Phoenix Startups: Register with CrunchBase

Many people in Phoenix don’t know about CrunchBase, the free database of technology companies, people, and investors brought to you by TechCrunch. If Phoenix startups, technology companies, people, investors and service providers (non-tech: lawyers, PR, etc.) add themselves to CrunchBase, we could get a better idea about who’s in Phoenix, what they’re doing and how we, as a community, can help them succeed.

I’ve heard talk from multiple people in the last few weeks about independent initiatives for creating something similar to this, but why not use what already exists? Even better, they have a CrunchBase API, so, if you want to build on top of it you can! Of course, first glance at the API seems pretty sketchy at the moment… However, I’m sure you could get a beta invite and help them work out the kinks :)

There’s also a location based search, so if you were worried about that, take a look at this map of Phoenix companies.

Fill in a form and bada-bing your company is submitted to CrunchBase, so why not do it now?

HT @ChrisTingom for reminding me to talk about this.

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Posted July 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am in Startups | Permalink

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3 comments:

  1. Derek Neighbors:

    CrunchBase is definitely a good start for local companies to gain some visibility. It is nice to hear that they are assembling an API, as hopefully this will help make it more of a central source for this kind of data. Looks like it has already spawned some good things like the map plotting. Thanks for sharing an update on what CrunchBase is doing.

    July 13th, 2009 at 9:07 am
  2. Curtis Miller:

    @Derek I think it’s a start, but they’ll definitely need to improve the API if it is to become a central source. The good thing is people are already creating mashups with the data, so hopefully that will spur them onward. Check these out: CrunchBase mapped and CrunchBase graphed.

    July 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
  3. bambi:

    Hey, Curtis – you might also encourage entrepreneurs to create their company profiles on Vator.tv –http://vator.tv/directory/

    April 18th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

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