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Headcount Analytics provides an extensive view of a company's workforce composition, trends and metrics.

Rounds of Funding includes private placement data for public and private companies. This data set provides detailed information for each stage of funding.

Company Intelligence contains a robust offering of qualitative data including a time series of company auditors, competitors' information, alternate and foreign language company names, key documents and filings, alternate address information, and Topic Tags.

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When Headcount Counts
How Investors are Pricing Scale and Story

While headlines fixate on AI replacing workforces, investors are betting big on the people building and using it. Venture capital and corporate buyers are backing late-stage AI firms at steep premiums. This research introduces a new framework for decomposing deal value into three components: industry enthusiasm, workforce scale and firm-specific differentiation. By tracking how these drivers have evolved over time, the analysis reveals shifting investor priorities, growing premiums for thematic exposure and early signals of momentum embedded in deal value outliers.

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  • AI is (unsurprisingly) in vogue: In 2024, AI companies pulled in nearly $95 billion, an 89% year-over-year increase, as investors chased exposure to a maturing sector.  
  • Venture capital triples down on late-stage “AI-powered” opportunities: Capital is concentrating in AI-powered applications such as software, analytics and mobility, which now represent nearly 70% of all AI-related deal flow.
  • Team size still matters, but less than before: Historically, larger teams were closely tied to larger checks. That link has weakened, as investors place more weight on sector momentum and company-specific factors beyond team size.
  • Premium deal size points to future rounds: AI firms priced above expectations — based on headcount and industry — were more likely to raise capital again within 12 months and grew headcount four times faster than peers.
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