Finquest: Enhancing Investment Opportunities
Finquest connects investors with high-potential private companies worldwide, screening opportunities against comprehensive, verified company data rather than self-reported figures.
Read the case studyScreen 600 million companies down to the twelve worth a call.
Filed accounts, shareholder registers, deal history and officer records taken directly from 400+ government registries across 200+ countries. Every field on the shortlist carries the filing it came from.
600M+company profiles
400+primary registries
200+countries
147documented fields
Dailyregistry sync
Target universe
600,000,000
companies
matching
matching
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom, Ireland, Nordics
8,940,000
Activity
Precision engineering & components
61,300
Turnover
£20M – £60M, last filed accounts
2,480
Headcount
50 – 400 employees
1,910
EBITDA
£3M – £10M, derived from filed accounts
1,240
Ownership
Majority privately held, no sponsor on register
380
Screening
No sanctions or PEP match, officers and owners
41
Shortlist — sample of 41
SORTED BY TURNOVER, FY2025
| Company | Registry | Turnover | Staff | Control |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kestrel Precision Holdings Ltd | GB 08812440 | £41.8M | 214 | Family and trust |
| Nordhavn Komponenter AS | NO 918 442 601 | £38.1M | 176 | Founder-held |
| Vantage Forge Ltd | GB 07741209 | £33.6M | 158 | Founder-held |
| Brixen Tooling AB | SE 556781-4420 | £29.4M | 131 | Family |
| Pallas Toolworks Ltd | GB 09220144 | £26.9M | 118 | Management |
| Halden Presisjon AS | NO 921 006 338 | £24.2M | 96 | Founder-held |
Illustrative screen and sample entities. Counts refresh daily.EXPORT · CSV / API / WAREHOUSE
A screen is only as good as the record underneath it
Four places where the data most deal teams licence runs out.
01
Most of the market never took funding
PitchBook and Crunchbase index the companies that announced a round. That is a fraction of what you could buy.
The profitable, family-held businesses that never raised file accounts every year and sit outside those platforms. Start a screen from a funding database and you cap your market before looking at a single target.
02
Financial data on private companies runs thin
Where a private company does appear, the financials are a band, a headline number, or nothing at all.
Turnover with no gross profit will not carry a valuation conversation. So the analyst pulls the accounts by hand anyway, one target at a time.
03
No trace back to the source, the date or the filing
Most platforms show a value and not where it came from. No registry, no timestamp, no document reference.
Ask how old the number is and nobody can say. A figure that cannot be traced gets checked by hand, and then it has stopped saving anyone time.
04
Ownership stops at the shareholder of record
The name on the register is often a holding company in another jurisdiction, itself held by two more.
Who actually controls the company sits three layers up and one border across. By hand that is a week per target, and stale on arrival.
From 600 million to a shortlist
Six passes over the same primary record. Each one narrows the list and adds evidence to the names that survive.
01Define the universe
02Resolve the entity
03Read the filed accounts
04Map ownership and control
05Trace the deal history
06Screen the people
Define the universe
Screen on the fields that are actually filed: registered activity, turnover band, asset base, headcount, incorporation year, filing recency, legal form, registered address. Save the screen and it re-runs itself as registries publish.
Nordic industrialsSaved screen · re-runs daily
FieldOperatorValue
JurisdictionisGB · IE · SE · NO · DK · FI
ActivityisSIC 2562 · 2599 · 2811
Turnoverbetween£20,000,000 – £60,000,000
EBITDA, derivedbetween£3,000,000 – £10,000,000
Accounts filedwithin12 months
41 entities
Resolve the entity
One company arrives as six spellings, three trading names and a group abbreviation. Registration number, VAT number and the Global Database ID pin every record to a single legal entity, so a longlist of 400 is 400 companies rather than 260 counted twice.
Entity resolutionSample record
Input stringMatch
"Kestrel Precision"pending
"KESTREL PRECISION HLDGS LTD"pending
"Kestrel Prec. Holdings (UK)"pending
VAT GB 421 8890 06pending
Resolved entity
Kestrel Precision Holdings Limited
Company number08812440
VAT numberGB 421 8890 06
RegistryCompanies House, GB
0 of 4 resolved
Read the filed accounts
Turnover, gross profit, operating profit, total assets, net assets, cash, trade creditors and estimated headcount, taken from the accounts as the company filed them. Reported in the filing currency, with the latest accounts date filed and the reporting period attached to every line.
Filed accountsKestrel Precision Holdings Ltd · sample
Turnover, as filed+0.0% year on year
£29.9MFY2023
£36.2MFY2024
£41.8MFY2025
FY2023FY2024FY2025
Turnover£29,900,000£36,200,000£41,800,000
Operating profit£3,900,000£4,800,000£5,910,000
Net assets£12,400,000£15,200,000£18,300,000
Employees, estimated161188214
Companies House, GBAccounts filed 14 Mar 2026
Map ownership and control
Shareholders with percentage holdings and share classes, immediate parent, ultimate parent, subsidiaries by country, and beneficial owners wherever the register publishes them. The chain is built from filings in each jurisdiction rather than inferred from one.
Control chainSample record · 3 registries
EntityHolding
Kestrel Precision Holdings LimitedTarget · GB08812440
Ardnamurchan Industrials LtdParent · GB62.4%
Brekke Kapital ASUltimate parent · NO100%
Ingrid BrekkeBeneficial owner · NO74.0%
Kestrel Employee TrustTrust · GB21.1%
Minority holders, 4 namedRegistered · GB16.5%
Traversed 0 of 3 registriesEffective interest 0.0%
Trace the deal history
Prior acquisitions, disposals, funding events and majority changes across the group, each tied to the filing that evidences it. A target that has bought four bolt-ons in six years is a different conversation from one that has never integrated anything.
