Private markets are unlocking new frontiers of growth, value and opportunity. Once niche, investing in private markets is now a core part of alternative investment strategies – powering decisions for investors and allocators across the investment landscape. Driven by institutional investors and PE/VC managers, private markets demand clear visibility into capital flows, fund performance and underlying assets across VC, private equity and M&A.
LSEG provides actionable intelligence to help you attract investors, source deals and drive returns – through comprehensive data on funds, firms, transactions and investors. With our Private Market data, you can raise capital, identify investors, track fundraising, evaluate opportunities and benchmark performance – all with real-time insight into market activity.
Access consistent, hard-to-find data through flexible delivery, enabling more informed, confident decision-making.
Breadth and depth of our data
private company information globally
nations and territories covered
private real estate entities
private company M&A transactions dating to the 1970s
PE-backed investments since the 1950s
Up to 25+
years of private infrastructure data
private companies’ news briefs
investment firms’ news briefs
20+
years of daily private markets performance
Trends in private markets
Private markets are evolving rapidly and increasingly shape public market outcomes. Activity among private companies often signals the trends, risks and opportunities that later reverberate across listed markets. Many of these changes are driven by shifting investor priorities, new fund structures and advances in technology.
As the landscape becomes more complex, access to high-quality, granular data is critical to identify opportunities, manage risk and support decisions across the investment lifecycle. LSEG provides private market intelligence across investors, funds, deals, performance and benchmarks – helping you navigate change with greater clarity and confidence.
Today’s market is shaped by several structural shifts:
- Rising allocations to private assets, increasing the need for transparency and performance insight
- A broader investor base, including wealth and retail, driving demand for scalable data
- Changing fund models, with growth in evergreen structures and direct investing
- Rapid expansion of private credit, requiring deeper visibility into lending activity and deal structures
- Greater use of AI and automation, transforming how data is sourced and analysed
- A shift to total portfolio thinking, integrating public and private assets
- Convergence across asset managers, increasing demand for consistent, comparable data
- Boundaries between public and private markets are blurring, where companies stay private for longer, and capital, valuation and risk move seamlessly across both
- Private markets remain fragmented, opaque and hard to analyse at scale. Data is inconsistent and dependant on relationship-driven insights – making it harder to see the full picture. The opportunity is not more data. It is usable, connected intelligence
Our datasets
Our private market coverage continues to expand through strategic partnerships, proprietary sources and a global contributor network – delivering broad, high-quality datasets across asset classes and for a variety of use cases. Together, these datasets provide a connected view across private markets – helping you track capital flows, analyse opportunities and benchmark performance with greater confidence.
Daily Private Markets Performance
Developed in partnership with StepStone Group, our indices offer an innovative approach to tracking private markets performance, built with institutional grade, LP-sourced data monitored daily for transparent, rules-based benchmarking. Our data rich daily private markets solution equips investors to make informed decisions across strategies, sectors and regions.
Deals data
Measure, track and analyse global Mergers & Acquisitions activity. Track deal flows, identify market trends, and gain insight into your competitive positioning with our deals data. Specify any region, asset class, or industry vertical at flexible levels of granularity.
Our data and insights include Private Equity and Venture Capital investment and exit transactions, dating back to the 1970s. Access 43,000+ Private Equity/Venture Capital firms, 91,000+ funds and 316,000+ current and former Private Equity/Venture Capital backed companies.
Debt Capital Markets data
Since 1970, 1.3 million total bond deals with 650,000+ private company involvement have been curated as part of our Debt Capital Markets data estate.
Our International Financing Review (IFR) news coverage provides in-depth knowledge around the detail surrounding current and forthcoming deals opportunities. Available since the 1980s and consisting of 25 years’ archived news, 7,000+ articles a month; it is a leading provider of global capital markets intelligence.
Infrastructure data
Explore infrastructure data to help you stay informed and plan ahead.
Available since 1990, covering 182,000+ projects including 88,000+ with private company involvement and 5,000+ with financial sponsors. Our Project Finance International (PFI) News coverage since 1992 includes 25+ years’ archive and 1,000+ articles per month.
Private Company Data
With comprehensive global coverage and access to hard-to-find information, our Private Company dataset empowers you to explore private company data and strategy.
Sourced through a powerful combination of proprietary in-house collections and trusted third-party providers, our Private Company datasets are standardised for consistency, comparability and quality. This ensures a clear, actionable view of private companies – whether you're evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, or tracking market trends.
As a cornerstone of LSEG’s broader Private Market data portfolio, our Private Company dataset is built on long-standing relationships with leading partners and the PE ecosystem. This strong foundation gives you access to a rich and diverse set of sources – from corporate registries and VC portfolios to M&A transactions, public debt, and pre-IPO activity.
Private Credit data
Discover private credit data, analytics, and tools to stay informed on the private credit market.
Our data stems since 1992, with 485,000+ deals and syndicated loans including 145 active public and private BDCs, and 15,000+ direct loans. Our LPC news coverage delivers 1,000+ articles and 80 analysis per month, with a daily newsletter with loans analytics and a market update.
Private Equity data
Measure, track and analyse global private equity and venture capital activities.
Our data and insights include Private Equity and Venture Capital firm and fund profiles, fundraising, investment and exit transactions, dating back to the 1970s. Access history capturing 37,000+ firms, 67,000+ funds, 265,000+ PE/VC backed companies, 530,000+ PE/VC-backed investments and 51,000+ PE/VC-backed exits.
