Interested in entrepreneurship? Then we have great news!
We now have an Entrepreneurship Research Guide,
built by Sara Heimann, the new Innovation & Entrepreneurship Librarian at the UCI Libraries!
Venture Capital (VC), Private Equity (PE), and Grant Funding
PitchBook *(Current UCI students, faculty, & staff)
Geography: US & Global
Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, identify and analyze competitors, and search investor details.
Preqin: Private Equity Online
Geography: Global
This resource encompasses all of Preqin's private equity and venture capital databases. It provides data on all aspects of the asset class, including fund terms and conditions, fundraising, fund managers, institutional investors, fund performance, deals and exits, service providers and more. The earliest data tends to be back to the 1980's.
S&P Capital IQ *(Current UCI students, faculty, & staff)
Geography: Global
A comprehensive company intelligence database, offering granular financial and capital structure information on millions of companies worldwide, including data and graphs for historic stock prices, searchable SEC filings, mergers & acquisitions activities, and venture capital/private equity data.
National Venture Capital Association
VC advocacy group, including resources for entrepreneurs and information on the VC industry. (The UCI Libraries does not have a membership to NVCA.)