Track any company by URL. Get alerts that matter.
StartupHub Monitor watches companies across 8 signal types — funding, jobs, tech stack, news, headcount, status, pricing, and new domains. Paste a URL, pick what matters, get email or Slack notifications. Cancel and the polls stop within an hour.
Try it on any company
Paste a public or stealth company URL. We resolve the entity and show the eight signal types we'd monitor, plus a sample of the alerts you'd get.
Works on any domain, including stealth startups not yet in our directory. Start a free watch to get the real alerts.
StartupHub Monitor vs. the alternatives
Why teams move off Crunchbase, Owler, and Crayon.
| Feature | StartupHub Monitor | Crunchbase | Owler | Crayon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity-resolved tracking | Resolves the right company, not a keyword string | Entity DB — but no stealth / long-tail | Limited to indexed set | The competitors you configure |
| Bring-your-own URL (incl. stealth) | Any domain, even stealth startups | Curated DB — no arbitrary domains | Pre-curated list only | Add competitors manually |
| Signal types tracked | 8 — funding, jobs, tech, news, headcount, pricing, status, domain | ~3 — funding, news, people moves | 3 — news, funding, exec moves | Web / pricing / social / news changes |
| LinkedIn headcount delta | Profile-enrichment pipeline | Static headcount ranges, no delta | ||
| Tech stack diff | CDN, hosting, payments, observability, compliance | Some web-tech detection | ||
| AI dedup across outlets | Collapses 5 reprints into 1 alert | News firehose, dup-heavy | Summarised digests | |
| Slack + Teams integrations | Per-channel routing | CRM / Salesforce sync | Salesforce only | Slack alerts |
| Underlying directory + investor graph | 14k AI companies + investor + founder graph | Huge DB, paywalled — no live tech/jobs graph | Company-only, no graph | No directory — per-account config |
| Honest cadence + last-checked timestamp | You see exactly when we last polled | Opaque refresh | Opaque | Configurable, but no last-checked |
Partial · Limited or scoped support
Why teams move
Three things existing alert tools can't do.
Built on a live directory, not a feed reader
Every alert links straight to the full company profile — founders, funding history, tech stack, similar companies, investor graph. You don't bounce out to Google to verify what just happened.
Bring-your-own URL
Stealth startups your team is tracking aren't in Owler or Distill. Paste the domain, we promote it into the directory automatically and start polling within minutes. The data your team pays for becomes our coverage focus.
Eight signal types, not three
Funding rounds + news mentions are table stakes. Job postings, tech-stack diffs, LinkedIn headcount, status incidents, pricing-page diffs, and new domain registrations are where the actual leading indicators live.
Eight signal types, monitored continuously
Each watch can subscribe to the signals that matter to you. Hide the rest.
Funding rounds + acquisitions
Press releases, RDAP domain registrations, news RSS, verified investor disclosures.
Job postings
Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Ashby. Detect new req-types and headcount surges per function.
Tech stack changes
CDN, hosting, auth, payments, observability, compliance. Re-fingerprinted each cycle.
LinkedIn headcount
Profile-enrichment pipeline catches growth surges, layoffs, and exec moves.
News mentions
AI-deduplicated across thousands of sources. Five reprints collapse into one alert.
Status incidents
statuspage.io + instatus polled on a tight loop. Vendor risk + competitive uptime intel.
Pricing-page changes
Diff against last snapshot. New tier, dropped tier, price hike — all flagged with before/after.
Domain registrations
New subsidiary or product-line domains surfaced from our RDAP + NRD pipeline.
Three steps to set up alerts
No keyword strings, no manual feed configuration, no SEO spam filtering.
Paste any URL
Track public or stealth companies. If it has a website, we monitor it. Unknown domains auto-promote into our directory in seconds.
Pick signals + cadence
Funding, jobs, tech stack, news, headcount, status, pricing. Choose what you care about and how often we should look.
Get alerts your way
Email digest, Slack channel, or Teams. We bundle every change into one clean message per company so your inbox stays survivable.
Push alerts where your team works
Email digests for individual researchers, Slack channels for fast-moving deal teams, Teams for enterprise security and corporate dev workflows.
- Email: daily digest or real-time. Bundled per company so your inbox stays clean.
- Slack: per-channel routing. Send a16z portfolio alerts to
#a16z-watch, competitor alerts to#compete. - Teams: native webhook integration with adaptive cards.
- Dashboard + API: central feed of all activity, exportable to CSV or programmatic via /api.
Mercor raised $300M Series C at $10B valuation. Led by Felicis with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst. Open profile →
Cursor posted 6 senior eng req-ids across infra, ML, frontend. Hiring surge signal. View postings →
Monitor is included in every plan
Tracked-company counts and polling cadence scale with your StartupHub subscription — 50 tracked profiles on Pro Lite, 100 plus the full signal set on Pro. Cancel anytime and the polls stop within an hour.