Crustdata (YC F24)

This is historic: Don’t fly home after YC India Startup School! We’re excited to announce that Crustdata has partnered with Y Combinator to help bring the next generation of Indian founders one step closer to YC Together, we’re hosting the first-ever YC hackathon in Bangalore that will offer YC office hours to the winners: ContextCon, on April 19 And it’s none other than legendary YC Partner Jon Xu who will be meeting the winners. Jon is a YC Partner and the co-founder of FutureAdvisor. He has advised hundreds of companies on how to go from a hack to a billion-dollar exit You will get 6 hours to build a product powered by Crustdata’s APIs that must be demo-able by the end of the day. The top 3 winners will get guaranteed office hours to talk about their idea, product, or startup, something usually only YC startups have access to, plus prizes worth $20k Sign up here: crustdata.com/contextcon

We are excited to announce our partnership with Rox, with Crustdata serving as the exclusive data provider behind their prospecting and enrichment engine. We are proud to power Rox as they launch Rox on Autopilot, the revenue agent built to run the sales cycle end to end. AI agents only grow revenue when they can act on the right data at the right time. Crustdata gives Rox real-time signals on the companies and people that matter, helping its agents move the moment new opportunities emerge.

How can recruiters know if a candidate accepted a job offer? One of our customers, who is building an AI recruiting platform, was facing exactly this problem: a candidate goes through interviews, then goes quiet, and nobody knows what happened next. Using the real-time Crustdata APIs, they were able to get a notification the moment that candidate joined a company they had been in process with.

Introducing our Google Sheets integration: Enrich people directly inside your spreadsheet using the identifiers you already have. Emails, names, company data, and more can be turned into structured, up-to-date records without leaving GSheets. Built for GTM, sales, recruiting, finance, and investment teams that run on spreadsheets and need reliable data at scale.

We just launched our new Web Search API on Product Hunt today The fastest and most accurate way for AI agents to search the entire web and get structured, production ready data back. This was by far our most requested feature. It took months of work to build and get right. Combined with our People and Company APIs, agents can now find real answers across news, social posts, research papers, open source content, blogs, and live websites and use that information immediately. If you are building AI agents for sales, recruiting, investment, insurance, research, or internal automation, this is a foundational layer. Help us get the #1 Product of the Day Badge here: https://lnkd.in/gRrSakFN

🚨 Thinking Machines Lab is chasing a $50B valuation - with ~50 elite employees 🚨 What makes Mira Murati's AI unicorn tick? I dug into 52 employee profiles via the Crustdata Company Search API. Here's the talent firepower: OpenAI: 17 people (~33%!) Meta: 10 people Google DeepMind: 4 people Mistral AI: 3 people Anthropic: 2 people Apple: 2 people Others: AI21 Labs, Character.AI + more Impressive roster from frontier labs. But with 2 cofounders just bolting back to OpenAI/Meta, is raw talent enough to justify $50B pre-product? Investors: Talent or traction? Founders: Retention risks? What's your take? 👇 #AI #Startups #Funding #Tech #Data

🚀 OpenAI is hiring - but who are they really looking for? I pulled the data using Crustdata's Company Search API and analyzed 457+ job openings at OpenAI. Here's what the data reveals 👇 1️⃣ Software Engineering & Infrastructure – 119 roles (Backend, Full Stack, Scaling, Infrastructure, GPU, Privacy) 2️⃣ Customer Deployment & Solutions – 48 roles (Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Architects, Technical Success) 3️⃣ Security, Safety & Intelligence – 38 roles (Security Engineering, Threat Modeling, Investigations) 4️⃣ Research & Applied AI – 30 roles (Research Engineers, Applied AI Engineers) 5️⃣ Sales & Account Management – 29 roles (Account Directors, Sales Managers) 6️⃣ User Operations & Support – 21 roles (AI Support Engineers, Trust & Safety Operations) 7️⃣ Hardware, Robotics & Consumer Products – 19 roles (Hardware Engineers, Camera Firmware, Robotics Software, Consumer SWEs) 8️⃣ Data Science & Analytics – 16 roles (Product, Marketing, Integrity) 9️⃣ Finance & Strategy – 14 roles (Strategic Finance, Corporate Dev, Purchasing & Operations) 🔟 Product Management – 12 roles (ChatGPT, Enterprise, Model Behavior, Safety) 💡 Notable trend: A surge in hardware-focused hiring. Could OpenAI be gearing up for a new consumer hardware product launch tied to their rumored device roadmap. #Tech #HiringTrends #AI #Data