Apollo's 'recently funded' filter updates weekly and misses 60% of early-stage rounds entirely. FundedAPI ships every new round within hours — with founder LinkedIn URLs Apollo can't see.
Daily scrape pipeline + real-time webhook fanout. Rounds hit our dataset within hours of public announcement — often before Crunchbase updates.
100 calls/day with a GitHub login. No credit card. No 'expires after 14 days' catch. Pro tier is $49 (vs Apollo's $149/seat/mo).
Every startup carries `contacts[]` with real LinkedIn URLs from press + team pages. Not pattern-guessed emails that bounce 40% of the time.
`X-RateLimit-*` on every response. Our Node/Python clients handle 429s automatically. No mysterious throttling mid-workflow.
Subscribe with a filter; we POST to your endpoint when a matching round hits. HMAC-signed. Apollo has no equivalent — you can only poll.
Every source we scrape is publicly documented in our changelog. Every scoring field is described in the API docs — no black-box magic numbers. Apollo is a black box.
POST /v1/search/ai
{ "query": "Fresh Seed rounds in AI hiring ML engineers, delivered to my outbound sequencer" }# Same prospect query on both tools:
# Apollo (requires $149/mo seat):
curl "https://api.apollo.io/v1/mixed_companies/search" \
-H "X-Api-Key: $APOLLO_KEY" \
-d '{"funding_events": ["Seed"], "keywords": ["AI"], "page_size": 25}'
# ...returns stale results from 2-4 weeks ago.
# FundedAPI (free at 100/day):
curl "https://fundedapi.com/v1/startups?niche=AI&round=Seed&hiring=true&since=2026-04-10" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FUNDED_API_KEY"
# ...returns rounds from the last 48 hours with founder LinkedIn URLs.For the fresh-funding + hiring-signal use case: yes, and it's more accurate. For deep firmographic enrichment (employee growth over 5 years, technographic stack detection), Apollo is still broader. Most sales teams use us as the trigger and Apollo as the enrichment layer.
Our scraper pipeline runs throughout the day. Webhook dispatch fires within ~30 seconds of a new row hitting our DB. End-to-end from public announcement to your CRM: usually under 2 hours. Apollo's typical lag: 1-4 weeks.
Free: 100/day (forever). Pro: $49/mo, 10K/day. Scale: $199/mo, 100K/day. Apollo's equivalent-tier plan with funding filters: $149/seat/mo minimum.
Yes, and we recommend it. Pull fresh rounds from us, push into Apollo as 'newly-created companies', let Apollo's cadence engine handle outbound. Our daily CSV export integrates with Apollo's CSV upload in 30 seconds.
We have founder/CEO/CTO-level contacts from public sources: team pages, press releases, SEC filings. What we don't have: every VP-of-Sales at every company. For that, stick with Apollo. For founders at just-funded companies, we're more complete.
Email addresses are only included when published publicly. No pattern-matching or synthesis. If we return an email, it's from a public source — bounce rate in our testing is <5% vs Apollo's ~40% on guessed emails.
Yes — via Zapier/Make/n8n as the middleware, or directly if your Apollo account has the Webhooks feature. Our event fires → middleware creates an Apollo contact → Apollo sequence enrolls them automatically.
Fresh funding rounds + key hiring signals in your inbox every Monday.
Free forever. No card. No tricks.