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With Crunchbase’s Predictions and Insights API package, you have access to layoff predictions data. Layoff Predictions utilize Crunchbase data, including historical performance, to forecast the likelihood of a layoff event occurring at a private company within the next six months.
By analyzing patterns and trends from past data, this tool provides valuable insights to customers helping proactively assess the potential risk of engaging with certain opportunities.
Layoff Predictions gives you access to:
- Evaluate Risks: Identifying the likelihood for a company to have layoffs helps investors and corporate development teams weigh the financial stability of potential partnerships or existing investments. With early earning signs of financial instability, using the likelihood of predictions and supporting indicators like financial decline and customer decline, they can proactively mitigate risk and manage their portfolios.
- Identify Emerging Industry Trends: Understanding the potential for a company to have a layoff event gives market researchers and consultants a pulse on company stability and broader industry trends. Anticipate emerging market dynamics by weighing the probability of predictions and supporting indicators including legal proceedings and product usage decline.
- Proactively Target and Manage Opportunities: Assessing the possibility for a company to have a layoff event can help sales and customer-facing teams prioritize engagement or forecast potential churn. Detect early signs of risk to help better manage relationships with a supporting indicator such as operations contraction.
The following data will be included as supporting evidence to explain the assigned probability score for Layoff Predictions:
- Product Usage Growth: Increased product engagement with existing or new features (e.g., WAU, website traffic, app downloads, etc.).
- Product Usage Decline: Decreased product engagement.
- Customer Growth: Increases in the number of customers or users.
- Customer Decline: Decreases in the number of customers or users.
- Headcount Growth: Hiring sprees and workforce expansions.
- Headcount Decline: Layoffs, workforce reductions, or hiring freezes.
- Financial Growth: Increases in revenue, sales, earnings, profit margins, dividends, return on investment, stock performance, commercial contracts, and other key financial metrics.
- Financial Decline: Canceled commercial contracts, bankruptcy, or declines in revenue, sales, earnings, profit margins, dividends, returns, or stock performance.
- Operations Expansion: Acquisitions of new facilities, enhancements to existing facilities, or expansions into new regions.
- Operations Contraction: Reductions or sales of facilities, market exits from regions, or withdrawals from industries.
- Runway Speculation: Approaching 18-24+ months since the last funding round, indicating a potential need for capital.
- Unicorn Status: Achieved unicorn status in the last 12 months.
- Merger or Acquisition: A company undergoes mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.
- Growing Industry: Similar companies in the same industry raised funding rounds, got acquired, or had successful exits in the last 6-12 months.
- Board Changes: New additions to the board or changes in governance in the last 12 months.
- Layoffs: Layoffs or restructurings occurred at the company.
- Product Launch: A new product or service was launched in the last 12 months.
- Legal Proceedings: Security Breaches, compliance or regulatory Issues, anti-trust lawsuits, legal challenges occurred at the company.
- Key Employee Change: Changes in key leadership positions, such as new C-level hires.
- Award: The company received an industry leadership or innovation and design award.
- Partnership Announcement: A new strategic partnership occurred in the last 12 months.
- New office: Domestic and/or international new office openings.
Incorporate predictions into your own internal models and tools to mitigate risks and proactively manage strategic opportunities.
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