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CB Insights

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18 Reviews and Ratings

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What is CB Insights?

CB Insights is a tech market intelligence platform that analyzes data on venture capital, startups, patents, and other data to predict market trends.

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Stay Ahead Of The Market with CB Insight !

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Product Management (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used to have an internal team, who was responsible for developing strategies by evaluating market trends. We have replaced this with CB Insights. CB Insights takes care of all that for us. We just have to make sure we invest in potential firms.

Pros

  • Data Driven Strategies
  • Predicting competitors possible Strategy
  • Track Competitors

Cons

  • List More Companies
  • Create more Strategy Options based on expected result
  • Dark Mode

Most Important Features

  • Finding Competitor Strategy
  • Connecting with reliable vendors
  • Letting us know what is happening in the tech Market

Return on Investment

  • Increased Return on investment
  • Better Productivity when compared to internal research team
  • Brilliant Insight on the industry

Alternatives Considered

CA Digital Experience Insights, Full Circle Insights and Agency Analytics

Other Software Used

Sugar Connect, DWG FastView, Faststream Technologies

CBInsights for the Accurate Business Intelligence You Need Today!

Incentivized
Chris McCarthyView profile
Chief Creative Officer in Marketing at Creating The Future Today - a division of Sealed Speed, Inc. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Transparency - lets me separate the hype from the reality.
  • Real-time intelligence-packed reporting. The graphs and metrics they provide along with their perspectives allow anyone to apply their own understanding and reproduce a nearly identical perspective.
  • Their daily e-newsletter is chock full of intelligence presented in such a fun and entertaining way, it makes you want to pay for it too!

Cons

  • Hard to say, since they are always so ahead of the curve. They designed it so well from the start, I can’t imagine what else they would add, though I am excited to watch where they take this next!

Return on Investment

  • Positive from the operational efficiency of getting this intelligence in a ‘breaking news’ format from this highly trusted resource.
  • Positive From the extensive, highly detailed reporting they do on both the markets that matter to us today, and those that are shifting so quickly that we should have them on our radar too.

Alternatives Considered

PitchBook and Factiva

Other Software Used

Videxio Cloud Videoconferencing, Google Drive, Zoom Video Webinar

Strategy Starts with CB Insights!

Incentivized
Jackie BassettView profile
NEJM Insights Council in Corporate at NEJM Group (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Stays ahead of more market changes than any other service we've ever found
  • Timely, accurate and extremely insightful information presented in an easy to process on our own, unbiased methodology
  • Far exceeds our marketing strategy and analysis needs, allowing for even more accurate planning.

Cons

  • Might only suggest more corporate events

Return on Investment

  • Positive in both volume and detail of the most relevant information upon which to make key strategic decisions.
  • It's not an inexpensive service, but worth the price given the accuracy, timeliness and criticality of the information they are able to provide.
  • Strategy - strategy - strategy! There's no way anyone could gather that much intelligence in just one stop with any other service.

Other Software Used

Divvy, Norton Internet Security, SeoSamba for Wordpress Enterprise

Venture Capital Data Team Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Vice-President in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Timely updates on funding rounds.
  • Updates on M&A activities.

Cons

  • Pre and post money valuation data.
  • Estimates on revenue and number of clients.

Return on Investment

  • Slightly positive ROI, but too early to say with certainty.
  • ROI hinges on the performance of investments.

Alternatives Considered

PitchBook

Other Software Used

Redis, PitchBook