Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-09
CB Insights is a private-company database with predictive scores, market maps, and a book of deals investors and startups send in. The private graph was recounted on 2026-10-09. Their profile count, the contributed deal, and the scores are the check.
The row stays now. Operating companies are 123,381, of which 82,476 are private. Their pages put the universe at 10 million or 12 million, and the market count at 1,500, 1,600, or 1,700, depending on the page. The company table's 1,416,991 rows are a different cut, full of shells and vehicles. Parsed funding is 357,023 deals on 135,173 companies. Form D is 775,619 filings and 365,054 issuers. Those two cuts overlap, so they stay separate. They publish no deal count to set beside either figure, and the April 2026 lead rests on deals investors and startups send them. Mergers are 175,614 deals. Investors are 106,642. Persons are 3,876,749, on 488,960 companies. Mosaic, Exit Probability, Commercial Maturity, and Funding Window are models. A deal, a revenue figure, a cap table, a customer interview, or a satisfaction score that exists only because someone sent it stays theirs.
| Feature | CB Insights | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profiles | Their pages do not agree. ChatCBI and the pricing page say 10 million companies and 1,500 markets, and the pricing page adds 1 billion data points. The product chrome and the agents page say 12 million companies and 1,600 markets. The signup page says 12 million companies and 1,700 markets. Startup Access says 12 million companies, 1 billion data points, and 1 trillion connections. | Recounted 2026-10-09. 123,381 operating companies, of which 82,476 are private and 40,905 are public filers. The company table holds 1,416,991 rows. That total is a different cut: about 497,000 are SEC shells, 374,000 are unknown, and 196,000 are vehicles. Their 10 to 12 million reads like every tracked entity. Each cut is stated on its own. | Partial |
| Funding rounds | On April 22, 2026 they said they lead in global equity deals for rounds from 2018 on, fueled by non-public deal data sourced from investors and startups, and that a Mag 7 analysis showed 48% deeper coverage. They publish no stock count of deals. A September 9, 2026 note says equity funding deals in the US and globally from 2010 are in the Nasdaq Data Link feeds. | Recounted 2026-10-09. 357,023 parsed funding deals, on 135,173 companies. The filed US slice is 775,619 Form D filings and 365,054 issuers. Those two cuts overlap, so they stay separate. A round that hits a filing, a press hit, or the crawl is on the company id. Their leadership claim is theirs, and this page does not verify it. | Partial |
| Mergers and IPOs | The financial-transactions feed includes mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs, with deal value, date, and a source link. The Q2 2026 venture report counts 2,447 M&A exits and 119 IPOs in that quarter. That is one quarter's flow. They do not publish a stock count of deals. | 175,614 merger deals and 210,971 companies in at least one, recounted 2026-10-09. 240,859 rows tie a deal to the SEC filing. A disclosed deal is in the graph. A deal that exists only because a party sent it to them stays theirs. | Partial |
| Investors | Investors sit on the deal, with lead, follow-on, and new marked. The Q2 2026 report asks an investor to update their own profile when something is missing. They do not publish an investor count on the pages read. | 106,642 investor profiles, recounted 2026-10-09. A profile an investor types only into their form stays theirs. | Partial |
| Markets | Market counts conflict across the same site: 1,500 on ChatCBI and the pricing page, 1,600 on the product chrome, and 1,700 on the signup page. Rankings compare entrants. The map and the written sector note are the research product. | A sector label on the crawl is a model. Their market names, and the text of a map, stay their product. | Partial |
| Feature | CB Insights | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mosaic | A health score from 0 to 1,000. The whitepaper weights Growth Momentum at 50%, Financial Strength at 40%, Industry Health at 5%, and Management Strength at 5%. The same paper's FAQ gives Market 10% and caps Management at 10% when a component is missing. The API names Market, Momentum, Money, and Management. Momentum uses social, news sentiment, mobile and web traffic, hiring, and customer and partner signings. Their study of more than 150,000 companies says the top 30 scores had a 23.3% unicorn rate against a 4.9% median for 24 venture firms, which they call 4.7 times. That study is theirs. | A score trained on filings, news, and the crawl is our score. Mobile and web traffic is an input the whitepaper names and does not source. Their weights and their unicorn study stay their paper. | Partial |
| Exit Probability | Chance of an IPO or an acquisition within two years, scored daily. The support page says it learns from 70 or more data points and covers 450,000 or more private companies. The predictive-data page says 65 billion data points across 480,000 or more companies. Those two descriptions do not agree. | Valuation, funding, patents, acquisitions, management, and investor track records are on the graph where a filing or the crawl holds them. The probability is a model. Their coverage figures stay their claim. | Partial |
| Commercial Maturity | Readiness to compete for customers or to serve as a partner. The predictive-data page says daily scoring across 180,000 or more companies. | A stage label on the disclosed book is a model. | Partial |
