At the same time, Crunchbase launched two new products – Crunchbase Enterprise and Crunchbase for Applications. In April 2017, Crunchbase announced an $18 million Series B from Mayfield Fund. In 2016, the company attempted to show the split from TechCrunch by removing the camel casing of its name (with the 'B' in 'Base' now being rendered as a small letter), and launched its first product, the paid database Crunchbase Pro. In September 2015, in conjunction with the spin out, Crunchbase announced the raise of $6.5 million in funding, followed with a round of $2 million in November.

In 2015, Crunchbase separated from AOL/ Verizon/ TechCrunch and went private. In 2014, Crunchbase added incubators, venture capital partners, and a leaderboard feature to the startup database. As of August 2019, a snapshot of the 2013 dataset is still available for download under the CC-BY license on the Crunchbase website. AOL eventually conceded that Pro Populi could continue to use the dataset but adopted the CC BY-NC license for future revisions. Pro Populi was represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In November 2013, AOL entered into a dispute with start-up Pro Populi over the company's use of the entire Crunchbase dataset in apps that Pro Populi developed despite having distributed the data under the Creative Commons CC-BY attribution license. In September 2010, AOL acquired TechCrunch and Crunchbase as one of TechCrunch's portfolio companies. Crunchbase's former logo, used before the name was changed from CrunchBase to CrunchbaseĬrunchbase was originally founded in 2007 by Michael Arrington as an outside database to track the data of startups featured in articles on the TechCrunch website.

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