Preqin Ltd. is a British privately held London-based investment data company that provides financial data and insight on the alternative assets market, as well as tools to support investment in alternatives.
By the company's own definition, its data encompasses private capital and hedge funds, including fund, fund manager, investor, performance and deal information. The asset classes it covers are: private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and secondaries.
Preqin competes with companies such as Pitchbook, CapitalIQ, Burgess, Octum AI, Tracxn, Crunchbase, and other financial databases.
History
Launched as Private Equity Intelligence in 2003, the firm founded by Mark O’Hare and Nick Arnott began by listing private equity performance data, relying on the Freedom of Information Act (UK FOIA).[1]
In 2018, it launched a research report titled Women in Alternatives, which detailed underrepresentation of women in the alternative assets industry.