Verdict
dealroom.co appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Dealroom.co marketing/landing page describing a commercial intelligence platform for startup ecosystems: product features, API/MCP integration, pricing/trial, reports, live VC funding dashboards and client logos. Target audience: investors, governments and corporates. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Dealroom.co is a commercial SaaS and data-intelligence platform for startup and venture ecosystems, presenting company, investor, funding, research, integration, and enterprise-access capabilities to investors, governments, and corporate users.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the reviewed content and technical signals: there is no indication of phishing, brand impersonation, malicious distribution, or conflicting identity claims. The homepage contains a conventional login, newsletter, and trial/contact flow, but no hidden forms, wallet activity, or external password-capture destination was identified. Behavioural testing recorded substantial page changes and some non-whitelisted network activity; these are attributable to the interactive marketing site and were not accompanied by cloaking, wallet-drainer behaviour, clipboard manipulation, or other abuse patterns. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, while independently connecting it to a real-world operator remains unresolved.
- The homepage presents a SaaS/data-platform landing page with login, newsletter-subscription, and request-trial/contact forms; no untrusted form destination or hidden form was identified.
- External reputation results recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no malicious-site designation and 0 abuse reports for the observed shared infrastructure.
- The domain was registered on 2013-01-21T12:14:45Z and is 13.56 years old; registration is through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed content describes a commercial information service rather than presenting itself as a bank, broker, investment venue, or other regulated financial intermediary. It does not present a licensing claim or license number in the reviewed landing-page material, so any regulated-service assumption would require separate confirmation; this is a disclosure and verification point, not evidence of deception. The commercial model, enterprise positioning, substantive product descriptions, pricing/trial pathway, and client-facing research content are coherent with a mature B2B data platform. A separate broker-dataset check produced no match, which is contextual reputational support rather than a legal or licensing determination.
- The homepage identifies the service as “Intelligence for Tech Ecosystems” and describes premium access, API/MCP integrations, ecosystem measurement, reports, funding dashboards, and enterprise-oriented use.
- The domain’s registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC; the listed registration expiration date is 2029-01-20T23:59:59Z.
- Hosted on AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS certificate: GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, DV validation, valid to 2026-12-27T10:35:45+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before a credentialed or paid engagement, the prospective contracting party should independently confirm the legal entity named in the commercial agreement, review subscription cancellation, renewal, refund, and data-use terms, and ensure that payment protections are appropriate to the transaction. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route, and any representation that a particular service is regulated should be checked against the relevant official register rather than inferred from the platform’s market audience.
- The reviewed material provides a trial/contact pathway and subscription-oriented access, making contracting-entity and commercial-terms checks directly relevant.
- The site’s stated audience includes investors, governments, and corporates, but the evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator behind the domain.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed. The principal qualification is that the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were CDN edge addresses rather than an exposed origin address. This provides a meaningful mitigation against direct origin exposure and common availability or abuse patterns, but remains an infrastructure safeguard rather than proof of corporate legitimacy.
- Cloudflare edge addresses observed: 104.17.196.17, 104.17.197.17, 2606:4700::6811:c411, and 2606:4700::6811:c511.
- Origin server IP candidates observed: 0; edge IPs observed: 4.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary platform evaluation are proportionate to the available evidence; credential or payment activity should follow the independent entity, commercial-terms, and payment-protection checks set out above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-12 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of dealroom.co.
- The request stayed on dealroom.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-01-20. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6811:c411 |
| Name servers | MICAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, JULE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-27 |
| Domain age | 13.56 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-01-20 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dealroom.co at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.