Search private markets with intent.

Search private markets with intent.

Find companies based on what they do, not how they're categorized.

Find companies based on what they do, not how they're categorized.

Benefits

What makes it special?

What makes it special?

Your competitive edge in private markets

Product-Level Intelligence

Our semantic engine maps and understands specific product features, capabilities, and use cases, not just company descriptions

Product-Level Intelligence

Our semantic engine maps and understands specific product features, capabilities, and use cases, not just company descriptions

Spot Opportunities First

Surface emerging startups before they hit databases. Catch product evolution in real-time as companies pivot or expand their offerings.

Spot Opportunities First

Surface emerging startups before they hit databases. Catch product evolution in real-time as companies pivot or expand their offerings.

Search like you think

Natural language search that understands what you're actually looking for, that overcomes the problems of classification with directories.

Search like you think

Natural language search that understands what you're actually looking for, that overcomes the problems of classification with directories.

Pattern Recognition at Scale

See where product innovation clusters are forming before they become obvious. Identify emerging product trends across your entire market map

Pattern Recognition at Scale

See where product innovation clusters are forming before they become obvious. Identify emerging product trends across your entire market map

Strong Data Flywheels

Founders come to us first to understand their market, creating a unique early-signal dataset. Each search enriches our product graph

Strong Data Flywheels

Founders come to us first to understand their market, creating a unique early-signal dataset. Each search enriches our product graph

Portfolio Defence Intelligence

Spot new entrants building competing features before they're on the radar, and track product evolution across your entire portfolio's landscape

Portfolio Defence Intelligence

Spot new entrants building competing features before they're on the radar, and track product evolution across your entire portfolio's landscape

Example Use Case

Finding Lookalikes within

Finding Lookalikes within

Finding Lookalikes within

When multiple AI IDE startups emerged from YC, we investigated. Our analysis revealed surprising patterns in how YC approaches competing investments - showing the power of product-centric market intelligence.

Batch Paradox

Y Combinator repeatedly backs direct competitors in the same batch - including 3 AI code editors in Winter '23 and 2 expense management platforms sharing the same group partner.

Batch Paradox

Y Combinator repeatedly backs direct competitors in the same batch - including 3 AI code editors in Winter '23 and 2 expense management platforms sharing the same group partner.

Partner Pattern Recognition

Group Partners show consistent investment themes across batches - like Garry Tan's investments in law enforcement tech spanning 7 years, suggesting deliberate sector expertise.

Partner Pattern Recognition

Group Partners show consistent investment themes across batches - like Garry Tan's investments in law enforcement tech spanning 7 years, suggesting deliberate sector expertise.

Temporal Waves

YC's portfolio reveals clear investment waves: from fundamental business tools (2008-2012), to B2B point solutions (2012-2016), to dense AI clustering across multiple verticals (2020+).

Temporal Waves

YC's portfolio reveals clear investment waves: from fundamental business tools (2008-2012), to B2B point solutions (2012-2016), to dense AI clustering across multiple verticals (2020+).

Our raison d'être

Why did we build this?

Why did we build this?

Finding your next fund returner needn't be a herculean task

Company Data isn't cutting it

Company Data isn't cutting it

Company Data isn't cutting it

Databases are littered with inadequate company descriptions. Trouble is, If the company has more than one offering we tend to find that these products and services get mashed up into a one liner - rendering semantic search useless

Databases are littered with inadequate company descriptions. Trouble is, If the company has more than one offering we tend to find that these products and services get mashed up into a one liner - rendering semantic search useless

Databases are littered with inadequate company descriptions. Trouble is, If the company has more than one offering we tend to find that these products and services get mashed up into a one liner - rendering semantic search useless

Directories don't allow for search with intent

Directories don't allow for search with intent

Directories don't allow for search with intent

Because of this flaw, keyword search in directories and their "similar companies" feature didn't ever really stand a chance of delivering value. Which brings us back to square one.

Because of this flaw, keyword search in directories and their "similar companies" feature didn't ever really stand a chance of delivering value. Which brings us back to square one.

Because of this flaw, keyword search in directories and their "similar companies" feature didn't ever really stand a chance of delivering value. Which brings us back to square one.

Product Data is where it's at

Product Data is where it's at

When you really think about it, a company competes for customers' revenue based on the products and services they have, but the data at this level has been missing from the market for too long, so this is where we come in.

When you really think about it, a company competes for customers' revenue based on the products and services they have, but the data at this level has been missing from the market for too long, so this is where we come in.

Product Data is where it's at

Product Data is where it's at

When you really think about it, a company competes for customers' revenue based on the products and services they have, but the data at this level has been missing from the market for too long, so this is where we come in.

When you really think about it, a company competes for customers' revenue based on the products and services they have, but the data at this level has been missing from the market for too long, so this is where we come in.

Features

Data we surface

Data we surface

The things what will make you go, "nice!"

Description

Alphalens is a market intelligence platform that allows users to both surface similar products given a domain, as well as performing thesis driven searches using natural language.

