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Raise CapitalThe investors who fit, and meetings with them.Source DealsEvery company in your niche, and who owns it.Grow RevenueWe find customers and partners, and who can introduce you.Map the MarketKnow your market before you commit to it.Underwrite and DiligenceWe check a deal's claims before you sign.Partner firmsFor firms running a raise or a search for their own clients.Data ServicesCustom data from public records, kept current.

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Research

The research behind every raise, deal and diligence call.

Every program we run starts here: our own data from years of raises and deals, checked against the filings and registers governments keep, and tested before you act.

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How a finding earns its place in our research

How one finding is checked before it reaches youA page with one finding marked. The finding passes a ledger of five checks, each ending in a ticked box: the regulator's own copy, the investor read two ways, the source tied to its page, rival review systems that try to break it, and a test of the method itself, whose lessons loop back to the first check. What passes leaves on one oxblood line, ready to use.

One finding

  1. Read the source

    The Record Mirror

    We read each filing from the regulator, not a stale resold copy.

  2. Read the person

    The Allocator Model

    We read what the firm may invest in, and whether this person can say yes.

  3. Pin it down

    The Evidence Spine

    Sources are saved and dated; numbers stay tied to their pages.

  4. Try to break it

    Cross-Examination

    Rival review systems, blind to each other, try to break it. A named partner signs off.

  5. Test the method

    The Proving Ground

    We keep a new method only if it does better on cases it has never seen.

Each lesson goes back in

Ready to use

What passes becomes a short list, a report or a first letter to an investor or owner.

Where our research comes from

It starts with our own record of raises and deals. Then we check it against what governments publish: registers, courts, filings and permits, at home and abroad. Here is the map of the sources we draw on.

Starts from our own record

What the market has said

What investors asked and why they passed in our raises. Used only in aggregate.

Shared history

Boards, employers, schools and co-investments, joined up by our relationship graph.

Where our sources are, by kind and by placeFifteen kinds of source in four groups, one dot per source, set in columns for US national, US state and local, other countries, and global sources. Solid dots were used on client work, ringed dots we can reach today, faint dots are mapped. A final row of empty dashed squares stands for the next source we add.

2,671 outside sources mapped, in 15 categories

  • 187 used on client work
  • 639 we can reach today: built into our systems, or open and checked live
  • 1,845 mapped, not yet read

Who owns and runs it?

Company, ownership and identity registers

State company registers, UK Companies House, the global entity register

553

Securities and fund filings

SEC EDGAR, Form D, Form ADV, FINRA, Canada's SEDAR+, the FCA register

257

Licenses, permits and professional standing

State licensing boards, insurance licensing, state bars, permits

147

Nonprofits, foundations and pensions

IRS nonprofit returns, pension plan filings, public pension funds

68

What does it own, owe and fight over?

Courts, enforcement, liens and insolvency

Federal and state dockets, tax liens, regulator actions, insolvency

278

Lending, banking and secured credit

UCC filings, SBA and PPP loans, bank call reports, central banks

295

Property, land and zoning

County assessors and recorders, zoning, flood maps, land registries

321

Who does it deal with?

Government contracts and grants

USAspending, SAM.gov, EU tenders, procurement portals abroad

221

Political money and lobbying

FEC filings, state campaign finance and lobbying disclosures

48

Trade, customs, export controls and sanctions

US sanctions and export control lists, customs rulings, trade data

10

What is its market saying?

Industry regulators and sector data

FERC, EIA, grid operators, utility dockets, EPA, FDA, FCC

92

Laws, rules and legislation

Federal Register, eCFR, Congress.gov, EUR-Lex, state legislatures

17

Statistics, economic and market data

Census, BLS, BEA, FRED, national statistics offices worldwide

279

News, trade press and social media

Private markets trade press, business press, wires, press abroad

70

Academic, patents and trademarks

USPTO, the WIPO brand database, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, SSRN

15

The next source

Found on a job, read, dated and added here for the next one. Newest on the map: financial statement data from SEC filings, statewide open data portals and an index of academic papers.

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Inside the US, our own systems read company registers in all 50 states and DC, court indexes in 44 states and DC, and lien filings in 27 states.

Government databases mapped, country by countryOne square per United Nations member state, grouped by region, then two territories and the European Union. Solid squares mark places whose government records we have read on client work, ringed squares places our own systems read, small squares an open government database mapped, and one dashed square a country where nothing open was found.

192 of the 193 UN member states have at least one open government database in our map.

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Beyond the UN list

  • Government records read on client work: 11 countries and territories, plus the EU
  • Read by our own systems: Germany, the UAE, Albania and New Zealand
  • An open government database mapped
  • Nothing open found
Sources and dates
Sources and dates for this page
FigureWhere it comes fromAs of
2,671 sources in 15 categories; 187 used on client work; 1,845 mapped, not yet readPraxis Rock source atlas, counted source by source; our own systems and search tools are not counted.October 2026
639 we can reach todayPraxis Rock source atlas: sources built into our systems, plus US sites open with no login or fee and checked live.August to October 2026
Category totals: 553, 257, 147, 68, 278, 295, 321, 221, 48, 10, 92, 17, 279, 70Praxis Rock source atlas, one row per source.October 2026
50 states and DC; 44 states and DC; 27 statesPraxis Rock state record searches, counted by state.October 2026
192 of 193 UN member statesOfficial lists: GLEIF registration authorities, Open Ownership, IOSCO members, UN statistics offices, central bank lists, EU e-Justice, Open Contracting, Global Data Barometer.October 2026
11 countries and territories, plus the EUPraxis Rock engagement files, anonymized; the four further countries from our own systems.October 2026

The research behind each service

Our research

Studies we have published

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