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Edwin MikPartner & Head of IR

Formerly at Barclays, Apax Partners and Euronext, Edwin knows how investors screen a transaction. He works out who is allocating now, which of the 440+ relationships is the right first call, and what they need to see.

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Three checks that split the seventeen

Three of the five checks, counted across all seventeen products. Each turns to show the rule and who passes.

01 · Price

How many print a price

8 of 17print a price
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01 · Price
How many print a price

Eight of the seventeen print a price for the product: Dakota, Mergr, Crunchbase, Dealroom, Massinvestor, VCPro Database, Valicon and Private Equity List. A demo, a quote or a request scores 0. Ask the other nine for a quote in writing before the first demo.

8 of 17print a price
02 · History

How many show what investors did

3 of 17state LP commitments
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02 · History
How many show what investors did

Only Preqin, PitchBook and S&P Capital IQ Pro state limited partner commitments or an investor's full investment history, the top mark. Twelve more show deals, transactions or portfolios per investor, and two score none on the pages checked.

3 of 17state LP commitments
03 · Data source

Where the data comes from

1 of 17built on its own platform
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03 · Data source
Where the data comes from

Only Valicon builds its whole dataset on its own platform, from the activity in its own rooms. Nine state data from investors, firms or users beside public sources, and seven state none.

1 of 17built on its own platform
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The seventeen products on five checks

The providers are listed in ranking order. Equal points go first to the higher verified review score where a product has five or more reviews (PitchBook, Crunchbase, Tracxn), then follow alphabetically.

The field on 5 checks
ProviderBest forPricingHistoryContactsBehaviourPriceData sourceScore
01DakotaFund managers raising from institutional allocatorsUSD 16,500 a year, plus USD 1,000 per extra user4/7
02PreqinFund managers and placement agents researching LPs and their commitmentsSold by demo request; no price published4/7
03ValiconCompanies and funds that want to see how investors read a data roomPro $690 a year; Team $1,990 a year4/7
04VCPro DatabaseA one-off outreach list of venture capital and private equity firmsUS$119.95 one-time, no subscription4/7
05PitchBookTeams that want a broad private-market dataset and can budget a quoteBy request; varies by seats and firm type3/7
06CrunchbaseA first look at which investors back a sector or a stagePro $49 a month billed annually; Business from $199 a month3/7
07DealroomEuropean investor research by teams that want a printed per-seat priceEUR 250 per seat a month, billed annually, minimum 3 seats3/7
08GrataCorporate development and advisers building buyer lists for a saleThree packages, no price printed3/7
09HarmonicTeams that track which investors show interest in private companiesPlans by request; no subscription price3/7
10MassinvestorSmall US outreach lists of venture capital and private equity partners$895 for a one-year US subscription3/7
11MergrCorporate finance teams and advisers targeting private equity buyers$150 a month, 7-day free trial3/7
12CB InsightsStrategy and corporate development teams that track private companiesBy request only2/7
13Gain.proPrivate equity and M&A teams that want company, deal and investor data in one platformBy quote; free trial2/7
14Private Equity ListAdvisers and companies that want PE and VC investor teams at a monthly pricePro $129 a month; Pro Max $399 a month; Basic free2/7
15S&P Capital IQ ProTeams that already buy S&P data and want private markets next to public companiesDemo and access requests; no price2/7
16TracxnTeams that want a free tier to screen investors and companies firstFree Lite plan; Premium by quote1/7
17SourcescrubPrivate equity sourcing teams that map companiesEvery tier is Request pricing1/7

Meets the checkHalf of a two-point checkNot found on its pagesScore: points of 7, from each provider's own pages, as of 2 November 2026

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How we compared

The axes, and the test each one applies. Every product below was read against the same five.

01

Shows investment history

  • Its own pages show which investments an investor made, and the top mark needs LP commitments or an investor's full investment history.
02

Names contacts at investors

  • Its own pages say it lists contact details, such as emails or phone numbers, for people at investors.
03

Tracks investor behaviour

  • Its own pages describe recording what investors do: the searches they run, the companies they show interest in or the pages they read.
04

Prints a price

  • Its own pages print a price for the product: a subscription, a licence or a one-time price. A usage rate for one add-on feature does not count.
05

States where its data comes from

  • Its own pages say where its data comes from: supplied directly by investors, LPs, GPs or firms, or by its own users, instead of only public or third-party sources.

Ask how we ranked these

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The seventeen products, one by one

The four with the top score first, alphabetically, then the other thirteen in the order the checks give. Every figure on a card is the vendor's own.

01Dakota

LP databaseSubscriptionBryn Mawr

A fund manager that wants named allocators with direct contact details and a price it can read.

The Dakota website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Dakota · dakota.com · 2 November 2026
LP accounts
250,000+
Verified contacts
386,000+
Marketplace, a year
USD 16,500
Strengths3
  • Prints direct phone numbers and verified emails for CIOs and allocators.
  • Alerts a team when an allocator launches an investment search.
  • Updated daily by its own research team, with CRM integrations and an API.
Considerations2
  • Does not state which LP committed to which fund.
  • Its fund counts differ by page: 57,000+, 18,500+, 17,100+ and 14,000+.
Verdict

Ask for the LP list in your strategy before you sign; USD 16,500 is the printed entry price for Marketplace.

02Preqin

LP databaseBlackRockLondon

A fund manager or placement agent that needs LP commitments to similar funds.

The Preqin website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Preqin · preqin.com · 2 November 2026
Investors
20,000+
Funds
135,000+
Contacts
482,175
Strengths3
  • States LP commitments: investor profiles show past commitments to similar funds.
  • Counts only confirmed, active allocators as investors.
  • Offers an API and data feeds that can feed a CRM.
Considerations2
  • No price on its pages: Pro is sold by demo request.
  • Its pages describe no tracking of what investors do.
Verdict

Check the contact detail on your strategy in the demo; the product pages promise it in general terms.

03Valicon

Data roomSubscriptionFree plan

A company or fund that already has investors in a data room and wants to see how they read it.

The Valicon website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Valicon · valicon.ai · 2 November 2026
Pro, a year
$690
7-day Pro trial
$7
First data room
Free
Strengths3
  • Records every page-flip, dwell and re-open per investor.
  • Prints its prices: Pro billed $690 a year and Team billed $1,990 a year.
  • A free plan with one data room and no card.
Considerations2
  • Not an investor database: it holds no investor or LP coverage and no investment history.
  • Prints no API or integrations on its public pages.
Verdict

Use it to read investors' behaviour in your own room; it does not give you investors to approach.

04VCPro Database

VC and PE databaseOne-timeHong Kong

A one-off outreach list of venture capital and private equity firms at a one-time price.

The VCPro Database website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
VCPro Database · vcaonline.com · 2 November 2026
Firms
7,670+
Executive emails
55,650+
One-time
US$119.95
Strengths3
  • Prints a one-time price of US$119.95 with a free update at the next release.
  • Lists direct executive email addresses and titles.
  • Profiles show investment criteria and portfolio companies.
Considerations2
  • A file you run offline, updated twice a year in January and July, with no live updates.
  • No API or CRM integration, and the LP directory is a separate free list of 248 LPs.
Verdict

Fine for a single list: a file you run offline.

05PitchBook

Market dataMorningstarSeattle

A team that needs broad coverage of investors, funds and deals in one product and will request a quote.

The PitchBook website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
PitchBook · pitchbook.com · 2 November 2026
Investors
651,453
Companies
14,003,087
Deals
3,304,581
Strengths3
  • Counts 651,453 investors, 176,447 funds and 3,304,581 deals on its homepage.
  • States LP commitment and mandate data for fundraising.
  • Offers CRM integrations, an API and a data feed.
Considerations2
  • No price: its pricing page asks for a request, and CRM integrations are a premium addition.
  • States no direct email or phone for investor staff.
Verdict

Broad coverage across investors, companies, deals and funds; compare what you pay for on the points above.

06Crunchbase

Company databaseSubscriptionSan Francisco

Someone who wants a low-cost first screen of investors by stage, sector and geography.

The Crunchbase website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Crunchbase · about.crunchbase.com · 2 November 2026
Private companies
4M+
Verified updates a year
30M+
Pro, a month, billed annually
$49
Strengths3
  • Prints its plans: Pro at $49 a month billed annually and Business from $199 a month.
  • Shows funding history and investor data for each company.
  • Business adds CRM integrations; Pro exports up to 2,000 rows a month.
Considerations2
  • Prints no count of investors and states no LP commitments.
  • Its contact data covers people at companies.
Verdict

A low-priced start for screening investors; it does not state LP commitments.

07Dealroom

Company databaseSubscriptionAmsterdam

A team that researches investors and rounds, especially in Europe, and wants a per-seat price.

The Dealroom website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Dealroom · dealroom.co · 2 November 2026
Companies
3.2M+
Funds
100K+
Premium, per seat a month
EUR 250
Strengths3
  • Prints per-seat prices: EUR 250 on Premium and EUR 325 on Premium Plus.
  • Updates daily and offers an API with real-time sync.
  • Names Salesforce, HubSpot and Affinity for its API.
Considerations2
  • Prints no count of investors or LPs.
  • Its own guide says an LP-manager link does not establish an investment in a fund.
Verdict

Good for round and co-investor research; look elsewhere for LP commitments.

08Grata

Deal sourcingDatasiteNew York

An adviser or corporate development team that builds buyer lists for a sale.

The Grata website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Grata · grata.com · 2 November 2026
Companies mapped
22M+
Historical transactions
800K+
Financial sponsors
20,000
Strengths3
  • Searches investors by their past investments and ranks buyers by recency and frequency.
  • Pushes records into Salesforce, DealCloud, HubSpot or Affinity.
  • Documents an API and a weekly Seller Intent score.
Considerations2
  • Prints no price: its pricing page shows packages with demo buttons.
  • Prints 20,000 financial sponsors on one page and 100K+ on another; no LP count.
Verdict

Built for the sell side; ask whether the investor-discovery module fits a fund raise.

09Harmonic

Deal sourcingSubscriptionNew York

A team that follows investor interest in private companies and sources them.

The Harmonic website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Harmonic · harmonic.ai · 2 November 2026
Investors
250 thousand
Companies
40 million
Bulk data refresh
Weekly
Strengths3
  • Shows notable investor engagement with a company as an early interest signal.
  • Investor profiles show check sizes, recent deals and focus areas.
  • Delivers by API, Affinity, a CRM sync add-on, or in bulk via S3, BigQuery or Snowflake.
Considerations2
  • Plans are by request: no subscription price printed.
  • Its pages print three different company totals: 30M+, 35M+ and 40 million.
Verdict

Strong on company sourcing; its investor signal is interest in companies.

10Massinvestor

VC and PE databaseSubscriptionArlington

A small US raise that needs a flat-price list of venture capital and private equity partners.

The Massinvestor website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Massinvestor · massinvestor.com · 2 November 2026
Firms
5,200
Partner emails
17,000
One year, US
$895
Strengths3
  • Prints a one-year price of $895 for the US database.
  • Profiles carry the email addresses of most partners.
  • States that firm profiles and financings are updated in real time.
Considerations2
  • No LP data and no API; it exports to Excel and PDF.
  • Publisher address is a PO Box in Arlington, Massachusetts; it began producing venture capital databases in 2002.
Verdict

A flat-price US list for a small outreach; it holds no LPs and no API, so check coverage outside the US before you buy.

