A DefiLlama raises alternative that opens with no account: NAUT held 113 crypto and web3 funding rounds at 112 companies announced between 31 August and 27 October 2026, $3.94B in disclosed amounts, with 351 people attached to those rounds, all free to browse on 29 October 2026. A direct request to api.llama.fi/raises on 29 October 2026 returned HTTP 402 Payment Required with a one line body, "Upgrade to the paid API plan at https://defillama.com/subscription".
NAUT published this test and NAUT's own numbers sit in the table, so read the scoring with that in mind. The 4 criteria were fixed before any page was opened: can a deal maker reach funding round data without an account, does the product cover crypto rounds, does a price appear on the vendor's own page, and does a round name a person you can contact. Every rival fact below comes from that rival's own page as NAUT fetched it on 29 October 2026. NAUT requested 19 URLs at 15 companies' sites that day; 5 of those sites returned a readable page and are scored, the rest are marked not tested and nothing is scored against them. Every NAUT number comes from the NAUT database, read 29 October 2026. NAUT will run the same 4 checks again on 15 December 2026.
Which DefiLlama raises alternative gives funding round data for free?
5 trackers were scored alongside NAUT's own data. NAUT and ICO Analytics showed funding round data to a request with no account on 29 October 2026. The DefiLlama subscription page lists raises under its Free plan, and PitchBook, Preqin and Apollo showed no rounds.
| Tracker | What it showed | Price | Crypto |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAUT | 113 rounds at 112 companies, 31 August to 27 October 2026, with leads and contacts, browsable with no account | Free to browse | Yes, every row |
 DefiLlama |
The subscription page lists "Stay on top of who's raising, and how much" under its Free plan and "Funding rounds & raises" under core data | Free plan at $0 a month, paid Pro and API tiers | Yes, raises is a named feature |
| ICO Analytics | A "Recent private fundraising events" table on the homepage, 5 rounds with project, round type and investor names, 4 of them with an amount raised, no account asked | None shown on that page | Yes, all 5 rows |
| PitchBook | A products page offering a log in and a free trial request, with "Fundraising" as a use case described as "Make your pitch stand out with LP commitment and mandate data" | None shown; a request for pricing options | No mention on the page NAUT fetched |
| Preqin | A solutions page carrying, among its solutions, "Raise capital", "Strengthen investor relations", "Drive deeper performance analysis" and "Find companies to invest in" | None shown; "Create a free account" and a contact form | No mention on the page NAUT fetched |
| Apollo | A pricing page with Free, Basic, Professional and Custom plans, the Free one "Exploring Apollo or very light usage. Good for founders and early-stage teams." | 4 named plans, built around outbound sales | No mention of crypto or rounds on the page NAUT fetched |
PitchBook, Preqin and Apollo are strong products for private markets and for outbound sales. The pages NAUT fetched point them at other jobs: pitching LPs, investor relations, and sales prospecting. None of the 3 showed round data to a visitor without an account.
What the DefiLlama raises API returns now
DefiLlama is the most cited free source for DeFi metrics, and its raises dataset has been the default answer to where crypto funding round data lives. On 29 October 2026 the API behind it, api.llama.fi/raises, answered HTTP 402 Payment Required with one line of body text: "Upgrade to the paid API plan at https://defillama.com/subscription".
The subscription page itself loaded for NAUT, and it lists raises as free. The Free plan at $0 a month carries the bullet "Stay on top of who's raising, and how much", and the plan comparison table puts "Funding rounds & raises" under core data, ticked across the plans. The list under the $250 a month API plan names premium endpoints for prices, inflows and token unlocks, a rate limit of 1,000 requests a minute and 1,000,000 calls a month, and never names raises.
So the 402 is about machine access on that day, and the free web view at defillama.com/raises was not tested: it returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch, behind an interstitial titled "Just a moment...". What a signed out human sees in a browser there is unmeasured, and this comparison scores nothing against it.
Which DefiLlama raises alternative also names who to contact?
A round becomes a lead when you can reach someone at the company. That is the fourth criterion, and it is where the scored trackers separate.
Across the 113 rounds on NAUT on 29 October 2026:
- 87 rounds have at least 1 NAUT contact attached, 351 people in total.
- 59 rounds carry at least 1 named decision maker, 80 such people in all.
- 70 rounds carry a contact with a Telegram handle.
- 113 rounds carry the company's X handle and 106 carry its website.
- 36 rounds name a lead investor on NAUT's record and 68 name at least 1 backer. An empty field there means NAUT holds no lead or backer for that round.
