Alternatives to Harmonic, PitchBook & Crunchbase

Unicorn Screener is the cheapest of the four for individual users: $9 per report, with the first report free. Crunchbase has a free tier but gates most useful filters behind Pro and Business subscriptions. Harmonic and PitchBook are enterprise-priced through a sales call.

No. Harmonic and Crunchbase are databases of companies and funding events. PitchBook covers private and public capital markets including funds, LPs, comps and exits. Unicorn Screener is a screening tool that reads public sources about one startup and returns a 100-point unicorn-potential score, with a written investment view.

For solo GPs, angels and scouts who screen a handful of startups per week, Unicorn Screener replaces the screening workflow. For institutional teams that need fund benchmarking, league tables, LP data and structured pipeline workflows, the incumbents remain the standard. The tools complement each other.

Profile databases tell you what a company has done. Unicorn Screener uses four AI agents to read founder backgrounds, traction signals, market context and product evidence in parallel, then scores the startup on its forward-looking unicorn potential across five research-backed dimensions.

Angel investors evaluating SAFEs, solo general partners, scouts running for larger funds, accelerator program managers screening applicants, and founders benchmarking their own competitive set.