Data infrastructure

Crustdata

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Overview

Crustdata provides live company and people data via APIs and full dataset delivery. We make hard to get data easy to use at scale.

Customers use us to build their AI agent platforms and applications over our trusted data. We power builders of:

-AI SDRs

-AI sales platofmrs

-AI recruiting platforms

-AI investment/due diligence platforms

-Internal sales or marketing platforms

We serve use cases like: automatic pipeline building, pipeline prioritization, champion watching, company and people triggers for sales and marketing automation, investment deal sourcing

We have developed technology that allows us to pipe in live data from over a dozen different data sources and deliver this data instantly to our customers.

Our goal is index all the important data on the web and deliver it to customers in an easy-to-use way.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Abhilash Chowdhary

Founder/CEO

Love to build - from PB scale data pipelines to self-driving trucks! Recently, started loving selling software. Founding/early engineer at 3 startups with exits. Led the robotics team at NASDAQ:SERV and was there from day 0 to IPO. Led the Robotics team at Postmates X (acquired by Uber). Was founding robotics engineer at CMU spin-off startup Robotwits (acquired by Waymo). Prior to that, built petabyte scale data pipelines at Yahoo!. BS in CS from IIIT Hyderabad.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Manmohit Grewal

Founder

Co-founder of Crustdata, a real-time company and people data platform. Previously built and sold multiple data products for D2C enablers and POS companies. Northeastern CS grad

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Chris Pisarski

Founder

Multiple time founder. I was on the founding team and was the ex-Interim CEO of PrivCo, a VC-backed data platform. Previously, I was Head of Product and Head of Sales. Cornell grad

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
30team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Operating · 4 of 6 areas documented

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Company website: about Checked 2026-09-23

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