Co-founder at Crustdata (YC F24) | Real-time web data on people and companies for AI agents
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2017
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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.
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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!
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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 While traditional databases provide outdated data and aren’t built for signal-driven workflows, Crustdata’s real-time enrichment and live signals position them to solve the data needs of AI agents.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.
crustdata.com/blog/crustdata…
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
It’s true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever
Our group partner @garrytan told this 6 months ago
And we are realizing it today!
- Build more software over hiring more people
- Building software that works for internal tooling is getting easy
- You can now hit $10M arr with a team of less than 20 people
- You don't need to raise $ XX M to hit $10M arr
We are still <20 and on track to hit the arr goal before the end of this year
Customers are pulling the product out of our hands
We still have 4 spots left for hungry builders who want to own the outcomes in this journey
we’re hiring for following roles
- Reverse engineering / web security
- Fullstack engineer w/ eye for design
- Forward deployed engineer / Account Executive with CS background
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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!
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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)
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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.
ycombinator.com/launches/M6F…
Congrats on the launch, @TheChowdhary, @ManmohitG, and @chrispisarski!
🚀 Another one ! We just dropped CompanyGPT 2.0 on Product Hunt.
Your support could keep us on the top 🙏🏼
producthunt.com/posts/compan… – at Oakland, CA
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
💰🔥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. 🚀
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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%
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
🚀 DocketAI, founded by ex-ZoomInfo CDO @rarjunpillai, announces $15M Series A!
🗓️ Founded in 2023
📈 43.5% QoQ headcount growth
🤖 #AI-powered virtual sales engineer
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
🚀 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.
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
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👇
producthunt.com/products/com…
Manmohit Grewal retweeted
🚀 Cybersecurity Startup Growth Explosion!
Top performers in YoY headcount growth:
@OleriaSecurity : 366.4%
@hiddenlayersec : 236.5%
@LakeraAI : 181.2%
@Sweet_cloud_sec : 145.7%
@cyera_io : 140.5%
AI, cloud & identity protection lead the pack. Who will be the next unicorn? 🦄
