# Abhilash Chowdhary

> Abhilash Chowdhary is co-founder of Crustdata. Crustdata API + MCP on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder, Crustdata.

Abhilash Chowdhary is co-founder and CEO of Crustdata, which sells real-time company and people data through APIs. He was a founding or early engineer at three startups with exits, led the robotics team at Postmates X and built petabyte-scale data pipelines at Yahoo.

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhilashchowdhary
- X: https://x.com/thechowdhary

## What Abhilash builds

- [Crustdata API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crustdata.md), graded D, 53.4/100, in Lead & company data. Company, person, job, web and social post search and enrichment, with live web lookups, batch jobs and watchers that push changes to a webhook. Co-founder, Crustdata, researched 2026-10-26.

## Works with

- [Chris Pisarski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-pisarski/), Co-founder, Crustdata
- [Manmohit Grewal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/manmohit-grewal/), Co-founder, Crustdata

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [A Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/a-capital/)
- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)
- [SV Angel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sv-angel/)
- [Phosphor Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/phosphor-capital/)

## Questions

### Who is Abhilash Chowdhary?

Abhilash Chowdhary is co-founder and CEO of Crustdata, which sells real-time company and people data through APIs. He was a founding or early engineer at three startups with exits, led the robotics team at Postmates X and built petabyte-scale data pipelines at Yahoo.

### What does Crustdata make?

Anchor Terminal lists Crustdata API + MCP from Crustdata. Company, person, job, web and social post search and enrichment, with live web lookups, batch jobs and watchers that push changes to a webhook.

### Who has invested in Crustdata?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, A Capital, General Catalyst, SV Angel and Phosphor Capital.

### How are Abhilash's tools graded?

Crustdata API + MCP is graded D, 53.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://crustdata.com/about
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/crustdata
- https://crustdata.com/

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