We have data on the UK's entire fundraising landscape, covering both announced deals that are shouted about in the press, and unannounced deals that are quietly filed to Companies House.
This means that when you're wanting an accurate picture of fundraising activity, you're seeing the full picture on Beauhurst, not only those that are in news articles.
Find out more about our fundraising and valuation data here.
Using the Advanced Search, you can interrogate our investment dataset to:
Benchmark valuations and find deal comparables
View trends in investment over time, e.g. into emerging sectors or key locations
See top investors either by number of deals or total investment amount
For this article, we will use the example of viewing fundraising trends in FinTech in the past 5 years
Building the search
Change the white box from 'companies' to 'fundraisings'.
2. Select 'date of fundraising'.
3. Use the 'relative timeframes' option to say within the last 5 years.
4. Add a new fundraising criteria, and scroll down to 'company that secured the fundraising'. From the sub-menu that opens, select 'industries and buzzwords'
5. Select 'FinTech', either by searching for it in the search bar on the top left, or by scrolling through the options on the right.
Viewing the trends in the statistics tab
By default, the Advanced Search will return a list of 'Search Results', which will show all individual investments in chronological order.
If you click the 'Statistics' tab, you can view aggregate data to inform your research and export into reports.
Fundraisings over time, both by number of deals (orange line) and value of deals (blue bar)
Fundraising averages, including valuations.
Stage of evolution breakdown i.e. are there more early stage or later stage deals?
Top investors by number and value of fundraisings.
In depth analysis
If you need to run more detailed analysis, we would recommend you download the data into a spreadsheet using the 'export to CSV' option. Find out more on how to do this in our dedicated help article on exporting.