Best VC Data Platforms in 2026: 12 Compared on Coverage, Scoring and Price

A fund evaluating data platforms runs into the same problem every time: the demo shows coverage numbers, the pricing page shows nothing, and the three vendors on the shortlist describe themselves in identical language. Meanwhile the actual difference between them decides whether you find a company six months before the round or six months after.

This page compares the 12 platforms a fund, corporate development team or active angel evaluates. Every price we could find is published below, including third-party estimates for the vendors who gate their pricing. Brouky is one of these products, so weigh the Brouky rows accordingly; the marks for everything else come from vendor product and pricing pages collected on 2026-07-19.

The quick answer

Buy Dealroom for European coverage with pricing you can see. Buy PitchBook when you need the deepest financials and benchmarks and have the budget. Buy Harmonic to catch companies before anyone indexes them. Buy Affinity for the workflow, not the data. Buy Tracxn for emerging markets and Preqin for LP and fund-performance work. Add Brouky when you want investor-side scoring, a pre-built co-investment graph and CEE statutory financials that none of the others hold.

Three jobs, not one market

Funds buy these products for three separate jobs, and the mistake that costs the most is buying one product for a job it was never built to do.

Most funds end up with one from the first column and one from the third. The second column is where budgets get spent twice, because Harmonic, Synaptic and AlphaLens each surface a different kind of signal and none of them replaces the others.

What separates them

Coverage numbers are the least useful comparison

Every vendor leads with a company count, and the counts contradict themselves across a vendor’s own pages. Harmonic publishes both 30M and 35M companies. Dealroom publishes both 100k and 225k investors. Seedtable publishes both 71k and 81k startups. A count tells you how many rows exist, not whether the row you need is accurate, current or has a working contact on it.

The comparison that matters is refresh rate and derived fields. Harmonic refreshes fastest in this set. Synaptic tracks 100+ live operating metrics per company. PitchBook carries filed financials and cap tables. Those are different products wearing the same “database” label.

Everyone has a score, and almost all of them score startups

Dealroom Signal rates companies 0 to 100. Crunchbase runs CB Rank and a Heat Score. Synaptic computes a Growth Score. CB Insights built Mosaic. PitchBook ships an Exit Predictor. Seedtable scores momentum. Capital Pilot rates investability. All of these answer “is this company promising?”

Almost nothing on the market answers “is this investor good, and does this investor fit?” Brouky’s 140-point composite scores investor quality, and its entry-cheque stage inference reports where a fund actually writes its first cheque rather than where it shows up on a cap table. A seed fund that follows winners into Series C reads as late-stage on raw participation counts, which is how naive stage filters send a pre-seed founder to a growth fund.

Warm intros come in two flavours

Affinity and Harmonic both surface intro paths, and both build the graph from your firm’s inbox, calendar and LinkedIn. The output reflects relationships your team already has, which is valuable and also bounded. Connect nothing and you see nothing.

A graph built from public co-investment history behaves differently. It exists before you connect an account, it spans firms you have never worked with, and it routes through syndicate and lead-follow patterns rather than through email threads. Brouky separates investor-to-startup membership from investor-to-deal participation and runs a breadth-first search over co-investment, team rosters and founders’ investor lists. Neither approach is a substitute for the other.

What you get per band

Emerging managers get squeezed hardest. Institutional pricing starts around €12,600 and a first-time fund rarely justifies it, which is why the $2,000 to $12,000 band matters more than the vendor marketing suggests.

Where Brouky fits for an investor

Brouky covers 36,000+ investors, 84,000+ startups and 100,000+ funding rounds across 130+ countries, with 230K+ investor-to-deal relationships behind the graph. The investor-side product covers portfolio intelligence, a network map of co-investors and known contacts, market and country reports, data rooms and a deck generator.

Three things here have no equivalent in the rest of this table. The co-investment graph is pre-built rather than reconstructed from your inbox. The 140-point score rates investor quality instead of company promise. Czech and CEE statutory accounts come from the public registry and reconcile against recorded deals, which matters if you invest in a region where PitchBook thins out.

Where Brouky loses: raw financial depth against PitchBook, refresh speed against Harmonic, and daily workflow stickiness against Affinity. Funds that run Brouky usually run it next to a CRM, not instead of one.

Sourcing rather than buying data? The founder-side comparison covers the tools your inbound is using, and the full landscape page puts all 24 products in one matrix.

Method

Figures come from vendor product pages, pricing pages, documentation and third-party reviews, collected on 2026-07-19. Demo-gated pricing is estimated and marked. Vendors change pricing without notice. Tell us if something here is wrong and we will correct it.