Crunchbase and Crunchbase-like platforms are more data-centric as they give you exhaustive feed of startups with the amount of funding raised, while FundingHunt is a story-centric platform, which is more human way to consume this kind of information.

Also, features like upvoting and discussion thrive more significantly if it has a user-submitted model rather than automated feed.

I have written more about it in my Medium post here: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/why-did-i-create-fund...

I had a similar experience with the CrunchBase API. I kind of gave up once I had to start negotiating with their Business Development rep for licensing fees. I respect that they have to have a sustainable business given the resources required to aggregate and validate all that data, but I still wish there was a way for individuals/small teams to access that dataset.