Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Company Overviews

Company Overviews

S&P Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Company intelligence database, including granular financial and capital structure information on companies worldwide. Company profiles contain data and graphs for historic stock prices, searchable SEC filings, mergers and acquisitions activities, and venture capital/private equity data. Also features biographic and professional connection information for business leaders.

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PitchBook This link opens in a new window
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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.

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Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Company directory database, powered by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Includes profiles for public and private companies globally. Particularly useful for building a list of companies and for understanding parent/subsidiary relationships.
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
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Select public and large private company profiles worldwide, particularly for consumer goods and services. Many profiles include a brief SWOT Analysis.

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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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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.

Nexis Uni [homepage] >> Menu [top left corner] >> Company Dossier
Tip: Search on either the ticker symbol (for public companies) or the company's formal name.

Uniworld This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Global company directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Find 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 This link opens in a new window
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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.

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CB Insights This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
New! 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.

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Extra: The "Press Release" page on a private company's website, discoverable through Google, is also a critically important resource for private company news.

News is often one of the only sources of information on private companies.
These are news databases:

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Content includes scholarly business journals (including open access journals), trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and more.

Search first only by company name, and add more search terms as needed.
For ambiguous names (e.g., Apple) use: Select a Field (dropdown) > CO Company Entity.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Global full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites.

Maximum 12 users at a time.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Provides information and perspectives from numerous national and international news sources, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

Learn this Search: Company Search

GuideStar This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Database for nonprofit company intelligence, featuring current financial data, IRS forms, and visualizations of financial trends for nonprofits. Includes a directory to search for nonprofits by size, cause, and location, plus 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.
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 This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Global company directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Find 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 This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Company directory database, powered by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Includes profiles for public and private companies globally. Particularly useful for building a list of companies and for understanding parent/subsidiary relationships.
Passport This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Analytical reports on large global consumer companies' operations in various countries worldwide.

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MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
Analytical reports on large global consumer companies' operations in various countries worldwide.
International in scope. Public and select large private company profiles, including SWOT analyses.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Content includes scholarly business journals (including open access journals), trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and more. Often one of the only sources of information on foreign companies.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Provides information and perspectives from numerous national and international news sources, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Often one of the only sources of information on foreign companies.

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