FundingWatcher vs OpenVC
Lines about openvc.app state what that site publishes. Where a figure is not published the line reads check.
OpenVC
An investor search list built for founders raising a round, with filters for stage, geography and cheque size.
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 OpenVC
- Free tier plus paid plans. Price: check.
- Access at FundingWatcher
- Free. No account, no trial, no price.
- Readable without an account at OpenVC
- Investor search is usable without paying, within limits.
- Readable without an account at FundingWatcher
- Every page.
- What OpenVC does not publish
- Built to shortlist investors to contact, so it publishes no counted totals and no startup side at all.
- What OpenVC carries that FundingWatcher does not
- Warm intro paths and outreach tooling, neither of which FundingWatcher carries.
- Data date
- FundingWatcher prints the file date on every page. Data as of 4 September 2026.