At Preqin, we’re committed to continually expanding our services and focusing on how we can serve your needs better. In 2024, we made significant improvements to our data and solutions, developing many exciting new products and features to help you grow your AUM.
Whether you’re analyzing the market, raising a fund, deploying capital, monitoring portfolio risks and valuations, benchmarking your performance, or reporting back to investors – Preqin is here to support you with our end-to-end solutions, tools, and insights to drive growth in these challenging times.
If you would like a training session to learn more about any of our updates or new products, please reach out to your dedicated account manager, or our Client Services team, via email or live chat (available 24/5, Mon-Fri).
Insights
Market intelligence at your fingertips
In 2024, our expert team of alternative assets specialists published 270 news stories, 114 free reports, 117 premium research reports, and hosted 29 webinars to bring you timely and critical private market insights into the latest news, trends, key developments, opportunities, and challenges.
We also redesigned our News & content site and launched two new content hubs focused on fundraising and sustainability in private markets – all to help you find content more easily on Preqin.
In case you missed any of it, here's some of our key highlights from 2024:
Fundraising from Private Wealth 2024: A Guide to Raising Capital
GP Fundraising Trends in 2024 − Does Performance Attract Capital?
Fundraising in review: the big got bigger, the smaller struggled
Deal data in review: global deals market goes back to basics
Product releases
Helping you raise more capital, faster
Revolutionize how you negotiate your fund terms
Understanding where your LPA terms stand against the competition while managing investors’ expectations on fees and expenses is crucial to securing capital allocations, especially as fund terms can differ considerably from asset class to asset class.
Term Intelligence, a searchable database of LPA terms, enables you to benchmark your terms against the wider market and optimize your strategy when launching new funds.
Source investor documents that matter to you
Spend less time searching for the documents you need to stay on top of investor activity – Preqin Pro’s Investor Documents page now offers the ability to search by keyword or phrase to easily find investor documents of interest. Filter your results by document type, investment details, asset class, investor type, and location.
Upload your target lists in Preqin Pro
Discover more about the investors and service providers you’re interested in, as well as other fund managers. Within Target Lists, upload your own lists from conferences, events, or other data sources directly into Preqin Pro to explore the full data available on these firms in the platform.
Use this new feature to:
Save time and resources by quickly creating detailed views of your target firms
Stay on top of new developments at the firms you’re monitoring
Share your target lists with colleagues to enhance collaboration
Stay on top of key personnel changes at firms you’re tracking
View the most recent contact updates at the firms you’re tracking in your Preqin Pro Target Lists to stay on top of organizational changes and spot new fundraising opportunities in a timely manner, plus monitor changes within your peer networks.
Access key investor data via Dynamics 365 Sales
Save time and resources by viewing Preqin data directly in your Dynamics 365 Sales instance. With the new Preqin for Dynamics 365 Sales plugin, you can instantly sync Preqin’s firm and contact information for investors and fund managers, as well as asset-class-specific information such as the current and target allocations of LPs.
Analyze investors’ ESG fund portfolio breakdown
Enhance your fundraising efforts for impact funds by viewing the ESG portfolio breakdown on an investor profile to understand their previous allocations and commitments to ESG funds. Visibility of investor fund preferences can indicate converging interests in future allocations.
New ESG management indicators
Source potential investors looking for sustainable funds like yours and track peer activity to pinpoint areas of ESG governance where you differ, with our newly expanded ESG management indicators.
Investor and fund manager firm profiles have been updated to include a new table displaying up to 43 new indicators across all governance types. Fund and asset profiles now include a new table showing the ESG disclosures for the asset’s fund manager or investor.
Find investors committed to sustainability with new ESG affiliations
We’ve added six new affiliations to the Investors by ESG search to help you better identify investors aligned with your sustainability preferences when raising capital. Use the ‘Affiliations’ filter to choose from over 40 key affiliations and gauge LPs’ commitments to sustainability. View all affiliations associated with a firm on their profile – with information on key focuses, minimum requirements, ongoing commitments, and more.
Supporting your capital deployment
Deal sourcing
Leverage fund performance data to identify the best private companies to invest in
Boost your deal origination by identifying potential investments likely to come to market soon based on the performance of the fund they are part of, with new filters for fund performance in Company Search.
