Kresge Research Guides: Finance: Private Equity & Deals

Databases for Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital & Private Equity

CB Insights
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We have access to CB Insights until January 30, 2019 through the Library Data Grants Program.

CB Insghts has private company, investor, emerging markets, startup and industry data and news. Search deal information including private equity and venture capital. You must create an account using your Umich email. Do not use your Kerberos password.
If you have set up a trial account to CB Insights in the past you may have trouble logging in. In that case you should call CB Insights at (212) 292-3148 to have them fix your account.
PitchBook
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Search thousands of private equity and venture capital deals by hundreds of criteria. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details.

Technical Notes: Available to current MBA students only. Downloads are not available.
PrivCo
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Business and financial research for over 700,000 firms non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies.
Technical notes: A personal account created with your @umich.edu email is required for access and downloading.
Video tutorials:
- PrivCo Video Walk-through
Zephyr
Use the Advanced Search screen of Zephyr to search across deals.
ThomsonONE
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- Note: MUST USE IE Browser
- Look for Screening & Analysis-->Deals and League Tables
Video tutorials:
Finding Analyst Reports in ThomsonOne: Search & Download [3:09]
Finding Analyst Reports in ThomsonOne: Specific Analyst [3:16]
S&P Capital IQ
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S&P Capital IQ platform provides research, data, and analysis on private and public companies. Financial information for over 100,000 companies globally. Additional data on industries, capital structure, M&A, PE, fixed income, and company-level ownership information are also included. Historical and forecast macroeconomic data and historical data on over 270 commodities series, with some available to 1970.

Accounts Expire at the end of Winter term. Subscription runs through December 2018.
Corporate Affiliations
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Lists of mergers and acquisitions arranged by both acquiring and acquired company, going back to 1976.

Other online M&A, PE and VC research resources

New Enterprise Forum (NEF)
NEF supports entrepreneurs in Michigan through a network of stakeholders who provide expertise and guidance as well as some online guides to pitching, determining TAM and more.
Innovate Blue
UMich's entrepreneurial hub, Innovate Blue connects the many programs, centers, student organizations and others on campus who are engaged in entrepreneurship.
Crunchbase
Crunchbase is a free site that tracks VC funding for tech-based startups. Find out who is investing in what. For more of this kind of info, be sure to check out the PrivCo and PitchBook databases, too.
CB Insights
The CB Insights blog has some great infographics and other posts about trends in VC and PE. You can sign up for their newsletter, too, if you'd like daily posts to keep you informed.