ICO Analytics named investors on all 5 rounds in the homepage table NAUT fetched, with no person attached to any of them. 2 of those 5 rounds are also in NAUT's 113: Luxor at $16M strategic and 0xPredicate at $8M Series A, both announced 27 October 2026, and both carry contacts on NAUT. Apollo sells people data, and its pricing page describes its Free plan as "Exploring Apollo or very light usage. Good for founders and early-stage teams."; its unit is the credit, pooled across a team, and that page never mentions crypto, so the round and the person who closed it are 2 lookups there. The PitchBook and Preqin pages NAUT fetched sell to funds and showed no price at all.
The 10 largest rounds on NAUT in this window
These are the 10 largest disclosed amounts among the 113 rounds, every one of them open on NAUT with no account. The Round column carries the round type and the 2026 announcement date, and the Lead column the lead investor on NAUT's record.
| Company | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
 Polymarket |
Undisclosed, 31 Aug | $1B |  1789 Capital |
 Strive |
Post-ipo, 20 Oct | $630M | No lead on NAUT's record |
 Tazapay |
M&A, 8 Sep | $400M | No lead; 1 backer on NAUT's record |
| Strive |
Post-ipo, 13 Oct | $208M | No lead on NAUT's record |
 Whop |
Series D, 21 Oct | $200M |  Sequoia Capital |
 Felix Pago |
Debt Financing, 1 Sep | $113M | No lead; 3 backers on NAUT's record |
 Jeeves |
Series C, 29 Sep | $110M |  CoinFund, 11 backers |
 Circle |
Pipe, 22 Sep | $100M | No lead on NAUT's record |
 Payward |
Strategic, 10 Sep | $100M | No lead on NAUT's record |
 Nous Research |
Series B, 7 Oct | $90M |  Robot Ventures, 7 backers |
Strive appears twice in the table and once in the chart: it closed a $630M post-ipo round on 20 October 2026 and a $208M post-ipo round on 13 October 2026. 71 of the 113 rounds disclosed an amount, so 42 sit on NAUT with a size nobody published.
Every site NAUT requested, and what came back
The plan named 15 companies' sites, 19 URLs, every one of them requested on 29 October 2026. 5 sites returned a readable page and were scored. The other 10 returned something NAUT could not read as funding round data, so they are marked not tested: their data, their pricing and their coverage are unscored here.
| Site NAUT requested | What came back | Scored |
|---|---|---|
| defillama.com/subscription | The subscription page, plans and feature lists | Yes |
| icoanalytics.org | The homepage with its private fundraising table | Yes |
| pitchbook.com | The products page, use cases and CTAs | Yes |
| preqin.com | The homepage and the solutions page | Yes |
| apollo.io | The pricing page, 4 plans | Yes |
| api.llama.fi/raises | HTTP 402 Payment Required, 1 line of body | Reported, unscored |
| defillama.com/raises | HTTP 403, an interstitial titled "Just a moment..." | Not tested |
| cryptorank.io | HTTP 403, an interstitial titled "Just a moment..." | Not tested |
| messari.io | HTTP 429, a page titled "Vercel Security Checkpoint" | Not tested |
| crunchbase.com | HTTP 403, a Cloudflare page headed "Sorry, you have been blocked" | Not tested |
| rootdata.com | A captcha script page with no funding rounds | Not tested |
| dovemetrics.com | An empty response body | Not tested |
| cbinsights.com | An empty response body | Not tested |
| coingecko.com | A page shell with the site navigation and no funding rounds in the HTML | Not tested |
| chainbroker.io | A page whose only heading was 404 | Not tested |
| tracxn.com | A page titled "404 Page not found" | Not tested |
| theblock.co | A page titled "Page not found" | Not tested |
A block, a captcha or a not-found page says nothing about what these sites show a human in a browser, and several of them are good products. It does say what an analyst pulling crypto funding trackers into a spreadsheet, a script or an AI agent runs into: 10 of the 15 sites gave NAUT's request nothing to read on 29 October 2026.
What a DefiLlama raises alternative should give a deal maker
- A BD team selling to funded teams gets 87 open doors out of 113 rounds, the ones with a person already attached on NAUT, and 70 of those carry a Telegram handle.
- A founder raising can work the other direction: 36 rounds name a lead on NAUT's record, and each lead's NAUT page lists the other rounds it appears in, so a warm path shows up before the cold email.
- An investor sourcing can start with the 42 rounds that disclosed no amount, the ones with no published size.
- Anyone scripting this should plan for 402s and 403s: 10 of the 15 sites NAUT requested gave a machine nothing on 29 October 2026.
