Case Studies

How VCs are Using Alternative Data to Find the Next Unicorn

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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.

Screen for the fastest growing Pre-Series A startups based in San Francisco with the last funding round closed within the last years

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

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Weave Alternative Data into Your Long-Term Investment Strategies

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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

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Get a God's-eye View of European Markets

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Alternative Data Insights for European Investors: Real-World Use Cases.

Alternative Data for European Investors

As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across companies listed in all major European exchanges.

Chemical Companies: Compare Job Openings on Xetra

Savvy investors look to hiring data as a valuable leading indicator of future corporate performance. View the number of open job listings at Lanxess and Linde in real-time, for example. Filter to gain in depth competitive insights into specific market, location, and job

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Generating Alpha Using Alternative Data in Capital Markets

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Stay Competitive in the Capital Markets

As companies move their business operations online, new data trails are being created that can be leveraged to make more informed investment decisions. This guide highlights use cases of alternative data across multiple sectors.

Track Location Expansion and Competition

Track where a company is growing or contracting geographically by individual locations. Overlay competitors and quantify how crowded a specific location is. Connect with demographics data to understand how macro trends affect specific companies.

Analyze the nearest competitors to each GameStop store within a two mile radius.

Track Hiring Plans by Company

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Generate Alpha in Australia

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Alternative Data for Australian Companies: Insights and Use Cases

As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. The following use cases illustrate how Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across Australian companies.

Construction: Compare Hiring Over Time

Savvy investors look to hiring data as a valuable leading indicator of future corporate performance. View the number of open job listings at CIMIC Group and Downer, for example. Filter to gain in-depth competitive insights into specific market, location, and job categories.

Hiring for the two major players in
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Learn more about Thinknum Alternative Data Today

As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative corporations and investors are using this data to get ahead.

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