StartupWiki: Free Crunchbase Alternative for Startup
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- StartupWiki is being built as a free startup database for discovering and researching companies, positioned in its Show HN post as an alternative to Crunchbase.
- The project was motivated by frustration with how hard it is to find information on early-stage startups, with existing databases requiring accounts, charging subscriptions, or otherwise feeling too clunky to use.
Why it matters: Anyone researching early-stage startups — founders, journalists, investors — currently has to navigate paywalled databases or piecemeal sources; a free, open alternative removes the account/subscription barrier and could surface pre-seed and seed-stage companies that paid platforms tend to under-index.
