Compustat Industrial Annual
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Data Range: 1950 - present, annually 
Number of Companies:    25,546 
Update Schedule: Annually, July 
Cut Date: 06/23/2005 

CRSP Daily Stock
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The CRSP NYSE/AMEX/NASDAQ Daily Stock file provides five kinds of information on individual securities: (1) identity information, which includes complete name histories, all historical CUSIPs, share classes, tickers, SIC codes, and other identifiers; (2) price histories and trading volumes for the period a security is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ Stock Market; (3) information on why a security stopped trading; (4) complete distribution histories including all dividends, stock splits, and special distributions; and (5) shares outstanding values.
Data Range: July 1962 - December 2004, daily 
Number of Companies:    24,620 
Update Schedule: Annually 
Last Updated: 2/07/05 

Compustat Balance Sheet and Income Statement Extract
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Data Range: 1950 - present, annually 
Number of Companies:    25,546 
Update Schedule: Annually, July 
Cut Date: 06/23/2005 

U.S. Domestic Public Offerings 
Database Scope
Date Range	1970 to present
Geography 	United States
Updates	Daily
Sources	SEC filings, prospectuses, news sources, wires, and daily surveys of underwriters and other corporate finance contacts
Transactions	106,000+
Inclusion Criteria
All issues of equity, corporate debt and taxable municipal debt that are firmly underwritten in the United States. To be included in the database, debt securities must have a maturity of at least one year. 

GNI International Public Offerings
Database Scope
Date Range	1983 to present
Geography 	Euro and international markets
Updates	Daily
Sources	Prospectuses, offering circulars, news sources and wires
Transactions	43,500+ 
Inclusion Criteria
Includes public and private offerings of equity and debt sold in the Euromarket. Also includes foreign market issues (e.g., Matadors, Samurai, Bulldog bonds).

GNI Canada Public Offerings
Database Scope
Date Range	1986 to present
Geography 	Canada 
Updates	Daily
Sources	Research provided by the Financial Post Information Group of Canada, a leading publisher of Canadian financial information.
Transactions	16,000+ public deals
Inclusion Criteria
Issuance of equity, corporate debt, and taxable municipal debt that are firmly underwritten and offered publicly or privately in the Canadian market including preliminary and withdrawn issues.

SDC MA: U.S. Targets and Non-U.S. Targets
Database Scope
Date Range	1979 to present domestically
1985 to present internationally
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Daily
Sources	Over 200 English and foreign language news sources, SEC filings and their international counterparts, trade publications, wires and proprietary surveys of investment banks, law firms and other advisors.
Transactions	116,100+ domestic, 147,000+ international
Inclusion Criteria
All corporate transactions involving at least 5% of the ownership of a company where the transaction was valued at $1 million or more (after 1992, deals of any value are covered) or where the value of the transaction was undisclosed. Public and private transactions are covered.

VentureXpert Funds
Database Scope
Date Range	1969 to present
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Fund reports, other updates daily
Sources	Industry surveys, quarterly and annual fund reports
Transactions	6,850+ venture capital and private equity funds
Inclusion Criteria
Venture capital and private equity funds that have invested in companies

VentureXpert Firms
Database Scope
Date Range	1970 to present
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Daily
Sources	Industry surveys, quarterly and annual fund reports.
Transactions	4,350+ venture capital and private equity firms
Inclusion Criteria
Investment management firms that operate venture capital and private equity funds

VentureXpert Portfolio Companies
Database Scope
Date Range	1970 to present
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Daily
Sources	Industry surveys, quarterly and annual fund reports, news sources.
Transactions	23,200+ private equity backed companies
Inclusion Criteria
Companies that have received private equity investment

VentureXpert Commitments
Database Scope
Date Range	1969 to present
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Quarterly
Sources	Industry surveys, quarterly and annual fund reports.
Transactions	3,000+ venture capital and private equity funds
Inclusion Criteria
Venture capital and private equity funds that have commitment levels

VentureXpert Disbursements
Database Scope
Date Range	1969 to present
Geography 	Worldwide
Updates	Daily
Sources	Industry surveys, quarterly and annual fund reports.
Transactions	117,500+ Investment records
Inclusion Criteria
Companies that have received venture capital and private equity financing.

VentureXpert IPOs
Database Scope
Date Range	1970 to present
Geography 	United States
Updates	Daily
Sources	SEC filings, prospectuses, news sources, wires
Transactions	3,050+ companies
Inclusion Criteria
Venture backed and buyout backed companies that have undergone an initial public offering (IPO)

VentureXpert M&As
Database Scope
Date Range	1970 to present
Geography 	United States
Updates	Daily
Sources	Quarterly and annual fund reports, news sources, wires.
Transactions	1,290+ deals
Inclusion Criteria
Venture-backed companies that have merged or been acquired