B2B

Subscription

Product Level Descriptions

Product Level Descriptions

Surface semantically similar products in an instant with rich product descriptions and helpful tags to indicate customer focus and revenue model

Our proprietary data flywheel ensures you always have the most current market information

Key Features and differentiators

Features and differentiators

Key Features and differentiators

We also unpack their key offerings, so as to highlight their USP and what they decided to lead with on their on website.

Our proprietary data flywheel ensures you always have the most current market information

Key features

natural language search

product data

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pricing data

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target audience data

competition matrix builder

firmographic data

add your own known competitors

competition matrix builder

pricing data

add your own known competitors

Target Audience

Founders & Operators of start ups, and scale ups

Private Market Investors

Corporate Development & M&A professionals

Target Audience

We drill down on target audience to surface the ICP of the product in question.

Our proprietary data flywheel ensures you always have the most current market information

Company Data

Light data on company location, size and links to company specific sites. More coming soon

Company Data

Company Name

Country

City

Headcount

Website

Linkedin profile

Year Founded

People Data

Name

Social Accounts

Headcount

School

Degrees

Titles

Previous Employers

People Data

coming soon

We drill down on people who make all of these products and surface their crowning achievements

Our proprietary data flywheel ensures you always have the most current market information

Investment Data

coming soon

Leveraging our own proprietary flywheel, we gather core data on funding rounds before any of the main databases do,

Investment Data

Round Stage

Amount Raised

Announced on

Lead Investor

Co Investors

Valuation

Investment Data

coming soon

Leveraging our own proprietary flywheel, we gather core data on funding rounds before any of the main databases do,

Pricing

Flexible access

Flexible access

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder looking to map your market, an M&A professional looking for a deal, or the head of data at a multi-stage firm, we have a plan for you.

Whether you are a founder looking to map your market, an M&A professional looking for a deal, or the head of data at a multi-stage firm, there's a plan for you

AlphaLens Radar

Powerful tool for founders and operators globally to keep tabs on their market

Features

Company profile view

Refine your universe

See Similar Products

Export Data as CSV

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AlphaLens Pro

Search like you think across our entire universe of proprietary product centric data.

Features

11M+ Products Semantic Search

6M+ Company Description Search

ICP Semantic Search

People Semantic Search & Data

Advanced Filtering and screening

200k + investment rounds

Daily Updates

AlphaLens Enterprise

Everything in Pro plus API access and bulk data imports

Testimonials

What our Alphas are saying.

What our Alphas are saying.

The granularity of AlphaLense's analysis is awesome. By breaking down competition at the product level, it's made exploring market opportunities much smoother.

Patrik Berglund

Co-founder &CEO

Xeneta

We recently did a competitive landscape to map our space. AlphaLens was not only able to surface the competitors we knew, but brought to light new entrants that had never raised money, and were not on the major databases.

We recently did a competitive landscape to map our space. AlphaLens not only surfaced the competitors we knew, but brought to light new entrants that had never raised money, and were not on the major databases.

Rowen Pillay

Co-founder & CEO
Edgefolio

Their ability to map our entire product range is super impressive. It's the first time I've seen something like this.

James Gasteen

Co-founder & CEO

Unaric

The speed is unreal. What used to take weeks now happens in minutes. AlphaLense is how we will approach competitive analysis. No fluff, just results.

Rupert Schneider

Co-founder & CEO
Gardenia Technologies

AlphaLens helped me map the padel club ecosystem in no time. It's easy to use and so efficient!

Aditya Khilnani

Co-founder & CEO

Sensa Padel

The speed is unreal. What used to take weeks now happens in minutes. AlphaLense is how we will approach competitive analysis. No fluff, just results.

Rupert Schneider

Co-founder & CEO
Gardenia Technologies

AlphaLense delivers a dual punch: uncovering hidden competitors and pinpointing our unique market position. Powerful.

Sebastian Almnes

Co-founder & CEO

Spring

AlphaLens identified a lot of our known competitors and some we didn't know about. Very valuable.

Joe Jones

Co-founder & CEO

Pistaschio

Co-founder & CEO

Pistaschio

FAQs

What our Alphas ask us

frequently

What is AlphaLens?
How does AlphaLens work?
Is my company data safe with AlphaLens?
How up-to-date is the data used by AlphaLens?
Can I customize the competitive landscape generated by AlphaLens?
Is AlphaLens free to use?

FAQs

What our Alphas ask us

frequently

What is AlphaLens?
How does AlphaLens work?
Is my company data safe with AlphaLens?
How up-to-date is the data used by AlphaLens?
Can I customize the competitive landscape generated by AlphaLens?
Is AlphaLens free to use?

FAQs

What our Alphas ask us

frequently

What is AlphaLens?
How does AlphaLens work?
Is my company data safe with AlphaLens?
How up-to-date is the data used by AlphaLens?
Can I customize the competitive landscape generated by AlphaLens?
Is AlphaLens free to use?