11Mergr

PE databaseSubscriptionFort Lauderdale

A corporate finance team or adviser that needs private equity buyers and their deal history at a printed monthly price.

The Mergr website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Mergr · mergr.com · 2 November 2026
Private equity firms
4.9K+
Transactions
227K+
Pro, a month
$150
Strengths3
  • Prints a monthly price and a 7-day free trial.
  • Shows each private equity firm's current and former portfolio.
  • Pushes a record into HubSpot or Salesforce, and updates daily.
Considerations2
  • Covers private equity and M&A only: no venture capital firms or financings, and no LPs.
  • The API and bulk exports are licensed and quoted separately.
Verdict

Built for sell-side and buy-side targeting; it holds no LPs, so a fund raising from LPs looks elsewhere.

12CB Insights

Company intelligenceSubscriptionNew York

A strategy or corporate development team that follows private companies and their investors.

The CB Insights website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
CB Insights · cbinsights.com · 2 November 2026
Company and investor profiles
13M
Deals traced
1.5 million
Pricing
Request
Strengths3
  • Traces 1.5 million deals with funding history for companies and investors.
  • Delivers through Salesforce, an API and data feeds to Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks.
  • Continually refreshed and double-verified, by its own pages.
Considerations2
  • Pricing is by request only.
  • No LP or limited partner data on the pages read; its company totals read 12M+ and 13M+ on different pages.
Verdict

A company-intelligence product; it is not built for LP targeting.

13Gain.pro

Company databaseSubscriptionAmsterdam

A private equity or M&A team that wants companies, investors, deals and advisors in one platform with a CRM sync.

The Gain.pro website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Gain.pro · gain.ai · 2 November 2026
Investors
20,000+
Deals
500k+
Advisors
11,000+
Strengths3
  • Counts 20,000+ investors, 500k+ deals and 11,000+ advisors on its product pages.
  • Syncs both ways with DealCloud and Salesforce, and offers an API feed, a bulk data feed and an MCP connection.
  • Lists allocators with fund-level tickets and aggregated capital allocation.
Considerations2
  • Prints no price: plans are quoted after a request, and a free trial is offered.
  • States no direct email or phone for investor staff, and prints no count of LPs or allocators.
Verdict

Strong where you start from companies and deals; ask what its allocator data holds for your strategy before you rely on it for LPs.

14Private Equity List

PE and VC databaseSubscriptionWyoming

An adviser or a company that wants PE and VC investor teams with contacts, at a monthly price.

The Private Equity List website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Private Equity List · privateequitylist.com · 2 November 2026
Investors
8,110
Team contacts
56,813
Pro, a month
$129
Strengths3
  • Prints monthly plans from a free Basic tier to Pro Max at $399, and a $1,799 Lifetime Pro.
  • Lists investment-team contacts with roles and emails on Pro and above.
  • Offers a REST API, CSV export and an MCP connection, and says it is updated nearly every day.
Considerations2
  • States no LP commitments and no LP count; funds of funds and family offices are investor types to filter by.
  • Says coverage is partial by design, and that a material share of contacts have no email address.
Verdict

A low monthly price for PE and VC investor teams with contacts; check the email coverage on your strategy before you pay for Pro.

15S&P Capital IQ Pro

Market dataS&P GlobalNew York

A team that already works in S&P data and wants private markets in the same place.

The S&P Capital IQ Pro website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
S&P Capital IQ Pro · spglobal.com · 2 November 2026
Private companies
60M+
PE and VC funds
110,000+
Rounds of funding
907,000+
Strengths3
  • Counts 110,000+ PE and VC funds and 907,000+ rounds of funding.
  • Connects investor commitments to fund performance and investor targeting.
  • Feeds data into workflows and Excel.
Considerations2
  • Its private markets coverage includes With Intelligence data, now available inside it, and its page prints no price.
  • S&P Global announced a strategic review of Capital IQ and associated data businesses on 27 October 2026.
Verdict

Suits a team that already works in S&P data; its private markets coverage sits inside the public markets platform.

16Tracxn

Market dataFree tierBengaluru

A team that wants to screen investors for free before paying for a data platform.

The Tracxn website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Tracxn · tracxn.com · 2 November 2026
Investors
292K+
Companies
8.4M+
Lite plan
Free
Strengths3
  • Offers a free Lite plan.
  • Investor profiles show deal histories, co-investor networks and fund vehicles.
  • Integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot and Affinity, and documents an API.
Considerations2
  • Premium is by quote and no figure is printed.
  • No LP or allocator count, no LP commitment data, and no direct contact for investor staff.
Verdict

A free way to start; its investor profiles show deals and co-investors.

17Sourcescrub

Deal sourcingDatasiteSan Francisco

A private equity or advisory team that sources companies and wants the investors attached to them.

The Sourcescrub website as it appeared on 2 November 2026
Sourcescrub · sourcescrub.com · 2 November 2026
Companies
17M
Sources
290,000
Fastest CRM sync
Daily
Strengths3
  • Native CRM integrations with bi-directional sync, as often as daily.
  • Delivers through an API and warehouse connections including Snowflake.
  • Shows the investors and funds associated with each company.
Considerations2
  • No price: every tier shows Request pricing.
  • Its own pages disagree on totals: 16M or 17M companies, 220,000 or 290,000 sources.
Verdict

A company-sourcing tool, now part of Datasite; the investor side is thin.

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The comparison in full

PitchBook and sixteen PitchBook alternatives are compared here, seventeen investor databases in all, for the fund manager, corporate finance team or adviser who needs data on investors, LPs and acquirers. The highest score is 4 of 7 points. Dakota, Preqin, Valicon and VCPro Database hold it, and the other thirteen score less.

spectup runs capital introduction services for companies and funds. The seventeen follow in the order five checks give, each one taken from the product's own pages on 2 Nov 2026.

