Crustdata Secures $6 Million Seed Funding to Fuel Real-Time AI Agent Data Infrastructure

Crustdata, a startup specializing in real-time B2B data for artificial intelligence agents, has announced it has closed a $6 million seed funding round. The investment was led by prominent firms Y Combinator and A Capital, with additional participation from General Catalyst, SV Angel, and Phosphor Capital. This significant capital infusion is earmarked to expand the company's engineering and go-to-market teams, addressing the critical need for fresh, structured, and verifiable data in the burgeoning AI agent ecosystem.

Co-founder Chris Pisarski shared the news on social media, stating, "Today we’re announcing $6M seed funding for Crustdata, led by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, SV Angel and [A Capital] to power AI agents with real-time B2B data." The company, founded 1.5 years ago, recognized early on that "AI agents cannot run on data that was designed for humans - monthly/quarterly updates, clunky schemas and low throughput APIs."

Crustdata's innovative platform provides multi-source, real-time, API-first access to company and people data, delivered as "agent-ready products" such as watchers, real-time enrichment, and live search. This approach has rapidly gained traction, with over 200 AI agents and products in sales, recruiting, and investing already powered by their data APIs. Notable clients include Ryan Reynolds’ MNTN, Dharmesh Shah’s agent.ai, and Y Combinator itself for founder discovery.

The company has demonstrated remarkable growth, scaling revenue from $770,000 to over $4 million within seven months, largely without traditional outbound marketing. This success underscores the urgent market demand for dynamic data solutions that enable AI agents to act on timely signals. Crustdata aims to be the "Google for AI agents," reshaping internet data to be directly usable by autonomous systems.

With the new funding, Crustdata plans to further develop its technology and expand its reach, particularly targeting enterprise customers who require AI agents capable of operating on consistently fresh and accurate data. Co-founder Abhilash Chowdhary emphasized, "Our next phase involves expanding to enterprise customers who need AI agents that can act on fresh, accurate data in real-time." The company is actively hiring engineers to tackle what it terms "the challenging data-for-agents problem."