One searchable database, two countries, unlimited opportunities

We’ve been covering 2.8 million active German businesses for a few months now. With this new update, we’ve expanded our datasets with more transactions, events, and industry classifications. Plus, our new search experience makes finding and verifying your next German opportunity even easier.

What’s New?

Seamless Insights Across UK & Germany

Discover UK and German businesses side by side in our new True Companies search. No need to switch between searches - everything you need is in one place. More updates to this experience are coming soon, so stay tuned 👀

Stay on Top of Key Company Events

Explore over 4,000 German companies with significant events & fundraisings. Helping you to uncover new German opportunities and track industry activity. With this update, we now cover the following events:

We’ve added industry classifications to 1.5 million German companies. That’s over 1 million more since our last update in November. Whether you want to find businesses in manufacturing, or understand growth patterns in insurance - industries make it easier to find the businesses that matter to you.

Refined Location Searches

Drill down beyond cities with new regional search options, helping you discover companies in key business areas. Search for companies within a German state, district, municipality or the specific postal code.

Start exploring now and see what our enhanced German data can do for you!
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As the leaves crunch underfoot, we're excited to introduce the Autumn Platform Refresh!

Our team has been hard at work bringing a range of updates to the platform to elevate your experience. With these changes, we’re bring more of the platform up to date and introducing features we think you’ll love.

Transactions Rework

We’ve revamped MBOs, IPOs, Spin-outs, Fundraisings, Grants, and Acquisitions!

• New designs make it easier than ever to understand transaction details at a glance.
• Seamlessly switch between transactions with just one click.

Collections Are Even Better Now 

Collections have received a major update as part of our navigation improvements, giving it a cleaner, more user-friendly layout.

• Improved navigation: Enjoy more space to interact with side bar options, descriptions, and purposes—without the clutter.
• Back to Collections: A handy button at the top-left makes it simple to return to your main Collections page.

We’ve also added exciting new features:

🔎 Search for Collections

Quickly locate the exact Collection you need using our new search function in the Collection Index.

⭐️ Favourites

Organising your Collections just got easier:

• Star your most-used Collections to save them in a dedicated Favourites tab.
• Access your favourites anytime from the side bar.

🚮 Auto-Remove

Keep your Collections truly dynamic:

• Automatically remove items that no longer match your AVS criteria.
• Perfect for ensuring a focused view, whether tracking local performance or industry trends.
  

Which update is your favourite? Comment below 👇

We've now added the ability to search over the change in financials to German legal entity searches 🔍

This means you can now search over the absolute or percentage change in a financial statement compared to previous years, unlocking a quick and easy way to find exciting, growing companies 📈 or even identify those that are on the decline 📉

New to German data?

Check it out by going to Advanced Search and selecting German legal entities from the drop down to get started: 

Alternatively, try out this search to jump straight in and see how our new German data can help you:

Search German companies

Quick Search is fundamental to getting the most out of Beauhurst, so we’ve given it a bit of love and attention, to make it easier to use.

No more rooting around for a CHID to find that obscure company on Beauhurst.

With more than 1.15 million companies across the UK with matched URLs, our quick search makes finding your desired company easier than ever.

Instantly move from a company's website to their Beauhurst page with a simple copy and paste.

We know you know what you’re looking for!

To make your quick search more efficient, we now allow you to specify the type of quick search you're performing. Whether you're looking for a company, fund or people, you can get more relevant results by selecting the appropriate entity filter.

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Compare and contrast within your collections just got a whole lot easier

Remember our custom columns on advanced search? Well, let's give a warm welcome to Custom Columns in Collections!

All the functionality you know and love, now in a new place

Easily switch and insert new columns in your collections, including turnover, employee count, EBITDA, and more.

Check It Out

Discover Our Enhanced PDF Design & Data

We’ve revamped our PDFs to offer a cleaner display, improved organisation, and added handy links to platform information.

• Industries
• Statistics
• Signals
• Detailed Financials
• Transactions
• Corporate Structure
• Comprehensive People Data

Happy Sharing 🛫

Search by earliest filing date and by total number across our Patents dataset.

Focus in on companies at the start (or end) of their patent journey

Time is everything, so don’t waste yours - only look at companies based on when they filed their patents.

Reach out to the 2 energy companies that only started filing patents in the past 3 years - will you win the race to finding these new innovative companies?

Or broaden your search to the 295 energy companies that haven’t filed any patents in the past 3 years - will you help these companies restart the protection of their intellectual property?

Whether you care about recency or consistency, our search tools will guide you towards the right companies.

Separate the Davids from the Goliaths

Narrow down your search for companies based on the total number of patents they have or don’t have.

Discover the 3,528 companies that have filed at least 10 patents - do these companies need your support to manage their intellectual property portfolio?

Or find the 17 AgriTech companies with 2 patents or less - do these companies need your help to better protect their unique inventions?

Want access but don't have the patents add-on? Get in touch with your account manager

We’ve supercharged our descriptions across all companies ⚡

Not only are there nearly one million company descriptions, but they have greater qualifying power and are more visible too.

More Companies 📈

With nearly a million companies with supercharged descriptions, discovering relevant companies is now easier than ever.

To make it even better, all your existing description searches will automatically include these additional results 💥

Greater Qualifying Power 🔍

These descriptions have drastically improved qualifying power over their predecessors, allowing you to validate leads and understand the company at a glance.

Better results, faster decisions.

More Visible 👀

Our descriptions are also in even more places, making them more visible. You can see them all directly on the summary page and within Advanced Search results!

Want access?

If you have our All Company Data add-on these upgrades are included in your subscription.

Want access but don’t have the add-on? Get in touch with your Account Manager

We’ve updated our data visualisation colours across the platform. They’re bolder, brighter, and better than ever, helping you make the most of our data - whether that’s spotting trends 🔍 or tagging up your collections 🏷️.

If you have any feedback, please get in touch with me.

With the new Recent Activity email update, you can easily and quickly see what's happening at companies within your collections.

Instantly view the types of events you care about

We’ve changed the grouping of the recent activity events, now bringing together events based on the activity types you’ve selected to receive.

As you can see, activity types each have their own section in the email.

The emails still have all the juicy information you need but with a little extra spice to help you manage that morning email rush.

We’d love to hear what you think about this update