Figure 01Four products score 4 of 7, and seven score 3Points each product scores, of seven (investment history and data source up to two each, then contacts, investor behaviour and a printed price, one each), from its own pages, 2 Nov 2026. Products with equal points follow the review rule in the method.
Four products score 4 of 7, and seven score 3Bar chart. Dakota; 4 of 7. Preqin; 4 of 7. Valicon; 4 of 7. VCPro Database; 4 of 7. PitchBook; 3 of 7. Crunchbase; 3 of 7. Dealroom; 3 of 7. Grata; 3 of 7. Harmonic; 3 of 7. Massinvestor; 3 of 7. Mergr; 3 of 7. CB Insights; 2 of 7. Gain.pro; 2 of 7. Private Equity List; 2 of 7.02468Dakota4 of 7Preqin4 of 7Valicon4 of 7VCPro Database4 of 7PitchBook3 of 7Crunchbase3 of 7Dealroom3 of 7Grata3 of 7Harmonic3 of 7Massinvestor3 of 7Mergr3 of 7CB Insights2 of 7Gain.pro2 of 7Private Equity List2 of 7S&P Capital IQ Pro2 of 7Tracxn1 of 7Sourcescrub1 of 7Four products score 4 of 7, and seven score 3Bar chart. Dakota; 4 of 7. Preqin; 4 of 7. Valicon; 4 of 7. VCPro Database; 4 of 7. PitchBook; 3 of 7. Crunchbase; 3 of 7. Dealroom; 3 of 7. Grata; 3 of 7. Harmonic; 3 of 7. Massinvestor; 3 of 7. Mergr; 3 of 7. CB Insights; 2 of 7. Gain.pro; 2 of 7. Private Equity List; 2 of 7.02468Dakota4 of 7Preqin4 of 7Valicon4 of 7VCPro Database4 of 7PitchBook3 of 7Crunchbase3 of 7Dealroom3 of 7Grata3 of 7Harmonic3 of 7Massinvestor3 of 7Mergr3 of 7CB Insights2 of 7Gain.pro2 of 7Private Equity List2 of 7S&P Capital IQ Pro2 of 7Tracxn1 of 7Sourcescrub1 of 7
Figure 01 data: Four products score 4 of 7, and seven score 3
ItemValue
Dakota4 of 7
Preqin4 of 7
Valicon4 of 7
VCPro Database4 of 7
PitchBook3 of 7
Crunchbase3 of 7
Dealroom3 of 7
Grata3 of 7
Harmonic3 of 7
Massinvestor3 of 7
Mergr3 of 7
CB Insights2 of 7
Gain.pro2 of 7
Private Equity List2 of 7
S&P Capital IQ Pro2 of 7
Tracxn1 of 7
Sourcescrub1 of 7
Each product's own website, read 2 Nov 2026

What do PitchBook alternatives sell?

A buyer looking for investor data, whether through PitchBook alternatives or Crunchbase alternatives, meets four forms of product:

  • Private market data platforms, seven of them: CB Insights, Crunchbase, Dealroom, Gain.pro, PitchBook, S&P Capital IQ Pro and Tracxn. They hold companies, deals and investors in one product.
  • Investor and fund-manager databases, six: Dakota, Massinvestor, Mergr, Preqin, Private Equity List and VCPro Database. They hold investor firms and the people in them.
  • Deal sourcing platforms, three: Grata, Harmonic and Sourcescrub. They are built to find companies, with the investors attached. For the investor's side of that search, spectup runs deal origination.
  • A data room with investor analytics, one: Valicon. It supplies no investors. It records how the investors you already have read your documents.
Figure 02Seven of the seventeen are private market data platforms and six are investor databases; three are deal sourcing tools and one is a data roomThe seventeen products on this page by what each one sells, as its own pages describe it, number of products
Seven of the seventeen are private market data platforms and six are investor databases; three are deal sourcing tools and one is a data roomPart-of-whole chart. Seventeen products; Private market data platforms; 7. Seventeen products; Investor and fund-manager databases; 6. Seventeen products; Deal sourcing platforms; 3. Seventeen products; A data room with investor analytics; 1.Seventeen products7631Private market data platformsInvestor and fund-manager databasesDeal sourcing platformsA data room with investor analyticsSeven of the seventeen are private market data platforms and six are investor databases; three are deal sourcing tools and one is a data roomPart-of-whole chart. Seventeen products; Private market data platforms; 7. Seventeen products; Investor and fund-manager databases; 6. Seventeen products; Deal sourcing platforms; 3. Seventeen products; A data room with investor analytics; 1.Seventeen products7631Private market data platformsInvestor and fund-manager databasesDeal sourcing platformsA data room with investor analytics
Figure 02 data: Seven of the seventeen are private market data platforms and six are investor databases; three are deal sourcing tools and one is a data room
WholePartShare
Seventeen productsPrivate market data platforms7
Seventeen productsInvestor and fund-manager databases6
Seventeen productsDeal sourcing platforms3
Seventeen productsA data room with investor analytics1
Each product's own website, read 2 Nov 2026

Only three of the seventeen state limited partner commitments on their own pages: Preqin, PitchBook and S&P Capital IQ Pro. Coverage counts are printed on each card in the vendor's own unit, and aren't scored, because the units differ: investors, LPs, firms, funds, contacts or companies.

