Wolfram|Alpha has just announced that their computational search engine now has data from CrunchBase.

CrunchBase collect information about companies especially startups so you can now search through this data right from the Wolfram|Alpha platform. Example

The company said:

We started out with coverage of only the largest US companies, including giants like Bechtel and Cargill. But recently we’ve been mining CrunchBase to pick up more information on popular tech startups. There’s still a long way to go: as with any database of user-edited content, we have to do a lot of programmatic and manual curation to bring the content up to our standards. But with this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco coming up next week, we thought it might be fun to call some attention to this effort.