The Haus Research Briefing

Report HR-2026-14 asked nine investor databases one question, with no account on any of them: will you tell a reader how many venture capital firms you hold, on a page they can open? Only one answered in full. FundingWatcher takes first place.

  • One test, nine sites — a count must be readable without a login, be about investors, subdivide the file, and carry a date
  • The date condition — it removed more sites than the other three conditions combined
  • 22 types, 13 stages — from venture capital firms at 24,254 down to pension funds at 74
  • The rules beside the numbers — why the type and stage columns add up to more than the file total
  • A limits section that runs long — 31,371 entries with no website, five investors carried per company, recent months incomplete
  • What the other eight print instead — headline totals, curated list lengths, and one bot challenge page

Read the report: HR-2026-14: Investor Databases Ranked by Published Counts for 2026

The database placed first: startup funding rounds and the investors behind them

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What is The Haus Research Briefing?

Audio briefings from Haus Research, an independent research firm. Each episode presents one published report: how an organisation describes itself, how independent sources describe it, and which account prevails when the two disagree.