Search for companies based on fund performance data, with the ability to filter by DPI, IRR, and net multiple, in conjunction with the existing holding period, fund vintage, and fund size filters.
This makes it easier for you to follow the entire flow of capital and understand the connections between the individual assets, funds, and managers involved to assess the value of your next opportunity more comprehensively.
More bootstrapped companies to boost your deal origination
Broaden your deal origination when deploying capital with access to an additional dataset of 21,000+ UK-based bootstrapped companies. The new dataset includes companies with a £1m+ turnover and a minimum of three years of consecutive filings to help you source the best investment opportunities with high potential for value creation.
Navigate to Company Search in Preqin Pro and select ‘Non-sponsor-backed’ under the ‘Funding Type’ section in ‘More filters’ to explore these new companies.
Source new deals with companies similar to your existing targets
Identify potential investment opportunities similar to your existing targets or build comparison sets with the enhanced ‘Similar Companies’ feature, on company profiles in Preqin Pro.
Compare companies based on employee counts and growth, financials, and more – enabling you to gauge performance for competitor analysis or refine your target lists for deal sourcing.
The latest enhancements also include new filters that enable you to refine a list of similar companies based on location, sector, and stage. You can even sort each column to populate results of similar companies based on your preferences.
Source companies using ESG-related information
Easily create investment target lists for companies based on ESG asset-level information, with new inclusion and exclusion criteria such as ESG fund, EU taxonomy eligibility, UN SDG alignment, and controversial industry in Company Search. These complement the current filtering options, such as sector, company stage, financials, valuations, and fund performance – as well as the Actionability Signal tool – to power your deal sourcing.
Updated deal search and deal charts for private equity
Source deals faster than ever with our new Private Equity deal search. This merges ‘Buyout’ and ‘Venture Capital’ deals under one roof so you can search across various investment strategies at once. We’ve also consolidated our buyout and venture capital deal charts under private equity deal charts to provide a holistic view of the private equity deals market.
Early due diligence
Assess the value of your target investments more accurately
Go deeper when conducting your early due diligence, with Valuation Multiples Benchmarks and estimated valuations now available for 96,000+ private-equity-backed companies.
This addition to company profiles enables you to determine the value of a potential acquisition or investment more accurately by benchmarking it against similar private market deals – with the option to filter by sector, deal size, and EV range at entry and exit levels.
Enhanced buyout deals view on fund manager profiles
Boost your analysis of peer performance or evaluate a portfolio ahead of a potential secondary deal with an enhanced view on GP profiles – including new data points on the asset, ownership, and deal specifics. Leverage new filters to search for active and realized deals, and link directly from initial deal dates to individual deal profiles.
You can access the newly added data points via the buyout deals table under the ‘Deals/Assets’ tab on fund manager profiles.
Expanded cap table coverage for US companies
Gain a clear understanding of a company's ownership structure with cap tables – now available for a wider set of companies in the US. Navigate to company profiles on Preqin Pro to easily identify who has invested in them, find out their returns across various funding rounds, and discover who might be looking to exit based on whether they’ve achieved their expected return.
Enhanced private company ownership data
Gain clear insights into a private company’s ownership to accelerate your capital deployment strategy with updated ownership data. Under ‘Ownership’ in company profiles, you’ll find new columns for investor type, location, fund, and holding period to help you better identify companies that fit your investment strategy.
There’s also an ownership summary in the firm overview section. Use the insights to conduct due diligence on the ownership structure of companies and engage with active investors.
Enhanced ESG data for private companies
Preqin has partnered with The Impact Institute to integrate data from their Global Impact Database (GID) and Measurabl – giving clients with Preqin ESG Solutions access to exclusive ESG data at the asset level. This includes impact materiality estimates, financial materiality assessments, and ESG performance data to help enhance your early due diligence with a holistic view of a company’s sustainability profile.
ESG Solutions now includes real estate data
Preqin has partnered with Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG technology for real estate, to provide the first global dataset of real estate carbon and energy metrics for private markets.
Clients with access to Preqin ESG Solutions can now review real estate asset benchmarks on energy consumption and carbon emissions for 83,000+ buildings. The data can be utilized to perform ESG due diligence on real estate assets and understand an asset’s ESG performance compared to similar ones.
Integrating Preqin’s deal and company data into your system
Seamlessly integrate deal and company data into your systems
Integrate Preqin deal and company data into your system with two new Data Feeds endpoints – enabling you to increase productivity and access large quantities of data on demand.
