When asked for the best fundraising CRM for startups, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. HubSpot was named most often, followed by Pipedrive and Affinity. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HubSpot | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Pipedrive | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Affinity | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Airtable | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Bloomerang | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| HubSpot CRM | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| DonorPerfect | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Little Green Light | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, Little Green Light.
Selecting the best fundraising CRM for a small business or startup depends on specific needs and preferences, but several CRMs are often recommended for their user-friendliness, features, and affordability:
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: HubSpot, Affinity, Pipedrive.
For a small startup fundraising CRM, the best default choice is usually Visible if your main goal is managing an investor pipeline with fundraising-specific features, and folk if you want a lighter, flexible option that scales well for early-stage founders.
Claude
Named 7 brands, in this order: HubSpot, HubSpot CRM, Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, Little Green Light, Pipedrive, Airtable.
Grok
Named 6 brands, in this order: HubSpot, HubSpot CRM, Affinity, Bloomerang, Pipedrive, Airtable.
DeepSeek
Named 2 brands, in this order: Affinity, Airtable.
For a startup or small business, the "best" fundraising CRM depends on whether you're raising venture capital (managing investor relationships) or running ongoing fundraising/donor campaigns (nonprofit-style or community fundraising).
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: HubSpot, HubSpot CRM, Pipedrive.
Choosing the best fundraising Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for a startup or small business depends on several factors, including your specific needs, budget, and the features you require.
The questions asked
- What is the best fundraising CRM for startups for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/fundraising-crm