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APPENDIX G Data Sources and Resources For this publication, the main source for data was ThomsonONE.com, the online research database of Thomson Reuters. ThomsonONE.com (which replaced VentureXpert™, and Thomson One Banker) is endorsed by the NVCA as the official United States venture capital activity database. By using data gathered through the MoneyTree™ Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Reuters, ThomsonONE.com contains investment, fund raising, portfolio company information, and Reuters News along with other statistical data. Over 950,000 global private companies can be analyzed within ThomsonONE.com, including historical revenue figures on over 670,000 companies and detailed financials on over 200,000 companies. Through a partnership withVC Experts.com, Inc.the historical breadth and depth of the Thomson Reuters venture capital content is integrated with private company valuation and deal terms. ThomsonONE.com includes blogs, events, and articles from the peHUB and the Venture Capital Journal, two of the industry’s most widely-read publications. Other information contained in this database is gathered through a variety of public and proprietary source. This publication is produced on an annual basis primarily using year-end data. However, the underlying databases can be accessed online to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive global private equity statistics and profile information available.
DATA SOURCES AND RESOURCES MONEYTREE™ DATA PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Reuters, and the National Venture Capital Association joined forces in December 2001 to produce what was then known as the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Thomson Venture Economics/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree™ Survey. Conducted on a quarterly basis, the designated PwC/NVCA MoneyTree Report allows Thomson Reuters unparalleled access to primary sources of information from general partners.
SOURCES OF DATA The online database of Thomson Reuters is ThomsonONE.com (VentureXpert), the foremost information provider for private equity professionals worldwide. The private equity portion of Thomson Reuters offers an incomparable range of products from directories to conferences, journals, newsletters, research reports, and the ThomsonONE.com Private Equity database. As of January 2014, the database included over 110,000 portfolio companies, over 18,000 private equity firms, over 31,000 private equity funds, and nearly 250,000 financing rounds. By establishing working relationships with private equity and venture capital firms, institutional investors, and industry associations such as the NVCA, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other such entities around the world, Thomson Reuters has been able to gather, on a timely basis, complete and accurate information.
TIMELINESS OF DATA Many of the tables and charts presented in this reportcan be produced by using ThomsonONE.com. One of advantages of using ThomsonONE. com is that the reader can customize a report to better fit the needs of what they are seeking. In addition, because the online database is continuously updated, the information available is more up-to-date than what can be presented in this report. Readers should note that timely industry information on details concerning venture capital investment is available from other sources such as PricewaterhouseCoopers at www.pwcmoneytree.com, the ‘Industry Stats’ section of the NVCA website, www.nvca. org, and the Private Equity section ofThomson Reuters’ Deals Intelligence found at http://dmi.thomsonreuters.com/PrivateEquity.
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VERIFICATION AND UPDATING OF DATA Collectively, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Reuters, and the NVCA have the utmost commitment to provide an accurate historical record of venture capital activity. On a daily basis, the database is constantly analyzed for consistency, crosschecked with other data sources, and updated as new information comes in. On a quarterly basis, we have worked with many venture firms to ensure that that their current and past data is correct. Primarily for this reason, the private equity news releases of Thomson Reuters will often restate statistics from prior news releases. With the availability of the online data access, users are encouraged to always use the most current numbers even regarding historical activity so as to maintain accuracy and comparability.
REPORTING FUNCTIONALITY OF THOMSONONE.COM Users can access information in terms of profiles on private equity companies, funds, firms, executives, IPOs, and limited partners. In addition, users can access the analytics portion of the database, which contains investment, valuation, IPO analytics, merger analytics, fund performance, and fund raising information along with venture capital information such as aggregate fund raising, investments, and IPOs broken out into state and nation profiles.
COMPREHENSIVENESS OF THOMSONONE.COM Both the breadth and depth of ThomsonONE.com can perhaps best be shown in that it, among other types of information, the user can find the answers to the following questions: • Which venture firms actively co-invest with a firm I am considering co-investing with? • Which venture firms are most active in funding online financial services companies in the Ohio Valley? • What does Yearbook Figure 3.15 look like for just biotech? • How much money was raised by each fund stage in 2010? • What was a particular venture-backed IPO’s one year return at the end of 2010? • As of December 2011, was the 10-year return to small buyout funds larger than that of large buyout funds?
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