{"slug": "show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative", "title": "Show HN: A Free Crunchbase Alternative", "summary": "A developer launched a free alternative to Crunchbase, using custom AI agent pipelines to cross-reference public sources and manually review profiles, seeking feedback on whether to release more profiles.", "body_md": "crunchbase is $49 which is honestly too much if your not an actual angel or VC, as a result I decided to make this site, I use custom built agent pipelines to cross reference public sources, then I write and review the profiles and publish them to the site. Right now Ive only made a few profiles, and I'm hoping to get feedback on whether or not people would be interested in me releasing more.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572472](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572472)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative", "canonical_source": "https://startupwiki.tech/", "published_at": "2026-06-17 16:08:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 16:23:24.263932+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Crunchbase"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-free-crunchbase-alternative.jsonld"}}