I recently realized that TechCrunch has an umbrella of sites including CrunchBase, Crunchgear and a handful of others. I am pretty positive that I should have known about these sites a LONG time ago, especially since I am a TechCrunch reader. However, I am notoriously bad at reading all blogs in my reader and never actually going to the site….. so, missed the connection.

Needless to say, I checked out CrunchBase, a listing of web2.0 company profiles. Out of curiousity I looked up some of the Wasatch companies to see what information was listed.

• The Generations Network - listed under MyFamily.com, The Generations Network and Ancestry.com. Information was different on every page, even though each page mentioned the others and how they were all interrelated. The acquisition news was only listed on The Generations Network.
• Mozy - information on company and acquisition were accurate. For some reason Tim Draper and Drew Majors were listed as the only investors even though Wasatch was the only one listed under the financing information.
• Lignup - not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch
• BungeeLabs - not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch
• Medsphere - not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch

Hmmm… definitely not perfect… yet, I can’t be too hard on the author Mike Arrington as there are a bazillion (note that this is not an actual count) web2.0 companies out there. If anything, Crunchbase can be a good starting point to find companies already noted by Arrington as movers and shakers, as his viewpoints result in a definite increase in site hits. Then perhaps researched on one’s own after that.