Manmohit Grewal

Co-founder at Crustdata (YC F24) | Real-time web data on people and companies for AI agents

[Sarah Chan (She/Her) @SarahChan257]

So I pulled the actual data via the Crustdata API and here is what Anthropic's marketing org really looks like...

Over 126 people in total work in marketing @AnthropicAI what is impressive though is that he ran the a typically huge sub-team!

[Manmohit Grewal @ManmohitG]

we lost 2 days integrating a new billing system because assumptions weren’t tested.

lesson: when something is critical, don’t assume. don’t translate terminology in your head. don’t infer behavior. small assumptions compound into blockers.

it also reinforced how important strong solution teams are.

at Crustdata, we know customers plug us into critical workflows - that’s why we do onboarding + check-in calls to prevent exactly this.

[Abhilash Chowdhary @TheChowdhary]

Now you can build your own AI recruiter in minutes with Crustdata's web search and fetch APIs

See what I built in just 5 minutes

- copied the docs for the 4 different Crustdata's APIs : web search, web fetch, people search and people enrich

- put them into Claude code

- asked it to build an AI agent that chains them together to find and deep research on people

- in minutes I had an AI agent that can find me top researchers at foundation model labs

If you are building the next best AI recruiter, reach out and we would love to help you get to the top!

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Congrats to @chrispisarski, @thechowdhary, @manmohitg, and @crustdata on their $6M seed!

Crustdata is building real-time B2B data APIs to power AI sales, recruiting, and investment agents. While traditional databases provide outdated data and aren’t built for signal-driven workflows, Crustdata’s real-time enrichment and live signals position them to solve the data needs of AI agents.

In just over a year, they are powering 200+ AI agent platforms and products, including top AI SDRs, recruiting platforms, teams at several of the top 10 VC firms by AUM, internal sales products at enterprises, and even an internal YC product.

https://t.co/DvzYqDknzZ

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

It’s true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever

[Abhilash Chowdhary @TheChowdhary]

How it started and how it's going :)

Been more than 2 years since I met @chrispisarski on YC co-founder match

Sometimes having great co-founders makes everything possible

Me, Chris and @ManmohitG hacked together for more than 6 months before going all in on Crustdata last year

Good things do take patience, focus, trust and hard work

Upwards and onwards!

[Abhilash Chowdhary @TheChowdhary]

2nd build challenge drop

we're hiring cracked engineers

here's the process
- participate in our build challenge
- build at least level 0
- 15 min interview + work with us for 2 weeks
- offer

if you build till level 3, you win USD 15,000 + guaranteed offer

lets build something cool this weekend

(link to build challenge in comments)

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

YC F24's @Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and webhooks. It empowers B2B sales teams and investors to act on live signals from real-time data.

https://t.co/n3rtk9PvJc

Congrats on the launch, @TheChowdhary, @ManmohitG, and @chrispisarski!

[Manmohit Grewal @ManmohitG]

🚀 Another one ! We just dropped CompanyGPT 2.0 on Product Hunt.
Your support could keep us on the top 🙏🏼

https://t.co/HxCX6UQGWm

[Crustdata @crustdata]

💰🔥With its team expanding 167% in two years, @anduriltech has secured $1.5B in funding, pushing its valuation to $14B from $8.5B in 2022. 🚀

[Crustdata @crustdata]

🚲 Rad Power Bikes hit by 5th round of layoffs since 2021.

E-bike startup struggles despite $300M+ funding.

📉 LinkedIn shows -23.3% 2-year headcount growth, with latest cuts hitting product dev.

[Crustdata @crustdata]

🚀 AI sales assistant startup Sybill just raised $11M in Series A! 🎉

Founded in 2020, they've now raised $14.5M total. 💰

Sybill hit $1M ARR in 2023 and has 500+ paying customers across 30+ countries. 🌎

📈They're growing fast, with 129% YoY headcount growth. 👥

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Bike-taxi startup Rapido just raised $120M in Series E, hitting unicorn status! 🦄

🏍️ Founded in 2015, they've now raised $430M total and are valued at $1B. Rapido saw 53.9% headcount growth over two years. 📈

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Legal tech AI is booming! 🚀

Fastest Growing Legal Tech AI startups in 2024:

1. @harvey__ai : 227.5%
2. Robin AI: 48.3%
3. @PrevailLegal : 47.3%
4. @DarrowAI : 24.0%
5. @LuminanceTech : 22.8%

[Crustdata @crustdata]

🚀 DocketAI, founded by ex-ZoomInfo CDO @rarjunpillai, announces $15M Series A!

🗓️ Founded in 2023
📈 43.5% QoQ headcount growth
🤖 #AI-powered virtual sales engineer

[Crustdata @crustdata]

🚀 Cybersecurity compliance startup @TrustVanta just raised $150M in Series C! Founded in 2021, they've now raised $353M total and are valued at $2.45B.

💼 Vanta hit $100M+ ARR in FY2024 and has 8,000+ enterprise customers. They're growing fast, with 34.2% YoY headcount growth.

[Crustdata @crustdata]

📈AI security startup @LakeraAI raises $20M Series A with an impressive 165.8% YoY headcount growth.

🛡️Now protecting generative AI apps from malicious prompts across major LLMs like GPT-X, Bard, Llama, and Claude.

[Crustdata @crustdata]

📈Satellite startup Astranis raises $200M Series D, reports 37.2% two-year growth.

🛰️Unveils next-gen Omega satellites with 5x bandwidth capacity, aims to manufacture 24 satellites yearly by 2025.

Is this the dawn of mass-produced GEO satellites?🚀

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Product Hunt LAUNCH ALERT 🚀 : Tomorrow, July 23rd

Another month and another product launch from us 💪

This time: the ultimate Google search for companies!

Subscribe below to get notified on the launch👇

https://t.co/BOkHNSSouc

[Crustdata @crustdata]

📈Cohere expanding 70.8% YoY has raised $500 million making it one of the largest funding rounds in the AI space this year.