The Advanced Search is the most powerful tool on the platform. It's the place to go to build lists of companies, fundraisings, investors, People, and more! By combining different criteria you can create both broad and specific lists and then view aggregate statistics, track changes via Collections, or export from the platform via CSV.
Some of the most common uses for the Advanced Search include:
Lead generation: Building lists of target companies that fit your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) or Total Addressable Market (TAM)
Market research: Scope all companies of a certain size, location, industry, or growth stage
Deal comparables: Generate a snapshot of historic investments for a given industry or growth stage
People searching: Identify industry experts, angels investors, and High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) with experience in a certain sector
For step-by-step examples of these searches and others, check out our dedicated pages on the Advanced Search. The following videos provide an overview to this feature:
Navigating to Advanced Search and Loading previous searches:
To get to the Advanced Search, hover over 'Search' on the top-left of the platform, and click the first item in the drop-down menu:
You can view previous searches saved to your account, or created by your colleagues, by clicking 'Open search':
Searching for fundraisings, funds, people etc.
To switch between search types, click the white drop-down box labelled 'companies' (note, all white boxes in the Advanced Search query builder are clickable!):
Start building!
Start layering criteria by clicking 'Add company criteria', and you're off! For more information and examples, check out the Advanced Search section in our Help Centre. Here is an example for finding Innovative MedTech SMEs in London:
Useful links:
Using Financial Statement criteria (Headcount, Turnover, EBITDA etc.)
Building your first search (example):
In this example, we build a list of all High Growth or Innovative companies in the Life Science sector in Nottinghamshire:
Now what?
Once you've built your first list, you have a number of options. Please check out our dedicated section on the Advanced Search tabs for more detail on the following options:
Research individual companies further by clicking on their name in the results list to navigate to their Company Profile Page
Export the results to a CSV file for off-line analysis - see our section on Downloads
Create a Collection to save the list to your account, then set up alerts and automatic tracking - see our section on Collections for more
View Statistics, Recent Activity, News or a location Map for the results using the accompanying tabs (see our dedicated section on Tabs here):
Finally, you can reverse engineer any search to view e.g. fundraisings/grants associated with the resultant companies by clicking the blue links below the search results:
Clicking '(+11 more...)' will give you the full list of options:
