Connect to VentureXpert Web On or off campus: enter your Babson username and password when prompted. Brief Description: Screen the private equity industry by firm, fund, portfolio company, location, investment amount, etc., for individual profiles or aggregate statistics. Access Restrictions: Students, Faculty & Staff may use. Alumni & Walk-in Visitors may not use.

Citing Articles Scope Basic Steps Advanced Search Tips Viewing, Printing & Saving

Citing Articles

MLA Style Examples: Thomson VentureXpert. Thomson Financial. Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 8 July 2005 .  http://vx.thomsonib.com/NASApp/VxComponent/VXMain.jsp For additional MLA examples, visit the MLA site.

Basic Steps

Enter a name in the Search box to retrieve a profile for a specific firm, fund, portfolio company, venture-backed IPO, limited partner, or executive. Or Choose one of the following options: Profiles:  To screen and create lists, choose one of the Profiles options according to the kind of list you want to retrieve.  For instance, for a list of firms, choose Profiles-Firms, even though you may want to screen by the type of portfolio companies in which the firm invests. Analytics: Use to retrieve standard tables on showing Investments, Valuations, IPO Analytics, Merger Analystics, aggregate Fund Performance, Commitments, Fund Statistics either annually, quarterly, by region, by industry and more. Choose your search type - Profile or Analytics Choose what kind of list or statistic you need Select your Report Type Choose other criteria.  Click Advance Query Items for a complete list of search options. When choosing options, be sure to click Include Selected. Execute Search.

Definitions & Additional Help

Product Overview  - click for information

FAQ - frequently asked questions Methodology - describes methods for determining performance, etc. Glossary - definitions of terms Quick Reference Guides

Term	Definition
Portfolio company	The company or entity into which a fund invests directly
Firm	The manager of a specific fund or funds.

Viewing & Printing Options

Selected results can be exported to Excel, converted to PDF, or downloaded as an html document.  Select items. For complete Profiles, choose Report Type and click Generate Select Profiles For comparison Excel sheet, choose report type and click Download the File.

Scope

Screen the private equity industry by firm, fund, portfolio company, location, investment amount, etc., for individual profiles or aggregate statistics.

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Updated December 15, 2005 By  Frances Nilsson