Every company named. Nothing behind a paywall.

Is VentureLoop free to use?

Partly, and not for the part that matters. Browsing is free but shows previews: a generic title and a location. The company name, the apply link and the company profile are hidden until unlock, VentureLoop's own phrase. The free tier, which needs no card, unlocks roles at companies outside its Hot Companies list. To see everything you pay $19 a month for All Jobs, or $39 a month for Data + Radar, each after a three-day trial that does take a card. Job alerts are tied to a member account. So the free experience tells you a role exists somewhere; the paid one tells you where. StartupMap has no tier: every startup is named, every role links to the startup's own careers page, and there is no account to create.

Bottom line: VentureLoop is free to browse and paid to know who is hiring; StartupMap names every company for free.

Does VentureLoop cover European venture-backed startups?

Some, without saying how many. European roles appear in the public previews, an account director in Amsterdam, a remote role in the United Kingdom, so the aggregation reaches Europe. But the quick location filters are Remote, San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Austin and Chicago, the radius search is in miles, and the site publishes no regional breakdown. Whether the more-locations list lets you narrow to Europe or to a European city is not visible without an account, so this page does not claim it either way. On StartupMap the geography is the product: 4,569 European startups on a map of 55 cities, each city a page, with US roles appearing only where a European startup has an office there.

Bottom line: VentureLoop reaches Europe without showing how far; StartupMap is a map of Europe.

Is VentureLoop only for executives?

Not only, but that is who it is built for. Its product is called VentureLoop Executive in its own terms, its level filter offers C-suite, Director, Head-of and VP, and its stage filter starts at Series A. Roles below director level appear in the aggregate, but the filters, the pricing and the Radar scoring are aimed at a senior candidate weighing companies rather than a graduate looking for a first startup role. StartupMap lists whatever the startup's careers page lists, from founding roles to junior positions, and its stage filter starts at pre-seed, so a two-person company after its first round is as findable as a Series C.

Bottom line: VentureLoop is built for directors and above at Series A and beyond; StartupMap lists every level from pre-seed up.

Where do VentureLoop's job listings come from?

From many places, by its own account. VentureLoop's terms say listings and company signals may come from company sites, applicant-tracking pages, public sources, recruiters, internal review, member activity and partner data. That breadth is how it reaches 80,000 roles, and it is also why a role can be indirect: the apply link, once unlocked, may point at a recruiter or a public source rather than the company. The site states no rule for when a listing expires beyond noting that access may change as listings expire. StartupMap has one source per startup: its own careers site, read nightly, so a role that closes at the source is gone the next morning and a startup's hiring status reflects roles that exist today.

Bottom line: VentureLoop aggregates from many sources with no stated expiry rule; StartupMap reads each startup's own careers site nightly.

Where VentureLoop is still the better choice

• You are a director, VP or C-level candidate looking at US venture-backed companies at Series B and beyond. The filters and the pricing are built for exactly that.
• You want a ranked view of which companies are hiring hardest. Radar scores 675 venture-backed companies by current hiring activity; StartupMap shows hiring status per startup but does not rank.
• You want a radius search around a US metro. StartupMap filters by city, not by distance.
• You want breadth over Europe. Tens of thousands of aggregated roles will include more roles than a curated European map.

Where StartupMap wins

• Every company is named and every role links to its careers page, with no payment and no account.
• Every startup was checked by a person: funded or accelerator-backed, 4,569 of them across 55 European cities.
• Every level, from founding roles to junior, with a stage filter that starts at pre-seed.
• One source per startup, its own careers site, re-synced nightly, so closed roles disappear.

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