Clearbit

Yes. Clearbit is a B2B data-enrichment broker that sells (now licenses to HubSpot subscribers) data about companies and the professionals who work at them, covering firmographics, work emails, job titles, technographic signals, and anonymous-website-visitor identification. Since December 1, 2023, Clearbit has operated as a subsidiary of HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE: HUBS), which announced the roughly $150 million cash acquisition on November 1, 2023, disclosed it in its 10-Q filing, and reported the December 1 closing in its fiscal 2023 10-K. Post-acquisition the data has been integrated into HubSpot's product family and is also marketed under the Breeze Intelligence brand.

Clearbit, Inc. has been wholly owned by HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE: HUBS) since December 1, 2023, when HubSpot closed the roughly $150 million all-cash acquisition it announced on November 1, 2023 and disclosed in its November 8, 2023 10-Q. The closing date comes from HubSpot's fiscal 2023 10-K. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Clearbit had raised approximately $17 million in venture funding from Bedrock, Battery Ventures, Cross Creek, and Zetta Venture Partners, reaching a $250M valuation as of January 2019. Post-acquisition, the founders have moved on; HubSpot's go-to-market leadership oversees the product.

Clearbit holds two intertwined datasets, one of company firmographics (industry, size, revenue, technology stack, funding history, location) and one of person-level data (full names, work email addresses, job titles, employment history, social profile links). The data is sourced through web scraping of public sources (corporate websites, LinkedIn, public press) supplemented by data partnerships and a contributor network. Clearbit also runs IP-to-company reverse lookup (the "Reveal" product) which identifies the company behind an anonymous website visitor's IP address - this is sold to marketers for retargeting and lead identification.

Yes. Clearbit honors CCPA / CPRA and GDPR opt-out and deletion requests. Deletion and other requests go through Clearbit's Privacy Request form at preferences.clearbit.com, or call (866) 241-4820 during business hours. California residents who only want to opt out of the sale of their data can instead email privacy@clearbit.com with their name, email address, and postal address, as clearbit.com/ccpa-opt-out directs. Since the HubSpot acquisition, the HubSpot privacy portal at legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy also routes Clearbit requests. An opt-out stops Clearbit from serving your data through its API in the future, but it does not recall data already delivered to Clearbit customers. See our Clearbit removal guide for instructions.

Clearbit doesn't publish a timescale. As a data broker subject to CCPA / CPRA, it has 45 days to act on a verified deletion request, extendable once to 90 with notice. Once the request is processed, your record should be removed from future API responses and enrichment results. Annual re-submission is the standard maintenance pattern since Clearbit continuously rescrapes public sources.

No. Clearbit is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Its data is B2B firmographic and contact enrichment, not consumer reports, and the terms of service prohibit use for FCRA-covered decisions (employment screening for compliance purposes, tenant screening, credit, or insurance). The applicable framework is state-level privacy law (CCPA / CPRA, plus VA / CO / CT / UT etc.) and GDPR for EU / UK residents. Unlike its B2B peers ZoomInfo and RocketReach, Clearbit has not been the target of a public Illinois Right of Publicity Act class action or other notable private litigation on the public record as of the last-updated date.