He tried to prove Crunchbase misses deals — it covered 41 of 45, logged 1 day early
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-11-12
- Yves Mulkers set out to prove his press-reading AI system (ins7ghts) catches deals that Crunchbase and Dealroom miss, pre-registering a bar: at least a quarter of real deals missing.
- The test backfired: Crunchbase held 41 of 45 real deals, logged a median of 1 day before his article; Dealroom's free pages held 30 of 32.
- Surprise finding: of 120 deal mentions drawn from July–Sept 2026 articles, only 60/90 funding rounds and 7/30 acquisitions were genuine current deals — the rest were old deals as background or rumors, showing LLMs struggle with temporal context.
- Conclusion: deals are Crunchbase/Dealroom's ground and they cover it well; funding news is context in his product, never the lead.
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