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I'd be curious to know whether LinkedIn is or will start working on a similar user-experience for medium-to-large organizations. On paper it would seem LinkedIn would have a strong lead ahead of CrunchBase with their own business graph model(s), but the existing LinkedIn UI would probably need some major overhauls.

Also, it's unlikely that LinkedIn would want to focus solely on early-stage startups since at this point in their trajectory there probably isn't enough money in that category to justify an additional LinkedIn Premium tier.

CrunchBase is immersed in the startup ecosystem and their Business Graph will probably provide and quickly return more relevant information based on their existing dataset.