What information is included in VBR's Deal Monitors?

Each Deal Monitor includes detailed data on transactions completed since 2002 in North America and Europe. Data is reported on each deal in the following format:

• Funded company: business description, main activity, location and website
• Investor (venture capital, private equity, corporate venture, other institution, angel)
• Name and contact details of the partner in charge within the firm (email address, phone number and postal address when made available to us)
• Amount invested in the round of financing
• Type of round (sequence of investment)
• Completion date
• All co-investors involved in the deal

What is VBR's research process?
The information compiled in VBR’s Deal Monitors is the by-product of an extensive and systematic data collection process. VBR has identified and validated institutional investments in private companies in Europe and North America since 2002.

Our research team begins by conducting face-to-face interviews with industry experts, entrepreneurs and selected private equity investors and venture capitalists. VBR’s researchers comb press articles, expert reports and the internet to cross-check facts. We then distill this myriad of information into a comprehensive, fact-based, excel spreadsheet. Our deal database is then fact-checked directly by the investors themselves. Finally, the deal database is re-validated by VBR's management and edited into its final form.

Who subscribes to VBR's deal monitors?
Our readership includes global investment banks and boutiques, specialist and generalist investors (venture capitalists, private equity providers, hedge funds etc.) law firms, consultants (management, strategic and recruitment) and accountancy practices.

When and why was VBR founded?
VBR was founded in 2005 to address the lack of comprehensive and succinct data on dynamic emerging sectors of the economy. Based on our team's experience in finance (principal investment, investment banking and publishing) management decided to publish a series of sector-specific Deal Monitors. These now inform financial, corporate and governmental institutions worldwide about emerging sectors, identify potential investment partners and facilitate well-informed business and investment decisions.