Guides: Engineering Entrepreneurship: Funding

Funding Sources available remotely

PitchBook
Investment trends and transactions in private equity and venture capital sectors, as well as public company information. Includes profiles of companies and investors with financial and deal information.
CB Insights
Provides investment information, news and industry trends related to private companies in all investment stages.
Preqin
Includes investor profiles, deal information, performance metrics and fund managers covering a broad range of asset classes (hedge funds, infrastructure, private debt, private equity, secondaries and venture capital).
Privco
Directory of privately-held companies. Company information consists of a business summary, an overview of corporate organization, list of competitors, industry description, financials (almost always revenue only) and number of employees. Provides M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.
Refinitiv Workspace
From the main menu, select Search Tools-->Private Equity/VC to access the private equity/venture capital screener.

Foundation Directory Online
Grantseeking research tool which provides access to the Foundation Center's comprehensive database of 80,000 grantmakers and half a million grants. Includes detailed information on grantmakers, companies, grants, and grant recipients, as well as access to grantmaker web sites and searchable 990s.
Guidestar Pro
Guidestar's nonprofit information includes profiles of foundations and philanthropic organizations that provide grants.
Grants to Individuals Online

Available in Lippincott Library only:

Bloomberg
Access details. To access Private equity information, use the PE command.

FactSet
Available only to Wharton Students. Provides tools to analyze global markets, public and private companies, and equity and fixed income portfolios with coverage of aggregates, benchmarks, corporate governance and activism, economics, estimates, events and transcripts, financial research and filings, fundamentals, mergers and acquisitions, news, ownership, people, prices, and private capital.
SDC Platinum
Thomson Financial database. Providing comprehensive time series data on mergers and acquisitions [includes joint ventures and strategic alliances], global new issues, corporate restructuring [bankruptcy], corporate governance [poison pills and proxy fights], global public finance [municipal bonds] and VentureXpert [official database of the National Venture Capital Association].