FundingWatcher vs Growth List
FundingWatcher figures counted from the file dated 23 October 2026. Growth List cells state what growthlist.co publishes, read on 5 September 2026. A cell reads check where the site does not state the figure: 10 of 16 rows here.
FundingWatcher
FundingWatcher is a research publication of Haus Research covering startup funding rounds and the investors behind them. The investor file holds 79,515 entries with investor type, investment stage, headquarters city, region and country, founding year, website and the counts of recorded investments, lead investments and exits. The startup file holds 166,525 companies whose most recent round is dated and named as a stage the site publishes. Both halves are published as list pages, plus one page per figure, and every page prints the data date.
Growth List
Growth List sells weekly lists of recently funded startups as sales leads. Its pricing page states 10,000+ funding announcements, 107 countries covered and USD 400B+ in funding tracked, and its plans deliver 400 startups a month or 200 to 300 a week with contact details attached.
Read at growthlist.co.
Row by row
| Row | FundingWatcher | Growth List |
|---|---|---|
| Investor entries | 79,515 entries. An entry is a firm, fund, accelerator, corporate venture arm or a named person recorded as an investor. | check. The rows are companies. Investors appear as a field on a row. |
| Investor types | 22 types. Venture capital firms 24,254; Angel investors 23,916; Private equity firms 9,693; Investment partners 6,734; Startup accelerators 3,207. | check |
| Investment stages | 13 stages. Seed 50,175; Early stage venture 35,284; Private equity 12,036. | check |
| Cities | 5,219 cities. New York 4,967; San Francisco 4,046; London 3,492; Los Angeles 1,390; Singapore 1,084. | check |
| Countries | 167 countries. | 107 countries covered, stated on the pricing page. |
| Most active investors | Y Combinator 8,719; Techstars 6,842; National Science Foundation 4,642, by recorded investments. | check |
| Data date | 23 October 2026, printed on every page. | check. The pricing page says updated weekly and prints no date. |
| Counting rules | Stated on the method page. An investor is counted once per type and once per stage it carries, so type and stage counts add to more than 79,515. Location counts use the headquarters address only. | check |
| Limits | Stated on the method page. A count of recorded investments counts what the source records, not every investment made. 31,384 entries carry no website. An investor with no published location is absent from every location count. | check |
| Citation line | Yes. Every figure page prints a line with the number, the data date and the URL. | check |
| Readable without an account | Every page. No login, no trial, no gate. | Sample rows and a filter that returns counts. Contact details are on paid plans. |
| Round by round history | No. The startup file carries the most recent round only. | check |
| Valuations | No, apart from the billion dollar mark used to count unicorns. | check |
| Contacts | No. No email addresses and no phone numbers. Individual people are not published. | Yes. CEO email, LinkedIn and X on every plan, up to ten contacts per startup on the top plan. |
| API | No. | check |
| Price | Free. Nothing on the site is sold. | USD 29 a month for Startup, USD 79 a month or USD 790 a year for Growth, USD 149 a month or USD 1,490 a year for Scale. |
What FundingWatcher answers
| Question | Answer | Page |
|---|---|---|
| How many venture capital firms are headquartered in London? | 1,053 | Venture capital firms in London |
| How many investors record a seed stage? | 50,175 | Seed investors |
| How many angel investors are on file? | 23,916 | Angel investors |
| Which city holds the most investors, and how many? | New York, 4,967 | Cities with investors |
| Which investor has the most recorded investments? | Y Combinator, 8,719 | Investors |
What Growth List carries that FundingWatcher does not
- CEO email, LinkedIn and X on every plan, and up to ten contacts per startup on the top plan.
- Funding types, amounts, investors and dates per row.
- Tech stack, employee count and website traffic trends.
- Job openings intelligence on the top plan.
Method
Growth List cells come from growthlist.co itself, fetched on 5 September 2026 with no account and no login: growthlist.co/, growthlist.co/pricing/. Where a page does not state a figure the cell reads check rather than a guess, and a number quoted from a third party is not used at all. FundingWatcher cells are counted from the file dated 23 October 2026 by the same code that writes the dated snapshots. Counting rules and what the figures cannot say are on the method page.