New in February
from CB Insights
Corporate strategy and deal teams don’t win by generating more lists. They win by identifying the right private companies — and the right ecosystem shifts — before they’re obvious.
February’s updates help you uncover competitor strategy — and act on it.
- Business Relationship Search – reveal company strategy through relationships
- Custom Notes in Watchlists – capture your team’s perspective
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Business Relationship Search – reveal company strategy through relationships
Our Business Relationships dataset maps partnerships, customers, and vendors across private and public companies. These relationships reveal strategic direction — from new product bets and GTM shifts to geographic expansion — before M&A or headlines.
Now you can search that network across multiple companies at once — filtering by relationship type, timing, and more – to answer questions like, “What AI-focused partnerships have my competitors recently made?”
Build lists of competitor partners, customers, or ecosystem players — and identify who to target next. Business Relationship data is also available via our Data Solutions for direct integration into your internal systems.
Custom Notes in Watchlists – capture your team’s perspective
Watchlists were rebuilt last month as shared workspaces for analyzing portfolios, competitors, or any group of companies you create. Now, with Custom Notes, they go a step further — giving your team a place to capture judgment and workflow context directly inside each Watchlist.
Add thesis, ownership, diligence notes, and next steps alongside company data and analysis. Watchlists bring company analysis, monitoring, and team coordination into one place. Fewer spreadsheets. Better decisions.
ICYM: Recent Highlights
MCP integration lets you connect Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and other LLMs to CB Insights data, and upgrade the quality of your answers – ask your rep, and we’ll get you set up
Insight Columns let you apply custom analysis across a whole list of companies
Strategy maps reveal the “why” behind your competitors’ moves
Competitive Intel Agent gives you an early warning system