Analyze the executive and leadership team at your target companies and view improved deal types and other metadata through the new Company Key Contact Executives and Deal Buyout Fundamentals endpoints – all directly accessible from your systems via Preqin’s Data Feeds solution.
Supporting your valuations and risk monitoring
In 2024 we expanded our solutions even further to enable GP portfolio monitoring, risk monitoring, and valuations teams to validate private asset valuation assumptions with confidence.
Transaction Intelligence is a new private capital transaction repository covering $4.8tn worth of invested capital from 63,000+ private market deals and 7,000+ funds, enabling you to make informed decisions when investing in private markets.
Confidently validate valuation assumptions
Transaction Intelligence enables you to confidently validate valuation assumptions, improve risk monitoring, and enhance due diligence in private markets. Powered by customizable analytics, this repository saves you time and resources when valuing companies, assets, and fund portfolios. You can rely on our transaction data collected directly from GP reports to LPs, using Preqin’s pioneering and rigorous data collection methodology.
Analyze fair value adjustments
Bring more transparency to asset pricing by understanding whether adjustments made to private asset valuations are in line with the rest of the market. Index fair value adjustments against a selected cohort of transactions to ensure valuations are accurate, reliable, and defensible.
Supporting your performance benchmarking and reporting
Stand out from the crowd by benchmarking your ESG fund performance
The industry’s #1 benchmarking solution, Preqin Benchmarks, now includes ESG data – explore 205+ ESG fund performance benchmarks, covering 1,000+ ESG funds. The only benchmarks of their kind, Preqin Benchmarks enable you to comprehensively analyze ESG-labeled funds and compare their performance against the market. Equipped with these insights, you can craft a compelling pitch to prospective investors that effectively articulates your fund’s strategy, performance outlook, and ESG credentials.
Enhanced Private Capital Quarterly Index
Showcase your performance in the context of the wider market with our enhanced Private Capital Quarterly Index, now including 16 new indices – covering North America, Europe, and Asia across core private market asset classes and strategies – in addition to our existing global indices.
Capturing returns worth over $11.3 trillion in market capitalization across 14,500+ private capital funds worldwide, the index enables you to compare portfolio returns at the strategy or asset level against the wider industry to make more informed decisions.
Enhancements to the Preqin Index Methodology and Preqin Indices
The Preqin Index Methodology reflects our commitment to driving transparency across the global alternatives market. Our enhanced index methodology is guided by the standards expected in public markets and trusted by investors worldwide. It consolidates the insights from recent global market consultations and aims to establish the industry benchmark for excellence in private market closed-end fund indices.
The recent consultations have driven enhancements to Preqin Indices across index construction, calculation, and governance to ensure an accurate, complete, and timely representation of the characteristics and performance of private markets.
Access Preqin data from your browser with the new Preqin Chrome Extension
Discover the Preqin Chrome Extension, a browsing search widget that enables you to access Preqin data directly from your Chrome, Opera, or Microsoft Edge browser.
Optimize your workflows and enhance your browsing experience with access to all the essential data you need – covering investors, fund managers, funds, assets, service providers, and consultants. Included with your Preqin subscription, you can now download this new extension and start using it today.
Data coverage
Delivering more essential data every year
We’re always expanding and enhancing our datasets to maximize their value to you, and in 2024 we made some significant strides to improve our data coverage over many key areas.
Our in-depth investor coverage grew by 13% – 4,100+ new investors were added worldwide, bringing our total coverage in January 2025 to 33,900+ to continue to help you raise more capital faster. As part of this growth, we added 1,800+ new private wealth investors, and grew our investor coverage in the Middle East by 34% to 1,200k+.
Our world-class global research department reviewed over 1 million total contacts, including 321k+ investor contacts, giving you more chances for a successful outreach with more up-to-date information on key personnel, including their contact details and preferred method of contact.
2024 saw 21,600+ fund commitments added to investor profiles, bringing our total coverage to just over 283,200 fund commitments. Preqin’s global coverage now includes commitment data for 15,100+ investors across 122 countries, covering 57 different vintage years.
Plus, as of January 2025, we have 2,500+ investor mandates & RFPs listed, thanks to our direct relationships with LPs, to give you a competitive advantage when fundraising.
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