CB Insights

The business operates as an enterprise data and software provider. It aggregates, validates and structures large volumes of private‑company, funding and market data, layers on proprietary analytics such as the Mosaic scoring system, and exposes this via an enterprise strategy terminal, APIs, data feeds and AI agents. Value is created by helping corporate and investment teams systematically discover, score and monitor companies, sectors and competitors, and by providing predictive indicators that inform strategy, M&A and investment decisions.

Revenue is generated from multi‑year or annual subscription contracts, typically with per‑seat or tiered access to the core platform, combined with upsells for expanded data coverage, APIs, data feeds and AI-based features. Additional value and some revenue come from professional services such as onboarding and analyst support, but these are secondary to the subscription data/software model.

CB Insights is a US-based market intelligence and data platform focused on private companies, funding activity and emerging technology markets. Its core offering is an enterprise web platform and APIs that combine a large, validated dataset of private-company information, transactions and market taxonomies with proprietary scoring models such as Mosaic and embedded AI agents.

The company generates revenue primarily from subscription licences sold to enterprises for access to its strategy and research platform, data feeds and conversational/agent interfaces. Customers are corporate strategy, M&A, corporate venture, product, innovation, investment and analytics teams at mid‑market and large organisations that use the platform to source companies, monitor markets, benchmark competitors and support diligence and planning.