Ask an AI chat. Buy a contact database. Assemble your own workflow from purchased feeds and tools. Or use Fundz. Each one is good at something. Here is how they compare on the three things that turn a company into a conversation: Timing (did something just change), Relevance (does it fit what you sell) and Relationships (who you already know there).
Fundz is the data provider chosen by S&P 500 companies and venture-backed startups, with an intelligence engine on top. You get real-time updates on the business events that start buying cycles, scored to your ideal customer, with a deep-dive research report on each company, the best people to call, who you already know there, and market intelligence on the company’s own peers. So you can show up as a trusted advisor fast, in a way no other option on this page puts in one place.
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Published prices as of Nov 2, 2026, per seat per year unless noted. Estimates are marked Est. and every Fundz number is measured, with its sample size on the linked page.
Great for quick research on a company you already have in mind, and for writing.
Great for emails and phone numbers at volume, company profiles and research.
Great if you have an ops or engineering person and want to own every piece.
Built to make you the trusted advisor: which companies to contact now, why, who to reach, who you already know there, and something useful to say.
More detail: Fundz vs Apollo · Fundz vs Crunchbase · Fundz vs ZoomInfo · Build your own. Prices from each vendor’s pricing page on Nov 2, 2026; the ZoomInfo estimate is from Vendr contract data.
Pick your role. Each list is a typical setup we hear about, priced from each vendor’s own pricing page on Nov 2, 2026. Your setup will differ.
B2B sales leaders and account executives
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator Corepeople and account alerts | $1,080 |
| Apollo Professionalcontacts and sequences | $948 |
| Crunchbase Profunding lookups (renewal price) | $948 |
| ChatGPT Business seatresearch and drafting | $240 |
| Per seat, per year | about $3,216 |
Still left to youDeciding each morning which companies changed, whether they fit what you sell, and who you know there. Private raises that only exist as an SEC filing rarely reach a news-led tool: 994 of 1,140 new Form D rounds (87%) had no press release in any source we monitor.
Funding, new executives, hiring, acquisitions, contracts and new offices on one company record, ranked against your ideal customer, with a deep-dive report, the best people to call and your own connections marked. 82.7% of delivered leads matched the customer’s own targeting (25 paying accounts, Nov 2, 2026).
Pro covers most of this from $588 a year. Many customers keep their contact tool and use Fundz to decide who to work and why today.
Retained and contingent search firms
| LinkedIn Recruiter Litecandidate search (reported price) | $1,680 |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator Advancedclient prospecting | $1,800 |
| Crunchbase Prowho raised (renewal price) | $948 |
| Apollo Basiccontacts | $588 |
| Bloomberry Starterjob-change signals | $2,388 |
| Per seat, per year | about $7,404 |
Still left to youSpotting the seat before it is posted. An executive who leaves shows up in an SEC filing days or weeks before a job ad, and nothing in this stack reads those filings for you.
Open executive seats read from SEC filings, with who left and the role now open: about 18 a week, 93% confirmed still open on review (28 of 30). Plus about 22 new officers a week from Form 3 filings, next to each company’s latest raise and hiring.
Pro covers most of this from $588 a year. Many customers keep their contact tool and use Fundz to decide who to work and why today.
Employee benefits and 401(k) advisors
| Benefeature Proplan renewal dates and carriers | $1,925 |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator Corefinding HR and finance leaders | $1,080 |
| Apollo Basiccontacts | $588 |
| Per seat, per year | about $3,593 |
Still left to youKnowing which renewing employers are also growing. Renewal data sits in one tool, raises and new HR leaders in another, and your network in a third.
Renewal month and incumbent carrier from Form 5500 filings on the same company record as raises, hiring, new HR and finance leaders, and who you already know there. Benefits data is in the Strategic plan.
Benefits data needs Strategic. Many customers keep their contact tool and use Fundz to decide who to work and why today.
