F6S Alternatives for Accelerators, Investors, Perks and Jobs

F6S still works. The F6S homepage invites founders to apply to accelerators, connect with funds and investors, claim what it lists as $581K in free benefits and browse startup jobs. Joining is free. On Trustpilot it holds a 4.9 score from 563 reviews, though the page also notes that F6S has not replied to its negative reviews.

F6S bundles four jobs in one account: program applications, investor discovery, perks and hiring. No single rival covers all four, so the picks below are grouped by the job they do best. Most founders end up using two or three of them side by side.

Some names from older lists are gone or changed. SeedInvest now lives inside StartEngine after a deal finalized in May 2023, and AngelList's job board became Wellfound in November 2022. Dealroom is still running, but its pricing page starts at €250 per seat per month with a 3-seat minimum, which is a VC research budget, not a founder one.

Prices below are as of November 6, 2026. Our method is on How we review tools.

Quick comparison

Gust

Gust works the F6S side that accelerators see. Programs run their intake on it: the accelerator page lists custom application forms, screening stages, evaluator invites and private Q&A with founders, with unlimited programs and applications. Gust's help center says the accelerator platform is free for programs.

For founders, the useful part is angel groups. The same FAQ says groups on Gust share an application template, so one company profile can go to several of them. Gust also sells Gust Launch, which covers Delaware incorporation, a cap table and SAFEs, and the accelerator page says nearly ten thousand new founders join each month.

Best for: Founders who want to apply to accelerators and angel groups that already take applications through Gust.

Pricing:

• Applying to programs on Gust: no fee is listed for founders
• Gust Launch Start: $450 per year (incorporation, cap table, registered agent)
• Gust Launch Accelerate: $1,250 per year
• Gust Launch Raise: $3,500 per year (adds option plan and 409A)

Watch out for:

• Accelerator applications do not reuse your profile. The FAQ says each program needs a new application.
• Gust Launch has no free tier on the pricing page, and all three plans are billed yearly.

Official site: Gust. Our listing: Gust.

OpenVC

Cold pitching is OpenVC's whole job. You search investors, shortlist the ones whose thesis fits, then submit your deck through a form with a 54-character subject line and a 1,200-character message. OpenVC's own guide says the team reviews each submission within about 24 hours on weekdays before it reaches the investor, and rejected ones come back so you can fix them.

The deck viewer tracks opens and follows up with each investor twice over the next two weeks. A built-in CRM logs every submission, and team members are free. If a fund got too much deal flow in the past 7 days, its submit button switches off for a while.

Best for: First-time founders without warm intros who need investors that openly accept decks.

Pricing:

• Free: search, shortlist, deck tracking, CRM, 3 investor emails per day
• Premium: $99 per month or $288 per year, 5 investor emails per day plus Power Search filters and a software perks pack

Watch out for:

• Sending to investors who do not fit can get your access blocked, per the OpenVC guide.
• The investor count is unclear. The same guide cites both 2,000+ verified investors and 6,000+ investors.

Official site: OpenVC.

Signal by NFX

NFX, the venture firm, runs Signal as a free investor search. Lists are cut by stage (pre-seed to Series B), by 82 sectors and by 24 regions such as the Bay Area, New York, London and Israel. Some lists are large: Top SaaS seed alone shows 5,776 investors.

There are also lists of angels, scouts and solo capitalists, and of investors who were founders themselves. Each investor has a profile page, and Signal also aims to find you the strongest intro to each investor.

Best for: Building a target list of seed and Series A investors before you start outreach.

Pricing:

• Free for founders, per the Signal homepage

Watch out for:

• The data is crowd-sourced. NFX's help article says founders, accelerators and VC associates enter it, and errors are fixed by emailing NFX.
• Signal finds investors but does not send pitches for you, so you still need a CRM or a tool like OpenVC.

Official site: Signal by NFX.

Wellfound

AngelList Talent changed its name to Wellfound in November 2022, and the job board kept running. The homepage lists 27,000+ startups hiring and 10M+ candidates. Job seekers create a profile and apply for free, and they can message founders and hiring managers directly.

Startups post unlimited jobs at no cost and get a built-in applicant tracker. The paid layers are Reach, an AI sourcing tool, and Autopilot, a managed recruiting service.

Best for: Startups making their first hires on no budget, and candidates who want to message founders directly.

Pricing:

• Job posts: $0, unlimited listings
• Job Ads add-on: from $200 per ad
• Reach: Explore $0 (20 contact reveals a month), Starter $135 per seat per month, Growth $199 per seat per month, Scale on request
• Autopilot: $500 per month per open role plus a 10% placement fee

Watch out for:

• Its Trustpilot page scores 3.9, and reviews from 2025 and 2026 report accounts restricted without a stated reason and slow support replies.
• A May 2026 review on the same page describes a flood of fraudulent applicants after posting jobs.

Official site: Wellfound.

Secret

The perks side of F6S has a direct rival in Secret. Its pricing page lists 645 deals on SaaS tools, from Notion to AWS Activate. Each deal shows a maximum saving, such as up to $720 on Notion and up to $300,000 on AWS Activate.

About 362 deals are open on the free plan. Premium opens the other 283, adds new deals each week and gives access to a private community. You can pay yearly or once for lifetime access.

Best for: Early teams that are about to pay for a stack of SaaS tools and want credits first.

Pricing:

• Free: $0, about 362 free deals
• Premium: $149 per year, or $399 one-time

Watch out for:

• The headline $500k+ savings figure adds up maximums. The pricing page does not explain how it is calculated.

Official site: Secret.

YC Startup School

Y Combinator's Startup School is a free, self-paced course of about 7 weeks at 1 to 2 hours a week. Videos come from YC partners, including a funding session taught by Carolynn Levy, who created the SAFE.

Co-founder matching is the part F6S users tend to want. You set preferences, review suggested people and send invites, and YC says the tool has made over 100,000 matches. A weekly update tool keeps you accountable for progress.

Best for: Solo founders looking for a co-founder, or anyone at the idea stage.

Pricing:

• Free, sign-up required

Watch out for:

• The Startup School page lists no perks, investor directory or job board, so it replaces only the community part of F6S.

Official site: YC Startup School.

Foundersuite

Once a round starts, Foundersuite is the tool for tracking it. Every plan on the pricing page includes the investor database, searchable by stage, sector, geography and investor type, plus pipelines that hold each investor conversation in one place.

Plans are priced by how many investors fit in one pipeline: 75 on Basic, 200 on Silver, 1,000 on Gold and 1,500 on Platinum. Users and pipelines are unlimited on all of them, so a co-founder can share the same view at no extra cost.

Best for: Founders running a structured raise who need to track dozens of investor conversations.

Pricing:

• Basic: $0, free forever, 75 investors per pipeline
• Silver: $745 billed annually, 200 investors
• Gold: $1,069 billed annually, 1,000 investors
• Platinum: $1,609 billed annually, 1,500 investors

Watch out for:

• The data room is included on Basic and Silver but listed as a paid add-on on Gold and Platinum, per the pricing page.
• It has no reviews on G2 yet, so there is little public user feedback to check.

Official site: Foundersuite. Our listing: Foundersuite.

How to choose

When to stay with F6S

Stay on F6S if a program you want takes its applications there. Recent Trustpilot reviews from October and November 2026 thank its support team for help with Startup Qatar applications. F6S is also free, so keeping a profile costs nothing while you use the tools above for investors and hiring.

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