TwUYDCrdLvk\u003e\n\n**🕰️ Why now**\n\nClean, fresh, and accurate data is becoming increasingly important. The age of AI is producing whole new product lines and allowing companies to make their sales process smart.\n\nThere are AI SDR companies that are totally reliant on fresh, primary source data to run their whole process.\n\nB2B sales teams are depending on appropriate triggers to make sure they are reaching out to the right person at the right time.\n\nCustomer success teams need to track key personnel at their customers, in real-time.\n\nGrowth equity investors are shifting towards in-house data stacks and models to do their entire deal sourcing.\n\nEarly stage startups need a data-driven approach in GTM research to identify the right market they can plant their wedge in.\n\n**🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Team**\n\nWe have a decade plus experience building our own separate VC-backed data products. We have spent an inordinate amount of time on the problem which has allowed us to have a unique insight and experience that is tough to replicate.\n\n**🌟 Big vision**\n\nThe majority of knowledge work in future will be done by AI agents. Our goal is to wield the web as the data warehouse for the AI agents of the future, starting with people and company data.\n\n[🙋‍♂️](https://emojipedia.org/man-raising-hand)**Learn more:**\n\nCheck out our data and API docs if you’re interested:[ **www.crustdata.com**](http://www.crustdata.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=84955\u0026key=user_uploads/508558/01e10e21-f749-4d57-9b85-4c12d359db1f)\n\n","slug":"M6F-crustdata-live-company-and-people-data-via-apis","created_at":"2024-10-22T20:45:13.129Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:40:29.494Z","total_vote_count":38,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M6F-crustdata-live-company-and-people-data-via-apis","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=84955\u0026key=user_uploads/508558/01e10e21-f749-4d57-9b85-4c12d359db1f","company":{"id":30076,"name":"Crustdata","slug":"crustdata","url":"https://crustdata.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a645ebfbcdeac20235858ba701359f66323b4b37.png","batch":"Fall 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30076"}}