| Funding Window | Shipped April 22, 2026. A prediction of when a private company is likely to raise next, set against a peer set, with an alert such as nine months out. | Time since the last disclosed round, and the pattern of rounds in the same sector, are on the graph. The alert is a model on that history. | Partial |
| Feature | CB Insights | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-public deals | The April 22, 2026 note says the deal lead is fueled by non-public deal data, sourced directly from investors and startups. A round in that book can exist with no press hit. | A deal that is sent here and nowhere else is outside the crawl. | Beside |
| Private revenue | The predictive-data page says private-company revenue is rolled into year-by-year estimates, with transparency into where each figure came from. A figure can be one a company gave them, or one their model produced. The page does not split the two. | Public-company revenue is extracted. An estimate trained here is our number. A revenue figure a company gives only to them stays theirs. | Partial |
| Cap tables | The financial-transactions feed includes cap-table history: authorized shares, par value, issuance price, dividend and liquidation terms, certificate-of-incorporation filings, and percentage ownership. They publish no count of companies covered. | A certificate of incorporation on a public registry is a crawl. A shareholding that exists only on their page stays theirs. That file is not in the counted graph at a stated scale. | Partial |
| Customer sentiment | The pricing page and the predictive-data page list client satisfaction and intent to renew. They do not name the source. | A satisfaction score or a renewal intent that someone reports only to them is outside the filings and the crawl. | Beside |
| Briefings and interviews | The predictive-data page lists transcripts of analyst briefings and startup customer interviews, with the briefing materials. | Those interviews are their file. An earnings-call transcript is the public call, and it is already indexed on its own. | Beside |
| Expert research | Written market reports, and an analyst who produces one on request. The Q3 2026 venture note is one example, with the full report behind the login. | The report text, and an analyst answering on request, stay their service. A sector cut computed on the crawl is a model. | Beside |
| Contact data | The business-development pitch says to use their contact data for outreach. | A name and a role that hit a filing or the crawl are on the person graph. A direct dial or an email that exists only in their contact file stays theirs. | Beside |
| Feature | CB Insights | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business relationships | Customer, partner, and vendor links, labeled, on the predictive-data page and in the API. The September 9, 2026 Nasdaq feed includes partners and customers. They publish no count. | Filing-cited customer concentration is 47,560 disclosures across 4,119 companies, from annual-report items, measured 2026-09-18. A larger news graph holds 760,677 commercial edges. 180,161 counterparties on that graph are unresolved, so it is a discovery layer. A relationship that exists only in their file stays theirs. | Partial |
| Public-company financials | Trended quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. | Public-company statements are extracted from the filing. | Match |
| Headcount | Headcount and job openings sit on the profile and in the scouting reports. The pages read do not name the source. | A headcount series from a registry or a job board is a crawl. A feed that has to be licensed is a different input, and the page does not say which one this is. | Partial |
| People | Founders, operators, and board members are in the company file and in the Nasdaq feed. | 3,876,749 persons, and 488,960 companies with at least one registered person edge, recounted 2026-10-09. The edge is every person-to-company link in the graph catalog. | Ahead |
| Feature | CB Insights | Kscope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watchlists | Watchlists with custom tags, shared across a team, shipped as a pipeline workspace on April 22, 2026. Alerts follow the list. | The graph is queryable. A shared pipeline for a team's own labels is not described. | Gap |
| ChatCBI and the agents | Chat over their database, in the terminal and as an API. A 10-day trial. Agents for scouting, competitive watch, and commercial due diligence. The connector requires a Data Solutions subscription. | An MCP and a query API are already doors onto this graph. An answer that only their database can produce stays theirs. | Partial |
| API, feeds, and MCP | APIs and feeds for firmographics, people, financials, valuations, funding, cap tables, relationships, and the scores. Three datasets went onto Nasdaq Data Link on September 9, 2026, with Nasdaq as the exclusive redistributor to the financial industry. On Startup Access, the individual MCP license is 50,000 tool calls a year and 250 a day for $6,000. A team plan for up to 10 licenses is 250,000 calls a year and 1,250 a day for $30,400. Additional terms price an overage at $0.05 a call. | The holdings of this graph are on our API. A dump of their database, and the Nasdaq redistribution, stay theirs. | Partial |
| What a seat costs | The pricing page has no dollar price for a terminal seat. Tiers are request pricing. The published dollar price is the Startup Access MCP license. ChatCBI has a 10-day trial. | The disclosed graph is already in house. A seat price for this screen is not set. | Ahead |
Ahead The feature is data we already hold, in a form an investor can use.
Match Both products do this.
Partial We have the disclosed half, or the raw material for the model, and not their finished file.
Gap They ship it. We do not.
Beside Someone sent it to CB Insights. That deal, interview, or score is not on a filing or in the crawl.