Meet your new research companion: Insight Lens. 

Now on the company summary page, lenses generate concise, evidence-based answers to the questions that drive your decisions — before you dig deeper into the data.

How it works

• Choose your focus: Select an outcome lens (Highlights, Growth Trajectory, Financial Health, Innovation & Impact, or People).
• Stay in context: Lenses appear as a panel on the company summary page, so you can access insights as you review companies.
• Get trusted answers: Behind the scenes, the lens connects to company data in our platform, processes it, and returns concise, verifiable insights.

What are the lenses?

• ✨ Highlights: A concise summary of key facts, metrics, and standout detail about the company.
• 📈 Growth Trajectory: Insights into the company’s development, funding, performance, and momentum over time.
• 💊 Financial Health: An assessment of financial stability, resilience, and potential areas of risk.
• 🔦 Innovation & Impact: Considers how the company is driving innovation, sustainability, and positive societal outcomes.
• 🧑‍💼 People: A view into the company’s leadership, shareholders, investors, and connected entities.

What you’ll see

• Insight lenses at the top of company summary pages.
• Text-based insights tailored to your chosen lens.
• Deep links back to data sources on the company page, so you can verify and explore further.

Why it matters

• Save time by surfacing the most relevant information instantly.
• Increase confidence with insights grounded in trusted company data.
• Work smarter with a companion that explains complex company information in a simple, structured way.

👉 Try out the new Insight Lenses on any company summary page to streamline your research and decision-making.

Try the lenses now

Lenses are powered by AI.

The top bar has been refreshed

• Smarter paths: Core features like Quick Search, Advanced Search, Collections, and All tools now sit neatly on the left, while the actions you take less frequently, such as viewing New Features, browsing Resources, and managing Settings, live on the right behind icons.
• Cleaner experience: A refreshed look and smoother interactions make navigation feel effortless.
• Coming soon: You’ll soon be able to pin your favourite tools for even faster access.

A few things to know

• My Clients has been renamed to Find Funding, to better reflect what it does for you.
• A quick reminder on search:
  • Quick Search – find specific companies by name, CHID, or URL.
  • Natural language search – ask for a list of companies to explore.

Spot Germany’s most innovative companies with our expanded patent coverage.

Our expanded patent add-on now allows you to discover every German company with a granted patent. Search over 1.4 million patents across 63 thousand German companies — all sourced directly from the European Patent Office — and be the first to uncover breakthrough innovation in Germany.

Discover top innovators

Use patent classifications and titles to explore innovation across verticals. Layer on our proprietary Industries to dig even deeper and discover the primary innovators within any sector.

Uncover international activity

See which countries a company has secured patent protection in to understand their commercial ambitions abroad before they even begin operating in those countries.

Be the first to know

Set up a Collection to be alerted to German companies within your market securing patent protection — straight into your inbox.

Already have the patent add-on?

Then you’re good to go — you can access German patents immediately. Just navigate to True Companies on Advanced Search, and use our patent search to discover innovative German companies.

Interested in German patent coverage?

Speak to your account manager today!

Get in touch

Back in early 2024, we launched our revamped industry classifications to better reflect the whole economy. Since then, its coverage has grown even further and now covers 6.7m companies in the UK (100 times the coverage of our old sector classification!) and a further 1.5m in Germany. And we’ve not stopped there — we recently released specific new industries to cover the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy classification of the IS-8, which has had great response from our public sector clients.

With these milestones met, it’s time to start saying goodbye to our old faithful legacy sector classification system. This is to avoid confusion in the platform and to focus our energy on improving the rest of our data and platform features.

Don’t worry, most of you will be unaffected by this change. The majority already use our new and improved industry classifications, so you won’t experience any changes. For those who are using the old system, we’ll reach out directly to support your migration.

Timelines

Step 1: From September 30th 2025, we will stop adding legacy sector classifications to companies and will begin the process of removing them from company pages and other parts of the platform.

Step 2: October 2025 - May 2026 - We will keep returning sectors in Exports, Collection auto-add criteria, and the API to avoid any breaking changes but we advise starting to move any remaining workloads over to our new Industry classification to keep the freshest, most accurate, and highest coverage data. To help provide time for a smooth transition we will guarantee support for returning sectors in these remaining resources until May 31st 2026. NB: Any collections that may still be using sectors after this date will have their auto-add disabled.

If you have any questions about this change or would like support in migration, please use the “Need Help?” button in the platform or get in touch with your account manager and we will be happy to help.

We’ve streamlined how you work with Advanced Search results on the platform.

Always-accessible actions

• ‘Export results to CSV’ and ‘Save results to a collection’ are now pinned in a sticky bar at the bottom of your results screen.
• You’ll also always see the total number of results right there for quick reference.

Save templates to get started quickly

Saved searches are now called templates, because they act as a reusable starting point for your frequent searches. Templates can be accessed from the header, at the top of the page.

Save as a collection to leverage the power of auto-add, activity alerts, and collaboration

As a reminder: Saving companies to a collection isn’t just a static list - it keeps working for you:

• 💡 Dynamic updates: As new companies match your saved criteria, they’ll be added automatically.
• ⏰ Timely activity alerts: Get notified when companies in your collection raise funding, change leadership, or other events you care about.
• 👀 Collaborative features: Keep all your lists in one place, ready to review or share with your colleagues so you can work together.

Create your tailored list

Run an Advanced Search to generate results you can keep leveraging over time.

