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.

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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.

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!
Open a search

Introducing ✨ News Topics ✨, a new and real-time way of identifying key non-transaction events in a company's timeline.

Using a new ML model, we're reading and extracting key information from news articles and tagging them with our new Topic labels. Our first three Topics are:

• Key people change
• New product or service
• New property

Topics are also searchable in Advanced Search! You can discover and create Collections for new opportunities for when a company has been mentioned in the news for one of the above.

Advanced Search company criteria: Significant events > News coverage > News topics

Discover key moments in a company's journey quicker than ever before, for example, identifying the appointment of a key person before it's officially filed and published on the platform via our traditional data flow under 'Person added'.

Jump into the Timeline tab on Company Pages now and discover key moments mentioned in News articles you may have missed!

We’ve expanded our Signals, adding two brand new “exit” Signals and increasing our environmental Signal coverage by over 5k companies.

Exit signals 🚪

Our two new exit Signals, “Acquired” and “IPO”, cover over 13k companies and allow you to easily see and search for companies that have successfully exited.

• Acquired - use this Signal to find companies that have undergone a corporate acquisition or been bought out by a fund or business angel.
• IPO - use this Signal to discover companies that have listed on a stock exchange via an initial public offering.

Combined, these two Signals cover nearly every exit event for every company in our database, providing new insights into the most successful businesses.

Environmental expansion 🌳

We’ve also grown our environmental Signal coverage to over 45k companies, providing even more insight into the burgeoning green economy.

As part of this expansion, we’ve launched a new buzzword for “Carbon capture”, allowing you to hone in on even more granular areas of the net zero space.

Explore carbon capture

There are loads of ways in which you can use this data. For example, if you’re not interested in public companies you can use the IPO Signal to easily exclude them from your results. 

Alternatively, you can use the Exit Signals alongside our Equity fundraising Signal to quickly find equity-backed business that have gone on to successfully exit. Click the button below to try it out!

Search for acquired companies

Introducing Beauhurst News!

• 1000 news articles on UK companies per day
• Over 1000 companies tagged with events per day
• News articles live on the platform within 6 hours of publication.

Keep up to date with every key moment in a company's timeline and stay on top of the UK's private business economy, with News alerts switched on for your Collection updates.

We’re excited to announce a major expansion to our German data. Thanks to your insights and feedback, we’ve added powerful new data to help you dive deeper into Germany’s private companies. From discovering new businesses to identifying growth trends, these updates are designed to enhance your research and decision-making.

Today, we’re launching:

• Hundreds of thousands of company websites and descriptions to help you understand German companies quicker and easier 🧠
• Industry classifications on over half a million German companies, to help you find your niche 🔍
• Data on nearly 1000 German fundraisings (and counting) to help you identify growing companies in Germany - and the funds that back them 📈

Want to find new German opportunities? Head to Advanced Search and use our range of criteria to refine your search.

Already have a company in mind? Type the name into the search bar at the top of the platform to find a profile.

And we’re not stopping there. Watch this space as we improve our coverage over the coming months 👀

We now cover every private company in Germany (that's 2.7m active legal entities).

Access this brand new dataset by heading to Advanced Search to search over a range of data like financials, location, classification codes and directors:

Alternatively, quickly explore this new data by using this search we've prebuilt for you:

Open a German search 

Have a company in mind? 
Type it into quick search and look at the German legal entity section to see it. Once there, you can click into the profile to get detailed information taken directly from the German commercial register.

This is just the beginning of our international expansion.

We'd love to hear what you think. Your feedback will directly shape future data releases — to talk further, book in a meeting with our product team using this link.

Curious about how this data can help you and our plans for the future? 

Reach out to your Account Manager today to find learn more about how to leverage this data to meet your needs.

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

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From tech pioneers to the shops and cafes on your local high street, our new industries classification system covers 4.6m companies across the UK to help you discover and understand opportunities in every corner of the economy.
🔍 Search over industries

Anyone that has tried to use Companies House SIC codes to find companies that interest them will be painfully aware of its limitations, particularly when going beyond traditional sectors like agriculture, mining and manufacturing. That’s why, over a decade ago, we built a sector classification aimed to better cover emerging industries that were the focus of new investments, grants, innovation and growth as our dataset focused on this “high growth ecosystem”.

Our sectors have been a customer favourite since then but as we have expanded our dataset beyond the thousands of companies we class as “high growth” to all companies in the UK, we wanted to bridge the gap and create a modern industrial classification system that works for understanding the whole economy.

More descriptive

• We have rebuilt our classification from the ground up to better describe the domain a company operates in whatever they do, from Accountancies to Space Infrastructure to Weddings, and everything in between.
• Covering 225 industries in total across 14 major groups, we cover industries in more depth than our previous sector matrix.
• Companies can have multiple industries, allowing you to compose unique combinations to zero in on those most relevant to you. Combining the recruitment and care homes industries reveals over 2,000 active companies operating in this space. 🔍 Open this search

Larger scale

• Covering 4.6m companies, our industries classifier has 70 times the coverage of our previous sectors.
• This accounts for over 75% of economic activity reported at Companies House. Measured by reported turnover and employment of active companies.
• We combine the best of both worlds, blending tens of thousands of decisions from our expert curators enhanced with machine learning, achieving a dataset unique in its scale and accuracy.

Easier to use

• This release comes with a new selector in advanced search with groupings and filters to help you find the industry you are looking for.
• We have also integrated buzzwords into the same search criteria so it’s easy to include both in a single query.

Expanding buzzwords

Speaking of buzzwords, we have also taken this opportunity to expand them to over 50,000 companies (4x our existing coverage) and we have added 12 new buzzwords to help discover emerging trends such as artificial meat and biometrics and cross industry themes like ethical shopping.

You will find this new industry in all the familiar places in the platform across search, company pages, exports, charts and is coming soon to our API and integrations.

We know you’ve been loving Signals as a simplified view of our rich and complex datasets. Today we’re introducing 🔍 Risk signals as by better understanding the conditions of the companies you work with, you can better manage your own financial and reputational risk.

We are launching with:

Read the FAQ for information on how we apply the signals.

You'll find Risk signals in all the places you’re used to seeing Growth, Innovation and ESG signals; across search, company profiles and within exports.

So what are you waiting for? Sink your teeth into the data today 🔍 Risk signals