Scholarly Research Toolbox For Business Administration

An excellent resource for startups and entrepreneurship research, CB Insights contains advanced searches for private companies, investors, and deals information, especially for venture capital and private equity. You must sign up for your own account using your U of Illinois net ID and creating a password of your choice. Please follow this link to sign up.

Search Pitchbook for information on venture capital and private equity companies, funds, limited partners, service providers, founders, investors and buyers. In many cases, Pitchbook provides information about deals and funding. 

U of I users must create an account to use Pitchbook. Please click on the "Log In" button on the top right of the screen and then click on the "Log In with SSO" link below the gray log in button on the next screen. 

Not available for non-U of I students, faculty, or staff.

Database of financial data on major privately-held companies. Includes private financials and revenues; private M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.
Note that all users must create an account using their University of Illinois email address to access this database.