Alternative data use cases for investors in private markets
Get a God’s Eye View of Private Markets with Alternative Data

As business activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. Savvy growth equity investors use this alternative data to plug the information gap between public and private markets. Read on to find out how Thinknum’s alternative web data can help you track business activity like never before.

Track Employee Headcount at Drone Delivery Startups

Drone Delivery: Take-Off or Hard Landing?

To proxy for employee headcount, use the aggregated number of LinkedIn profiles that list a company as

Alternative Data Use Cases for Private Equity Investors

Bridge the Information Gap for Late-Stage Investments with Alternative Data

Savvy private equity investors use Thinknum's alternative data to bridge the information gap between public and private markets. Read on to learn how investors in private markets leverage alternative data for actionable insights.

Job Listings

Compare Job Listings at Web Design Rivals

Hiring can be a valuable leading indicator of future corporate performance. View the number of open job listings at various web design rivals in real-time, for example. Filter to gain in-depth competitive insights into specific market, location, and job categories.

Fresh Insights for Alpha-Generating Investment Ideas

Get A God’s Eye View of Financial Markets with Alternative Data

As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative financial advisors leverage this data for alpha-generating investment ideas. Read on to find out how Thinknum’s alternative web data can help you track business activity like never before.

Listen in on the Reddit Retail Army

Meme Stock Kings

Track the most popular companies on r/WallStreetBets in real time. You can also read all Reddit posts that mention a specific company for more granular insights, or to

Rethinking Alt Data in Every Link in Early-Stage Investment

Screening: Identify high potential startups

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Alternative data is useful for identifying high flying startups. Traditionally, VCs are getting firsthand information from their network to win deals and outperform. Using alternative data, VCs can use employee growth combined with funding milestones to figure out what companies they want to talk to.

Market Screening: hedge the risk by making bets on the winner

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An Investor’s Guide to long-Term Success

Weave Alternative Data Insights into Your Investment Strategy

Alternative data provides an investing edge across a myriad of industries. Investors who are building portfolios long term need to capture major changes before everyone else. Alternative data allows them to get inside the heads of corporate management.

Innovation Fuels Future Growth

Companies invest in strategies that they believe they can get an advantage in when major trends play out. For example, job listings data shows how and where a company is planning to grow. Investors can look back historically to see whether the companies