B2B Company Research with ProfileSpider
Use ProfileSpider to build B2B company research lists from directories, search results, marketplaces, partner pages, and company websites.
Audience
Who This Is For
This page is for founders, sales teams, agencies, consultants, investors, researchers, marketers, and operators who need to build structured B2B company lists from public web sources.
Use it when you are researching a market, building an account list, mapping competitors, finding potential partners, collecting vendor data, preparing outbound campaigns, or turning public company sources into a spreadsheet.
The problem
Why B2B Company Research Becomes Messy
B2B company research rarely starts from one perfect database. Useful company data is usually spread across directories, marketplaces, partner pages, conference sponsor pages, Google results, company websites, funding lists, review sites, and niche communities.
One source may show company names and categories. Another may show websites and descriptions. A company website may reveal team members, social links, emails, locations, or product positioning. Manually combining all of that into a spreadsheet takes time and creates inconsistent fields.
ProfileSpider helps turn public company sources into structured research lists. You open a source page, extract visible companies or profiles, save the rows to a list, enrich where useful, add tags and notes, and export the final research file.
Before ProfileSpider
What This Looks Like Manually
A manual B2B company research workflow usually looks like this:
Search for companies by niche, market, category, location, technology, funding stage, or use case.
Open directories, marketplaces, search results, partner pages, sponsor lists, and company websites one by one.
Copy company names, websites, categories, descriptions, locations, social links, and source URLs into a spreadsheet.
Open company websites to find missing context, team members, contact pages, or emails.
Clean the spreadsheet, remove irrelevant rows, review duplicates, and add notes.
Export or share the final company list for sales, research, enrichment, outreach, or reporting.
The manual version works for a few companies. It breaks down when you need to research a full niche, region, competitor set, market map, or account list.
Sources
Where to Find B2B Company Data
Output
Example B2B Company Research Export
A useful company research file should keep company details, source context, tags, notes, and verification links together.
| Company | Category | Website | Location | Tags | Notes | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northstar Talent | HR Tech | northstartalent.example | linkedin.com/company/northstar-talent | hello@northstartalent.example | London, UK | market:hr-tech, reviewed | Potential account for recruiting workflow | example-directory.com/hr-tech |
| Weber Growth | B2B Consulting | webergrowth.example | linkedin.com/company/weber-growth | Berlin, Germany | b2b-consulting, needs-email | Review service pages before outreach | example-marketplace.com/b2b-consultants | |
| ExampleTech | Workflow Automation | exampletech.example | linkedin.com/company/exampletech | info@exampletech.example | Amsterdam, Netherlands | saas, partner-research, reviewed | Potential integration partner | conference-site.com/sponsors |
Workflows
Best ProfileSpider Workflows for B2B Company Research
Use these workflows to move from public company sources to structured research exports.
Directory to CSV
Extract companies from public directories, marketplaces, vendor lists, and category pages.
Enrich a Company List
Add missing details from eligible company websites or profile URLs where enrichment is available.
Company Team Page
Extract people, roles, LinkedIn URLs, and source URLs from public team pages.
Google X-Ray Search to Lead List
Turn public search results and company/profile URLs into a saved research list.
Export Leads to Excel
Review, clean, and export company research lists to Excel, CSV, or JSON.
Questions