--- title: "Alternative Data · VCs & Private Equity | MixRank" description: "Alternative data for venture capital and private equity: job postings, hiring velocity, tech adoption, and SDK data across private companies, refreshed hourly." url: "https://mixrank.com/solutions/investment-intelligence/" --- Solution · VCs & Private Equity # Alternative data, built on signals that move before the funding announcement. Alternative data for venture capital works best when it's independent of what a company chooses to disclose. The same is true for alternative data for private equity. Deal teams need signal that shows up before a press release. We track job postings, hiring velocity, technology adoption, and SDK-level signal across private companies, timestamped per field and shipped in hourly update files, so a growth signal or a stealth launch goes out in the next one once we pick it up. [Talk to our data team ](/get-started/)[See Job Postings](/datasets/job-postings/) •Pre-IPO + late-stage coverage•1.8B+ job postings•Refreshed hourly•History back to 2021[See the dataset](/datasets/job-postings/) Powering the world's best data teams Signal engine ## Every move, a month before the market. One private company, snapshotted month over month for two years. Scrub the timeline: headcount, hiring, tech adoption and executive moves surface here long before they reach the public record. Every snapshot is dated. You watch an exec leave or a hiring surge begin weeks before it surfaces publicly, and feed it straight to your models. Why MixRank ## What alternative data actually means for a deal team. Alternative data is any signal about a company that doesn't come from the company itself, hiring activity, technology adoption, workforce changes, tracked independently rather than sourced from a pitch deck or an investor update. The value isn't the existence of the data, most firms already have some version of this. The value is how early it shows up and how verifiable it is once it does. 01 ### Screen deals on signals a company can't dress up for a pitch A pitch deck shows the story a founder wants told. Job postings and hiring velocity show what's actually happening underneath it, whether a company is genuinely scaling engineering or just scaling headcount slides. Job postings, headcount growth and technology adoption give a deal team something to check a claim against before term-sheet stage, not after. 02 ### Monitor portfolio companies in real time, not on a quarterly check-in Most portfolio monitoring runs on the update a founder chooses to send. Hiring velocity, headcount growth, and technology changes update independently of that, refreshed hourly, so a slowdown or an inflection shows up in the data before it shows up in a quarterly email. This works the same way for tracking a competing fund's portfolio. The same signals apply regardless of whose cap table the company is on. 03 ### Find stealth startups before they launch A founder in stealth still posts jobs, still hires, still builds a team. They just haven't announced it yet. Job-posting and hiring-velocity signals are exactly the kind of data that surfaces a company before it's public, and they refresh hourly, because investment firms want to be the first call a founder gets the moment they come out of stealth. 04 ### Track competitor funds The same signals used to monitor a firm's own portfolio work in reverse: track hiring and growth patterns across a competing fund's public portfolio to see which bets are compounding and which are quietly stalling, without needing anyone's cooperation to see it. 05 ### Contact startup founders and engineers directly Portfolio recruiting and deal sourcing both run into the same wall eventually. Knowing a company exists isn't the same as having a way to reach the person who runs it. We resolve matched contact data from people data alongside company and role signal, so outreach goes to a real, current person, not a generic company inbox. Platforms built to serve venture funds use our data to power outbound to engineers and founders on behalf of their investor customers. How it works ## How a private company becomes an hourly signal. 01 ### Track private companies 40M+ active companies 02 ### Refresh hourly postings back to 2021 03 ### Detect movements hiring · tech · headcount 04 ### Feed your models API · flat-file · hosted What you get ## Where this shows up in a real product. * Deal Screening & Due Diligence. Check a growth claim against job postings and hiring velocity before term sheet stage. * Continuous Portfolio Monitoring. Track hiring and technology signal on a portfolio company hourly, not quarterly. * Competitor Fund Monitoring. Apply the same signals to a competing fund's portfolio, no cooperation required. * Stealth Startup Discovery. Surface a founder building in stealth before the announcement, off hiring signal alone. * Portfolio Recruiting & Deal Sourcing. Reach founders and engineers with matched, current contact data, not a generic inbox. * Commercial Due Diligence. Independent technology and workforce evidence to support a diligence thesis, not just a management deck. [Talk to our data team ](/get-started/)[See Job Postings](/datasets/job-postings/) By the numbers ## The machine behind the signal. Job postings data goes back to 2021, technology and web data back to 2012, mobile app and SDK data back to 2008, long enough to chart a real pattern instead of guessing from one snapshot. All of it refreshes hourly, so the pattern stays current instead of describing where a company was last quarter. 1.8B+Job postings tracked 120M+Companies tracked 24M+Apps decompiled 160M+Sites scanned 100K+SDKs hand-cataloged HourlyRefresh, flat price Test the data ## See the signal before it’s a press release. Book a 20-minute call. Bring a company, a sector, or a fund you track, and we'll show you what's actually current. [Talk to our data team](/get-started/) no credit card · founder-owned · we read every reply FAQ ## Common questions we get What is alternative data in venture capital? Signal about a company that doesn't come from the company itself: hiring activity, technology adoption, workforce changes, all tracked independently rather than sourced from a pitch deck or investor update. It's valuable because it's harder to dress up than a narrative a founder controls. How is the data verified? We track job postings as published, not modeled from a sample. We decompile and hand-verify technology and SDK detections, not infer them from a pattern that happens to correlate. We triangulate company and headcount signals across multiple sources instead of taking them from one filing. How far back does the data go? Job postings data goes back to 2021, web technology data to 2012, mobile app and SDK data to 2008. Depth varies by dataset, long enough in each case to chart a real pattern, not just a single snapshot. How often is the data refreshed? Hourly, across the five datasets that feed this page: job postings, company, people, mobile apps and SDKs, and web technographics. People data is what resolves a founder or an engineer to a reachable contact. What signals predict private company growth? Hiring velocity and job-posting volume are the earliest and most direct signals. A company scaling engineering or sales headcount is investing before that investment shows up anywhere public. Technology adoption is a secondary signal, since new infrastructure often precedes a scaling push. How is MixRank different from other private-market data platforms? Most private-market data platforms aggregate reported funding and firmographic data. Our private-company signal comes from independently tracked hiring, technology, and workforce activity, not from what a company or its investors chose to report. Do you cover pre-IPO and late-stage private companies? Yes. Coverage spans company stages, from early private companies through pre-IPO and late-stage, with the same job-posting, hiring, and technology signal applying regardless of where a company sits in its funding lifecycle. •API•Flat-file•PostgreSQL tables•Hosted by MixRank[Talk to our data team](/get-started/)