FundingWatcher vs Crunchbase
Lines about crunchbase.com state what that site publishes. Where a figure is not published the line reads check.
Crunchbase
A company and investor profile database, described on its own site as private company data and predictive intelligence.
FundingWatcher
A research publication of Haus Research covering startup funding rounds and the investors behind them. List pages for both halves, a page per figure, a method page and dated writeups. Every page is free to read.
- Access at Crunchbase
- Free profile pages plus paid plans. Price: check.
- Access at FundingWatcher
- Free. No account, no trial, no price.
- Readable without an account at Crunchbase
- Company and investor profile pages are readable, with search, filters and export behind a plan.
- Readable without an account at FundingWatcher
- Every page.
- What Crunchbase does not publish
- A profile shows one entity at a time. There is no free page that counts a slice of the file and states the date the count was taken.
- What Crunchbase carries that FundingWatcher does not
- Per company round histories, funding amounts by round and predictive scores, none of which FundingWatcher carries.
- Data date
- FundingWatcher prints the file date on every page. Data as of 4 September 2026.