CB Insights is a private company with a business analytics platform and global database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities.[3] The platform provides summaries of private companies and investor activities.
Operations
CB Insights was founded on January 1, 2008, by Anand Sanwal, and Jonathan Sherry and is headquartered in New York.[4]
The company has raised capital in three rounds of funding with the most recent one being $10 million in series A funding raised in 2015, led by the growth stage investment firm RSTP.[5] The company had previously raised $1.15 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for its private company scoring software, called Mosaic.[6]
The company offers business analysis research and reports focused on private markets. The company also publishes a weekly newsletter written by company founder Anand Sanwal in an irreverent style.[7]
The company announced acquisition of VentureSource data assets from Dow Jones & Company on July 15, 2020.[8]
References
- CB Insights nears one million email subscribers Axios, retrieved 2021-07-06^
- CB Insights People LinkedIn, retrieved 2021-12-16^
- Colleen Lougen. CB Insights Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2017-10-02^
- Anand Sanwal is bringing love to finance data – Tearsheet tearsheet.co, 23 August 2017, retrieved 2020-07-08^
- CB Insights raises $10M and launches a bot for making email introductions VentureBeat, 2015-11-09, retrieved 2020-07-08^
- CB Insights Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding TechCrunch, 9 November 2015, retrieved 2020-07-08^
- Cale Guthrie Weissman. How Emailing "I Love You" Translated Into $1 Million In Data Analysis Revenue Fast Company, 2016-06-29, retrieved 2020-08-15^
- Alexander Torres. CB Insights acquires 27 years of private company data from Dow Jones to broaden its power to inform business customers Business Insider, retrieved 2020-08-02^