# Case Studies ###### Stories from teams that build with Crustdata ### VC Firm • Apr 27, 2026 **How a European Growth Equity Firm Built a Diligence Dashboard Using Headcount Time-Series** A European growth equity firm replaced single-point department data and a fragmented vendor stack with Crustdata's enrichment APIs, building an internal diligence dashboard that turns headcount time-series and social post signals into investment timing decisions. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/european-growth-equity-diligence-dashboard) ### Recruiting Tool • Apr 27, 2026 **How a Biotech Venture Fund's In-House Search Practice Catches Executive Career Moves Before Competing Firms** A biotech-focused venture fund runs executive search in-house for portfolio companies. Crustdata's real-time people enrichment catches job transitions weeks before legacy providers refresh, giving recruiters first contact on high-value candidates and freeing engineering time from data cleanup. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/biotech-venture-fund-executive-search) ### VC Firm • Apr 27, 2026 **Why a Global Automaker's Foresight Team Chose Crustdata Over Crunchbase and PitchBook for Stealth Startup Tracking** A global automaker's Silicon Valley foresight team replaced manual startup scouting and database blind spots with Crustdata's APIs, surfacing stealth and pre-seed companies that their existing Crunchbase and PitchBook subscriptions missed entirely. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/automaker-foresight-stealth-startup-tracking) ### GTM Team • Apr 11, 2026 **Why a Mid-Market PE Firm Chose Crustdata Over ZoomInfo and Apollo for Portfolio-Wide GTM Data** A mid-market PE firm replaced legacy B2B data vendors across 8 portfolio companies with Crustdata, standardizing GTM data quality and scaling outbound without adding sales headcount. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/pe-firm-portfolio-gtm-transformation) ### GTM Team • Apr 10, 2026 **How a B2B SaaS Company Doubled Demo Bookings After Building a Signal-Driven Outbound Platform on Crustdata** A B2B SaaS company replaced manual prospect research and static outbound sequences with a signal-driven internal platform built on Crustdata's APIs, doubling demo bookings and tripling reply rates without adding headcount. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/signal-driven-outbound-platform) ### Recruiting Firm • Apr 10, 2026 **Why a Tech Recruiting Agency Replaced 3 Enterprise Data Vendors with Crustdata** A mid-size tech recruiting agency enriched 200K+ company records in their ATS with live funding, headcount, and growth data, turning a name-only candidate database into a filterable talent pool that matches client briefs on the first pass. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/recruiting-agency-sourcing-quality) ### GTM Team • Apr 4, 2026 **How a PLG Company Finds Enterprise Buyers Hidden in 20M+ Sign-Ups With Crustdata** A PLG company with 20M+ self-serve users replaced manual enrichment workflows with Crustdata's APIs to resolve personal emails to work profiles, surface enterprise accounts at sign-up, and convert self-serve users into enterprise deals. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/plg-signup-enrichment) ### VC Firm • Apr 4, 2026 **Why a Growth Equity Fund Replaced PitchBook and Harmonic with Crustdata to Build Their Deal Sourcing Tool** A growth equity fund replaced manual university-by-university sourcing and $20K/seat PitchBook subscriptions with Crustdata's APIs, automating founder discovery and reaching stealth-stage founders before competitive processes begin. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/vc-fund-deal-sourcing-tool) ### App Development • Apr 4, 2026 **Why Appsmith Chose Crustdata Over ZoomInfo, Apollo, and Clay for Live Company and People Data** Appsmith needed live company and people data for their website-building product. After in-house attempts failed and existing vendors couldn't match their freshness requirements, they used Crustdata's APIs to ship an important feature in half a day. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/appsmith-live-data) ### AI SDR • Mar 28, 2026 **How an AI SDR increased reply rates and revenue 4x after integrating with Crustdata** An AI SDR platform used Crustdata to replace stale enrichment vendors with real-time data and signals, improving outreach quality, reducing bounce and spam complaints, and helping grow ARR 4x. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-an-ai-sdr-increased-reply-rates-and-revenue-4x-after-integrating-with-crustdata) ### CRE Firm • Mar 28, 2026 **How a Commercial Real Estate Firm Used Crustdata to find leads** A commercial real estate brokerage used Crustdata to spot fast-growing companies before they entered the market, turning prospecting from reactive manual research into proactive, API-driven lead discovery. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-a-commercial-real-estate-firm-used-crustdata-to-find-leads) ### Recruiting Tool • Mar 28, 2026 **How a global executive research firm built an internal recruiting platform for 200 recruiters** An executive research firm wanted to build an internal sourcing tool instead of depending on external tools that competitors can use. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-a-global-executive-research-firm-built-an-internal-recruiting-platform-for-200-recruiters) ### Sales Platform • Mar 23, 2026 **How an AI recruiting platform uses Crustdata to keep 100K+ candidate profiles fresh and accurate** Their recruiters were working with stale candidate data and missing critical job changes. Crustdata's real-time monitoring turned their platform into a live talent intelligence engine. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-an-ai-recruiting-platform-uses-crustdata-to-keep-100k-candidate-profiles-fresh-and-accurate) ### GTM Team • Mar 21, 2026 **How a leading B2B SaaS platform uses Crustdata to power their internal AI SDR** Off-the-shelf AI SDRs couldn't match their sales motion. So, they built their own with Crustdata as the data layer. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-a-leading-b2b-saas-platform-uses-crustdata-to-power-their-internal-ai-sdr) ### AI SDR • Mar 20, 2026 **How Scend Built Agentic Search for Finance Using Crustdata's Live Data** Scend evaluated Spectre, People Data Labs, Mixed Rank, Bright Data, and others before choosing Crustdata as a core data layer for their agentic search platform and over a year later, they still haven't looked back. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-scend-built-agentic-search-for-finance-using-crustdata) ### Sales Platform • Mar 17, 2026 **How Scalis built a true all-in-one recruiting platform with Crustdata's data infrastructure** Scalis's vision was to be the single source of truth for recruiting and to deliver on this promise, Crustdata powered them with live people data. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-scalis-built-a-true-all-in-one-recruiting-platform-with-crustdata-s-data-infrastructure) ### VC Firm • Mar 6, 2026 **How A Top-5 VC Firm Built Their Deal Sourcing Engine On Crustdata** One of the world's most prominent VC firms replaced off-the-shelf sourcing tools with a live knowledge graph powered by Crustdata, giving them first-mover advantage on every founder worth knowing. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/how-a-top-5-vc-by-aum-is-building-an-internal-deal-sourcing-tool-with-crustdata) ### Investment Tool • Mar 13, 2026 **YC Startup building a deal sourcing tool** They evaluated Crunchbase, ZoomInfo, People Data Labs, and a dozen other providers. They chose Crustdata and kept choosing it through multiple pivots. [Read case study →](https://crustdata.com/case-studies/yc-startup-building-deal-sourcing-tool)