Crustdata (YC)

Backed byY Combinator
Total raised$12.0M
StageSeed
Founded2023
Team size11-50
HQSan Francisco, United States
IndustriesAI/ML

About Crustdata (YC)

Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and full dataset delivery, enabling access to up-to-date information from over a dozen sources while its technology pipes live data and aims to index important web data for easy, scal

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Company at a glance

Locations
San Francisco, United States ·Los Angeles, United States ·New York City, United States
Investors
A Capital ·General Catalyst ·Phosphor Capital ·SV Angel ·Y Combinator
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Founders & Leadership

SK

Saurabh Kohli

Ex: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse, Yotpo, Optimove, MURAL

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AC

Abhilash Chowdhary

Co-founder at Crustdata (YC F24) | Real-time B2B data for AI agents

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AP

Andrés H. Pimentel

Building @ Crustdata

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AR

Aniketh Reddimi

Founding Engineer @ Crustdata (YC F24) | IIIT-H | Ranked #115 on Project Euler

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C Y K Sagar

Claude operator @Crustdata

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Software Engineering43%
  • Sales & Business Development37%
  • Leadership10%
  • Business Operations7%
  • Other3%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
  2. 2.International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad
  3. 3.Harvard University
  4. 4.Yale University
  5. 5.Cornell University

Team Worked At

  • Palantir Technologies
  • Stripe
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Databricks
  • McKinsey & Company

Team Composition

25 people
  • Engineering4 senior8
  • Entrepreneurship3 senior3
  • Sales2 senior3
  • Customer Success and Support2
  • Accounting1
  • Business Development1
  • Consulting1
  • Operations1

Funding History

SeedOct 2025

$6M

raised

Real-time data infrastructure startup Crustdata raised a $6 million seed round led by Y Combinator and A Capital, with General Catalyst, SV Angel, and Phosphor Capital participating.

Y CombinatorA CapitalSV AngelPhosphor CapitalGeneral Catalyst

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