CB Insights

What CB Insights is

CB Insights is a market intelligence platform for businesses evaluating technology markets, company activity, and competitor strategies. It tracks and compares more than 12 million companies across more than 1,600 technology markets, with extensive historical data covering funding, investments, acquisitions, hiring, revenues, financials, business relationships, customers, partners, vendors, competitors, patents, news, earnings calls, customer sentiment, and product launches. Strategy Terminal applies predictive data science and AI agents to identify signals about private companies, markets, and competitors. Browser Analyst examines webpages and produces scouting reports and SWOT analyses, with company, executive, funding, customer, partner, and competitor information. The service is available through a web terminal, browser extension, iOS and Android apps, APIs, and data feeds. Integrations include Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce, and data is distributed through Snowflake Marketplace. APIs and feeds provide profiles, research reports, and ChatCBI responses for applications, CRMs, data lakes, and models. CB Insights says its infrastructure is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and describes encryption, audit trails, role-based access, SSO, and MFA. It also says customer data is not used to train its AI models. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York City.

Who it suits

CB Insights is suited to corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture capital, and corporate innovation teams that need company and market intelligence. Its company coverage, competitor tracking, predictive signals, and research access also serve organizations assessing technology markets and strategic opportunities.

Limits

There is no free plan; access begins with a 10-day trial. The listed User License costs $417 a month, billed $5,000 annually, and Team Access costs $1,700 a month, billed $20,400 annually; each includes full platform access, AI-powered insights, 12M companies, 1B data points, web terminal, Browser Analyst, mobile app, email alerts, and research access.

Getting started

1. Visit https://www.cbinsights.com/.
2. Start the 10-day trial.
3. Choose the User License or Team Access plan, or request pricing for a specialized offering.
4. Use the web terminal, browser extension, or iOS or Android mobile app.
5. Connect through available Salesforce or Microsoft Copilot integrations, or use APIs and data feeds.

Verdict

Choose CB Insights if your team needs broad technology market coverage, competitor signals, and company research across web, mobile, and data integrations. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or pricing that is fully stated for Strategy Terminal and other specialized offerings.