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'''Popular ==Major Databases for Venture Capital Investments'''==
*Cooley
*Quandl
**
Venture Capital Databases (view source)
Revision as of 18:45, 16 November 2015
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In alphabetic order:
*Bright*Sun [http://brightsungroup.com/]
**data collection technology using algorithims and models on loose data
**130,000 + sources
**data on revenue and valuations
*Crunchbase (by Techcrunch)[https://www.crunchbase.com/#/home/index]
**search functionality for organizations, people, events, and products
**global data center
**web-based research center on VC trends benchmarks with visualization tools
*Thomson Reuters
*VC Experts [https://www.vcexperts.com/]
==Aggregate data==
The main source of aggregate data is '''PWC MoneyTree''' (https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/). PWC MoneyTree uses the Thomson-Reuters data and also compiles the annual survey for the '''National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)'''[http://nvca.org/research/venture-investment/].
Quandl provide summary data on angel investment, venture capital, and start-up valuations (https://www.quandl.com/collections/usa/usa-startups-venture-capital). For North America, the underlying data providers are:
* The Bureau of Labor Statistics[https://www.quandl.com/data/BLS]: http://www.bls.gov/
* The National Venture Capital Assocation (NVCA): http://nvca.org/
* The Center for Venture Research
* The Cooley Venture Financing Report
Quandl also draw data from the Kauffman Foundation and Crunchbas. They have an API[https://www.quandl.com/blog/getting-started-with-the-quandl-api].
Cooley is a leading international law firm in representing both emerging growth companies and venture capital funds in venture capital financings. Cooley does third-party valuations for venture capital backed firms[https://www.cooley.com/vcfinancings]. They produce a report on their valuations[https://www.cooley.com/venture-financing-report-q1-2015].
The Center for Venture Research is a multidisciplinary research unit of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. The Center, founded in 1984, studies early stage equity financing for high growth ventures[https://paulcollege.unh.edu/cvr]. It run by Jeffrey Sohl, and is noteworthy for its publication of statistics on Angel investment[http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2015/05/em14cvr.cfm].
