S&P Capital IQ
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Geography: US & 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. Also features biographic and professional connection information for millions of business practitioners.
PitchBook
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Geography: US & Global
Profiles on over 3 million companies (including approximately 88,000 publicly traded companies). Especially useful for finding private, startup, and up-and-coming companies in emerging industries. Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds.
Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.
Mergent Intellect
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Geography: US & Global
Public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide. Particularly useful for building lists of companies and for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships (use the Family Tree tab for a company). [Mergent Intellect replaces Hoovers Pro. Data for both Mergent Intellect and Hoovers Pro comes from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).]
MarketLine Advantage
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Geography: US & Global
Select public and large private company profiles, spanning most major industries worldwide. Profiles often include a detailed SWOT Analysis.
Passport Global Market Information Database
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Geography: US & Global
Select public and large private company profiles worldwide, particularly for consumer goods and services. Many profiles include a brief SWOT Analysis.
Nexis Uni Company Dossier
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Geography: US & Global
Formerly LexisNexis Academic. The Company Dossier tool offers public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide. Particularly helpful for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships and some executive email addresses, as available.
Uniworld
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Geography: US & Global
A global directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Finds both U.S. firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the U.S. Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, and revenue.
PitchBook
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Geography: US & Global
Especially useful for finding private, startup, and up-and-coming companies in emerging industries. Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds.
Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.
Preqin
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Geography: US & 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.
News is often one of the only sources of information on private companies.
These are news databases:
Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Covers virtually all business subjects. Thousands of news articles from popular and trade sources.
Factiva
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Geography: US & Global
Worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and business-rich websites.
Access World News
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Full-text news from 600+ U.S. and 700+ international sources, offering viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.
Press Releases
The "Press Release" page on a private company's website, discoverable through Google, is also a critically important resource for private company news.
GuideStar
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
GuideStar specializes in nonprofit company intelligence. It covers 2.7 million nonprofits and features: current financial data; IRS forms; visualizations of financial trends for nonprofits; a directory to search for nonprofits by size, cause, and location; and a directory to search for people in leadership roles at nonprofits.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Access: Public
The national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS builds compatible national, state, and regional databases and develops uniform standards for reporting on the activities of charitable organizations.
IRS: Tax Exempt Organization Search
Access: Public
Find information about a tax-exempt organization’s federal tax status and filings.
The Nonprofit Network
Access: Public
From the Center for Public Integrity. Nonprofits must report money they give to other nonprofits on the public portion of their tax returns. This grant-funded resource mined 850,000+ tax forms filed electronically since 2010 from 250,000+ givers.
Plunkett Research Online
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Geography: US
Includes glossaries, statistics, company profiles and contacts, and industry associations and organizations.
International Organizations Search
Access: Public
From the Union of International Associations (UIA). Detailed information on global civil society bodies and networks (organization contact details, origins, relations, members, bibliography, biographies, events, statistics, etc.).
Uniworld
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
A global directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Finds both U.S. firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the U.S. Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, and revenue.
Mergent Intellect
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Public and private company information, as available, for companies worldwide. Particularly useful for building lists of companies and for hierarchical parent/subsidiary relationships (use the Family Tree tab for a company). [Mergent Intellect replaces Hoovers Pro. Data for both Mergent Intellect and Hoovers Pro comes from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).]
Passport Global Market Information Database
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Geography: US & Global
Analytical reports on large global consumer companies' operations in various countries worldwide.
MarketLine Advantage
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
International in scope. Public and select large private company profiles, including SWOT analyses.
Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: US & Global
Covers virtually all business subjects. Includes financial reports, trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, and market research reports. Often one of the only sources of information on foreign companies.
Access World News
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Geography: US & Global
Full-text news from 600+ U.S. and 700+ international sources, offering viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Often one of the only sources of information on foreign companies.
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