How we compared the seventeen investor databases

The seventeen are the products a fund manager, adviser or corporate finance team meets when it looks for PitchBook alternatives or an investors database. Each was checked on five things a buyer can confirm before a demo:

  1. Investment history: up to two points. One for deals, transactions or portfolios shown per investor, and a second for limited partner commitments, or an investor's full investment history with commitments, stated.
  2. Contacts at investors: its own pages say it lists contact details, such as emails or phone numbers, for people at investors.
  3. Investor behaviour: its own pages describe recording what investors do, such as the searches they run, the companies they show interest in or the pages they read. It matters because it tells you which investors are looking now.
  4. A printed price: its own pages print a price for the product, such as a subscription, a licence or a one-time price. A usage rate for a single add-on feature doesn't count.
  5. Data source: up to two points. One where its own pages say investors, LPs, GPs, firms or the product's own users also supply data directly, beside public sources, and a second where the data is generated by its own users' activity on the platform.

Delivery into your own systems, a CRM integration, an API or a data feed, was read for every product and is stated by fourteen of the seventeen, so it doesn't separate them and isn't scored. The three that state none are Massinvestor, VCPro Database and Valicon; scored, it would drop Valicon below Dakota and Preqin.

Only Valicon states that its dataset is the activity recorded in its own rooms; nine others state some first-hand data beside public sources.

A product that prints little can still be the right tool for your search, so read the scores as a measure of what you can confirm before the first call. They say nothing about how complete the data is. Marketplaces and lists of investors aren't here, because a buyer can't search, filter or export them as a product.

Product
HistoryContactsBehaviourPriceData sourceTotal
Dakota
111104
Preqin
210014
Valicon
001124
VCPro Database
110114
PitchBook
200013
Crunchbase
100113
Dealroom
100113
Grata
110013
Harmonic
101013
Massinvestor
110103
Mergr
110103
CB Insights
100012
Gain.pro
100012
Private Equity List
010102
S&P Capital IQ Pro
200002
Tracxn
100001
Sourcescrub
100001

Equal points go to the product with the higher verified review score on Clutch, Trustpilot or G2 (its best profile with five or more reviews; the score first, then the number of reviews). A product without such a profile follows those that have one; then alphabetical order.

Trustpilot profiles were read on 2 Nov 2026, and the rating column shows Trustpilot only. G2 returned an empty page and Clutch was not read. Only three products have a profile with five or more reviews.

PitchBook has 1.7/5 from 24 reviews and Crunchbase 1.4/5 from 51, so they lead their tier in that order, and Tracxn has 2.0/5 from 17 and leads its own tier.

On the top tier and the 2-point tier no product has such a profile, and the rest of each tier follows alphabetically. A review score speaks to customer service and says nothing about the data.

1. Dakota, the LP database with contacts and a price

Dakota sells Dakota Marketplace, a database of LP and allocator accounts with verified contacts. By its own count it holds 250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts, and it prints direct phone numbers and verified emails for CIOs and allocators. Its pages say its research team reviews every record and that records are not self-reported, so it scores 0 on data source.

It prints its price: USD 16,500 a year plus USD 1,000 per additional user, and USD 9,500 a year for its Private Markets product. The data is updated daily, with CRM integrations and an API, and it alerts a team when an allocator launches a new investment search. Dakota was established in 2006 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

It shows transactions mapped to the GP, fund and portfolio company, but its pages don't say which LP committed to which fund, and its fund counts differ by page.

Figure 03The nine sold on request score higher on history; the eight with a printed price name more contacts and track more investor behaviour; data source is levelShare of the points available on each check, %, for the nine products sold on request and the eight that print a price, from each product's own pages, 2 Nov 2026
The nine sold on request score higher on history; the eight with a printed price name more contacts and track more investor behaviour; data source is levelShare of the available points per check, products sold on request against products that print a price.Sold on request (9)Print a price (8)0204060806738History2263Contacts1125Behaviour3331Data sourceThe nine sold on request score higher on history; the eight with a printed price name more contacts and track more investor behaviour; data source is levelShare of the available points per check, products sold on request against products that print a price.Sold on request (9)Print a price (8)History6738Contacts2263Behaviour1125Data source3331
Figure 03 data: The nine sold on request score higher on history; the eight with a printed price name more contacts and track more investor behaviour; data source is level
ScenarioSold on request (9)Print a price (8)Gap
History673829
Contacts226341
Behaviour112514
Data source33312
Each product's own website, read 2 Nov 2026

2. Preqin, LP commitments data, now part of BlackRock

Preqin says it was founded in 2003, and BlackRock completed its acquisition on 3 March 2025. Its own pages count 48,000 firms, 135,000+ funds and 20,000+ investors, where an investor means a confirmed, active allocator, and 482,175 key alternatives contacts.

It is one of two PitchBook alternatives, with S&P Capital IQ Pro, whose pages state LP commitments: investor profiles show past commitments to similar funds, and private equity investor data includes full investment history. Its source-new-business page lists contact details for key personnel and lead partners, and it offers an API and data feeds that can feed a CRM.

It prints no price and sells Pro by demo request. Its operating company is registered in England, with offices in London and 14 other cities.

3. Valicon, a data room that reads investor behaviour

Valicon is a hosted data-room and investor-analytics platform, by its own terms. It is the odd one among the PitchBook alternatives here: it supplies no investors to approach and reports on the ones you already have. Its pages describe a behavioural feed on who is reading a deal room, what they skip and who is close.

Its pages say every page-flip, dwell and re-open is recorded per investor, plus CSV cell hovers and embed views, and it keeps a contact CRM for the user's own investor contacts. It prints a free plan with one data room, a 7-day Pro trial for $7, Pro billed $690 a year and Team plans billed $1,990 a year.

Its pages say every deal room adds primary-source behaviour, so the data is generated by its own users' activity, and it scores 2 on data source.

Its public pages print no investment history and no investor contacts it supplies, so those two checks score 0, and no coverage count, API or refresh frequency, which are not scored. Its 4 of 7 comes from behaviour, price and data source.

Only Preqin, PitchBook and S&P Capital IQ Pro state limited partner commitments.

