From 8 pm – 11 pm on Monday, August 30, PrivCo will not be accessible as the company does maintenance on its platform. Thoughtfully, the vendor waited until 3:30 PM on a summer Friday to announce “scheduled maintenance” for the following Monday.
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Updated Interface for PrivCo
Today, PrivCo is launching a new interface, which you can read about in the PDF linked to below. One thing that hasn’t changed is that new users will still have to “sign up” for an account when they first go to the database. This sign up process requires an academic email address.
PrivCo_Getting_Started (pdf)
PrivCo Database Now Working Again
The problem reported two days ago has been fixed. Access is now restored.
PrivCo currently unavailable
I am working with the vendor to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.
Review of the PrivCo Database
An article in the March/April issue of Online Searcher has a nice write up of the PrivCo database that spotlights a number of features and kinds of info that I didn’t know were there.
Keiser, Barbie E. “Bringing Transparency To Private Company Research.” Online Searcher 37.2 (2013): 16-21. Library & Information Science Source. Web. 6 June 2013.
New database: PrivCo
We now have access to PrivCo.
PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. They cover over 30,000 companies, including financial data, M&A and funding activity, ownership structure, and more. They also have over 10,000 investors, and advance search options by company and investor, giving us the ability to generate fields of data within seconds based on criteria such as location, sub-industry, revenue and employee sizes, financial backing and more.
All the data is easily exported to Excel. The research reports can be printed in PDF.