FundingWatcher vs Preqin
Lines about preqin.com state what that site publishes. Where a figure is not published the line reads check.
Preqin
An alternative assets data provider covering private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and real estate, described on its own site as part of BlackRock.
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 Preqin
- 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 Preqin
- Marketing pages and some research summaries.
- Readable without an account at FundingWatcher
- Every page.
- What Preqin does not publish
- Written for allocators and fund managers, so nothing on the open side counts companies or states a data date.
- What Preqin carries that FundingWatcher does not
- Fund performance, benchmarks and limited partner commitments, none of which FundingWatcher carries.
- Data date
- FundingWatcher prints the file date on every page. Data as of 4 September 2026.