Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to find, screen, and track private companies across the UK and Germany.
Unannounced deals
See the rounds and acquisitions nobody announced
Fundraisings picked up from shareholder filings and acquisitions detected from the corporate record — often months before anything is published, and in many cases never published at all. Investors describe finding companies here that appear nowhere else online.
Decision-makers
Get to the person who decides
UK cap tables, persons with significant control and group structure resolved through holdco chains, accurate enough that customers who know a company first-hand confirm its ownership history. On the venture side the same data runs in reverse — find the angels and co-investors active in a geography or sector, not just the companies.
Thin-filer screening
Screen companies that file almost nothing
Headcount, total assets and trade debtors where there is no profit and loss — plus a company moving from exemption to full accounts as a signal in its own right. Charges and secured lenders sit on the profile alongside them. German financials too, where extracting them by hand is a known ordeal.
Common challenges faced by investors
The band you buy in — two to ten million of turnover or EBITDA — is precisely what an owner-managed company filing abbreviated accounts does not publish. So the screen gets rebuilt out of proxies, and the companies you most want are the ones you can size least.
Who actually decides whether to sell, and will the minority holders make completion difficult? Most targets sit behind a holdco chain, and getting to the person with control means unpicking it by hand before you can even make an approach.
Leak detection rather than water. Deep tech rather than software. Conventional energy as well as clean. The list comes back with a thousand names, a keyword has misfired, and someone spends a day pruning it before the work starts.
The platforms are built around transactions, so they show you the companies that have been through a round — not the ones about to need one. The pre-institutional universe, where your edge actually is, barely appears.
A business raising right now, or coming up to a refinance, or with a facility about to turn. Once the round has closed or the debt is drawn you are too late, and there is no way to scan for the moment across a market.
Legacy contacts, brokers and intermediated processes, tracked in siloed files with no system behind them. It works until the pipeline is exhausted — and by the time a target reaches an intermediary, the valuation has already moved.
Help your team source opportunities faster, screen them quicker, and read the market with confidence.
Use cases
What investors use Beauhurst for
“100% of the deals that I’ve sourced, that we’ve then gone and made an offer on, have been found on Beauhurst.”
Alexandra McMullenOrigination at Foresight
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