Finding the right funds just got much easier. You can now use Natural Language Search across our Funds dataset to instantly build sophisticated investor searches in plain English.

• “Funds that have invested in London-based pharmaceuticals companies”
• “UK funds that can invest £1m in biotechnology companies”
• “Funds that have participated in at least 2 FinTech funding rounds”

Whether you're researching past participants in funding rounds or scouting for potential funders, Natural Language Search will translate your query into a structured set of filters - helping you start from intent, not from scratch.

What you can do now

• Search for funds in plain English: No need to know specific criteria names.
• Instantly build complex searches: Combining industries, location, investment amount, and more.
• Work simpler and faster: With a powerful and intuitive entry point for discovering funds.

Try it now: Select ‘Funds’ on Advanced Search and enter a natural language query to start exploring.

We’ve redesigned the creation flow to make it clearer, more transparent, and easier to set up Collections that work exactly the way you want.

This means fewer irrelevant alerts, improved visibility of your settings, and a smoother, more predictable experience when creating new Collections.

Give it a go next time you build a Collection from an Advanced Search or your Collections page.

From today, any confirmed but not-yet-completed acquisition, fundraising, MBO/MBI, grant, spin-out, or IPO will be published the moment we discover them rather than just upon completion. That means earlier visibility, stronger pipelines, faster BD, and fewer “why didn’t we see this sooner?” moments.

• Completed – closed deals
• Pending – confirmed but not yet completed
• Dormant – no activity for 12+ months
• Cancelled – confirmed to have fallen through.

You'll find Pending, Dormant, and Cancelled deals in:

• Advanced Search
• Company Profiles → Transaction and Timeline tabs
• Collection Activity Alerts.

It’s a small change with a big impact: you’ll now catch deals weeks earlier than before.

If you want a walkthrough or example workflows, contact your account manager, or check them out for yourself with this example Advanced Search.

Meet your new research companion: Lenses. 

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

• 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 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.