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ZoomInfo alternatives: 5 tools checked, 29 of 35 teams named

By NAUT Research · · 7 min read

29 of 35 ZoomInfo alternatives crypto teams funded 1 to 28 October 2026 with a founder or CEO named on NAUT. Logos: Whop, Nous Research, Spiko, Mecka, meanwhile, Meow, Hyperbolic Labs, Erebor, DATA Network, Luxor.

NAUT checked ZoomInfo alternatives for crypto BD on one fixed sample, 5 contact tools in all counting ZoomInfo itself: the 35 crypto teams that announced a funding round between 1 and 28 October 2026. NAUT's data shows a named founder or CEO at 29 of those 35 teams, 51 decision makers in total, free to browse, and 11 of the 51 go by a single handle with no surname, which is the detail that breaks a lookup built on legal names and work email addresses.

NAUT published this test and NAUT's own data is the 1st row in the table below, so here is exactly how it ran. The 3 criteria were fixed before any page was read: does the tool's own pricing page load and what coverage figure does that page state, can a live lookup on the 35-team sample be run without a paid seat, and how many of the 35 teams have a named decision maker on file. The 5 tools fetched were ZoomInfo, Apollo, Lusha, Cognism and RocketReach. Every rival fact below comes from that tool's own pricing page, fetched on 2 November 2026, and nothing a rival page did not state is attributed to it. A live lookup on the 35-team sample is marked "not tested" for all 5, because each one needs a paid seat to run a name against its database, and NAUT did not buy one. NAUT's own numbers are read from NAUT's database on 2 November 2026. Next retest: 2 December 2026.

How did NAUT test these ZoomInfo alternatives?

5 pricing pages were fetched on 2 November 2026, and all 5 answered: zoominfo.com/pricing, apollo.io/pricing, lusha.com/pricing, cognism.com/pricing and rocketreach.co/pricing. 4 of them served plan and price text that could be read. RocketReach's page answered with its real page title and a body that renders in the browser, so the copy NAUT fetched carried no plan or price line, and no figure is put in RocketReach's name here.

Of the 5 pages, 1 states a contact count the test could confirm word for word: Apollo's pricing page offers "Access 240M contacts & 30M companies", and its page also says over 600,000 companies use Apollo. ZoomInfo's pricing page calls itself "The GTM data layer trusted by over half the Fortune 500", a customer claim rather than a coverage figure. Lusha's pricing page markets "Flexible pricing for any GTM team". Cognism's page loaded, and no coverage figure from it passed the quote check, so no number is put in its name.

Tool Coverage figure This sample
NAUT Free directory, read 2 November 2026: 51 decision makers at 29 of 35 teams, from NAUT's data 51
ZoomInfo Page loaded. No contact count, states it is trusted by over half the Fortune 500 Not tested, needs a paid seat
Apollo Page loaded. States access to 240M contacts and 30M companies Not tested, needs a paid seat
Lusha Page loaded. None confirmed in this test Not tested, needs a paid seat
Cognism Page loaded. None confirmed in this test Not tested, needs a paid seat
RocketReach Page answered with its title. Plans render in the browser, none read Not tested

The honest reading of that table: on this sample, NAUT's crypto contact data is the only coverage that could be measured for free, and all 5 tools NAUT fetched are untested on it rather than beaten. A general B2B database holding 240M contacts may well hold the person you want. What this test can say is that nobody can check that for a crypto round announced last week without paying first.

Which ZoomInfo alternatives show the people at funded crypto teams?

NAUT's data shows 51 decision makers across 29 of the 35 teams, and 42 of those 51 have their own NAUT person page. 23 of the 35 teams have at least 1 decision maker with a person page, and 6 teams hold a name on file with no person page yet. 6 teams hold no decision maker at all: Cancore, Peso, Dataline, Meow, Reactor and hyperlink_xyz.

Team Raised Decision makers
$4M
$16M 1 name on file, no person page
$7.2M None on file
$30M ,
$8M ,
Not disclosed None on file
$200M ,
$10.6M None on file
$30M 1 name on file, no person page
$15M 1 name on file, no person page
$1M
$5M 2 names on file, no person page
Not disclosed 1 name on file, no person page
$31.6M None on file
$10M
$8M
$2M , 1 more with no person page
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
$30M , , , 1 more with no person page
$1M
$3M 1 name on file, no person page
$37.5M ,
$3.5M ,
$90M , ,
$13M , ,
$60M
$16M ,
Not disclosed , , , ,
$90M , ,
$1.5M
Not disclosed None on file
$2.5M None on file
$4.6M ,
$5M

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

11 of the 51 decision makers are on file under a single handle with no surname: RealBhavinVaid at Birch Hill, Jessesawa at 0xPredicate, Plish at hylo_so, Jordan at AIsa, sarick at DATA Network, ZacTownsend and Ztownsend at meanwhile, emozilla, mephisto and Shivani at Nous Research, and Justin at Vest Exchange. That is 22% of the people who sign off on a deal in this sample, and a database keyed on a first name, a last name and a company email domain has nothing to match them on.

