Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
44 points - today at 3:59 PM
I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies.
The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page.
The project is still very early, but currently includes:
Startup profiles
Search and filtering
Company categorization
Public API (in progress)
I'm especially interested in feedback on:
What information you look for when researching startups
Features missing from existing startup databases
API use cases
I see quite outdated data. Anthropic listed with valuation 18B and latest round at 4b? Just to compare, their real latest round was 65b with valuation 965b.
CharlesWtoday at 5:55 PM
I expected the VERIFIED badges to link to some sort of provenance information. That seems like a must, otherwise (given the "assume everything's incorrect" disclaimers) I'm not sure why one would take that badge seriously.
dgrin91today at 5:33 PM
It sounds like none of the data will be reliable? Ai and community seems like very little will be true and I will have no idea which part will be true.
rkwaptoday at 6:11 PM
Nice initiative. but, I am concerned about the reliability of the data. how are you gonna take care of that?
holistiotoday at 6:15 PM
It is unclear how I can list my company here. Are small companies coming later?