4. VCPro Database, a downloadable list at a one-time price

VCPro Database is a product of Venture Capital Access Online. It is a downloadable VC database for Windows and macOS, searchable offline, that also covers private equity. By its own count it holds 7,670+ firm profiles and 55,650+ executive email addresses.

It costs US$119.95 one time with no subscription, and is updated twice a year, in January and July. It exports to Excel or CSV; no API or CRM integration was found. Profiles list investment criteria and portfolio companies.

A separate free directory lists 248 limited partners investing in VC funds. The research is done by Access InterComm in Hong Kong, and the first edition was published in 1998.

5. PitchBook, broad coverage, priced on request

PitchBook covers investors, companies, deals and funds in one product. Its homepage counts 651,453 investors, 14,003,087 companies, 3,304,581 deals and 176,447 funds, and its limited partners page covers LP commitments, mandates and strategies. Morningstar acquired it in late 2016, according to Morningstar's 10-K.

It offers CRM integration with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot, and a data feed and API, and its pricing page names both Direct Data and CRM Integration as premium offerings. The pricing page asks for a request and says pricing varies by seats and firm type.

Its pages list people to contact but state no direct email or phone, and no tracking of investor behaviour, so it scores 3 of 7 on this page's checks.

Only Dakota prints both a price and direct contacts for allocators. Eight of the seventeen print a price; ask the other nine for a quote in writing before the first demo.

6. Crunchbase, private company data with a low printed price

Crunchbase sells private company data. By its own count it covers 4M+ private companies and makes 30M+ verified data updates a year. Its pricing page prints Pro at $49 a month billed annually (listed at $79) or $99 billed monthly, and Business from $199 a month billed annually.

Of the Crunchbase alternatives, Tracxn and Private Equity List print a free tier. Each company profile shows funding history and investor data, and its investors page offers screening of investors by stage, sector and geography. Business adds CRM and workflow integrations, and the docs name a Salesforce managed package; Pro exports up to 2,000 rows a month.

Its pages print no count of investors or LPs and state no LP commitments, and its contact data is about people at companies.

7. Dealroom, funding and investor data with per-seat prices

Dealroom was founded in Amsterdam in 2013. By its own count it tracks 3.2M+ companies and shows investor participation across 100K+ funds, with 336K+ VC rounds tracked since 2018. It prints per-seat prices: EUR 250 a month on Premium and EUR 325 on Premium Plus, billed annually with a minimum of 3 seats.

Its data is updated daily, and it offers an API with real-time sync, with Salesforce, HubSpot and Affinity named for the API. Higher plans carry business email credits for outreach.

Its API data includes the limited partners behind funds, but its own build guide says an LP-manager link does not establish an investment in a specific fund, so this page scores its history at one.

Thirteen of the sixteen PitchBook alternatives state a CRM integration, an API or a data feed; Massinvestor, VCPro Database and Valicon don't.

8. Grata, buyer discovery inside a deal sourcing platform

Grata is a deal sourcing platform, and a Datasite company. Its investor-discovery module searches 20,000 financial sponsors and 100,000 strategic buyers by the keywords of their past investments, and ranks buyers by transaction recency and frequency. Elsewhere it maps 22M+ companies and 800K+ historical transactions.

It lists verified contact info for buyers, pushes records into Salesforce, DealCloud, HubSpot or Affinity, and documents an API. Its pricing page shows three packages with demo buttons and no price.

Its own page frames the module as buyer discovery for exits, and it prints 20,000 financial sponsors on one page and 100K+ on another.

9. Harmonic, a discovery database with investor interest signals

Harmonic is a company discovery engine with investor profiles. Its pricing page counts 250 thousand investors, and the profile shows check sizes, recent deals and focus areas. Financing and investor data is sold as an add-on on its API and bulk plans.

Of the PitchBook alternatives, only three describe investor behaviour on their pages. At Harmonic, notable investor engagement with a company on X is an early interest signal, and its Hot 25 ranks companies on the aggregated interest of investors using the platform. Bulk data is refreshed weekly and delivered via S3, BigQuery or Snowflake, with an Affinity integration and an API.

Plans are by request, and the pages print three different company totals.

Figure 04Only Valicon builds its whole dataset on its own platform; nine add first-hand data to public sources and seven state noneThe seventeen products by what their own pages say about where the data comes from, one block per product. First-hand means supplied directly by investors, LPs, GPs, firms or the product's own users
Only Valicon builds its whole dataset on its own platform; nine add first-hand data to public sources and seven state noneSeventeen products by where the data comes from: one generated on its own platform, nine with some first-hand data, seven with none stated.Own platform only1Public sources plus first-hand data9No first-hand data stated7Seventeen productsOnly Valicon builds its whole dataset on its own platform; nine add first-hand data to public sources and seven state noneSeventeen products by where the data comes from: one generated on its own platform, nine with some first-hand data, seven with none stated.Own platform only1Public sources plus first-hand data9No first-hand data stated7Seventeen products
Figure 04 data: Only Valicon builds its whole dataset on its own platform; nine add first-hand data to public sources and seven state none
LayerValueShare
Own platform only16%
Public sources plus first-hand data953%
No first-hand data stated741%
Each product's own website, read 2 Nov 2026

10. Massinvestor, a flat-price US list of venture and private equity partners

Massinvestor publishes a US VC database that also covers private equity. By its own count it covers 5,200 firms, with the email addresses of most partners, and a separate database of 1,000+ US single family offices. A one-year subscription to the US database costs $895.

Portfolio company records show transactions, deal size and investors, and the vendor says firm profiles and financings are updated in real time. It exports to Excel and PDF, and its Excel files can be imported into a CRM; no API was found.

It carries no LP data. The publisher began producing venture capital databases in 2002 and lists a mailing address in Arlington, Massachusetts.

