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 refreshed hourly, so a growth signal or a stealth launch shows up in the data close to when it happened.
Representative of the production index, not a real customer.
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.
- Nov '24Detected: Snowflake + dbt
- Apr '25New office · Austin, TX
- Jan '26Hiring surge · engineering
- May '26Exec change · new VP Sales
Illustrative private company, representative of the production index.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 a private company becomes an hourly signal.
Track private companies
40M+ active companies
Refresh hourly
postings back to 2021
Detect movements
hiring · tech · headcount
Feed your models
API · flat-file · hosted
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.
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.
See the signal before it’s a press release.
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