Is there a tool with a built-in database of VC and angel investor contacts?

Which tools have a built-in database of investor contacts?

Fundraising platforms such as Pitchroom, Foundersuite and Angel Match hold investor contact details inside the tool. Visible, OpenVC and NFX Signal list investors free of charge, but give you a profile or a route rather than an address. Market data platforms such as Crunchbase, PitchBook and Dealroom sell contact data to subscribers, and general CRMs such as HubSpot hold no investor data at all.

A built-in investor contact database does three jobs inside the tool you run your raise in: it tells you who each investor is, how to reach them, and where the contact goes once you have it.

Few tools do all three, so the table compares them on each job. Every price and feature comes from the vendor's own site, checked on 6 November 2026. Database sizes are left out on purpose, for a reason we come back to below.

What does each kind of tool actually give you?

Each kind solves a different part of the job, so it pays to know which part you are buying.

Fundraising platforms: Pitchroom, Foundersuite, Angel Match, Visible

These put the investor list inside the tool you run the raise in, so a contact becomes a pipeline record without an export. They differ mostly on access.

• Pitchroom, which we build, ranks a curated investor database against your company with AI Smart Match. You see which channels each record holds, and adding an investor unlocks them into a fundraising CRM that comes with every plan, Free included. The database itself starts on the Startup plan.
• Foundersuite lists unlimited database access on every plan, including free Basic, and says its detailed view includes email and phone. Its limit sits on the pipeline instead: 75 investors on Basic and 200 on Silver, at $745 a year.
• Angel Match lets anyone browse names, locations and markets, and keeps contact details and full profiles for paid plans, from $59 a month. Its Basic plan holds up to 100 investors in the CRM pipeline.
• Visible offers Connect, a free database you can search by stage, sector and check size. Its public profiles show the firm's website, and Visible does not say contact details are included, so expect to find the route yourself. Its strength is investor updates.

Free directories and networks: OpenVC, NFX Signal

Often the right place to start, these give you a route to an investor rather than an address. OpenVC does not show an investor's email. Each investor chooses how founders reach them: email through OpenVC, an introduction, a form or a deck submission. The free tier allows one investor outreach a day, and Premium costs $99 a month or $299 a year. NFX Signal is free and says it will never charge. It is built around mutual connections, and can uncover the investor contacts already in your Gmail.

AngelList often comes up in this search. Its homepage now describes fund administration software and other private-market businesses, not a directory of angels.

Market data platforms: Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom

Built for research, sales and deal teams, these are strong on who invested in what, which helps when you check whether a fund is still active. Their contact data comes with a quota, a higher tier or a sales call. Crunchbase Pro includes 10 contacts a month and sells up to 500 more. PitchBook quotes on request and shows email and phone columns in its screener. Dealroom keeps contacts for Premium Plus, at €325 per seat a month at ten seats, though it offers special pricing to qualified startups. They are research tools, so the raise itself still runs somewhere else.

Email finders and one-off lists: 8raise, Apollo, spreadsheets

These give you the address and little around it. 8raise sells work emails and LinkedIn profiles for institutional investors, from $59 a month. Apollo calls itself an AI system for go-to-market teams, and its homepage does not mention investors: it can help with an address for someone you already have in mind, but the fund's stage, check size and thesis are yours to bring. Investor lists sold as a one-off spreadsheet are cheap, start ageing the day you buy them, and connect to nothing.

CRMs with no investor data: HubSpot, Attio, folk

These hold investors well once you have them, and none ships with a list. Our comparison of the best CRM for startup fundraising covers them, along with what a founding team of three pays.

Do investor databases include email addresses?

Some do, and none has an address for every investor. Four things decide how much a contact is really worth to you.

• Person or firm. A general inbox at a fund is a different thing from a partner's own address, so ask which one you are paying for. On Pitchroom, records are firms and people, and a firm's record lists the people we hold at it.
• Coverage. Not every record has every channel. 8raise's 65 to 75% is a useful yardstick, since finding emails is its whole product. Angels are harder than funds, because they are private individuals with no firm website to check. Pitchroom shows which channels a record holds before you use a lead.
• Age. People change firms and addresses stop working. Crunchbase says it refreshes contact data monthly, so ask any vendor how often it checks. Send a small batch first and watch for bounces, since a high bounce rate can hurt your domain's reputation with mailbox providers.
• Whether you may write. In Europe, a named investor's work email is personal data under the GDPR, and the rules on unsolicited business email differ by country. Know where each contact came from, write to individuals rather than blasting a list, make it easy to opt out and remove anyone who asks. Every outreach email sent through Pitchroom carries an unsubscribe link. This is general guidance, not legal advice.

A contact is also not an introduction. Warm routes convert far better than any directory, so use a database to decide who is worth approaching, then look for someone who can introduce you. Keep the cold email for investors you cannot reach any other way. Our guides cover warm introductions and cold outreach, and how to find angel investors ranks the routes by hit rate.

What should you check before you pay?

Run these checks on any investor database before you pay for it, ours included.