11. Mergr, the private equity and M&A database with a monthly price

Mergr is a private equity database covering private equity firms, corporate acquirers, advisers and transactions, and nothing else. By its own count it holds 4.9K+ private equity firms, 227K+ transactions and 85K+ contacts. Mergr Pro costs $150 a month with a 7-day free trial, and the data is updated daily.

Each private equity firm shows its current and former portfolio, and a record can be pushed to HubSpot or Salesforce. A REST API is licensed separately. Its help centre says it doesn't cover venture capital firms or financings, and its own comparison with PitchBook says there is no LP filtering.

It is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Product
The price its pages print
Dakota
USD 16,500 a year, plus USD 1,000 per extra user
Mergr
$150 a month for Pro
Crunchbase
$49 a month for Pro, billed annually
Dealroom
EUR 250 per seat a month, billed annually
Massinvestor
$895 for a one-year US database
VCPro Database
US$119.95, one time
Valicon
$690 a year for Pro
Private Equity List
$129 a month for Pro
The other nine
No price for the product on the pages read

12. CB Insights, private company intelligence

CB Insights sells private company intelligence to source investments, acquisitions, partners or customers. By its own count it holds 13M company and investor profiles and has traced 1.5 million deals, and it shows funding history for companies and investors. The legal entity is CB Information Services, Inc., with a New York address.

It offers a Salesforce integration, an API, and data feeds to Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, and says its data is double-verified and continually refreshed. Pricing is by request only.

Its pages mention no LP or limited partner data, and its sourcing signals concern companies, such as rumored deals, so it scores 2 of 7 here.

13. Gain.pro, a company and deal platform with investor and allocator data

Gain.pro calls itself the Private Markets Super App, one platform for companies, investors, deals and advisors. By its own count it covers every company with more than 10 FTEs, 20,000+ investors, 500k+ deals and 11,000+ advisors.

Investor profiles show funds, strategies, deals and networks, and for allocators the page lists fund-level tickets and aggregated capital allocation. It doesn't use the phrase LP commitments and prints no LP count, so it scores one point for investment history, not two. Records sync both ways with DealCloud and Salesforce, and it offers an API feed, a bulk data feed and an MCP connection.

It prints no price: plans are quoted after a request, with a free trial. It states no direct email or phone for investor staff, and its alerts cover exits, fundraising and buyer moves, not what investors do. The legal entity is Gain.AI B.V. in Amsterdam.

Figure 05Dakota, Crunchbase and Valicon print yearly plans in dollars: $588 to $16,500 a yearLowest and highest annual price each product prints in US dollars, $. Crunchbase: Pro at $49 a month billed annually and Business from $199 a month billed annually, times twelve. Left out: Mergr ($150 a month), Dealroom (euros), VCPro Database (one-time) and Private Equity List (monthly plans, $129 to $399 a month; its yearly option is not charted), Massinvestor ($895, one price).
Dakota, Crunchbase and Valicon print yearly plans in dollars: $588 to $16,500 a yearRange plot. Dakota (Two plans); $9,500; $16,500. Crunchbase (Pro to Business, from); $588; $2,388. Valicon (Pro to Team); $690; $1,990.$0$4,000$8,000$12,000$16,000Lowest printedHighest printedDakotaTwo plans$9,500$16,500CrunchbasePro to Business, from$588$2,388ValiconPro to Team$690$1,990Dakota, Crunchbase and Valicon print yearly plans in dollars: $588 to $16,500 a yearRange plot. Dakota (Two plans); $9,500; $16,500. Crunchbase (Pro to Business, from); $588; $2,388. Valicon (Pro to Team); $690; $1,990.$0$4,000$16,000Lowest printedHighest printedDakotaTwo plans$9,500$16,500CrunchbasePro to Business, from$588$2,388ValiconPro to Team$690$1,990
Figure 05 data: Dakota, Crunchbase and Valicon print yearly plans in dollars: $588 to $16,500 a year
RowLowest printedHighest printed
Dakota (Two plans)$9,500$16,500
Crunchbase (Pro to Business, from)$588$2,388
Valicon (Pro to Team)$690$1,990
Each product's own pricing pages, read 2 Nov 2026

14. Private Equity List, PE and VC investor teams at a monthly price

Private Equity List is a database of private equity and venture capital investors and the people in their investment teams. By its own count it holds 8,110 investors in 119 countries and 913 cities, with 56,813 investment-team contacts, across seven investor types that include family offices and funds of funds. It says it is updated nearly every day.

Its pricing page prints Basic as free, with one page of results and no contacts, Pro at $129 a month, Pro+ at $249 and Pro Max at $399, and a one-time Lifetime Pro at $1,799. Contacts come with Pro and above, CSV export is capped at 300 a month on Pro+ and unlimited on Pro Max, and the REST API comes with Pro Max.

It states neither LP commitments nor a structured deal history, and lists each investor's funds and the portfolio companies some profiles name. Its own terms say coverage is partial by design and a material share of contacts have no email address. It is operated by PrivateEquityList LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company.

15. S&P Capital IQ Pro, a public-markets platform with private-markets coverage

S&P Capital IQ Pro is the financial markets intelligence platform of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Its product page counts 60M+ private companies, 110,000+ PE and VC funds, and 907,000+ rounds of funding, and says private markets coverage now connects fundraising and investor commitments to fund performance and investor targeting.

Financial data feeds run into the user's workflows and Excel. The page offers access and demo requests and prints no price, and states no contacts at investors and no tracking of investor behaviour.

On 27 October 2026 S&P Global said in its third-quarter results that it had started a strategic review of alternatives, including a possible separation, for Capital IQ and associated data businesses. It gave no timeframe for the review.

VCPro Database prints the lowest one-time price, US$119.95, and Dakota the highest annual price, USD 16,500 a year.

