Compared, including where we lose.
Seven honest comparisons against the products a UK recruitment desk might buy instead. Two of them end with a recommendation to buy the other one. Prices are read from each provider’s own pages, not from memory.
The short version
What splits this category in two.
Some products read funding announcements. Some read Companies House filings. Announcement-based products are usually cheaper and often include contact emails, and they structurally cannot show you a company that raised without telling anyone. In the week we measured, that was 45 of 60 companies.
Priorfile reads filings. So do Beauhurst, Funding Spotter and Deal Lite, and they were doing it first. What differs is who each one is built for.
Every UK funding data tool
The whole category in one page: what each product costs and, more importantly, whether it reads filings or announcements. Start here if you are still deciding.
Read the comparison →£24,500 / yrPriorfile vs Beauhurst
The most complete product in the category, at £24,500 a year for five seats behind a demo. Where it is genuinely better, and when one desk does not need it.
Read the comparison →£100 / moPriorfile vs Funding Spotter
Reads the same filings and costs a third as much. The honest case for paying more, and the honest case for not.
Read the comparison →$49 / moPriorfile vs CyberLeads
$49 a month, globally announced funded startups with CEO emails. Excellent, and structurally unable to see a quiet UK raise.
Read the comparison →$29 to $149 / moPriorfile vs Growth List
5,300 announced UK startups with verified contacts from $29. If announced is enough, buy this instead.
Read the comparison →Run bothPriorfile vs Clay
“We already use Clay.” Keep it. Its fundraising signal reads announcements, which is the gap this fills.
Read the comparison →About $295 / moFunding signals vs job-ad leads
Agency Leads, SourceBreaker and the rest sell confirmed vacancies every agency can see. This is the signal that arrives 30 to 90 days earlier.
Read the comparison →This week’s register
Or skip the comparisons and read the product.
Six rows from the week to 28 August. Every one links to the filing at Companies House.
| Company & directors | Amount filed | Sector | Announced? | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altos Labs UK Limited K. Johansson, R. Klausner | £18,310,643 | Research | None found | View SH01 |
| Victoria & Albert Baths Limited N. Dilks, E. John-Featherby | £15,200,000 | Wholesale | None found | View SH01 |
| RFC Power Limited R. Booker, S. Paynter | £9,999,982 | Research | Reported 26 Aug 2026, same day as the filing | View SH01 |
| Tumelo Limited J. Cruttenden, W. Goodwin | £9,036,700 | Software | None found | View SH01 |
| XRLabs Ltd E. Johnson, B. Leak | £6,252,113 | Engineering | Seed reported Feb 2025; nothing on this filing | View SH01 |
| Friendly Score UK Ltd L. Bertozzi, S. Muccioli | £5,589,097 | Information | Acquisition reported Nov 2025; nothing on this filing | View SH01 |
100 companies took the money last week. Three in four never told anyone.
The next register is published Monday. Read last week’s first — there is nothing to enter and nothing to book.
