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With Crunchbase’s Predictions and Insights API package, you have access to growth predictions data. Growth Predictions utilize Crunchbase data, including historical performance, to forecast the likelihood of a private company to experience growth within the next six months.
By analyzing patterns and trends from past data, this tool provides valuable insights to customers helping proactively assess companies with high growth potential, early on.
Crunchbase’s growth predictions can be combined with our historical Growth Insights to gain a complete view of a company’s past, present, and future growth potential.
Growth Predictions gives you access to:
- Evaluate Potential High-Growth Investments: Knowing the potential for a company’s future growth helps investors streamline initial research, improve their due diligence, and make more informed decisions with confidence. Anticipate a company’s growth potential and trajectory using the likelihood of predictions and supporting indicators like customer growth and headcount growth.
- Identify Trends in Growing Companies: Having the ability to quickly assess growing companies within specific industries helps market researchers effectively deliver market analyses to keep their clients one step ahead of the market. Using growth prediction probabilities and supporting indicators including growing industry and awards, they can more accurately identify companies with sustainable and expected growth.
- Prioritize Engagement and Tailor Pitches to High-Growth Companies: Sales and customer-facing teams can take the companies with high growth predictions to improve how they segment and prioritize engagement. Using this knowledge along with supporting indicators such as financial growth and product launches, these teams can tailor their talk tracks and engage with prospects ahead of their competition.
The following data will be included as supporting evidence to explain the assigned probability score for Growth 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 proactively target and manage strategic opportunities.
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