16. Tracxn, an investor database with a free tier

Tracxn is a private market data platform listed on the NSE and BSE since 20 October 2022, incorporated in 2012 and registered in Bengaluru. By its own count it tracks 8.4M+ companies and 292K+ investors, with a separate investor database page for 290K+ active investors including family offices, corporate VCs and angel networks.

Investor profiles show deal histories, co-investor networks and fund vehicles, and name the Partners to contact. Lite is free and Premium is by quote. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot and Affinity, and offers APIs, SFTP dumps, Snowflake and BigQuery.

Its pages print no LP count and no LP commitment data, and no direct email or phone for investor staff.

17. Sourcescrub, company sourcing with investors attached

Sourcescrub is a sources-first private company deal sourcing platform, now part of Datasite. By its own count it holds 17M companies and 290,000 sources, and company profiles show the investors and funds associated with each company. Its San Francisco address is on every page.

Its native CRM integrations sync both ways as often as daily, and it offers an API and warehouse delivery. Every pricing tier reads Request pricing.

Its contact data covers executives at companies, and its investor data is attached to companies, so it scores 1 of 7 here. Its pages disagree on totals, giving 16M or 17M companies.

Three of the seventeen describe recording what investors do: Dakota, Harmonic and Valicon.

What should you ask before you buy one of the PitchBook alternatives?

  1. 01
    Which investors in my strategy and region does the product hold, and how many have a direct contact?
  2. 02
    Does it show which funds an investor committed to, or only that the investor exists?
  3. 03
    How often is each record refreshed, and who verifies it?
  4. 04
    Can the data reach our CRM or our own systems, and is that a premium addition?
  5. 05
    What does it cost for the number of seats we need, and what does a renewal look like?

How spectup runs capital introduction for a company or a fund

spectup runs targeting, first contact, meeting preparation and the pipeline, and writes a 30-day update the client approves.

For a company or a fund, spectup runs the approach: targeting, the first contact, preparation for each meeting, the pipeline and an update every 30 days that spectup writes and the client approves.

It works five channels at once, because the channel an investor answers differs from one investor to the next.

The investor side is a network in three layers: 440+ relationships that came out of closed transactions, over 2,500 investors and LPs spectup has met in meetings with its clients, and the investor books of 30+ partner firms. The other four channels are spectup's technology, in-person dinners, an advisory network in markets it doesn't sit in, and its own media.

The fee is a monthly retainer while the outreach runs, then one success fee once the raise closes and the capital reaches the client. The success fee is a percentage of the capital raised, capped. The investor outreach guide shows what a campaign holds.

A fund manager comparing routes to LPs can also read how a placement agent in private equity is used.

Which of the PitchBook alternatives fits your search?

If you need
Look first at
LP and allocator contacts with a price you can read
Dakota
A private equity database with buyers and their deal history
Mergr
LP commitments to similar funds
Preqin, PitchBook
Coverage of companies, deals, funds and investors in one product, priced on request
PitchBook
A low-cost first screen of investors by stage and sector
Crunchbase
A free tier to screen investors
Tracxn
European investors and rounds with per-seat prices
Dealroom
Buyers for a sale, with a CRM push
Grata, Gain.pro, Sourcescrub
Companies, deals and investors in one platform, with a CRM sync
Gain.pro
PE and VC investor teams on a monthly plan, with an API
Private Equity List
Interest in private companies
Harmonic
An investors database for a one-off list of venture capital firms at a small price
Massinvestor, VCPro Database
To see how investors read your own data room
Valicon

If you would rather have your investors approached than buy the data, the section above describes how spectup works, and the private placement agencies compared covers the firms that place funds.

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PitchBook alternatives: questions readers ask

8 questions on pitchbook alternatives, answered by Edwin Mik, Partner & Head of IR.

01How much does an investor database cost?

Eight of the seventeen print a price. Mergr Pro costs $150 a month, Crunchbase Pro $49 a month billed annually, Dealroom EUR 250 per seat a month, Dakota USD 16,500 a year, Massinvestor $895 for a one-year US database, VCPro Database US$119.95 once, Private Equity List Pro $129 a month and Valicon Pro $690 a year. The other nine sell on request or by demo.

02What is the best PitchBook alternative?

It depends on what you need from the data. Dakota prints a price and direct contacts for allocators, Preqin states LP commitments as PitchBook does, and Mergr covers private equity buyers at $150 a month. The scores on this page rank the seventeen on five checks a buyer can confirm before a demo, and say nothing about how complete the data is.

03Which database suits a fund manager raising from LPs?

Dakota and Preqin are built around LPs. Dakota counts 250,000+ LP accounts and Preqin 20,000+ confirmed, active investors, so the two cannot be ranked on coverage.

04Do I need an investor database, or should I hire someone to approach investors?

A database gives you names and, at some vendors, contacts. spectup's capital introduction service runs the approach instead, paid by a retainer plus a success fee.

05Are there free investor databases?

Tracxn prints a free Lite plan, Private Equity List a free Basic tier with one page of results and no contacts, and Valicon a free plan with one data room, which supplies no investors. Mergr offers a 7-day free trial and Gain.pro a free trial.

06Can an investor database feed my CRM?

Fourteen of the seventeen state a CRM integration, an API or a data feed. Massinvestor and VCPro Database export to Excel, and Valicon prints no API or integration on its public pages. A CRM integration is a premium addition at PitchBook and a Business-plan feature at Crunchbase, so ask each vendor whether it is in the plan you are quoted.

07Where does the data in an investor database come from?

Most describe public filings, news and websites. Nine state that investors, firms or users also supply data directly, and Valicon says its data comes from investors' activity in its data rooms.

08Do investor databases show what an investor does with my deal?

Only one product here does, and it is a data room: Valicon records page-flips, dwell time and re-opens per investor inside your own data room. Dakota alerts a team when an allocator launches an investment search and Harmonic shows investor engagement with companies.