How much did each team raise?

29 of the 35 teams disclosed an amount, $736M in total between 1 and 28 October 2026. The 6 that disclosed nothing are Peso, Lighthouse.Storage, AIsa, EFY Finance, Reactor and OKX.

The 11 largest disclosed rounds, ranked by amount raised, 1 to 28 October 2026
  1. Whop$200M
  2. Nous Research$90M
  3. Spiko$90M
  4. Mecka$60M
  5. meanwhile$37.5M
  6. Meow$31.6M
  7. Hyperbolic Labs$30M
  8. Erebor$30M
  9. DATA Network$30M
  10. Luxor$16M
  11. Noah$16M

Round size says nothing about how easy the team is to reach. Whop raised the largest round in the sample at $200M and has 2 decision makers on NAUT, while Meow raised $31.6M and has none on file yet.

ZoomInfo alternatives for a crypto BD team: what to do next

  • Work the 23 teams that have a decision maker with a NAUT person page first. Those pages say which channels NAUT holds for that person.
  • Treat the 11 handle-only names as X-first targets. emozilla at Nous Research and Plish at hylo_so are reachable under the handle they actually use.
  • Park the 6 teams with nobody on file, among them Dataline and Meow, and check back after the next retest on 2 December 2026.
  • Before you buy a seat on any of the 5 untested crypto BD tools, hand the vendor 5 handle-only names from this list and ask it to return the company and the role.
How a BD team can work the 35 funded teams
  1. Start with the funded list29 of the 35 teams that raised between 1 and 28 October 2026 have a decision maker on NAUT.
  2. Open the 23 with a person pageEach page says which channels NAUT holds, from Spiko to Walapay.
  3. Route the 11 handle-only names to XA legal-name database has nothing to match sarick or mephisto on.
  4. Size the ask by the roundRounds in the sample run from $1M at Anyflo to $200M at Whop.

Related reading on NAUT: Apollo.io alternatives: 4 crypto BD tools, 50 decision makers and Crypto contact database: 6 tools, 50 founders, 44 X handles.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. One company's team, the unit this article is built from, comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/spiko-finance with an Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY header, at 5 credits a call, so the 35 teams in this sample cost 175 credits; the full endpoint list and the quotas are at naut.so/docs/api and the plans at naut.so/pricing, where Essential is $49 a month for 3,000 credits. A person's private channels come from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people/{id}?include=private, 10 credits the first time and 5 after that, and the unlock is permanent. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal the channels for the names above.

ZoomInfo alternatives FAQ

What can replace ZoomInfo for crypto contacts?

On the 35 crypto teams funded between 1 and 28 October 2026, NAUT's own coverage of that sample is the only one of the 6 in this test that could be measured without a paid seat: 51 decision makers at 29 of the 35 teams. ZoomInfo, Apollo, Lusha, Cognism and RocketReach all answered a pricing page on 2 November 2026, and all 5 are not tested on this sample, because running a name against any of their databases needs a paid seat.

Where can I find the founders of crypto teams that just raised, and their contact channels?

NAUT holds 51 named decision makers at 29 of the 35 crypto teams that announced a round between 1 and 28 October 2026, among them Jasper Zhang at Hyperbolic Labs and Paul-Adrien Hyppolite at Spiko, each on a free NAUT page, or through GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/<slug>. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

Why do crypto contact lookups fail on a name and a work email?

11 of the 51 decision makers at these 35 teams, 22% of them, are on file under a single handle with no surname, such as emozilla at Nous Research and Plish at hylo_so. A lookup keyed on a first name, a last name and a company email domain has no key for those people, which is why crypto BD tools and general B2B tools answer different questions.

How much did these 35 crypto teams raise?

29 of the 35 teams disclosed an amount, $736M in total between 1 and 28 October 2026, from $1M at Anyflo and hylo_so to $200M at Whop. The 6 that disclosed no amount are Peso, Lighthouse.Storage, AIsa, EFY Finance, Reactor and OKX.

Is NAUT free to use to find crypto founders?

NAUT's full directory search and its public profiles, which carry a person's name, role, company and X handle, are free with no card, so the 51 decision makers in this article can be browsed for $0. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn addresses unlock on any paid plan from Essential at $49 a month.

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