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While penetration is a good indicator for quality, we don't take it for granted and conduct an unbiased benchmarking. As always in life, there's no one size fits all. Different data providers have different strengths and weaknesses. In order to understand these, we compare detailed and verified proprietary information on 460 actual financing rounds from 554 investors in 161 different companies, with data included in eight frequently used VC databases. In short, we compare original startup data with their representation across commercial database providers.

We distinguish (1) coverage and (2) accuracy, among other dimensions, across general company information such as head quarter, founding year, or description; team information such as academic background and previous experience of the founders; and financing information such as date, size, and investor of a specific funding round. Moreover, we analyze their dependency on geographies, funding stages, industries & sectors of the respective startups.