Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Index of fresh-capital VCs, accelerators, grants and –$4.5M freebies
I hacked this together last week; it’s still very experimental. The goal is simple: help founders prioritize outreach by surfacing investors who’ve recently raised funds (i.e., have capital to deploy). Right now we diff recent EDGAR/Form D filings and public announcements, normalize to a Postgres schema (fund → check size, stage, sector, geo, contacts), and do light entity resolution for aliases/shells. Expect gaps and false positives while we iterate. Grants: today we’re only pulling federal sources (SBIR/STTR, Grants.gov). The roadmap is to add state, county, and municipal…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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VCbacked▲181I built this for anyone whose business revolves around funded startups — whether you're a VC tracking new raises, a sales team targeting high-growth companies, a recruiter staffing fast-scaling teams, or an agency looking for clients with fresh capital to spend. The problem I kept running into: Crunchbase has data but no contacts. Apollo has contacts but isn't curated for VC-backed companies. PitchBook and CB Insights are $5–25K/year and overkill for most use cases. We manually verify every contact and add 500+ new leads monthly.
2023 · vcbacked.co · its alternatives →
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21st Fund▲151I built this after struggling to find relevant grants and fellowships myself. The project started at the EF Hackathon as a credit underwriting and matching agent for founders. After speaking with founders and students, it became clear that discovery itself was the bigger problem. Most people do not know what grants or non-dilutive options exist for them. So I iterated and built 21st.fund. You describe who you are and what you are building, and the tool surfaces relevant grants, fellowships, and programs. The goal is to reduce time spent digging through scattered government sites, PDFs, and…
Jan 2026 · 21st.fund · its alternatives →
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Advice on how entrepreneurs can attract VC funding.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Close deals with 4,324 decision makers of VC-backed startups
2023 · its alternatives →
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Director of Seed Investments, Betaworks
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Founder @ Workable joins us to discuss his funding journey.
2015 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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A VC reveals the metrics they use to evaluate startups
2017 · its alternatives →
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Share your LinkedIn. Receive a decision + reasoning in 24h.
Dec 2025 · founder.rule30.vc · its alternatives →
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Accelerators, grants, hackathons, and VC companies worldwide
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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Jun 2026 · apparent.social · its alternatives →
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Student debt is troubling so many recent graduates that we decided to graduate debt-free from the university. We launched FundingFyre - a database of startup pitch decks, pitch videos and investment memos… all together 1,500+ items. You can filter the resources by funding round, size, etc. Many of you might be raising Seed or Series-A funding and these resources would be immensely helpful. We kept it a paid service to earn enough to pay our tuition fees and cover living expenses. But for the HackerNews community, we have a 50% discount, please use code “HN2022”. We’re four students (Grade 12…
2022 · fundingfyre.com · its alternatives →
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FoundersWall▲35I used to be just a blogger. Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste. I was building in public on X for last 2 months. And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake. I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction. I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it. One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special. Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized…
2025 · founderswall.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys! Investor Scout (https://investorscout.co) is a categorized database of over 45,000 angel investors and venture capitalists. Finding the right investors to pitch your startup to––then finding the best way to reach out to them directly––is a nightmare. The data is spread out all over the internet, down the google rabbit hole, Twitter, LinkedIn, and AngelList. Research can take hundreds of hours on its own, not even counting the time it takes to actually reach out to investors, go through initial screens, get meetings, and finally close a round. Last year we launched…
2019 · its alternatives →
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hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, just wanted to share with you guys and app that I built and deployed in a day with Lovable. So, as a founder I always wanted to have an advisor but my budget would always be less, then on the other hand hand I had Paul's essays on Startup Advice, which I never read because I was busy building stuff. Hence, I built this product which comes into a sweet spot of both at the same time being more reasonable and capable than the alternative. ps: it's running on a reasoning model and tbh I've been able to gather pretty good insights from it. Note to PG: If you're seeing this. I'm your big fan.…
2025 · paulgraham.resurrect.space · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone. I'm a relatively new developer and I started my first project to go full production recently. It is a directory of payment processors and payment service providers. It's free to use and gives detailed info on their pricing, business model, supported business types, available countries, prohibited businesses and high risk business support. So far only 40 have been added with more to come. And I allow processors to contact me so that they're details can be added to the database. I'll eventually automate this and add verification the months to come. I hope you'll find it useful.…
2025 · sourcefees.com · its alternatives →
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For years, I have struggled to understand my cash flow and save for the future. In addition to that, my wife has many credit cards and accounts that complicate matters. I am building a tool that connects all our accounts, helps us create a budget, and tracks and adjusts expenses on the fly. I am also sprinkling some AI magic on it for financial suggestions. I am looking for feedback on the implementation. More importantly, I am looking for more beta testers to improve the product.
2023 · financemadelovely.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · knowtify.io · its alternatives →
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We built this using investor tools. I really wanted to know which startups to work for. Are we on the right track? PS - there's a paywall but if you want to explore more, just DM me your email and I'll give you free access in our db!
2023 · usemassive.com · its alternatives →
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I used to work in VC and watched good teams lose months chasing the wrong investors. I’m building Evalyze to make the unglamorous parts faster and more precise. After sign-up (email only, no card) you can: - upload a deck or paste your site - get a ranked list of relevant VCs/angels with a short “why” for each What’s different: instead of dumping a big list, we try to explain why an investor fits based on stage, sector, check size, and portfolio patterns. It’s far from perfect and we want blunt feedback before opening wider. Limits to know: - newer funds and emerging managers can be…
2025 · evalyze.ai · its alternatives →
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