Private Equities

ContactOut

Personal emails and phones straight off LinkedIn

4.2From $79/moBest for Reaching owner-operators via personal emails
Contacts LinkedIn Recruiting

Overview

ContactOut is a contact-finding tool best known for personal email coverage via its LinkedIn Chrome extension, popular with recruiters and increasingly used for founder outreach. Published plans run from about $79/month for Sales (roughly $49/month billed annually) to $199/month for Recruiter, though 'unlimited' tiers carry fair-use caps around 2,000 emails/month.

Key features

  • Chrome extension over LinkedIn profiles
  • Personal and work email coverage
  • Phone number lookup
  • Search portal independent of LinkedIn
  • Email campaigns and CRM export

Pros

  • Best-in-class personal email coverage
  • Works directly inside LinkedIn workflows
  • Triple-verified data claims hold up well in reviews

Cons

  • Fair-use caps undercut the 'unlimited' marketing
  • Overkill pricing for purely work-email use cases

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