1. Run the ten-investor test. Look up ten investors you already know. If you can spot errors in those, assume there are more in the ones you cannot check. On Pitchroom, the test costs one month of Startup at €25, and you can cancel any time.
2. See what you get before you spend. Can you tell whether a record has an email, and whether it belongs to a person or a firm, before it counts against your plan?
3. Filter on what decides a fit. That means stage, sector, geography and check size. A list you cannot narrow is a list you read by hand.
4. Test coverage where you raise. Search your own country and your own kind of investor. A tool strong on US funds may be thin on European angels, and some do not mention angels at all.
5. Read what the count includes. Vendors count firms, people and funds differently, and a big number can include limited partners, lenders and private equity firms who will not write a seed cheque. That is why we left sizes out of the table. How many of the names fit your round is the number that matters.
6. Check the investor is still investing. A thesis on a profile does not prove a fund still writes cheques, so look for a recent deal or a fresh fund. On paid Pitchroom plans, Reverse Due Diligence researches any investor and returns a sourced fit report, including their latest fund close.
7. Work out whether the limit will bite. A €500,000 angel round takes 200 to 300 names on the list. At Pitchroom's 15 leads a week that is 13 to 20 weeks, so treat the database as a top-up to your own contacts, which are unlimited, or take Scaleup's 50 a week. Other tools limit something else: investors per pipeline on Foundersuite, outreach per day on OpenVC, contacts per month on Crunchbase.
8. Follow the contact, and price the team. If the contact leaves in an export, you will copy data between tools for the rest of the raise. Per-seat pricing also climbs with every co-founder you add.

How does Pitchroom's investor database work?

You search the database, let AI rank it against your company, add the investors worth contacting and run the raise from the same place. The database and Smart Match start on the Startup plan, at €25 a month, or €20 billed annually.

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   Step 1: Search more than 20,000 investors

   Filter VCs, business angels, family offices and corporate investors by stage, sector, geography and check size, and choose firms or people. Profiles carry portfolio history and thesis. A firm's record lists the people we hold there, with their roles, and a person's record shows their firm's investment focus.

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   Step 2: Let Smart Match rank them

   Smart Match scores the database against your company profile and returns a ranked shortlist. Each match has a fit score from 0 to 100, one reason it fits and one thing to check before you reach out. Browsing and matching use no leads.

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   Step 3: See what each record holds

   Every row shows LinkedIn, email and phone icons, greyed out where we hold none. You can tell whether an investor is reachable before you use a lead.

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   Step 4: Add the ones worth contacting

   Adding an investor unlocks the details that record holds and copies them into your contacts. If you have a round open, the same button can put them straight onto it. Each add uses one lead: 15 a week on Startup and 50 on Scaleup, resetting every Monday. Adding someone already in your contacts uses nothing, and investors you add yourself are unlimited on every plan.

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   Step 5: Reach out from your own address, with a tracked deck

   Connect Gmail, Outlook or Zoho Mail to send from your own address, and share your deck as a tracked link, so you see who opened it, how long they spent on each slide and whether they came back.

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   Step 6: Keep every conversation on record

   Each investor gets one record with notes, tasks with due dates, tags such as Tier 1 or Warm Intro, and their contact history, with deck views alongside. On your round they move through six stages, from Identified to Committed or Passed, and each card carries a probability and an amount that feed your live total. Funding Chance scores their engagement with your deck. You publish updates to the investors in the round, and after a no you log the reason and schedule a re-approach. Our guide to an investor CRM without the spreadsheet walks through all of it.

When is Pitchroom the right database, and when is it not?

We build Pitchroom, so discount this section and check the reasoning.

It fits best when you want the contact, the pipeline and the deck in one place. A contact moves from the database to your CRM without an export, how an investor reads your deck lands on the same record, and one flat price covers your whole team. For European companies, the platform is hosted in the EU, GDPR compliant and priced in euros.

It is not the best fit in these cases:

• You want to pay nothing for the database. Ours is not on the Free plan. Foundersuite lists database access on its free Basic plan, and OpenVC and Visible Connect are free to search.
• Warm introductions are your bottleneck. NFX Signal and Foundersuite's Get Warm Intro feature both look for paths through people you already know.
• You need market research more than outreach. PitchBook, Crunchbase and Dealroom are built for studying deals and markets.
• You only want addresses to feed another outreach tool. An email finder such as 8raise is built for that job.

If budget is the constraint, there is a good middle path. Run the raise on our Free plan, which costs €0 with no credit card and no expiry, and covers deck tracking, unlimited investors of your own and your whole team, using names from a free directory. Upgrade when you want the ranked shortlist and the contact details, and every investor you already added stays where it is.

Sources

Prices and features as each vendor publishes them, checked on 6 November 2026.

• Foundersuite: investor databasefoundersuite.com/features/investor_database
• Foundersuite: pricingfoundersuite.com/pricing
• Angel Match: investor databaseangelmatch.io/investor-database
• Angel Match: pricingangelmatch.io/pricing
• Visible: Connectvisible.vc/connect
• Visible: founder pricingvisible.vc/pricing
• OpenVC: investor databaseopenvc.app/investor-database
• OpenVC: pricingopenvc.app/pricing
• OpenVC: getting investor inbounddocs.openvc.app/en/articles/13228447-getting-investor-inbound
• NFX Signal: FAQsignal.nfx.com/faq
• Crunchbase: contact dataabout.crunchbase.com/blog/new-crunchbase-contact-data-engagement-suite
• Crunchbase: Pro pricingcrunchbase.com/buy/cb-pro
• Crunchbase: finding investorsabout.crunchbase.com/blog/investors-for-startup
• PitchBook: pricingpitchbook.com/pricing
• PitchBook: finding angel investorspitchbook.com/blog/how-to-find-angel-investors-using-pitchbook
• Dealroom: pricingdealroom.co/pricing
• Dealroom: FAQdealroom.co/faq
• 8raise8raise.com
• Apolloapollo.io
• AngelListangellist.com
• HubSpot: CRM pricinghubspot.com/pricing/crm
• Attio: pricingattio.com/pricing
• folk: pricingfolk.app/pricing

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