CB Insights
Private company ratings and intelligence to source your next investment, acquisition, a
CB Insights is a market intelligence platform that helps teams discover, evaluate, and track private companies, markets, funding, and deals. It combines company profiles, firmographics, funding and valuation histories, financial data, media and patents, transcripts, and analyst-led research with predictive scoring to support sourcing, due diligence, M&A, and strategy work.
Core capabilities include the Strategy Terminal web app, a mobile app, a browser extension, and a Team of Agents for scouting and analysis. Predictive signals include the Mosaic Score, Commercial Maturity, Exit Probability, and Customer Sentiment, alongside tech market rankings across 1,700+ markets. Chat CBI is a strategy LLM grounded in the platform's data, and intelligent watchlists and alerts surface changes. Integrations cover an API and data feeds, MCP and A2A support, a developer portal, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Snowflake, and Salesforce CRM.
It is aimed at corporate venture capital, sales and business development, M&A, venture capital, product and corporate strategy, innovation, and market research teams. Packaging includes a browser extension edition and the Strategy Terminal web application, both available on request, with a free trial and demo options offered.
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