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Alerts on Private Company Activity
Genesis now alerts users when new technical data is added on private companies you are monitoring. As you know, we already have the deepest and widest data commercially available on private company deals, terms and conditions. Now, for the companies you are ‘watching’, you will be alerted when new data or filings are added.
Want to know every S-1 that was recently filed? Want to keep current with changes to the companies within your portfolio? Monitoring certain sectors or certain early stage companies for activity? We push the information that is relevant to YOU front and center so you won’t need to hunt for it.
[Infographic] Fantasy Funding – Featuring DraftKings
The Road Goes Ever On and On…
“The road goes ever on and on down from the door from where it began. Life is a long journey, the road marked out by previous travelers has no end in sight. Still around the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate and though we pass them by today, tomorrow we may come this way, and take the hidden paths that run towards the moon or to the sun.” J.R.R. Tolkien
In many instances we tend to stick with the same sources of data that feed us the bare minimum data to suffice our needs. But what if there is better, more reliable, accurate, and verified sources of data? A complete private company picture with all of the financing events, executives, pricing, and predictive analytics that make your job easier. That’s why we created Lagniappe Labs. A true intelligent source of private financing data and analytics that is there for your due diligence efforts. Sometimes it’s the unbeaten path that leads the way, the secret gate you’ve been waiting for.
Press Release: New Investor Technology to Provide Insights into Investing in Private Companies
Platform Resulted from Collaboration by Investment Data and Software Development Industry Leaders
August 18, 2015
(Shreveport, LA) – VC Experts, a data aggregator of privately held companies, and Switchback Partners, a software development team based in Austin, Texas that specializes in stock market trading and analytic platforms, join to reduce inefficiencies in the private market analysis and transaction space. The new entity, Lagniappe Labs, federates large volumes of private company information from many difficult to acquire sources. Their platform, “Genesis”, provides tools that allow users to build their own analysis on technicals around the specific private financing deal terms, Valuations and Multiples, Cost of Capital, and many other models to satisfy research due diligence practices. Genesis also allows users to build their own indexes and themes on private companies and then compare those against similar public companies.
As primary and secondary investment interest in privately held companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Dropbox increase, tools and data that create greater transparency into those companies are more in demand.
“VC Experts biggest differentiator has always been data collection or original source documents from the Secretary of State offices,” said Joe Bartlett, Chairman and Co-Founder of VC Experts “which gives us a huge advantage over media or wiki sources of data. However, you can have the best data in any market but if you don’t offer your users an effective and useful way to interrogate that information, it does no good. We’re bringing the best technology and the best data to our customers and we’re confident Lagniappe Labs will trump any market data platform currently offered in this space.”
According to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, private equity investments in the U.S. alone for Q1 2015 were $116B. That includes $65B in exits during the same quarter. While not the record breaking numbers of 2014 where the markets saw exits from buyouts exceed $450B, these numbers suggest interest in private companies will continue to be strong.
“Customers cannot trust start-up’s that don’t verify the data and are leaving more expensive platforms due to questions surrounding their data integrity. For that reason, Genesis is quickly gaining adoption along many fronts, including major investment banks, valuation firms, venture firms, and secondary investment firms.” said Rod Taylor, Lagniappe Labs partner and Director of Business Development. “We are positioning the technology to power fiduciary-driven decision making and directional analysis using all the validated data we can get our hands on.”
Private companies are staying private longer. With massive sums that companies are raising in private deals, demand for data and tools that create a more efficient market should only continue to grow.
About Lagniappe Labs
Lagniappe Labs uses state, federal and difficult to acquire corporate filings in a fully configurable platform that allows users to analyze the value of privately held companies and improve investor confidence. The technology provides tools and data to build financial models on specific sectors, people, industries, investors and more.
Find us on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lanyaplabs
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lagniappe-labs
Contact Big Bend Strategies: Rod Taylor, 512.825.8709, rod@bigbendstrategies.com
Introducing Genesis.
We’re excited to unveil Genesis by Lagniappe Labs. The Genesis platform exhibits the most comprehensive set of private market information and is packed full of predictive analytic charts and graphs. This real time platform gives you more granular private company information at a fraction of the cost compared to CapIQ, Thomson, Pitchbook and others. This is where your due diligence starts (and ends).
Begin proper due diligence now.