About LunarCrush

The context company.

We turn what the world says on social media into structured, live data. For people, and for the AI they work with.

Founded 2018
Distributed by design
Why we exist

Markets move on narrative, and narrative lives on social media. Before a coin pumps, the conversation shifts. Before a stock turns, sentiment does.

The thesis since 2018
The LunarCrush mark in petrol
One material. One mark.
01 · The problem

The signal was always there.

It was buried in millions of posts, across many networks, mixed with spam and noise. Reading it by hand doesn't scale.

02 · What we built

Every post, read and weighed.

We take in X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and the news. We filter spam, weight every creator by real influence, score sentiment, and deliver clean data as it happens.

03 · Today

Two worlds, one source.

People use the Discover app to explore and decide. Machines connect through the API, MCP, and CLI. We're not a dashboard. We're the layer between social media and the decision.

100M+
posts processed every day, across 6 networks and the news
10M+
creators indexed and weighed
41
categories, from crypto to the NBA
Since 2020
history, every topic and creator
Since 2018

From a crypto tracker to the context layer.

2018
2018

Founded

Joe Vezzani starts LunarCrush on one idea: what people say on social media moves markets. The first version tracks sentiment and mentions for the top coins.

2020

AltRank™ and Galaxy Score™

Our own scores go live, joining social and market data into one read. LunarCrush becomes a daily tool for the crypto community.

2022

Beyond crypto

Stocks and ETFs, then sports, entertainment, brands, and culture. The same depth, for every conversation.

2024

API v4

A full REST API for developers and institutions. LunarCrush becomes infrastructure, not just an app.

2025

Inside Claude

One of the first social data sources connected to Anthropic's Claude through MCP. AI agents read social context natively.

2026

The context company

Live social context for people and their AI. 41 categories, 6 networks, and every post followed for its whole life.

What we believe

Decisions we make every day.

Not slogans. The rules behind what we build and what we leave out.

The conversation around a name matters as much as its chart. Engagement shows momentum, and tone shows where it's leaning. Social isn't noise. It's the signal most people ignore.

Raw data is useless at scale. We filter spam, weight by influence, and score sentiment before anything reaches you. The value is in the reading, not the pile.

The analyst exploring the Discover app and the agent calling the API get the same data, the same history, the same care.

Anyone can scrape a few hundred tickers from one network. Six networks, 10M+ creators, and every post followed, delivered the same way every hour, is the difference.

Leadership

The people behind it.

A small team that builds with the conviction that this is foundational work.

Joe Vezzani
Founded LunarCrush in 2018 on the thesis that social data is the most underused signal in markets. Leads vision and strategy.
Joe VezzaniCEO · Co-founder
Dan Williams
Leads engineering and the architecture behind LunarCrush, from analytics tool to sentiment data infrastructure.
Dan WilliamsCTO · Co-founder
Jonathan Farjo
Leads product strategy and the integration roadmap, from the Discover app to the API and AI connectors.
Jonathan FarjoCPO · Co-founder
Nicolás Bañados
Leads design, brand, and experience across every LunarCrush product. Shapes how social context looks and feels.
Nicolás BañadosHead of Design
Every day
The world tells you what it thinks. We make sure you hear it.
Careers

Help build the context layer.

A small, distributed team on one of the hardest data problems online: turning billions of conversations into data people and machines can trust.

How we work

Signal over noiseEvery decision starts with one question: does this make things clearer?
Build for both worldsHumans and machines. Apps and APIs. Every system serves both.
Ship, measure, iterateShip often and let real usage decide what comes next.
Own the outcomeYour domain, end to end. See a problem, fix it.
Stay curiousWe hire learners, not just experts.
Default to transparentShare the why, not just the what.

What you get

Fully remoteEquity for everyoneUnlimited PTOEquipment budgetLearning budgetHealth coverage (US)
Anywhere · Your hours
Tell us what you'd like to work on.
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