Gain
Gain, formerly Gain.pro, sells private market intelligence to private equity investors, M&A advisers, corporate development teams and consultancies. It profiles private companies, investors, deals and advisers so dealmakers can find targets and map markets.
Hundreds of researchers check the profiles that its automated collection assembles. On top sit AI search, market mapping, watchlists that surface opportunities on their own and an agent that turns data into next steps. It syncs with Salesforce and DealCloud and offers an Excel add in, API feeds and an MCP connection.
Gain states more than 400 enterprise clients, including Bain Capital, Nordic Capital and PwC, and a customer story credits it with cutting research and screening time by two thirds at Egeria. It holds SOC 2 Type 2. Gain.AI B.V. is based in Amsterdam.
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15 of 15 axes rated · 8 graded A or B
Search, market maps that suggest likely buyers and self running watchlists all lean on models, but underneath is a human verified database of private companies, deals and investors that would stand without them.
Newer features act on their own, with watchlists surfacing opportunities and an agent turning data into workflow actions, and whether that output gets the human review the core data does isn't said.
Hundreds of researchers check profiles and analysts review incoming data, which guards against a confident error reaching an investment committee. Accuracy rates and validation of the AI search aren't published.
Egeria, a private equity firm, cut research and screening time by two thirds, and Bain Capital and Nordic Capital are among the other named customers.
Clients attach their own notes and CRM signals to shared company profiles while competing buyout firms use the same platform, and whether that intelligence stays visible only to the firm that added it isn't stated, nor whether it trains the models.
The January 30, 2026 privacy statement covers the professionals profiled in the database as well as platform users, keeping profile data for three years after someone leaves a role.
SOC 2 Type 2 is audited annually, with reports available on request, and single sign on, SCIM provisioning and role based access are in place.
European data protection law is the only regime named, and the non public government registers among its sources come with no stated license terms.
Disclosure by private companies varies widely by country, so businesses in thinly documented markets are harder to find and less likely to draw investor interest, and Gain publishes nothing on profile depth by country.
Profiled individuals can ask to correct or erase their data, but a client who relies on a wrong profile gets no published guarantee, and companies flagged as likely targets have no route at all.
Sources are described by type, from government registers to the public web, while data suppliers, model providers and processors aren't named individually.
Two way sync with Salesforce and DealCloud, an Excel add in and an MCP connection are all named, though no API reference or marketplace listing is linked.
Transfers outside the European Economic Area follow adequacy rules or standard contractual clauses, but where client notes and CRM data actually rest isn't stated.
Platform access, bulk data and API feeds are sold as separate modes, and nothing published says how cost scales across them.
Private equity investors, M&A advisers and corporate development teams are the core buyers, and many named customers are advisers rather than financial institutions.
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