You do not need a research platform to find out who just raised.
Crunchbase is a database you go and query. FundedIQ is a file that arrives every Monday with last week’s funded companies, their round, their investors and a founder you can email. Here is the honest comparison, with every figure sourced and dated.
Crunchbase pricing and features on this page were verified on 2026-08-22 . Every figure links to its source.
The short answer
You are doing outbound and the job is "who raised last week, and who do I contact there". You want it delivered, you want a founder email in the row, and you would rather pay $19 a month than $29 to $99 a seat for a research tool you have to remember to open.
You are doing research rather than outreach: company history, investor portfolios, acquisitions, IPOs, or anything before 2020. Crunchbase is broader and older than us and it is not close.
What usually decides it: whether you want a database or a deliverable. Everything else on this page is detail.
Side by side
| FundedIQ | Crunchbase | |
|---|---|---|
| What you actually get | A file every Monday of the companies that raised last week, plus a searchable archive on Pro. | A database you log into and query. Nothing arrives on its own. [src] |
| Entry price What one person pays to start | $19/mo | $29/seat/mo, billed annually [src] |
| The tier most people buy | $99/mo for the app and full archive | Pro, $49 to $99/seat/mo [src] |
| Bulk export | Yes Included on Pro: 2,000 rows a month, 1 credit a row. | Paid add-on Enterprise tier only, quoted separately. [src] |
| Named investors | 60% of recently funded companies; thinner further back. | Yes Broad and long-running. [src] |
| Founder contact included | 52% of recently funded companies carry a founder with a deliverable email. | Contact data is a separate product surface, not part of the funding record. |
| Archive depth | 60,564 companies, 82,802 rounds. | Yes Substantially deeper and older than ours. [src] |
| Acquisitions, IPOs, investor profiles | No We track funding rounds and nothing else. | Yes |
| Buy it without talking to anyone | Yes 14-day trial, card required, cancel in one click. | Partial Self-serve up to Pro; Enterprise is quoted. [src] |
| Phone numbers | No We have never held them. | No |
What each one costs
Crunchbase is priced per seat per month on an annual contract. We are priced per account. That difference matters more than the headline numbers: a three-person agency pays for three Crunchbase seats and one FundedIQ subscription.
$19/mo
The weekly file. Per account, not per seat. Pro is $99/mo for the searchable archive, exports and API.
$29–$99/seat/mo
Starter from $29, Pro $49 to $99, both billed annually. Enterprise, which is where API and bulk export live, is not published. See sources.
Full detail on their tiers is in what Crunchbase costs in 2026, and what you get for it.
What we actually hold, right now
Rather than describe our coverage, here it is. This block is read from the live database every time the site rebuilds, and it is the same data a subscriber gets.
- Series Unknown 638 rounds · 449 disclosed · $45.1B
- Seed 605 rounds · 476 disclosed · $5.7B
- Series A 256 rounds · 225 disclosed · $8.8B
- Pre-Seed 168 rounds · 128 disclosed · $261M
- Series B 152 rounds · 116 disclosed · $8.0B
- Private Equity 103 rounds · 31 disclosed · $12.4B
- Series C 76 rounds · 68 disclosed · $8.6B
- Series D 32 rounds · 31 disclosed · $6.8B
Read from the live database when this page was built. It moves every Monday.
Where Crunchbase is the better choice
We would rather you buy the right thing than buy ours. Four cases where the answer is Crunchbase:
- You need history and breadth rather than the current week. Crunchbase covers far more companies, over a far longer period, than we do.
- You are researching investors as entities: their portfolios, their co-investors, their pace. We hold investor names against companies, not investor profiles.
- You want acquisitions, IPOs and public-market context alongside private rounds. We only track funding rounds.
- Your team already lives in it and the CRM integrations are wired up. Switching a working research workflow to save a few hundred dollars is rarely worth it.
What we do not do
- Investor profile pages, portfolio views or co-investor graphs.
- Acquisitions, IPOs, or any public-market data.
- Predictive scoring of which companies will raise next.
- A Chrome extension or a Salesforce/HubSpot integration.
Running the same job in FundedIQ
- 01
Open the Monday file, or filter the archive in the app by round, sector and country. Start from a browse page if you would rather see it first: by funding round or by industry.
- 02
Every row already carries the round, the amount, the named investors where we have them, and a founder with a graded email confidence. There is no separate enrichment step and no second credit charge to reveal a contact.
- 03
Export what you need as CSV or XLSX and take it to your own sequencer. We do not send email, and the export is yours.
Built on the data behind 1,000+ searches run for agencies, investors and job seekers.
Questions people ask before switching
Is FundedIQ a free Crunchbase alternative?
No, and neither is Crunchbase past its free tier. FundedIQ starts at $19 a month for the weekly file, with a 14-day trial that requires a card. If you want funding data for nothing, Crunchbase's free tier and the funding announcements themselves are the honest answer.
What does FundedIQ have that Crunchbase does not?
A file that arrives. Crunchbase is a database you have to remember to go and query; the whole point of the Alerts plan is that last week’s funded companies land in your inbox on Monday with the round, the investors and a founder email already attached.
Is the data the same?
No. Crunchbase is broader and older, and covers acquisitions, IPOs and investor profiles that we hold nothing on. We are deeper on the last few weeks: 82,802 rounds across 60,564 companies, with founder contact on 52% of recently funded ones.
Can I export the data?
Yes, on Pro at $99 a month, which includes 2,000 credits and one credit per exported row. On Crunchbase, bulk export and API access sit on the Enterprise tier and are quoted by their sales team.
How current is FundedIQ?
The archive runs to 2026-08-14 and a new issue goes out every Monday, typically around 230 newly funded companies.
Should I just keep using Crunchbase?
If your team already has it wired into a CRM and you are doing research rather than outbound, yes. The case for switching is narrow and specific: you want this week’s funded companies with contacts, delivered, and you do not want to pay for a research platform to get it.
Also weighing up
Where these Crunchbase figures come from
Every claim on this page about Crunchbase was read from a page they publish, on the date shown. Nothing here is estimated. Where they do not publish something, this table says so rather than guessing.
| Claim | What they say | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crunchbase Starter price | $29 per user per month “List pricing is approximately $29 per user per month when billed annually.” | Vendr buyer guide (third-party benchmark) | 2026-08-22 |
| Crunchbase Pro price | $49 to $99 per user per month “List pricing typically ranges from $49 to $99 per user per month when billed annually, depending on the number of users and contract structure.” | Vendr buyer guide (third-party benchmark) | 2026-08-22 |
| Crunchbase Enterprise price | Not published “Enterprise contracts typically start at $50,000+ annually.” Enterprise is quoted by their sales team on user count, API volume and contract term. API access and bulk export are Enterprise-only. | Vendr buyer guide (third-party benchmark) | 2026-08-22 |
| Coverage | Global, all stages “Private Company Data & Predictive Intelligence” | Crunchbase home page | 2026-08-22 |
| Bulk export and API | Enterprise-only “API access, data exports, premium support, and custom integrations are typically Enterprise-only or available as paid add-ons.” | Vendr buyer guide (third-party benchmark) | 2026-08-22 |
| Recurring weekly file | Not offered “Start Free Trial” | Crunchbase Pro product page | 2026-08-22 |
Crunchbase and all other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here to identify the products being compared. Prices are as published on the dates shown and may have changed since. Links to Crunchbase are provided so you can check for yourself.
Know who raised last week. And who to email there.
60,564 funded companies and 82,802 rounds, with a new issue every Monday.
Alerts from $19/mo · Pro from $99/mo. Card required, nothing charged until day 15, and we email you 3 days before that.