Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to find, screen, and track companies across the life of a spinout or partnership.
Record-based outcomes
Cohort outcomes from the record, not the survey
Headcount, turnover, funding and grant history for every company in a cohort, across years, without contacting any of them — including the raises that were never announced, which on some searches is the majority of them.
Beyond your network
Find the companies your network never reached
A human-verified classification built from what companies do and say, plus free-text description search — so an emerging cluster with no official code becomes a defensible regional list, typically several times the size of the SIC-based equivalent.
Whole-group view
See the whole group before you commit
Filed financials, group structure and the parent above your prospective partner in one record — so a due-diligence check covers the entity that can actually take the partnership down, and you can say no with something to point at.
Common challenges faced by universities
The research had an effect and you cannot prove it, so the submission never goes in. REF and KEF decide real money, and a case study you can’t evidence isn’t a weaker case study — it’s one you withdraw.
The partner list is whoever the department already knows, and the same names come round each year. There are hundreds of companies on your doorstep that nobody has a route to, because the route was always somebody’s contacts.
Alternative proteins, hydrogen, critical minerals, silicon photonics, PFAS. The cluster your institution is funded to serve is exactly the one official codes have no category for, so every cohort is hand-assembled and hand-defended.
Open a company, find the year, read the headcount, go back, repeat — across a cohort, across several years. It takes days per return, and it has to happen again next year.
A portfolio company raises millions and you hear about it from someone else. Others quietly haven’t raised in three years. The annual survey comes back from a fraction of them, and that fraction becomes the evidence base.
Different departments hold different subscriptions and return different answers. A partner passes on its own accounts while the holding company above it is heading for a winding-up order — because nobody looked at the group.
Help your team identify ideal partners, analyse market trends, and back your spinouts with confidence.
Use cases
What universities use Beauhurst for
“We have been very impressed with the data held on the system… it’s not only been helpful in identifying and targeting companies we would want to undertake collaborative R&D with, it’s also helped us identify sources of funding for existing relationships, with the view to growing these too.”
Saqab RasulSME & KE Manager
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