Placement agents, investment bankers and fund advisors
| Crunchbase Businessprivate company and investor search | $2,388 |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator Advancedoutreach | $1,800 |
| sec-api.io BusinessSEC filing feed with full-text search | $2,388 |
| Per seat, per year | about $6,576 |
Before a private-company database such as PitchBook, which is quote only.
Still left to youTurning raw filings into a list of companies still raising, matched to their investors and to people you know. A filing feed gives you the documents; the matching is yours to build.
Still raising: 2,333 open SEC Form D offerings with the amount left to raise (measured Nov 2, 2026), each tied to its company, its investors and your network.
Pro covers most of this from $588 a year. Many customers keep their contact tool and use Fundz to decide who to work and why today.
Office furniture, IT services, build-out, banking and tenant reps
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator Corepeople | $1,080 |
| Apollo Basiccontacts | $588 |
| Shovels Basicbuilding permits | $7,188 |
| Business journal subscriptionlocal news (Est.) | $180 |
| Per seat, per year | about $9,036 |
Still left to youLinking a permit or a news item to a company, then to a decision maker. Most local growth never makes the journal.
Office permits that name the tenant, in New York, Chicago, Boston, Seattle and Los Angeles: 724 named tenants in 60 days, where SEC lease filings had 3. Plus local raises, hires and openings, ranked for your metro.
Pro covers most of this from $588 a year. Many customers keep their contact tool and use Fundz to decide who to work and why today.
Each source we read is public. Pulling one of them is a weekend project. The hard part is tying a filing, a job post, a permit, a benefit plan and an investor to the same company, every day, and keeping out the rows that do not belong. That joining is most of what Fundz is.
Everything below lands on this one record.
Share of the 237,864 companies that carry each identifier. A record is linked on these, not on a name alone.
99,788 rows are held back by automatic checks, each with a recorded reason. On the latest check, 77 of 77 sampled SEC Form D filings were linked to the right company (Sep 2026).
We audit a blind random sample every month and publish the results, misses included. See the accuracy report.
Strategic also adds Inception, a model trained on past filings that flags companies likely to raise before they file.
Five parts, from new money to your own network.
0 days is the median gap between a round being announced and its row appearing in Fundz (109 rounds, three markets, four-week test). Each morning the new events are scored against your market and handed to you as a short list.
Share of SEC Form D raises by US software-type companies surfaced, checked against EDGAR itself (137 filings over two weeks). The AI chat swung from 30% to 68% between weeks. It is quick on a short, specific list, but breadth is where it varied. And 37 of 40 randomly chosen Form D raises had no press release or news article at all.
Example only. The company and people are made up, built on the structure of a real Fundz lead, which fuses a dozen signal lanes on one company. In our four-week test, 40 to 55% of the funding rounds we served already carried a named senior contact (109 rounds), and contacts reveal on demand.
When you reach out from a lead, Fundz drafts the first note with Lead with a market gift switched on by default. It opens with a few recent events among companies close to theirs, such as competitors, likely customers and likely partners. Something useful about their market, before any pitch. It applies to the first note only, you can switch it off in the composer, and when Fundz has no strong signal for that company it falls back to a note built on the company’s own event and tells you.
“Saw you raised a round. Here is what we do.”
“Two companies near you in warehouse robotics filed new Form Ds this month, and one is hiring a VP Sales. Thought it was worth a look.”
Example wording only, with made-up details. And the lead card shows which of your own LinkedIn connections work at the company, so you can ask one of them for an introduction.
Last 30 days: 7,936 raw SEC Form D and funding news items parsed, 2,399 rounds served. Many Form Ds are filed by investment funds rather than operating companies, and Fundz holds those back by design, along with duplicates and wrong-company matches. How we check every record.
A new round is a strong signal, but most of the moments that open a door are not raises. A new leader who gets to pick vendors. A team hiring fast. A new office. A contract win. A material event filed with the SEC. Fundz watches all of them, the same way it watches funding, and scores each one against your market.
