Employbl vs Crunchbase
The reference database for private-company funding, now sold as predictive intelligence to investors, sales teams and analysts. Employbl is the live dataset of tech companies: funding, investors, tech stack and the roles each company is running on its own careers page, on one record. Everything below about Crunchbase is quoted from their own pages, with the date we read them.
- Companies
- 30K+
- Live roles · ATS-read
- 100K+
- Funding rounds
- 75K+
Start with what Crunchbase does well.
- Breadth and depth of the funding record. Their homepage counts 39B live private-market signals and 30M+ verified updates a year.
- Predictions. Funding, growth, acquisition, IPO and layoff predictions, refreshed weekly, with a published hit rate.
- A data pipeline that names its sources: direct input, engagement signals, trusted sources and analyst validation.
“Be the first to know about private market opportunities with industry-leading predictive intelligence.”
“A multi-layer data pipeline combines direct input, engagement signals, proprietary ingestion systems, trusted sources, and analyst validation.”
“84% of real-world funding rounds predicted”
Sources: www.crunchbase.com
Side by side.
- Funding data
- Crunchbase
"39B live private market signals", "30M+ verified updates per year", "15M+ predictions refreshed weekly" (crunchbase.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
75,000+ funding rounds, three in four naming their investors, sourced from SEC filings, press and data partners, and labelled from the press when the filing does not name the round.
- Job listings
- Crunchbase
Not mentioned anywhere on the homepage; the use cases listed are investors, product developers, GTM teams, analysts, wealth managers and entrepreneurs (read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
100,000+ live roles read from each company's own applicant tracking system, next to the funding history, so "who just raised and is hiring" is one query.
- Tech stack
- Crunchbase
Not mentioned on the homepage (read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
Derived from the company's own job descriptions, so it reflects what they are hiring for now rather than what their website is built with.
- Who it is for
- Crunchbase
"Investors, Product Developers, GTM Teams, Analysts, Wealth Managers, Entrepreneurs" (crunchbase.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
Candidates vetting an employer first, then GTM teams building target lists of companies that just raised and are hiring.
- Who pays
- Crunchbase
Subscribers: the homepage offers "Start Free Trial" and "Talk to Sales" (crunchbase.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
Free, no trial clock, no card: search, the map, alerts, the AI assistant, and free MCP and REST API keys at 5,000 calls a day. Companies pay for their page in their own brand.
- Take the data with you
- Crunchbase
A "Product Developers" use case to "Power products and models with private company data and predictions" (crunchbase.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
REST API with CSV output and a public MCP server, both on the free account, plus free dataset downloads.
30,000+ tech companies, 100,000+ live roles read from each company's own applicant tracking system, and 75,000+ funding rounds, three in four naming their investors, on one record: the funding history, the investors, and the tech stack sit on the job page itself.
Which should you use?
Choose Crunchbase when the funding record itself is the product: diligence on a deal, predictions about who raises next, the global private-market universe.
Choose Employbl when the question is what a company is doing with the money: the live roles, the stack, the investors and the rounds on one page, free, with an API that returns CSV.
The free account never expires and takes no card: every company, every live role, saved-search email alerts, the map, the AI assistant, and free MCP and REST API keys at 5,000 calls a day. Candidates never pay. Companies pay for one thing, their page in their own brand.
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Frequently asked.
- Does Crunchbase have job listings?
- Its homepage does not mention them; the use cases it lists are investors, product developers, GTM teams, analysts, wealth managers and entrepreneurs. Employbl puts 100,000+ live ATS-verified roles next to the funding history on one record.
- Is Employbl's funding data as complete as Crunchbase's?
- No. Crunchbase counts 39B signals and 30M+ verified updates a year; Employbl carries 75,000+ rounds, three in four naming their investors. Employbl's rounds are joined to live jobs and tech stack, which is the question it is built to answer.
- Is Employbl free?
- Yes. The free account never expires and needs no card; it includes the full dataset, the AI assistant, and free MCP and REST API keys at 5,000 calls a day. Crunchbase's homepage offers a free trial and a sales path.
- Can I export Employbl data?
- Yes. The REST API returns JSON or CSV, the MCP server works with Claude and other assistants, and free dataset downloads are listed at employbl.com/downloads.
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