Private markets investors are increasingly seeking to build an information mosaic in-house by leveraging alternative data, including for due diligence, post-deal value creation and investment benchmarking. While saving consulting fees, alternative data vendors also offer additional angles and a means to assess target companies beyond more traditional deal-sourcing platforms. Although due diligence is case-specific, this report offers some ideas to help private markets investors validate or challenge their assumptions during the process.

The recent climate of economic uncertainty has sparked market volatility – creating opportunities for investors to benefit from macro strategies. As a result, many are increasingly turning to alternative data sources to get a timely gauge of market outcomes. In this report, we summarise the recent trends across macro datasets and the alternative sources that can help track the global economy.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 has led to growing investor interest in alternative datasets that can track the banking sector. In this report, we highlight some of the publicly available sources as well datasets tracking deposits, loans and interest rates that can help gauge a bank’s health.

With more than 2,000 full Scout reports and 5,000 additional datasets on the Neudata platform, it’s not easy keeping track of which datasets are trending and why. In this report, we highlight transactional, web and app tracking, automotive and location datasets that gained clients and triallists in 1Q23.