Europe Startup Database vs Harmonic

Europe Startup Database is a free web database of European startups, funding rounds, and investors. It lists more than 2,500 companies with websites, sectors, locations, and funding context. The database includes more than 500 funding rounds and more than 1,500 venture funds and angels mapped across European countries. Users can search companies, funding activity, investor participation, country coverage, and sector tags. Its funding-round information is described as structured and focused on fresh raises across Europe. Data collection combines automation with manual review, duplicate cleanup, source checks, and ongoing corrections. New startup and funding-round entries are added daily. Visitors can create a free account to browse the database; the Free account plan is free. Enhanced analysis, saved workflows, and deeper company intelligence are described as coming soon, not current features. The site provides company profiles and funding data for exploring European startup activity.

Harmonic is a startup intelligence database for following companies and people as they grow, hire, raise funds, launch products, or change direction. Its Console and Bulk Data offerings list 40 million companies, 200 million people, and 250 thousand investors. Harmonic says it combines legal filings with dozens of public sources and refreshes the information regularly. Scout lets users ask questions about startups or schedule AI agents to find, evaluate, and monitor companies, people, deals, and markets. Network Mapping connects LinkedIn relationships, email and calendar events, and CRM engagements with companies and operators in the database. The maker positions Harmonic for venture capital, growth capital, corporate innovation, and go-to-market prospect discovery. It offers REST and GraphQL APIs, MCP connectivity, and bulk delivery through S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake. Integrations include Slack alerts, Google accounts, Affinity, LinkedIn connections, Polytomic, and Zapier. Console, API, and Bulk Data prices are available on request. Scout includes up to $750 of credits per user each month, and the Scout API has a $250 free credit allowance.