Features, Pricing, and Performance side by side comparision
Introduction
In India’s fast-growing data economy, decision-makers increasingly rely on company intelligence platforms to uncover insights, verify information, generate leads, and manage risk. Two such platforms — PrivateCircle and Finanvo — are gaining traction among professionals in investment, finance, B2B sales, and compliance.
Though both serve similar markets, they approach the problem in fundamentally different ways.
This post breaks down how they compare across features, use cases, strengths, and limitations.
Overview
| Feature | PrivateCircle | Finanvo |
| Founded | 2015 | 2022 |
| HQ | Bengaluru, India | Ahmedabad, India |
| Focus | Deep intelligence on private, unlisted companies | Fast and Detailed access to structured corporate and non-corporate data. |
| Primary Users | VCs, investors, analysts, business heads | Not limited to VCs, investors, analysts, business heads but also includes B2B sales teams, credit risk, due diligence, onboarding etc |
| Website | privatecircle.co | finanvo.in |
Core Offering
🔍 PrivateCircle
- A private market intelligence platform focused on deep company, founder, investor, and network insights.
- Combines data from 20+ sources: ROC, GST, EPFO, court records, media, regulatory filings, etc.
- Provides modules:
- Research: Deep company analysis
- Connect: Warm intros and stakeholder tracking
- Markets: Matching capital seekers with investors
- Networks: Visualizing ownership and relationship networks
📊 Finanvo
- A fast, structured business data aggregator.
- Offers up-to-date access to 100+ sources and more than 750+ filterable datapoints :
- Company registration details, Courts and Tribunals proceedings, GST, EPFO, Director-level data, Market Intelligence, Financials etc
- Provides modules:
- Leads: Connects to Businesses and decision makers
- Verify: Master Data Management based on business identification
- Identify: Helps filtering the businesses from the universe of business
- Due Diligence: Complete 360 Degree Detailed info about the company.
- Widely used for onboarding, lead qualification, and risk assessment
Pricing & Accessibility
- PrivateCircle: Premium pricing; targets institutional clients (VC firms, large enterprises). Tailored demos available.
- Finanvo: More affordable; self-serve plans and APIs; faster setup.
What they offer / strengths
| Aspects | PrivateCircle strengths | Finanvo strengths |
| Data Depth & Intelligence | PrivateCircle offers deep intelligence on private unlisted companies. They pull data from many sources (20+ sources) and maintain cross‑referenced and historical data on events, company financials, founders, investors, etc. (PrivateCircle Blog) | Finanvo focuses on real‑time financial and non‑financial company data: registered entities, legal cases, directors, GST, EPF, etc. Useful for due diligence, lead, verification etc. (financial-collateral.com) |
| Use cases | For investors, PE/VCs, analysts needing market intelligence. Also for companies wanting to find leads, produce reports, track unicorns, etc. PrivateCircle has products like “Connect” for lead generation / sales intelligence, “Research” for private market research, “Markets” for matching capital seekers. (PrivateCircle Blog) | For sales / business development who need company verification, identification of companies, background checks. For banks or other organizations that need accurate data about corporate entities. For lead generation, verifying partners etc. (financial-collateral.com) |
| Network / Connections | PrivateCircle has a “Networks” product that helps find relationships (shareholders, directors) between companies, warm introductions etc. | Finanvo seems more focused on data provision but facilitates introductions between investor‑company connections. Its strength is in providing the data slice. (financial-collateral.com) |
Weaknesses / What to watch out for
| PrivateCircle | Finanvo |
| Might be more expensive (premium data + network access). For casual users, the cost may be high. Also, data accuracy / freshness may depend on sources and how frequently updated. Also, employees’ reviews show some concerns about salary, work culture etc (but that’s internal, not directly about product). (AmbitionBox) | As a younger company, there might be areas where data coverage or update frequency is less mature. Finanvo.in’s trust score is 76/100 according to ScamAdviser. (ScamAdviser) |
Elements / Data Points & Products
Here are what each platform offers (or claims to offer) in terms of data & products.
