Alternative data
From firmographics to public resume data and more, below you will find our full data offering consisting of a total of 20 unique alternative data sources in 8 categories.
Community and repository data
Access public data about software projects, experienced developers and data analysts.
Discover noteworthy software projects
Source talented professionals
Use it for social listening
Company employee review data
Leverage public data from company review sites to gain internal insights on how a company is doing.
Gain unique insights on companies
Identify underlying risks and problems
Capture changes in sentiment over time
Company funding data
Make better investment decisions based on accurate company funding data.
Generate business opportunities
Screen investment candidates
Understand market landscape
Firmographic data
Get firmographics of millions of companies worldwide, grouped by unique identifiers.
See the full company picture
Map company locations
Dig deep into company structures
Job postings data
Track the growth of selected companies and their teams, identify locations to which a company is planning to expand to and more
Generate business opportunities
Capture company traction
Gain strategic competitive insights
Public resume data
Utilize public member data from business-related platforms to generate unique people intelligence insights.
Track talent movement for investment opportunities
Source best-fit talent for your recruitment needs
Fuel your lead generation pipeline
Tech product review data
Product review data uncovers market sentiment for specific products or companies by various slices.
Measure product traction
Identify market winning conditions
Technographic data
Technographic data provides overview on the technological stack of the company, as well as detailed information on specific technologies.
Generate business opportunities
Evaluate technological capacity
Measure traction
Alternative data for investment decisions
Alternative data enables extracting up-to-date and accurate insights, allowing hedge funds and investment firms to survey potential startups, track company or product popularity, their growth rates, and more, ultimately leading to a better-informed investment process.
Alternative data for businesses
Our data sets provide B2B and B2C companies with up-to-date market knowledge and always fresh business-related people intelligence. From researching market trends to generating leads or unlocking the power of data-driven recruitment, alternative data is becoming increasingly indispensable for the modern business.
What is alternative data?
Alternative data refers to data that exists beyond the sphere of traditional sources. Traders, investment management firms, and analysts typically leverage these alternative data sources to aid in company and investment evaluation. With growing awareness of its benefits, the use of alternative data is gaining traction fast, with new and innovative practices appearing each day.
Some brief examples of alternative data include public social media/sentiment, satellite and weather sensor data, transactional data from credit and debit cards (consumer data), email receipts, survey data, and much more. According to research, data collected from public web-sources is the number one alternative data source by origin. And this is precisely the type of alternative data that Coresignal offers. For a deep dive into the topic, be sure to check out our article.
How is alternative data used?
Although alternative data in general might be used creatively in a near-infinite amount of cases, the data offered by Coresignal is mostly used for the practices listed below.
Investment intelligence
Combine public data with traditional data sets for enhanced investment analysis. Alternative data, combined with the power of AI/ML, enables investors to generate trade signals, identify risks and make better predictions.
Data-driven recruitment
Data-driven recruitment takes the hiring process to a new level. By leveraging data when analyzing talent and prospects, recruiters can make efficient and data-driven decisions.
Lead generation
With Coresignal’s rich and continuously updated public resume datasets, fuel your lead generation pipeline with data on a wide range of decision makers and stakeholders.
Why Coresignal?
Continuously updated data
Raw, well structured and ready-to-use
Rich datasets
Multiple data sources
Dedicated account managers
Fast and convenient delivery
Frequently asked questions
How do you deliver the data?
With a convenient choice of either parsed CSV or JSON, we will transfer the data via a web link or send the files directly to your preferred storage.
Where is the data collected from?
The data is gathered from various public online sources with our own fully controlled operation.
How many data points do you provide?
There are about 2k total data points throughout all of the sources.
How often do you update the data?
The alternative data we offer is continuously refreshed. Most of our data sets are refreshed every month. There are many variables we consider and they often change depending on the data collection speed we can achieve with the resources available at the time. Our main goal is to update the whole database as often as possible. We also constantly add new data, specifically member data, such as newly registered professionals.
How do I know if the data is really fresh?
There are two main ways for us to demonstrate data freshness. We can either send you a file with detailed overall statistics or we can check the freshness of a particular dataset you'd like to get based on the criteria that you specify.