Ask HN: Alternatives to Crunchbase.

[balajiviswanath]

I have been using Crunchbase for some time and feel there is a high noise-to-signal ratio. There are too many companies that qualify neither as a startup nor as a product company. There are many dead companies and also there are many duplicate entries.

I was wondering if there are good alternatives to Crunchbase.

[alphast0rm]

A quick search turns up a few promising sites:

http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard

http://www.chubbybrain.com

http://www.linksv.com/

from: http://www.quora.com/CrunchBase/Are-there-any-other-sites-li...

They also list Mashable's Blippr but that appears to be dead. Hope this helps!

[balajiviswanath]

Thanks Alpha. That is great info. However, I tried all these tools and none of them are quite good. Blackboard has very few startups (most in their list are publicly traded cos) LinkSV is very hard to navigate. Also, these companies are focused on SV startups alone. I wish they had more data of non-US startups too.

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