ITjuzi vs StartupDB

ITjuzi is a China-focused venture investment data service that collects and analyzes publicly available information. Its coverage includes investment events, Chinese companies, VC investors, and news related to investment data; the company says it updates the data daily. Analysis combines equity transactions, company operating information, and news intelligence to examine industry trends, financing rounds, and investor comparisons. Users can download company, investment-event, institution, and report data using Juzi coins. Juzi Radar monitors selected companies, institutions, and industries, and the guide says users can follow three of 18 industries. The service also offers an API, though its use requires a team with technical engineers. Custom data can be delivered as Excel, CSV, MySQL, or JSON, with incremental updates scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. ITjuzi is available on Android, iOS, web, and through an API. A free plan is listed; paid memberships cost 108 CNY a month, 298 CNY, paid once, or 798 CNY, paid once, each with a specified Juzi coin download allowance.

StartupDB is a free database of startups, investors and people, organized around investment relationships and funding rounds. Company records can include funding dates, amounts, investor roles and source URLs, and facts link to sources for checking. Its data draws on reviewed public investor portfolio pages, public news, company and investor websites, and edits by staff, founders and investors. The database is available through a read-only MCP server and REST API, without an account or API key. The MCP server has six tools for searching investors, startups and people and retrieving individual records. The REST API provides GET endpoints for searches, individual records, investor portfolios and company funding activity, returning JSON. Both interfaces allow 120 requests per minute per IP address, with no daily cap. StartupDB says coverage is not complete, so a missing round or investor means only that the information is absent from the database. Dataset facts and compilation are licensed under CC BY 4.0 for commercial reuse with attribution; third-party logos, photos and site text are excluded. Founders and investors can claim and correct pages, and staff review reported issues. StartupDB says it was built at Workshop.