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.

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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.

Beauhurst’s latest feature bridges the gap between discovering companies and reaching the people behind them.

With just a few clicks, request verified phone numbers and email addresses for the individuals in your collections.

No spreadsheets. No switching tools. Just insight → action.

This update makes it faster and easier to build lists you can act on and relationships that drive results.

Here’s how it works

Head to one of your collections. Click into the Contacts tab to view all the roles associated with the companies in your collection.

From there:

1. Filter by role or function to find the most relevant people
2. Select the individuals you’re interested in
3. Click 'Get contact details'

Over the next 10 minutes, our waterfall contact provider will get to work, searching trusted sources and using tokens only when it successfully finds verified contact details.

And voilà - emails and phone numbers will appear right in your collection, ready for you to use.

Contact your account manager to get tokens for enhancement.

See it in your collections

We’ve just made connecting Beauhurst with your CRM more powerful - whether you are identifying your clients or uncovering new leads.

You can now use Advanced Search to include or exclude companies matched to your connected CRM.

This new filter helps tailor your search and build smarter collections to:

• Prioritise outreach - Identify new opportunities by excluding companies you are already engaging with
• Uncover trends - Monitor changes across the companies within your CRM, whether that's your client, prospects or partners
• Automatic updates - Keep your collections automatically in sync with changes in your CRM data

Connect your HubSpot or Salesforce to start searching over the companies in your CRM - Integrations settings

If you've connected your CRM then you can try out a search - Advanced Search

A wrecking ball to the world economy or simply the art of the deal? As policies change on a dime and markets still far from recovering from their whiplash, it’s worth noting US tariffs on the UK aren’t part of the 90 day pause, meaning 10% tariffs on all goods, and 25% on steel, aluminium, automobiles, and soon to be automobile parts are still in effect.

Many of our customers work with exporting firms whether its supporting, advising, or investing in them so we wanted to make it as easy as possible to find companies that might be at risk of these policies, letting you intervene fast!

To help, we have implemented a new metric on companies financial statements: Exports Turnover Ratio.

Calculated using turnover and export levels for companies that report it.

Find this new ratio on company profiles in the financials tab, or use our new and improved Advanced Search to find a list of businesses with this ratio.

Around ~1,900 companies attribute 90% or more of their turnover to exports in their latest financials. (Explore the data)

NB: Financial reporting does not specify which country the exports are going to but this still provides an excellent filter to find those most likely to be affected.

You can also blend this with all of our other data to dive into how this might affect the industry, region, personal collection, etc that matters to you.

Here is an example of those in the automotive industry with 90%+ Export Turnover Exposure

If you have other ideas about how we can help find and support exporting companies, I would love to hear from you. 

Get in touch