FundingWatcher vs PitchBook
Lines about pitchbook.com state what that site publishes. Where a figure is not published the line reads check.
PitchBook
A private capital data platform covering venture capital, private equity and M&A, sold as a seat based subscription.
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 PitchBook
- Subscription. The site routes to a demo request and publishes no price.
- Access at FundingWatcher
- Free. No account, no trial, no price.
- Readable without an account at PitchBook
- Some articles and league tables are readable without a login. The underlying records are not.
- Readable without an account at FundingWatcher
- Every page.
- What PitchBook does not publish
- No free page that states a count and the date it was counted, and no citation line to quote from.
- What PitchBook carries that FundingWatcher does not
- Round by round history, valuations, fund sizes, cap table detail and contacts, none of which FundingWatcher carries.
- Data date
- FundingWatcher prints the file date on every page. Data as of 4 September 2026.