Private Equity Database Overview
AlphaSense’s powerful AI-driven technology streamlines the complexity of private markets research, surfacing key metrics, data, and insights on any company, industry, or trend.
- Surface key developments and disclosures for 68,000 public companies and structured data/financials on 37,000 public and 1.4M private companies.
- Private company profiles provide the company overview, contact information, additional information, current directors, former directors, group structure, key financials, ratio analysis, income statement and balance sheet for 10M+ private companies across EMEA and Japan.
- Purpose-built for private equity firms, AlphaSense’s Wall Street Insights® offers access to aftermarket research from 1,500+ premium sell-side and independent research providers. With leading equity research from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC and others, enhance due diligence and gain a deeper understanding of the market landscape in seconds.
What Comprises AlphaSense’s Private Equity Data?
The AlphaSense platform aggregates a mosaic of quantitative and qualitative insights to create a holistic overview of any particular theme, macroeconomic trend, company, or industry for private equity managers.
Our expansive content library holds more than 10,000 documents on private and public companies, allowing users to access crucial market intelligence in a fraction of the time it would ordinarily take. These comprehensive insights drive confident investment theses, determine allocations or placements, validate deal activity, and surface new opportunities.
Industry Trends
As the private equity landscape continues to evolve and adapt to shifting market conditions, keeping a pulse on leading industry trends is crucial in the periphery of a complex transaction, or while conducting due diligence.
With our Industry Dashboards, you can monitor trending activity around a particular industry with notifications to keep you in the know when a market event occurs. You can also set up real-time alerts to receive email notifications for those instances when you’re away from the platform.
Market Landscapes
AlphaSense offers all the tools necessary to conduct total addressable market (TAM) analysis, proper market sizing, industry benchmarking, reputational risk management, management analysis, and more. Our AI-based capabilities like Smart Synonyms™ and sentiment analysis help capture critical insights across structured and unstructured data sources, helping you get the most out of your research.
Our Keyword Search feature helps to quickly determine the viability of a deal by running a thematic search to map the market, identify segment-specific drivers, and uncover any red flags.
Private Company Information
The AlphaSense platform features difficult-to-locate structured financials for 1.4 million private companies—data that is almost impossible to locate elsewhere. Conduct a deep dive on any company, public or private, in no time.
Private company profiles provide an inside glimpse into the company overview, contact information, current and former directors, group structure, key financials, ratio analysis, income statement and balance sheet for 10M+ private companies across EMEA and Japan. Our Table Tools enable you to access and export key financials, ratio analysis, income statement and balance sheets to kickstart further analysis.
Private company profiles help to screen potential deals and provide peer comps to ensure there are no blind spots in your due diligence.
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Aftermarket Research
AlphaSense’s Wall Street Insights® aggregates research offerings from 1,500+ sources in seconds, including Goldman Sachs and Citi, all of which enhance due diligence and help you gain a deep understanding of the market landscape. By running a thematic search across all broker research in the AlphaSense platform, you can easily get a sense of analyst perspectives on a key topic for a potential investment.
Additionally, our aftermarket research provides valuable insights into metrics such as operational performance, market size, market share, profitability, growth rate and potential, and competitive position. Equity research coverage in the platform includes:
- Company coverage initiation and ongoing reports
- In-depth Industry reports
- Regional outlooks
- Macroeconomic reviews
- Senior Management Perspectives
- Other exclusive information
Use Cases for AlphaSense’s Private Equity Database
Streamline Financial Analysis for Hard-to-Document Companies
With AI-driven capabilities, conducting financial analysis for private companies is easier than ever. Traditionally, this task would entail scouring through various platforms, company websites, IR presentations, and proprietary research findings to collect all the required information. In addition to being highly tedious and time-consuming, this method is highly inefficient and likely to miss crucial data points buried in 100-page documents.
With AlphaSense, these manual methods become obsolete thanks to AI-driven automated tools. Our Table Explorer feature allows you to generate a historical lookback of a company’s financial performance, eliminating the need to toggle between different platforms and sources. It also helps to build better financial modeling by digging into quantitative analyses that validate your assumptions, and allows you to export data into Excel to assist with historical parts of financial models.
Perform M&A Due Diligence
AlphaSense brings together four key market perspectives in one powerful platform to give investors the complete picture for their M&A due diligence, ultimately driving smarter decisions and better outcomes.
Our platform covers four key market perspectives for the most comprehensive, 360-degree due diligence view:
- Company: Documents published by a company (10Qs, Earnings Calls, etc) that offer an official view of how they are performing, clues to their strategy, and capture changes and events in their lifecycle.
- Analyst: In-depth research published by Wall Street researchers who leverage years of experience to dive deep into companies, industries, and markets.
- Journalist & Regulatory: Content published in news and industry journals, as well as publications by government agencies and NGOs. This content set captures how industry experts and regulators react to events, trends, and news.
- Expert: A vast library of calls with industry experts such as former executives, customers, competitors, and partners who are no more than two years out of the industry.
These four market perspectives, paired with the platform’s proprietary AI features, help to quickly and confidently identify the insights you need—so that you can get the entire picture and ensure no stone is left unturned.
Additionally, custom dashboards and alerts can be enabled as a way to stay informed on funding rounds, IPOs, or potential M&A activity.
Surface Companies Not on your Radar
Getting up to speed on trends and themes impacting the private equity space is helpful not only for idea generation, but also to surface companies that wouldn’t ordinarily be on your radar. For instance, an analyst wanting to gauge traction in the renewable energy sector can start with a simple keyword search on the AlphaSense platform.
A search for “renewable energy” generates instant results, indicating a surge in private company document activity over the last 90 days. Within seconds, a simple keyword search can incite idea generation by surfacing the most relevant findings and trends, which can drive subsequent research and more confident due diligence.
With AlphaSense’s Search Summary feature, you can take the initial search a step further and hone in on renewable energy startups with the click of a button. For example, let’s say you want to take a closer look at renewable energy startups with Series B funding. By putting “renewable energy series b” in the search bar, you now see the following results:
From here, you can scroll over a particular company and get a snapshot of their funding, revenue streams, recent news mentions, company documents, expert mentions, and more. AlphaSense’s expansive content library contains more than 10,000 documents on private and public companies, providing crucial market intelligence in seconds.
Discover Themes with AlphaSense’s Expert Insights
Expert perspectives are a highly valuable resource in the private equity space for validating potential investments. With AlphaSense’s Expert Insights offering, PE firms can gain a 360-degree view of a potential investment. By speaking with an industry expert with firsthand experience relating to the target company or market, PE firms get unique, differentiated, deep insights into market dynamics, competitors, and potential opportunities. WIth these insights, they can get a better understanding of the landscape that an emerging company operates in and better evaluate its competitive market position.
Our expert transcript library also contains over 45,000 interviews conducted by leading analysts with top industry experts, all of which are filled with unique insights that are key for staying on the leading edge and driving proactive research.
In a world where data is often scarce and difficult to source, validating investment theses is an important component of private equity research. Engaging with industry experts through AlphaSense’s expert calls and expert transcript library allows investors to validate their hypotheses and mitigate risks.
Uncover the Most Relevant Trends
AlphaSense’s aftermarket research offering provides a litmus test for the most trending topics in private equity—including the dawn of retail expansion, the rise of private credit, portfolio diversity, sustainability trends, secondary deals, and characteristics of the top performing private equity firms. With in-depth analyst findings, you can decipher fact from fiction in a matter of minutes.
With Expert Insights, get the inside scoop on trends within the industry— including which firms are finding fundraising success and insights on hard-to-research companies.
