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by ravishah 3778 days ago
Yeah this is my story...

When working with a startup, I really want to know

What other startups are in this space 1 to find the competition 2 understand what others are doing differently

Who is investing and in what stage 1 to figure out future sources of Funding 2 to see which areas are VC’s are investing in right now

So I combined 3 of the things I love 1)Crunchbase, 2)Pivot Tables and 3)Bootstrap

So in my app,

You search by category, investor or both… (Please put comma’s when using multiple)

The category search is a regex (Not ideal)

But it lets you see companies who are in the same space.

I thought its pretty cool… JS in the front end Php (believe it or not) in the back

I’m a CS grad student / Partner at VC firm I helped launch called A Level Capital. Which might help explain my interest.

Couldn't add pictures... so also did a medium post here https://medium.com/@_RaviShah_/pivoting-crunchbase-5a99ed43a...