CB Insights vs. AlphaSense

Reactive Intelligence keeps you behind

AlphaSense tells you what was said. CB Insights shows you what’s coming. See the signals that matter before they become headlines.

Predictive intelligence on private companies

Expert Analyst Research
Investor Data
M&A, IPO, & SPAC Tracking
VC & PE Deals
11M+ Company Profiles
Earnings Calls & Transcripts
Valuations
Revenue
Business Relationships
Product & Feature Launches

CB Insights vs. AlphaSense

Predictive intelligence on private companies

Deep proprietary signals on tech adoption, traction, hiring, and competitive moves — before they’re obvious.

Strong document search and summarization capabilities, but lacks structured data. Insights are reactive, not predictive.

Proprietary data science

Proprietary signals and models to predict and quantify company health, market acceleration, and exit likelihood.

Qualitative and text based insights from research and transcripts, but lacks predictive models or structured signals.

Private company revenue data

Modeled company revenues and momentum indicators that provide a forward-looking view.

Focused on textual data; lacks private company data or predictive modeling.

Global private company deal coverage

Tracks global private company funding, partnerships, and exits; strong depth in U.S. coverage.

Relies on what’s been reported publicly; limited visibility into emerging or undisclosed opportunities.

AI workflow and automation

Purpose built AI agents, scouting reports, and predictive analytics that automate discovery and insight generation.

Strong document search and summarization tools, but lacks structured data or automation for predictive workflows.

Data available via API

Offers API and data feeds for company, market, and predictive signal data, enabling integration with enterprise AI systems.

API access focuses on textual content; lacks structured data or taxonomies for combining and reasoning across enterprise systems.

“CB Insights is the only platform with real-time visibility into every emerging tech
market, and it’s become my starting point for every project.”

Expert Networks

What people believe Intuition from experts. Useful for context and narrative. Limitation: Time consuming, hard to verify.

High

CB Insights

What’s next — and what to do about it Predictive insight from rare verified data. Combines GenAI and machine learning with human oversight and expertise. Built for high-stakes decisions.

Legacy market
intelligence databases

What happened Clean, structured. Good for benchmarking. Limitation: Doesn’t reveal what’s next.

Low Slow/manual

Public AI and search

What the internet says Fast and broad. Growing analytical power. Limitation: Low trust. Plenty of answers, but few you’d bet on.

Real-time/automated

Quality of insight

Speed of insight

To shape the future, you need a way to see the future

Leaders are forced to rely on backward-looking data and opinions to make forward-looking decisions. This is reactive intelligence, and it’s dangerously late.

CB Insights gives you predictive intelligence to see where the world’s private companies and tech markets are headed. A view backed by verified data, that surfaces your next move early enough to take it.

Insights are good.
Action is better.

Use our predictive intelligence AI agents to instantly tackle research, diligence, briefings, and more. Save months of work. Put one agent — or the whole squad — to work today.

Hire our Team of Agents

ChatCBI™

General purpose agent trained on our data. Ask questions in our chat interface or connect directly to your AI.
Personal Briefing

Scours the news for your next big idea.
Sales Account Planner

Accelerates rep ramp-up with deep account understanding.
Partner and New Business Finder

Detects high-value partnership and sales opportunities.
Scouting Report

Generates instant analyst-grade SWOT analysis on any
private company.
Commercial Due Diligence Accelerator

Reduces diligence timelines from weeks to hours.
Deep Analyst

Generates rich analytical research and reports.
Acquisition Hunter

Identifies strategic targets before competitors notice them.
Competitive Sentinel

Monitors what rivals are buying, building, and investing in.
Earnings Analyst

Delivers CEO-ready competitive intel within hours of earnings calls.
Business Relationship Analyst

Maps customer, vendor, and partner relationships.

“CB Insights is data you don’t get publicly — you can use their predictive signals to see where the money is flowing, who sits behind the companies, and how they stack up against the competition.”

Move faster. Think smarter. Win bigger.

Transform how your organization makes strategic decisions. Our customers accelerate revenue growth, develop ideas and turn them into strategy and execution faster, and save millions on preventing misguided investments.

Today’s process

With CB Insights

Create and rank a list of companies to pursue

8 hours

30 seconds >

Write a scouting report

3 hours

Instant, automatic >

Analyze competitor earnings

4 hours

Instant, automatic >

Get up to speed on new markets