Stop Buying Startup Data. Start Owning It.

I remember sitting in a meeting last year, looking at a "market intelligence" report that cost us €1,500.

It was 40 pages of aggregated fluff.

The data was six months old. My lead engineer looked at it, laughed, and opened a Terminal window. He spent three days scraping and stitching together free open data sources — official registry records, EU grant databases, and GitHub activity.

By the end of the week, he had built a self-hosted entity graph that was more accurate, more real-time, and infinitely more queryable than the report we paid for.

That was the moment I realized: Everyone says the future of startup intelligence is "better SaaS."

Better dashboards. Cleaner UI. More paywalls. Founders subscribe to Crunchbase or PitchBook because they believe it's the only way to track the market.

Here's the truth: the data in those platforms is backward-looking. It’s aggregate-focused, stale, and accessible by every single one of your competitors.

If you are using the exact same dataset as everyone else, you aren't playing a game of intelligence. You're playing a game of common availability.

The real value isn't the data you buy. It's the data you own.

Most product teams are failing because they rely on fragmented, manual data silos. They don't have a single source of truth. They don't have a master entity graph that an agent can actually query.

They have noise.

The future of startup intelligence is self-hosted, real-time, and proprietary. By building a self-hosted Berlin/EU startup entity graph — stitching together free data sources like official registry data, EU grant records, and open-source contributions — you gain proprietary signals the big platforms simply don't see.

Imagine an agent that can query: "Show me all Berlin fintechs that raised funding in the last 6 months, are hiring backend engineers, and are already partners in Horizon Europe projects."

Crunchbase can't answer that. Your graph can.

If you're building entity knowledge graphs or just tired of data silos, DM me. I'm building this pipeline and looking for alpha testers.