New in April
from CB Insights
With our April release, CB Insights now covers more equity deals than anyone else, and adds new tools for sourcing:
- Global leader in equity deals – more coverage than our leading rival
- Funding Window – a predictive view of when a company will raise
- MCP for Claude and ChatGPT – official connectors launched
- Watchlist tagging – custom labels to manage your pipe
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Global leader in equity deals – see more deals, spot opportunities earlier
As of April 2026, CB Insights now leads in global equity deal coverage. Fueled by non-public deal data, sourced directly from investors and startups, the number of recent deals – 2018 and later – has overtaken our nearest rival.
As well as this overall lead in deal count, we offer 48% deeper coverage of the startups that matter most, according to a recent Mag 7 analysis.
With the broadest deal coverage fueling our predictive intelligence, you can be confident that you’re seeing the startups that count, and moving first on opportunities.
Funding Window – early visibility into when a company will raise
By the time you hear that a company is raising, it’s often too late – especially for corporate strategy and deal teams with long lead times. Our new Funding Window feature gives those teams a predictive indicator on when companies are likely to raise.
Because our deal dataset is now the world’s largest, we can benchmark likely funding more accurately than any other platform.
Most important: it’s actionable. By setting Funding Window alerts – “tell me when a company is likely to raise in 9 months, based on their peer set” – you can move faster than your competitors, and get into better deals, more often.
Official MCP connectors for Claude and ChatGPT
Connecting CB Insights data and predictive intelligence to your LLM is a gamechanger for analyzing private companies and markets, and we’ve now made it easier to set up, with native connectors for Claude and ChatGPT.
You can connect our data to Claude and ChatGPT in the Claude Connectors Directory and the ChatGPT Apps Directory respectively. (Note: a CB Insights Data Solutions subscription is required for access).
Custom labels – a shared workflow to manage your pipe
CB Insights Watchlists are the most effective way to identify, track, and analyze the private companies that matter to your business. We’ve now added custom columns for tagging and filtering, letting you assign labels to companies of interest, prioritize your top targets, and categorize them into groups for action.
Because you can share and manage these lists across a team, Watchlists become a powerful, live workspace. Less time shuttling between tools, more time for analysis, and a faster path to action.
