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Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.

 

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Venture Capital (VC), Private Equity (PE), and Grant Funding


Venture Capital (VC), Private Equity (PE), and Grant Funding

 

​PitchBook
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
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. 

  • Users must create an account with their UCI email address.
  • Download limits apply.

 

CB Insights
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Geography: US & Global

Global data and information about the financing activities of startup companies and investors, including venture capital firms, angel investors, as well as M&A and IPO activity. Specializing in emerging industries, the database also offers data-driven research reports, performance metrics related to company health, and data visualization and presentation tools.

  • Users must create an account with their UCI email address.  Look for this text in the login box: "New user? Sign up."
  • Download limits apply.

 

S&P Capital IQ
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
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.  

 

Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: Global

Thousands of business articles from news, trade, and scholarly publications, including titles like American Banker, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Power Finance & Risk.

 

National Venture Capital Association
Access: Public
Geography: US

VC advocacy group, including resources for entrepreneurs and information on the VC industry.  (The UCI Libraries does not have a membership to NVCA.)

 
Small Business Administration:  Awards Database
Access: Public
Geography: US

Federal agencies with extramural research and development (R&D) budgets that exceed $100 million are required to allocate approximately 3% of their R&D budget to domestic small businesses with the potential for commercialization or technology transfer.  These grant programs are called:
  • Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 
  • Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) 
A database of startup companies that received these grants is searchable by criteria including: state, year, and sponsoring agency (e.g. the National Institutes of Health).  
 
 

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