Comparison
Cura vs Concrete
How Cura and Concrete compare on reading founder updates, monitoring, and reporting.
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Short answer
Concrete and Cura both read the updates founders already send, so founders do nothing new. Concrete indexes partner inboxes, meeting notes and linked decks into cited metric trackers, with health and momentum scores. Cura also reads Slack messages and texts, monitors LinkedIn, X, news and hiring every day, and builds LP reports. Pick Concrete for low per-seat pricing on a small team. Pick Cura for public signal and LP reporting.
Concrete connects to a firm's Gmail or Outlook inboxes and its meeting notetaker. It indexes portfolio email, attachments, transcripts and the content behind links such as DocSend and Google Docs, then extracts metrics into Trackers that the team approves, each cited to its source. Cura works the same way on founder email and calls, and it adds Slack messages, texts and daily public signal.
| Feature | Cura | Concrete |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data comes from | Founder emails, decks, Slack, Granola calls and texts, read automaticallyPlus public sources, pulled every day. | Connected inboxes, meeting notetakers, files and crawled links |
| What founders have to do | Nothing newCura reads what founders already send. Requests go out from your own inbox. | Nothing new; Concrete reads updates founders already send |
| Public signal (news, LinkedIn, X, hiring) | Yes, monitored every dayLinkedIn, X, news and open roles across the portfolio. | Not listed on their site |
| Health scores and alerts | Yes, momentum and health scores | Financial health and momentum scores |
| LP reporting | Yes, built from the collected data | Cited per-fund metrics; LP letters drafted through an AI tool |
| Fund accounting | No; tracks funds and investments, not the books | Not listed on their site |
| Peer benchmarking | No | Not listed on their site |
| Reachable by your AI agents | REST API and MCP server; agents read and writeRecord a metric, create a task or update a company from Claude or ChatGPT. | REST API, webhooks and MCP server (Pro plan) |
| SOC 2 | In progressRuns on SOC 2 Type II providers; certification underway. | CASA Tier 2 certified; SOC 2 not listed |
Facts verified from concretehq.com, concretehq.com/features/trackers, docs.concretehq.com/changelog, concretehq.com/use-cases/lp-reporting, concretehq.com/use-cases/data-teams, concretehq.com/sharing (checked 2026-10-28).
Where Concrete leads today
- Link crawling: Concrete follows DocSend, Google Docs and Loom links inside founder emails and indexes the content.
- It reads values off chart images in decks and cites the slide.
- Per-inbox sharing levels let partners connect an inbox without exposing private threads.
- Public self-serve pricing at $49 per seat per month, with a REST API, webhooks and an MCP server.
Why funds choose Cura over Concrete
- Cura reads Slack messages and texts as well as email and calls. Concrete's site lists inboxes and meeting notetakers.
- Cura monitors LinkedIn, X, news and open roles every day. Concrete's site does not list public-signal monitoring.
- Cura builds LP reports from the collected data. Concrete drafts LP letters through an AI tool over MCP.
- Cura asks founders for missing numbers from your own inbox.
Pricing
The Emerging Manager plan: up to 20 portfolio companies and 3 seats. Larger firms use the Custom plan, and 90% of customers pay $5,000–$15,000 a year.
Pro plan: up to 50 portfolio companies and 5 seats. Enterprise is custom.
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