Seven platforms.
One fund’s budget.
Nobody in this category sells one system. Carta owns the equity record, Affinity owns relationships, Chronograph owns monitoring, Sydecar owns the vehicle — and each of them hands off to the others. These pages use every vendor’s published pricing, name what they do better than us, and show what it costs to assemble the same coverage.
DeelSignal Pro — $25M–$50M AUM, billed annually per fund. DSignal CRM, fund accounting, DSignal Portfolio, DSignal Founder and AI included. Adding people does not change the number.
Seven platforms, one grid.
Every cell is lifted from that vendor’s own comparison page below — their published copy, our published copy. Where a page does not compare a capability, the cell says so instead of guessing.
| Capability | DeelSignal | Carta | Affinity | DealCloud | Chronograph | Sydecar | 4Degrees | Edda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What they own | DSignal CRM, fund accounting, DSignal Portfolio, DSignal Founder and AI | Cap table, 409A valuations & fund administration | Relationship intelligence CRM | Enterprise deal management & financial-services CRM | Portfolio monitoring & LP analytics | SPV formation & syndicate administration | VC-native relationship intelligence & deal management | Deal flow, portfolio & LP portal |
| Their pricing | $7,500 a year — Pro, $25M–$50M AUM, billed annually per fund | Ask Carta for a quote. 409A valuations are a paid add-on. | $2,000–$2,700 per user per year, published. | Not published. Enterprise contract with implementation services. | Not published. Onboarding quoted at four to eight weeks. | From $4,500 per SPV, published. | Not published — sales-gated, per seat | Not published — fully sales-gated |
| A five-person fund, one year | $7,500 — adding people does not change the number | Ask Carta | $11,500 — 5 seats × $2,300, Scale tier | Not published | Not published | $13,500 — 3 SPVs at the $4,500 minimum, before add-ons | Not published | Not published |
| Deal pipeline | Full pipeline, 12-factor scoring, IC workflow | Carta CRM — company records and pipelines | Included | Deeply configurable, capital-markets data model | Not offered | Not offered — starts at the deal you already chose | Included | Included |
| Relationship intelligence | Decay-scored warmth, warm-intro ranking | — | Their core product, all tiers — deeper than ours | — | — | — | Included — a core strength | — |
| Fund accounting | Capital accounts, calls, distributions, carry | Separate Carta product, separately priced | Not offered | Integrates with external ERP accounting engines | — | — | Not offered | Not published as a feature |
| LP portal & reporting | DSignal Portfolio plus DSignal Reports on live data | Cap table and 409A reporting only | Not offered | Integrates with external ERP accounting engines | Look-through to underlying assets across funds and co-investments | — | Not offered | Included |
| Portfolio monitoring | Founders submit structured reports at source | — | — | — | ML extraction from Excel packs and PDF statements | Asset tracking only | — | Included |
| Founder portal | Applications, MIS reporting, milestones | Stakeholder portal for equity holders only | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered — data arrives by email | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Time to go live | Same day — self-serve signup | — | — | Professional-services implementation | 4–8 weeks | — | — | — |
| Regulated & entity work | Not offered: no 409A sign-off, no SPV formation, no ethical-wall mandate | 409A valuations, paid add-on; QSBS attestation add-on | — | Purpose-built compliance controls and audit logging | — | Automated legal entity, bank account, closing docs; AML/KYC built in; K-1 in the fixed fee | — | — |
| Where they win | — | 409A valuations, ASC 718 and IFRS scenarios, Schedule K-1 preparation, UK statutory registers and QSBS attestation. | A deeper relationship graph than ours, plus PitchBook and Crunchbase enrichment. | Ethical walls and MNPI controls a regulated firm genuinely needs. | Click-to-source audit trails and LP look-through at a depth we do not match. | Entity formation, AML/KYC and K-1 generation. We do none of it. | Faster to adopt than us for a team that only wants a CRM. | A shipped customer base against our prelaunch founding cohort. |
Prices and product details as published by each vendor, September 2026. Rows where we lose are on purpose: a grid where we win every line is marketing, not research.
Read the one you are weighing.
Each page carries their published price, the rows we concede, the case where they are the right buy, and how to keep their specialist job while moving everything else.
Carta
The category's default and its heaviest incumbent. Carta is the system of record for equity; DeelSignal runs the fund that holds the shares.
- Their pricing
- Ask Carta for a quote. 409A valuations are a paid add-on.
- Where they win
- 409A valuations, ASC 718 and IFRS scenarios, Schedule K-1 preparation, UK statutory registers and QSBS attestation.
Affinity
The best relationship graph in venture, and the clearest price to argue with: $2,300 per seat per year on the tier that includes their AI, with a contract floor around $20,000. A five-person fund pays $11,500 for a CRM.
- Their pricing
- $2,000–$2,700 per user per year, published.
- Where they win
- A deeper relationship graph than ours, plus PitchBook and Crunchbase enrichment.
DealCloud
Built for the top of the market, and priced there. Configurable to almost anything, which is also the problem: implementations run in quarters, not weeks, and the configuration is the product.
- Their pricing
- Not published. Enterprise contract with implementation services.
- Where they win
- Ethical walls and MNPI controls a regulated firm genuinely needs.
Chronograph
$5.9T monitored across 258,000+ positions, with an ML ingestion pipeline that reads unstructured founder reporting. That pipeline is impressive engineering aimed at a problem we solve at the source instead.
- Their pricing
- Not published. Onboarding quoted at four to eight weeks.
- Where they win
- Click-to-source audit trails and LP look-through at a depth we do not match.
Sydecar
The cleanest SPV product on the market, at $4,500 minimum per vehicle. Three SPVs a year is $13,500 — for the vehicle wrapper alone, before anyone has looked at the portfolio inside it.
- Their pricing
- From $4,500 per SPV, published.
- Where they win
- Entity formation, AML/KYC and K-1 generation. We do none of it.
4Degrees
A lighter, friendlier Affinity aimed at the same emerging-manager band we sell into. Genuinely good at the one thing it does, and it stops at the pipeline.
- Their pricing
- Not published.
- Where they win
- Faster to adopt than us for a team that only wants a CRM.
Edda
160+ firms and $300B in assets on a suite that overlaps ours more than anything else on this list. The honest difference today is maturity: they have the customer count, we have DSignal Founder and the price.
- Their pricing
- Not published.
- Where they win
- A shipped customer base against our prelaunch founding cohort.
Switching guide
Most migration pages promise a weekend. Ours takes six weeks for a fund with real history — import by import, and nobody stops working while it happens.
Read the switching guide →Comparisons reflect each vendor’s publicly available pricing and product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change — verify current details on the vendor’s own site before relying on a specific number. Carta, Affinity, DealCloud, Intapp, Chronograph, Sydecar, 4Degrees and Edda are trademarks of their respective owners; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship. See full trademark notice →
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