Qmarkets Q-scout’s Startup Scouting Solution Provides an advanced, cost-effective alternative for organizations seeking comprehensive startup insights, based on CrunchBase data and then enriched by AI
The Startup DB is Fully integrated into the Qmarkets platform, it enables seamless, real-time tracking and intelligent search capabilities.
Relevant startups can be imported into Q-scout and from there manage your fully scouting portfolio.
You can learn more about our offering and in this video.
A detailed tutorial on how to use the tool can be found here.
How to Start
Using the startup DB requires additional annual license and once have you can enable unlimited users in your organization using it.
Once you purchase it there are a few decisions you will need to take:
- In which subsystem you would like to embed the startup DB.
The classic subsystem in Q-scout, but it can be embedded to any other subsystem as well. - Who are the users that can use the startup DB and import new startups/companies into the system
- What information should be pulled and being updated automatically from Crunchbase.
- A few more settings:
- How often should the information be updated
- To which state in the workflow the new startups/companies should be added
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This can be useful in case the imported startups/companies need to be reviewed before entering the funnel. - To which "folder"/"campaign" the new startups/companies should be added
This can be useful in case the imported startups/companies need to be manages in a sperate folder than the ones that are imported manually
Decisions 1 +2 should be communicated to the CSM for enabling the Startup DB integration.
Decisions 3 be reflected in the subsystem setting as will be explained in this article.
Decision 4 can be is a simple setting that accessed from the subsystem main setting page, integrations Section.
Determining what information will be pulled from Crunchbase
As the integration allows pulling various information about the company/startup, we enable each customer to select which information will be pulled and in what field in Q-scout it will be stored.
How does it work?
Once the integration is enabled, each submission/workflow field can be defined as one that its "Source" is the Startup DB (vs "By User").
Once this selection is set, there is a need to determine what info will be pulled:
The available information changes according to the field type (i.e. text, numeric, date etc.).
This means you first need to edit one of the exists fields OR add a new one.
Note: the company name and logo are pulled automatically into the company title and image in Q-scout.
What info is available to pull
This is the information on the company/startup that can be pulled:
Note: for select fields there is no need to pre-configure the options. Missing options will be added once they are imported.
| Option | Source | Information | Field Type | Comments |
| description | Crunchbase | Description | Text | |
| summary | AI | Summary | Text | |
| website_url | Crunchbase | Website URL | Link | Title and URL same |
| num_employees_enum | Crunchbase | # employees | Select | Options: 1-10,11-50,51-100,101-250,251-500,501-1000,1001-5000, 5001-10000,10001+, |
| cb_updated_at | Crunchbase | "Updated at" date | Date | |
| technologies | AI | Technologies | Text | Technologies and solutions mentioned on startup website (format is title + description) |
| clients | AI | Clients | Text | Names of customers/clients mentioned on startup website (excluding testimonials) |
| keywords | AI | Keywords | Select | Generated by AI based on the company description found on the website |
| Industry | Crunchbase | Industry | Select | Level 1 |
| Sector | Crunchbase | Sector | Select | Level 2 |
| revenue_range | Crunchbase | Revenue range | Select | Options: ,$1M to $10M, $10M to $50M, $50M to $100M,$100M to $500M,$500M to $1B,$1B to $10B, $10B+, |
| stock_exchange_symbol | Crunchbase | Stock exchange symbol | Select | adx - ADX - Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, afx - AFX - Afghanistan Stock Exchange, etc.. |
| contact_email | Crunchbase | Contact email | Link | Title, URL with mailto |
| phone_number | Crunchbase | Phone number | Text | |
| country | Crunchbase | Country | Select | |
| state | Crunchbase | State | Text | |
| city | Crunchbase | City | Text | |
| Crunchbase | Link | |||
| Crunchbase | Link | |||
| Crunchbase | Link | |||
| funding_total | Crunchbase | Funding total | Number | Should be USD |
| last_funding_at | Crunchbase | "Last funding" date | Date | |
| funding_stage | Crunchbase | Funding stage | Select | |
| last_funding_total | Crunchbase | last funding total | Text | Should be formatted using NumberFormatter or number_format (12,000,000,000 → 12B). |
| q_score | AI | Q-Score | Number | Calculated score by Qmarkets. Based on number of views, imports and appearance in top 10 search results in Startup DB. |
Crunchbase information that is available per company/startup and are not pulled into Q-scout
Funding - Status and information about all funding rounds
Investments - Information about all investment rounds
Latest press releases