Crunchbase vs. LeadGrabber Pro

The data is outdated and has significant gaps. It is mostly a replication of what is easily and publicly available, with little value added. Their predatory subscription model includes no notice of renewal and they are very antagonistic towards their customers.

LeadGrabber Pro is an effective tool for prospecting for B2B organizations that have a need to prospect a large pool of potential prospects. Within a year period under one license, you are able to find up to 100.000 prospects using Linkedin. This is helpful for organizations who would like to contact many prospects within a year.

LeadGrabber Pro might be less relevant for businesses who are more focused on B2C sales or B2B organization that very niche and don't have a large pool of prospects they need to contact.

• Account-Based Data. Employee range, website, industry, company description, chief executives, latest news, etc. All for the given company you are researching.
• Salesforce integration. I have not used it, but the functionality is supposed to be great. You can run data enrichment in your CRM with the Crunchbase data.
• Funding, mergers, and acquisitions data. Crunchbase has relationships with thousands of VC firms throughout the world and followup with each very regularly to be able to serve up the latest data to their users.
• Tech integrations. Integrations with tools like Bombora, Builtwith, Siftery, and others are really useful because you can use Crunchbase's company profile-based research method, and see the data from these tools specifically related to the given company.

Incentivized

• Walk-away functionality: just click on the "Grab" button, and a list is automatically built for you
• Appends email addresses to contacts -- via automated LinkedIn and Google searches
• Verifies email addresses, and provides a rating on the accuracy / deliverability of each email address

• Notifications - Something similar to TweetDeck would be nice, so that when news breaks it could be an immediate fact.
• Honestly dont add too much because you don't want it to become more of a social tool with cluttered info, keep it straight to the point.

Incentivized

• The Auto-Split function is not perfect ... for splitting large searches into smaller jobs.
• Occasionally I encounter something trivial that does not work, but eGrabber Tech Support is very responsive, and they issue a patch, within a day or two of my complaint.

Only being 1 month in, I will have to wait longer before knowing what kind of ROI and results I will have at the years end.

In our experience, the customer service is horrible to non existent. If we were a fortune 100 company with a staff of computer people I am sure this would be a valuable service as they would "speak the language" but that is not us. Not being able to reach customer service when we are thinking about upgrading is, in my opinion, a crazy business model.

The software is extremely easy to use and does exactly what it was intended for - effortlessly source contacts in bulk.

They give standard answers. They are not a customer first business. I tried to cancel my subscription after using it for only 1 week as we found the information was outdated and not at all useful. But they would not cancel the year long subscription I mistakenly signed up for

The support team responds super fast and don't quit until the issue is resolved, you can't ask for more!

It was very easy!

Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides emails on c-suite. Crunchbase however is an easier tool to use so if complicated segmentation is not required, Crunchabse is a great solution. It's also super fast to access and provides a succinct and easy to read profile view.

Incentivized

I would recommend using LeadGrabber Pro in combination with LinkedIn and/or ZoomInfo as it is meant to be used with them. The tool allows you to effortlessly source thousands of new contacts each week and to do so in bulk. LeadGrabber Pro removes almost all of the manual labor of sourcing contacts and is an invaluable resource for any sales team. At the current price point, it is much more cost-effective than purchasing lists or building customized lists through a 3rd party and also much more accurate.

• Crunchbase has enabled my company to be more efficient in determining whether or not to conduct further diligence on companies.
• Tailoring searches for certain criteria has been helpful for aggregating competitors and companies of similar profiles.
• The software is not only powerful, but also affordable!

Incentivized

• We've been running LeadGrabber Pro for nearly one year. The initial investment in the program was around $3,000 and we've invested about $7,000 into an employee managing this program for us. So the total investment on our end has been around $10,000 in the program. Within the first year, we've closed $129,000 in sales, which is an 1190% increase in our investment. We also have about $200,000 in pipeline value of potential opportunities that could close in the next year. LeadGrabber Pro has definitely been a positive revenue generator for us and will continue using the service this upcoming year.