- Pick the window113 rounds closed between 31 August and 27 October 2026, 71 of them with a disclosed amount.
- Filter to reachable87 rounds have at least 1 NAUT contact, 351 people in total.
- Find the decision maker59 rounds carry a named decision maker, 80 people in all.
- Open the right channel70 rounds have a contact with a Telegram handle, so the first message is a DM.
- Check the backer36 rounds name a lead on NAUT's record, such as 1789 Capital on Polymarket.
Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?
Yes. Every company in this article is in NAUT's developer API as JSON, the same records the pages show. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/defillama returns that company with its team, in the same shape as every other company named here, for 5 credits a call. A key with no credits gets clearly marked sample data, so you can build against it first. Plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits (pricing), and the API docs list every endpoint. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on NAUT unlock on any paid plan: start a 7-day trial.
DefiLlama raises alternative FAQ
Where can I get crypto funding round data now?
NAUT lists 113 crypto and web3 funding rounds at 112 companies announced between 31 August and 27 October 2026, $3.94B in disclosed amounts, free to browse with no account, as of 29 October 2026. DefiLlama lists raises under its Free plan on its subscription page, and the ICO Analytics homepage showed 5 recent rounds with investor names on the same day.
What does the DefiLlama raises API return now?
A direct request to api.llama.fi/raises on 29 October 2026 returned HTTP 402 Payment Required with one line of body text, "Upgrade to the paid API plan at https://defillama.com/subscription". The free web view at defillama.com/raises was not tested, because it returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch that day.
Does DefiLlama charge for raises data?
Its subscription page lists funding rounds under the Free plan at $0 a month, with the bullet "Stay on top of who's raising, and how much", and the $250 a month API plan's feature list never names raises. NAUT measured the API only, where the 402 appeared, and did not test the free web view.
Which crypto funding trackers were tested, and which were not?
NAUT scored 5 trackers on 29 October 2026: DefiLlama, ICO Analytics, PitchBook, Preqin and Apollo, alongside NAUT's own data. CryptoRank, RootData, Messari, Crunchbase, CoinGecko, ChainBroker, Tracxn, The Block, CB Insights, Dovemetrics and the defillama.com/raises page are marked not tested, because NAUT's request to each one returned a 402, a 403, a 429, a captcha page, an empty body, a page shell or a not-found page.
Do any of these trackers show who to contact at a company that just raised?
On NAUT, 87 of the 113 rounds in this window carry at least 1 contact, 351 people in total, with 80 named decision makers across 59 rounds and a Telegram handle on 70 rounds. The 5 rounds on the ICO Analytics homepage named investor firms with no person attached, and the Apollo pricing page NAUT fetched on 29 October 2026 sells people data for outbound sales with no mention of crypto.
When will this comparison be retested?
NAUT will repeat the same 4 checks on 15 December 2026, including a fresh request to api.llama.fi/raises, a fresh look at defillama.com/raises, and a fresh fetch of the 10 sites that gave this run nothing to read.
Sources
- api.llama.fi/raises, requested 29 October 2026: HTTP 402 Payment Required, body "Upgrade to the paid API plan at https://defillama.com/subscription".
- defillama.com/subscription, read 29 October 2026: plan names, prices, the Free plan bullet on who is raising, and "Funding rounds & raises" in the comparison table.
- defillama.com/raises, requested 29 October 2026: HTTP 403 with an interstitial titled "Just a moment...".
- icoanalytics.org, read 29 October 2026: the "Recent private fundraising events" table, 5 rounds with investors, 4 of them with amounts.
- pitchbook.com/products, read 29 October 2026: the use case list, "Fundraising", the log in and free trial CTAs and "Request PitchBook pricing options".
- preqin.com/solutions and preqin.com, read 29 October 2026: the solutions list, "Create a free account" and the contact form.
- apollo.io/pricing, read 29 October 2026: the Free, Basic, Professional and Custom plans and the Free plan description.
- cryptorank.io/funding-rounds, rootdata.com/Fundraising, messari.io/fundraising and crunchbase.com/discover/funding_rounds, requested 29 October 2026: 403, a captcha page, 429 and 403.
- coingecko.com/en/funding-rounds, chainbroker.io/investors, tracxn.com/explore/Crypto-Funding-Rounds, theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/investment, cbinsights.com/research-unit/crypto and dovemetrics.com, requested 29 October 2026: a navigation only shell, 404 pages and empty bodies.
- Round counts, amounts, leads, backers and contact counts: the NAUT database, read 29 October 2026. 3 rounds tagged in the same window were left out because the companies are not crypto or web3.