Data sources

Preqin

Subject:
Company financing:
  • Private equity and venture capital
Keywords: private equity, venture capital, private debt, private credit, fund manager, benchmark, fund flows, esg
Accessible to: Aalto users, Aalto Students & Staff
Attention:

External account registration required (WRDS or Preqin); data reuse must comply with the WRDS/Preqin Terms of Use.

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Data source type

Third party data through data vendor

License

Academic and non-commercial research purposes only

Analysis unit

Other

Geographical coverage

Global

Time period coverage

1953-present

Frequency

Other

Format

CSV, DBF, GZ, HTM, SAV, ZIP, SAS7BDAT, DTA, TXT, XLSX

Encoding

UTF8

Description

Preqin provides data on venture capital (VC), private equity (PE) and private debt deals, and further details on PE funds, like fund performance, benchmarks, flows, investor and manager details.  Preqin covers all parts of VC / PE and private debt investing: the portfolio firm, the fund, and the investment firm. Over 78,000 portfolio firms are covered. 

Funds are classified by 8 different fund structures, 27 legal structures, 11 fund strategies, 11 performance metrics, and 49 deal descriptors. Performance metrics can include 

  • capital calls
  • distributions
  • fund values
  • investment multiples
  • IRRs, etc.

Investment firm details consist of 

  • fund strategies
  • sources of capital
  • general partner position
  • exit strategies
  • investment stage
  • firm size
  • ownership details. 

The earliest fund data included in Preqin is from 1953, however the number of funds included grows to be comparable with other databases starting in year 2000. Preqin can be accessed from two sources: the WRDS platform or the Preqin website. The web-portal at preqin.com offers some additional data that is not contained in the WRDS datasets, such as ESG scores of the funds. Access to the portal requires an external account registration.

Author

Preqin

Distributor

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

Acknowledgement

The Preqin subscription is financed by the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University School of Science.

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Wharton Research Data Services. "WRDS" wrds.wharton.upenn.edu, accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

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'Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was used in preparing [identify research piece]. This service and the data available thereon constitute valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of WRDS and/or its third-party suppliers.'

Contact

Access to WRDS is managed by Nikolas Breitkopf, contact via [email protected]

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