Capbase
Free and Open Source Alternative to Pitchbook and Crunchbase
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Capbase is an open-source alternative to Crunchbase and PitchBook. I know a lot of people are tired of paying thousands a year just to see who funded a startup, so I built a funding database the community fills in. It works like levels.fyi: share what you know and you see everything. Add a funding round or fix a company's details, and once it's approved every profile unlocks for 30 days, free. It already pulls in SEC filings, SBIR, Innovate UK, Companies House and Wikidata.
PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: startup directories and launch platforms · 246 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Investing
- Venture Capital
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The site and contribution UI are easy to vibe-code, but the product only works once a large, accurate funding dataset exists. The data cold-start and verification are the real challenges.
What it would actually take: The app is a standard database and web front end with user accounts and contribution workflows. The hard part is bootstrapping and verifying funding-round data at scale, which needs an ingestion pipeline, moderation or verification logic, and sustained community or data-partnership effort.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 90 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 91 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- FounderParadise · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- LaunchDB · ph · 2026-11-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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