Two-Thirds of Real Company Launches and Exec Changes Are Missing From Crunchbase's AI Event Cards
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-11-10
Yves Mulkers tested 50 real product launches, partnerships and executive changes against Crunchbase's new AI event cards: 33 (about two-thirds) were missing entirely.
- Not a latency issue: events Crunchbase does have were logged same-day; the gap is what makes it onto a card at all.
- Examples: John Jumper's move from Google DeepMind to Anthropic, an Ambarella–ZEDEDA edge-AI partnership, and an Ataccama Benelux distributor appointment were all absent.
- News search barely helps: nearly half of the real events didn't surface in a name-based news search.
- Verdict: Crunchbase is fine for funding deals, but insufficient for tracking launches, partnerships and people moves.
The author runs ins7ghts, an indie product that tracks such events daily from practitioner sources — the post doubles as his methodology writeup and product thesis.
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