| Category | PrivateCircle | Finanvo |
| Number of companies profiled / data universe | Covers 27+ lakh (2.7 million+) listed & unlisted Indian companies on its platform. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) Out of these, ~1,94,000+ companies are “profiled” with detailed financials & historicals. | Finanvo claims 2.4+ million companies profile count and ~3.3 million directors. Out of these 10,49,520 Companies are “profiled” with historical financials and non financial data. |
| Type of entities covered | Listed + unlisted companies. Also funds / investors. Banks’ loan‑book data, etc. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Very broad: Private companies, public, LLP, OPC, Proprietorship, Partnerships, Trusts, MSMEs, Startups (Startup India), Entities with GST, EPFO registrations, import/export (IEC, DGFT), trademarks etc. (redealer.in) |
| Financial & historical statements | For profiled companies (≈194,000+), provides income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, financial statements in PDF; annual returns, directors reports, auditor reports etc. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Finanvo offers MCA financials, and MCA documents (V2, V3) including charges, directorship amendments etc. Also revenue & profit estimates. (redealer.in) |
| Corporate structure / shareholding / ownership / directors | Yes: Shareholding patterns; list of directors; corporate structure; also investor/fund data. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Yes: Directors, contact info; also, registered contacts via GSTIN etc. UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner) data seems promised (redealer.in) |
| Deals, transactions, investor / fund info | Yes: ~3.5 lakh+ deals & transactions tracked: funding rounds, acquisitions, asset sales, foreign company transactions etc. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) Also profiled funds / investors (~3,000+). Source : BSE, NSE, MCA (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Finanvo offers 6.5 lakh+ deals data; its focus is more on corporate & compliance data; but being a “corporate search engine” it likely has data about registered changes, legal documents etc. (finmag.co.uk) |
| Legal / Court / Compliance / Public Filings | Legal screener: >1 lakh NCLT cases + 3+ crore court cases. Charges, legal liabilities. Also EPFO data; ROC/MCA filings. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Finanvo covers legal cases, EPF/EPFO, compliance, IEC/DGFT; GST masters; MCA form submissions; contact info. (redealer.in) |
| Network / Relationships / Warm Intros | Has “PrivateCircle Networks” product: graph database with nodes (companies, directors, investors) & relationships (shareholders, directorship), paths etc. Warm introductions. | Doesn’t seem to have as strong of a graph/warm intros product; more about data & verification. |
| APIs / Data Export / Formats | PrivateCircle offers various screens, downloadable reports etc. Graph / network browsing. Probably has API; some deliverables in PDF etc. (drupal.alliance.edu.in) | Finanvo offers APIs for GST verification, detailed company data; formats including JSON, Excel/CSV, PDF etc. (redealer.in) |
Pricing
Public pricing info is more limited; neither seems to have a fully public, detailed pricing brochure (at least what I found). But some clues and likely positioning:
| Feature | PrivateCircle | Finanvo |
| Public pricing list | Not readily available in detail; likely custom / enterprise sales. (PrivateCircle is used by VC/PEs, big corporates) (G2) | Also not fully transparent / standardised pricing available publicly. Some features (like APIs, GST verification) offered, but you likely need to contact sales for quote. |
| Price / Value orientation | Premium product. High depth, especially for those needing research + network access + historical deal data. More expensive. | Probably more accessible/priced lower, especially in tiers for MSMEs, verification use cases, sales teams. Better for use cases that don’t need ultra‑deep or long history. |
| Cost drivers (what drives price) | Number of companies profiled, historical depth, number of users / seats, access to network / “paths”, warm introduction / connect service, volume of API usage etc. | Number of entities, frequency of updates, API usage (if needed), number of document downloads, contact details, speed of updates (real‑time or near real‑time), etc. |
| Free trial / sample access | PrivateCircle may have demo, but not much free‑for‑all. | Not found a solid free version; might have limited trial or sample, or limited usage; but most likely paid for full usage. |
Summary: which gives more for which use case
- If you are research Analyst, Investor / VC / PE / M&A doing lead generation, due diligence, verification, sales intelligence, especially where you need recent, accurate company master data, financials, contacts, compliance documents, then Finanvo may be more efficient cost‑wise and faster.
- For “who has more data”, in raw numbers Finanvo covers more companies overall (including MSMEs, proprietorships, lesser regulated entities) but PrivateCircle gives more depth / richness for those companies which are “profiled”.
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