Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
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StartupWiki is an AI-powered, free alternative to Crunchbase for researching startups.
StartupWiki lists startups like SpaceX, Anthropic, and biotech firms with details on industry, funding stage, and location. It relies on AI agents to generate profiles, but data accuracy is a major challenge. The founder plans to add ~800 startups daily, run fact-checking pipelines, and fix bugs like broken source citation links.
What commenters are saying
Commenters expressed deep skepticism about data reliability, noting outdated valuations (e.g., Anthropic listed at $18B instead of $965B) and missing startups. The founder acknowledged accuracy is the top challenge, citing AI agent issues and plans for fact-checking pipelines and source citation. Suggestions included scraping YC portfolio pages, linking to Wikidata, and adding a startup.txt or .well-known JSON for opt-in data collection.