FTSE Russell, in partnership with StepStone, has also developed private markets indices using NAV and cashflow data sourced directly from general partners. Updated daily with reported data, FX rates and, where relevant, public market comparators, the indices offer broad coverage across global regions, strategies and stages. Flexible methodologies — including cash-adjusted and market-based approaches — plus bespoke benchmarking services enable tailored performance insights across private markets.
As part of our Cambridge Associates benchmarking service, we provide fund performance across 10,000+ funds globally with coverage dating back to 1981, including 6,200+ PE/VC funds, 1,400 real estate funds, 800 private credit funds and 240 infrastructure funds.
Private Market news
Our Private Market News Briefs extend market visibility beyond listed entities, delivering comprehensive, high-quality, and trusted coverage of corporate announcements and disclosures from large numbers of private companies and investment firms. The summaries are grounded in information developed and rigorously reviewed by firms’ communications teams, ensuring credibility and confidence at source. Using GenAI, these announcements are concisely summarised into short, actionable News Briefs – making it easier to identify market-relevant developments at speed across the unlisted ecosystem.
This is especially valuable as private companies increasingly publish material updates directly to their own websites, often ahead of – or instead of – traditional press release wires. Many do not report through established disclosure channels at all, making critical information harder to source, slower to surface, and easier to miss.
By systematically capturing and summarising market-sensitive private company disclosures – including funding rounds, strategic transactions, operational updates, governance changes, and regulatory developments – you gain earlier insight into the forces shaping sectors, valuations, and capital flows. The result is a more complete, connected view of the market landscape: one that helps investors assess competitive threats, anticipate M&A activity, track IPO pipelines, monitor supply chain dependencies and understand shifts in risk appetite.
Real Estate data
Investing in tangible assets including real estate can open up the scope of private market investing. Explore our real estate data with a coverage dating back to 1996. Discover data for 1,900+ firms, 4,000 funds, 6,100 private real estate entities, and their 6,100 investments.
Discover our Private Market Data
LSEG gives you flexible access to private market data. Whether integrating into your own systems, delivering to internal platforms, or transforming data on premises, our solutions are designed to fit seamlessly into your workflows.
LSEG Workspace
Turn ideas into opportunities and supercharge your impact with our complete workflow solution. Available wherever you are, LSEG Workspace is your personal ecosystem of insights, news and cutting-edge analytics, built to augment workflow and streamline your tasks.
Database delivery
This ready-to-use database provides private markets data and historical financials accessible via SQL endpoints, for screening and retrieval in bulk. Download the data to integrate alongside own proprietary data to build and make informed decisions.
Feeds, APIs, MCPs, CSPs
Incorporate private market content through a range of delivery channels, including feeds, APIs, Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
Data Discovery
With Data Discovery, access smarter search capabilities, sample datasets confidently, and integrate data seamlessly into your workflows – all backed by trusted metadata and secure access. Available via web UI or machine-readable feed.
Key strategic partners
Alongside LSEG’s proprietary data, we work with a range of specialist partners to ensure you have access to the best-in-class data available in private markets.
Cambridge Associates
Our Cambridge Associates private investment benchmark offerings include fund performance for over 11,000 funds globally with coverage dating back to 1981, including 6,600+ PE/VC funds, over 2,200 real assets funds and 900 private credit funds.
Creditsafe
Creditsafe is a global business intelligence provider delivering credit reports and data on over 430 million companies worldwide. Through its unified platform, it combines powerful analytics, real-time insights, and automation to help organizations make smarter decisions, manage risk, and drive growth with confidence.
Crunchbase
Crunchbase is the leading predictive solution for private company intelligence, enabling teams to stay ahead of private market shifts so they can identify opportunities earlier and act first. Only Crunchbase combines proprietary private market data, AI, and unique engagement signals to forecast company growth, funding, and other key milestones — powering workflows, products, and decisions across the enterprise.
Dun & Bradstreet
“With growing demand for access to private company data, specifically financial information, LSEG has been working to expand our offering,” said Debbie Lawrence, Group Head of D&A Data Strategy and Management, LSEG. “This strategic relationship will provide unprecedented access to private company financial data, enhancing our already strong offering for the banking community and beyond. It will also support our customers in making informed decisions with the added flexibility in how they choose to receive and use the data.”
Nasdaq
“This partnership underscores our commitment to delivering unparalleled private markets intelligence,” said Gianluca Biagini, Group Co-Head, Data & Analytics, LSEG. “By integrating Nasdaq’s datasets with LSEG’s existing capabilities, we are creating a best-in-class solution that serves the entire private market ecosystem. Together, we will provide richer content, deeper data coverage, and tools that empower our clients to make informed decisions.”
Preqin
“Through a new advanced data integration, LSEG’s customers will gain deeper insights in private markets and alternative assets by accessing Preqin data. We have a unique combination of data assets and are delighted to add Preqin data to our leading data and content offering. This powerful combination is vital in enabling investment decisions that are based on the most accurate and timely information,” said David Schwimmer, CEO, LSEG.
Stepstone
“Today’s launch reinforces FTSE Russell’s position as a leader in alternative asset class indexing by delivering next-generation private market benchmarks,'' said Gerald Toledano, Global Head of Equity and Multi Assets, FTSE Russell ''By integrating StepStone’s proprietary private markets data, alongside our index engineering capabilities, we’re setting a new standard for rules-based and consistent benchmarking in this growing asset class. The new indices transform how private assets are benchmarked, giving asset owners faster insights on their portfolios, and creating the ideal set of benchmarks for evergreen fund managers and investors.”
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