New rows in Fundz in the last 90 days, beyond funding. On top of that, 179,895 job postings in the last 30 days and SEC 8-K filings read item by item. Acquisitions, executive changes, contracts and launches all appear a median of 0 days after they are announced.
A new CRO, CFO or VP is a new person deciding what to buy, and how.
Leadership moves, deals and material agreements, straight from the company’s own filing. Officer departures are labeled by seat: no successor named, interim in seat, or search announced.
Open roles show where a company is spending next, and which team you would sell into.
New leases and building permits, a sign of growth you can see before the press release.
A new customer, partner or product changes what a company needs next.
For staffing, outplacement and advisers, a reorganisation is the moment to help.
Measured accuracy for every lane, with intervals, is published and re-checked on fresh samples. Benefit plan filings add the renewal month and incumbent carrier for benefits sellers, and investor and fund filings cover the private capital side.
Paste a list or upload a CSV of the companies you are working. Fundz matches each name to a company, lets you review the matches, and from then on every new funding round, executive hire, acquisition, product launch and contract on those companies lands in My Accounts, with who you know there beside it. Pro tracks up to 500 accounts.
Four reasons to reach out in six weeks, on an account you already wanted. Each one alone is easy to miss. Together they tell you the moment is now, and why.
Example only, made-up company and events. The event types are the ones My Accounts shows today.
Upload your LinkedIn connections once. Fundz then matches them to every company it shows you, so each lead card, account and event page says who you know there. My Network turns that into lists you can act on:
Your tracked accounts with a connection inside, and the newest round or executive move that gives you a reason to reach out now.
When someone you know moves to a new company, that company becomes a warm account, with a friend in a new seat.
A database knows the company. A chat knows the web. Who you know lives in your own network. That join, between the market, your accounts and your own relationships, is the part only you can bring, and Fundz does it for you every day.
A signal tells you something happened. More signals tell you it is real. Fit tells you it matters to you. Your network tells you how to get in. All of it rests on the data being right, which is why we measure our accuracy in public. Here is the research behind each step.
Funding, executives, hiring, filings, offices and contracts, the day they happen, including the raises that never made the news.
Research: 94% of buyers have a shortlist before they talk to a seller, and 95% of winners were on it from day one. 6sense 2025 Buyer Experience Report.
A dozen lanes on the same company: a raise, a new VP Sales and five sales roles open is a stronger read than any one alone.
Research: Gartner tells demand-gen leaders to “triangulate on multiple intent signals.” Gartner, April 2025.
Every event is scored against who you sell to, and the accounts you already work are watched for new rounds, executive hires, deals, launches and contracts.
Research: organizations with a strong ideal customer profile reported 68% higher account win rates. TOPO (now Gartner) survey of 150+ account-based teams, 2019.
Who you know there, and a first note that leads with something useful about their market.
Research: 75% of buyers already knew the sellers they shortlisted. 6sense 2025 Buyer Experience Report.
“Example Robotics raised. Here is what we do.” Useful, but it says nothing about why now or why you.
A tracked account that fits your market, with a new VP Sales, five sales roles open and a fresh Form D, and your former colleague works there. You ask for an intro, with a reason that is about them.
Example only, made-up company. Each research line is a separate published study; none measured the four together.
Tell us who you sell to. Every day you get the companies that fit, the signals behind each one and who to reach.
How we measured. Form D: every original Form D filed 5 to 18 October 2026 by a US operating company in the Other Technology group with money sold, matched to EDGAR; one logged-in AI chat account with web search, one prompt per week, so a rerun could differ. Lag: Fundz row creation against announcement date, 21 September to 18 October 2026. Funnel: production counts, 30 days to 19 October 2026. Other lanes: production row counts and median lags to 19 October 2026; accuracy checks are 30 rows each, judged one at a time against the source, on 20 October 2026, published here. The full method and every interval are on the proof page.