Best research sites, databanks for privately held companies in the US - free & w fees
What are the best (most valid, comprehensive) databanks and research sites for privately held companies in the US like Hoovers, Privco..etc?!
For researching private companies (US, Canada, Europe, and India esp) PrivCo I would say. (DNB is quite bad, so I'd go with the former)
I'm in venture capital and definitely PrivCo. But totally free there are others probably but they are wikis, and suspect (I have to admit we VCs have an agenda, and have erased losing embarrassing investments from these wikis, while adding ourselves to winners even if we put in nominal amount or a partner did we will change to firm's name). So a wiki like CrunchB is I guess you get what you pay for. For truly verified fact checked I'd go with former. Depends on time you have to spend (my time is very valuable) and budget (I can afford to pay for the Rolex of private company financials and deals research).
How does PrivCo compare to CapIQ? Obviously CapIQ data is pretty flawed for private companies, but at least it has some, I'm just wondering exactly how much better PrivCo is...
Sorry for slow response, I check in from time to time. But to answer your Q:
From my personal and our VC firm's experience using both PrivCo and CapIQ and comparing both when we knew the private company's financials (i.e., our VC firm's portfolio companies), PrivCo was consistently accurate on the financials, CapIQ was consistently wrong and data was so flawed as you said (or in several cases did not even have any financial info just name, or several didn't even have the company at all). The sample size was maybe 3 dozen of our portfolio companies, but that was enough of a test drive for our firm stopped using CapIQ and our firm now solely uses PrivCo and we're much happier with it.
Every use-case is different of course.
Hope that helps.
Jim
private company research? (Originally Posted: 05/31/2007)
what's the best way to research private companies? especially for doing things like m&a comps?
you dont do trading comps on private companies. if youre spreading the transaction multiples you can use capIQ, check the press releases for approxiamte revenue/op income numbers, and check research for their financial estimates.
Best is PrivCo private co M&A database IMO. CapIQ not bad but mostly public M&A, sometimes PEHub has somethings but not searchable much mostly blog posts. I'd go with first.
Help finding private company info (Originally Posted: 08/17/2010)
What's up monkeys. I've got a question for you... I've been given the task of finding private company CEO phone numbers and email addresses as part of a project for a take home interview exercise. Any suggestions as to where I can obtain this info? Keep in mind, I currently don't have access to any premium research tools. Thanks.
do it Urself - or maybe dropoff and do something Usefull with Ur time....
jigsaw.com has that stuff
also netprospex
Thanks Cmoss
Call their secretaries and ask
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Hah. It sounds like they're using you to do their work for them as part of an interview. I don't see how this could be a legitimate interview exercise.
Private companies data (Originally Posted: 03/11/2013)
Any idea where I can find private companies' data in
UK
Poland
Czech Rep
I believe the companies will have to submit their BS and PnL to govt for taxation purposes. In many countries this can be accessed by public by paying a nominal fees. I am looking for these sites
Hi, I was just providing my opinion on this in this thread, I will just copy my answer from there:
Depends on your budget for this, of course :)
There are definitely databases, what comes to mind first is products of Bureau van Dijk (AMADEUS database for European companies, ORBIS database for worldwide, etc.) I must mention that (1) access might be pretty costly, and (2) lag between the moments when financials are submitted by the company and when they are added to database might be up to year, so it does not serve as access to fresh information but gives great retrospective overview.
Private Company Research Techniques (Originally Posted: 11/25/2010)
Currently I am interviewing with an MM M&A advisory. Prior to the interview I was brushing up on the different styles of DCF as well as different accounting methods in M&A in case I had forgotten something and wanted to make sure I didn't mix anything up. Yet, as the job starts I will primarily be doing market research and private company research. I was invited back for another interview and wanted to know if anyone had any good techniques for researching private market trends as well as good sources to find information on private companies. I know of one source: www.SecondMarket.com Want to know if anyone has done this type of research before and knows a good platform to start on and go from there. I want to be able to briefly analyze a few markets and a few companies so I can prove my worth in the next interview.
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving.
Go Ireland.
Also interested
First of all, you're not going to be able to find the financials of private firms. Second of all, "private market trends" is too vague for me to give an answer. If you were interested in a certain sector, then maybe I could help you out more. At any rate, I'd suggest you go to the companies website, determine what sector they are in, see who the management is, and what awards they have won, if any. Next I would see if they have received any funding (CrunchBase.com is usually a good starting point).
I would add to these recommended resources: PrivCo (private company financial database) - probably the best resource for researching private companies I've found in 20 years in company researching.
Databases to Pull Financials and Other Info for Private, PE-backed Company? (Originally Posted: 09/13/2016)
Does anyone have any recommendations on what database to use or how to go about finding financial and other material information regarding a private, PE-backed company?
I was thinking of Dunn & Bradstreet or PrivCo but have not used them before and wanted to generate a few suggestions before I spend some money to gain access. Thanks in advanced.
Pitchbook is pretty helpful
NuclearPenguins thanks for the suggestion. Pitchbook seems to be geared towards tech companies whereas I am looking more so at energy. Any suggestions? Any thoughts about PrivCo if you've used them before?
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