This is a milestone for Semaverse. We are among the first launch partners for Crunchbase's new MCP connector. Since the start of the year we have worked with their team on the design and the go-to-market, a real exchange of ideas on both sides.

The value of Crunchbase's dataset was never in question. Extracting that value was the constraint: it took a practised analyst to frame the right query, and the interpretation still happened by hand.

That is the constraint this work removes. Crunchbase's private market data and predictive signals now run through Semaverse, reasoned over rather than searched.

Take a deal screen. Semaverse starts from the firm's thesis, determines which markets and which companies merit attention, then builds the position on each, the financials, the business, the people behind it. Crunchbase informs every step, and Semaverse knows the dataset well enough to judge what to draw on and where. No one has to construct the search.

Provenance is why the output holds. At the current pace of the market, a number's origin is not a technical detail. It decides whether a view survives an investment committee. Crunchbase's coverage of private companies is among the deepest available, which is why it sits underneath everything described here.

Selectivity is what the firm's own context adds. Strong data on its own produces a longer list. Semaverse holds the firm's criteria for what makes a deal worth pursuing, so the work returns fewer names, better ones, and more conviction behind each.

We are taking on a small number of design partners across private equity and corporate development. If your firm holds Crunchbase access and wants its screening to carry more weight, register your interest here: semaverse.ai/signup

About Crunchbase

Crunchbase is the leading predictive solution for private company intelligence, helping business decision-makers stay ahead of private market shifts so they can identify opportunities earlier and act first. Only Crunchbase combines nearly two decades of proprietary data and AI with unique engagement signals from more than 80 million users to forecast funding, growth, and exits across the private company lifecycle. From investors and dealmakers to go-to-market teams and product builders, enterprises use Crunchbase data to power workflows, products, and decisions. 

About Semaverse

Semaverse is the intelligence infrastructure for mergers and acquisitions, giving deal teams a single place to research, evaluate and build conviction on opportunities. The Semaverse Intelligence Layer combines a firm's own investment context with internal, public and external market data, so work is reasoned over rather than searched, with the analyst keeping judgement on what to pursue. Private equity, corporate development and M&A advisory teams use Semaverse to run screening, diligence and origination workflows end to end.