Search like a human. Results like a pro.

We’re excited to introduce Natural Language Search in Advanced Search, making it easier and faster to find the companies that matter to you.

Now, instead of manually building complex filters, you can simply type what you're looking for in your own words. The builder will interpret your query and return a structured set of results.

This update is designed to make discovery faster, easier, and more intuitive - whether you’re a power user or just getting started.

• Faster discovery: Speed up early searches, going from idea to an initial set of results immediately.
• Reduce friction: No need to learn the filter structure before starting, just express your search in your own words.

💡 How does it work?

With Natural Language Search, you can now describe your ideal company in plain English. The builder will do the work of translating your request into relevant search criteria.

For example, you can try:

• “East Midlands companies in the life sciences industry”
• “Software companies with over 50 employees and 10% turnover growth”
• “Financial services companies that have raised funding in the past year”

We’ll return companies that match your criteria, which you can refine further using the Advanced Search builder.

✅ Fields currently supported

Natural Language Search currently supports phrases relating to:

• Location
• Industries and buzzwords
• Descriptive keywords
• Funding received - amount and date
• Financials, including turnover and EBITDA
• Employee count
• Director age

…and more.

What’s next? We’re just getting started. Coming soon: More supported fields for even broader coverage.

🎯 Try it now

Just head to the Advanced Search search page and start typing your query.

Start searching for companies

📣 Help shape what comes next - Your feedback is invaluable. Book a quick call with our product team to share ideas or suggest fields you'd like added.

Stay on top of the companies that matter to you - all powered by Beauhurst.
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What’s in it for you?

Never miss a move ☄️

Track lists of prospects, portfolio companies or competitors and get automatic alerts on new firms that match your filters, fresh fundraises, or the latest press coverage.

Alerts that work the way you do 🔔

Fine-tune which events trigger a notification — whether it’s every major update, or key events such as equity fundraisings and press mentions.

Analyse deeper, act faster 🏃‍♀️

Export any collection to CSV for advanced analysis: blend Beauhurst data with your financial models, dashboards or your CRM in seconds.

With Beauhurst, now you can:

1. Find True Companies using Beauhurst’s powerful Advanced Search.
   

2. Create a Collection and choose the alerts that fit your workflow.

   

3. Monitor and win

   • Spot new prospects first
   • Keep tabs on competitors
   • Track portfolio performance
     

4. Export to CSV for deeper analysis or quick CRM upload.

   

Get Started

Click “Create Collection” on any search results page, set your alerts, and let Beauhurst keep you one step ahead.

Click here for Berlin turnover scaleups  

Then have we got the update for you!

✨ What’s new?

• The number of companies tagged with the CleanTech buzzword has grown by over 60% in the last year, significantly improving how this critical theme is represented in our dataset.
• But that’s not all. Our Environmental Signals—which use a wide range of data points to detect companies innovating in sustainability—have increased by 70% over the same period.

🔎 Helping you to discover

• Startups building climate resilience technologies
• Scaleups rolling out low-carbon infrastructure
• Consultancies supporting the circular economy
• Manufacturers pioneering sustainable materials

These insights are powered by Beauhurst’s uniquely rich dataset using a blend of machine learning and expert curation. Capturing green innovation at every stage.

🌱 Why this matters?

As sustainability becomes a core consideration across investment, procurement, policy, and research, better data on environmental innovation is essential.

Our better coverage can help you to:

• Spot high-growth companies driving environmental change
• Track emerging trends across CleanTech and sustainability
• Align with procurement and investment mandates
• Back policy and funding decisions with evidence

As climate and ESG considerations become central to public and private sector decisions, we’re making sure you have the data to act with confidence.

📍Explore now

Explore UK CleanTech Scaleups

Did you know?
You can use Beauhurst to find German companies in this space too. Check out Recently funded German environmental businesses:
Funded German Green Companies

🎨 The Horizontal Timeline just got a major upgrade

We’ve redesigned the timeline to make it easier than ever to understand a company’s history at a glance.

What’s new?

• Zoom in on recent activity with the date range slider
• Instantly spot key events with milestone markers
• Separate Signal events from the rest for faster insight
• Clean new layout and improved event icons
• Save default filters so you only see what matters to you

Ready to explore?

Go to Timeline ›

We’re now identifying around 75% more acquisitions every month — including much stronger coverage of PE buyouts.

What’s new?

1. Identify all acquisitions announced in the press — even if the company hasn’t hit another Signal
2. We continue to identify and track companies post-acquisition — we’ve lifted our general “ceased tracking” rule
3. Backfilled timelines — we’ve added historic acquisitions for previously ceased tracking companies

Why it matters

Acquisitions are powerful triggers. More coverage means you can:

• Find companies undergoing strategic change.
• Find people making pivotal career moves.
• Win opportunities at exactly the right moment.
• Monitor portfolios for exits or buy-side trends.
• Report impact through successful M&A and PE Buyout activity

We’re not just adding more acquisitions — we’re combining them with rich company data to help you move faster, spot opportunities, and stay ahead.

Get started

Looking for any company that has acquired or been acquired? 

Head to Advanced Search and filter using Signals:

Looking for recent acquisitions? 

Search acquisitions in the last 2 months, layered with industries relevant to you. Here's an example:

Looking for PE buyouts? 

Search for acquisitions that are PE buyouts. Here’s an example:

There's more to come — we’re growing our acquisition data even further. Want to help shape what’s next? Let’s talk.