FundComb

Overview

FundComb is a private-market investor research database covering venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, family offices and other investor types. It is best suited to founders mapping potential backers and researchers tracing firms or investment activity. Its combination of unrestricted public search and transaction comparisons makes it a useful starting point for discovery, though its API is not a general-purpose self-serve option.

Key features

Search by investor name, sector or city, browse curated lists by geography and investor type, inspect public profiles, and build custom lists. FundComb says its coverage spans more than 870 funds across more than 71 countries. That offers a substantial cross-border starting pool, but users seeking a complete census of investors should not treat a stated coverage count as proof of exhaustiveness.

Profiles include portfolio-company data and contact details, and data export is supported. FundComb says it combines investor websites, regulatory filings, official announcements, portfolio pages, public profiles and manual corrections. Monthly freshness is a reasonable cadence for broad market mapping, but may be too slow when a research decision depends on recent changes. Users can flag profile corrections through feedback links; FundComb says it checks those against public evidence.

For transaction research, FundComb reports 152 published transactions and 113 price or multiple records. Source trails and confidence labels make comparisons easier to assess than figures without provenance, though the stated collection is finite. Readers should weigh that scale against the breadth of comps they need.

Pricing

FundComb is freemium, with a Free plan at no cost. Public investor search, ranked lists and profiles have no paywall, required account or data limits, a strong fit for occasional research and early-stage list building. The free offer does not mean unrestricted API use: API access is a managed beta for eligible Data-plan workspaces, so teams needing programmatic access must qualify for that route.

There is no free trial. The Free plan is billed Free, with no account requirement; its public research access is not capped. No other plan price is stated, so any paid plan is custom pricing.

Platforms

FundComb is available on the web and through an API. The Data API offers read access to published investor profiles and transaction comps, but its managed-beta eligibility makes it a narrower choice for integration work than its open web research. Workspaces can have up to 10 active API keys, scope keys to investor reads and/or comps reads, and revoke keys immediately. Published API rows carry source, confidence, attribution and rights fields; users should review the rights policy for each response before reusing data.

Who it's for

FundComb fits people raising a round, mapping an investor market or checking who is behind an investment firm. Founders can use the free search and curated lists to assemble a prospect pool, while analysts can use profiles and transaction comparisons to add context. It is a weaker fit for anyone who needs more frequent than monthly refreshes or broad API access without beta eligibility.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Public search, ranked lists and profiles are free without sign-up, removing friction for initial research.
• Pros: Transaction comps include source trails and confidence labels, helping users judge the basis of a comparison.
• Pros: Search, custom lists, contact details, portfolio data and export support several stages of investor research.
• Cons: Monthly freshness can leave fast-moving research behind more current developments.
• Cons: API access is limited to eligible Data-plan workspaces in a managed beta, restricting straightforward integration.
• Cons: API rights fields require review, adding a compliance step before downstream use.

Alternatives

Browse Investor Databases for the wider category. Choose FindFunding.vc if an open-source database that is free to use is the priority. VCPeer may suit users who want advanced filters, comparison and a daily allowance of 30 signed-in Ask answers, though its free plan limits users to one watchlist, three saved searches and no exports. Choose Venture Intelligence for a weekly roundup of major deals and market developments rather than FundComb's investor-search emphasis. InvestorList is an option for buyers seeking ready-made curated lists, with individual lists shown at $9.95, paid once. Consider CompStak, Angels Partners, Capital Radar or GPCA Data Room + LP Intelligence as other freemium alternatives.

Verdict

FundComb is a strong first stop for founders and researchers who want to identify private-market investors and build a research list without paying or creating an account. Its profiles and sourced transaction comparisons add useful context beyond a basic directory. Look elsewhere if your work depends on fresher-than-monthly updates or broadly available API access.