Group deal historySample record · 3 jurisdictions
DateTransactionSize
Nov 2025Acquisition · Halden Tooling ASn/d
Mar 2024Change of control · Brekke Kapital AS62.4%
Aug 2022Acquisition · Meridian Fixtures Ltd100%
Jan 2021Disposal · Kestrel Coatings divisionn/d
Jun 2018Financing · secured growth facility£6.0M
Feb 2016Incorporation · holding structure—
20160 events2025
Screen the people
Directors and their other appointments, roles, appointment and resignation dates, and the PEP and sanctions flag, run across the officers and shareholders of every entity in the group rather than the target alone.
Group screening6 entities · sample
Screening subjects
0 of 14
CheckResult
SanctionsOFAC · EU · UK OFSI · UNscreening
PEPOfficers and shareholdersscreening
Court judgmentsCredit risk recordscreening
MortgagesRegistered against assetsscreening
Payment experienceReported behaviourscreening
Running11 officers · 3 shareholders
Every field on the record, sourced
116 fields across the six categories a deal team screens on, every one traced back to the registry it came from. Changes are recorded within 24 hours of the registry filing.
010 fields
Company registry data
- Global Database ID, registration number, VAT number
- Company legal name and trading name
- Year of founding, company status, legal form
- Country, region, city, ZIP, geo coordinates
- Registered address and office locations
- Industry classification codes
020 fields
Financial data
- Turnover, gross profit, operating profit, EBITDA
- Pre-tax profit, profit after tax, retained profits
- Total assets, fixed and current assets, stock
- Cash, trade debtors, trade creditors, liabilities
- Net assets, shareholder funds, capital employed
- Latest accounts date filed and reporting period
030 fields
Group structure
- Immediate parent: ID, name, address, country
- Domestic ultimate: ID, name, address, country
- Global ultimate: ID, name, address, country
- ISO country codes at every tier
- Linkage IDs for graph traversal
040 fields
Shareholders
- Shareholder name, type and country
- Ownership percentage and number of shares
- Share class and nominal value
- UBO flag and PSC nature of control
- Date notified and corporate shareholder ID
050 fields
Officers and directors
- Full name, role, occupation
- Date of birth, nationality, country of residence
- Appointed on, resigned on, current status
- Other directorships held
060 fields
Firmographic data
- Phone, fax, domain, email
- Estimated employee numbers and revenue
- Business description and industry tag
- LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram profiles
- Company logo
The target has a past
Prior transactions tell you what the seller has done before, and who has already been round the table.
- Every event is tied to the filing that evidences it
- Nothing appears on the list because a blog said so
- The record covers the group, not just the target
- An acquisition by a parent two jurisdictions away sits on the same timeline
Transaction record · Kestrel Precision Holdingssynced 2 min ago
DateTransaction & evidenceSize
Feb 2026Acquisition · Lindqvist Verktyg ABnewKestrel Precision Ltd · Bolagsverket 2026-02-11n/d
Nov 2025Acquisition · Halden Tooling ASKestrel Precision Ltd · Brønnøysund 2025-11-18n/d
Mar 2024Change of control · Brekke Kapital ASKestrel Holdings · Conf. stmt 2024-03-2962.4%
Aug 2022Acquisition · Meridian Fixtures LtdKestrel Precision Ltd · Companies House SH01100%
Jan 2021Disposal · Kestrel Coatings divisionKestrel Holdings · Accounts FY2021, note 7n/d
Jun 2018Financing · secured growth facilityKestrel Precision Ltd · Companies House MR01£6.0M
Feb 2016Incorporation · holding structureKestrel Holdings · Companies House IN01—
6 transactions since 2016AcquisitionControlDisposalFinancing
Three desks, one record
01
Build the sourcing universe from filed accounts, not from announcements.
Private equity and growth
Proprietary origination starts with a universe nobody else has ranked.
Screen on turnover, margin, net assets and filing recency. The profitable, unbanked businesses surface before a process starts.
The ownership chain then tells you on day one whether there is a seller to talk to.
02
Screen every market you operate in on the same fields.
Corporate development
Adjacency mapping across twelve countries usually means twelve datasets with twelve schemas.
One registry-first record covers 200+ countries on consistent fields.
A screen built for Germany runs in Poland and Sweden with no new licence and no new mapping exercise.
03
Build a buyer list that survives the pitch.
Investment banking and advisory
A buyer list is only as good as the evidence under it.
Deal history, group structure and filed financials sit in one record.
You can show who has bought in this sector, who controls them, and whether the balance sheet carries another deal.
Then ask the same record a question
The filed accounts, the ownership chain and the transaction history all sit behind one question box.
- Our own AI model, in the platform and over the API
- Plans which registries can answer, then calls them
- Returns every value with its registry, reference and timestamp
- Cannot answer from training, only from what it retrieved
- Output goes into a committee paper without a second pass by an analyst
Shortlist UK precision engineering companies, £20–60M turnover, no sponsor on the register.
41 companies match. Turnover £20,000,000–£60,000,000 on last filed accounts, activity SIC 2562 · 2599 · 2811, majority privately held with no PE or VC name on the shareholder register. Ownership chain and officer screening are resolved for each — three carry a director also appointed at a company under an active court judgment.Companies House · SIC 2562Filed accounts · FY2025Shareholder register · live
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Methodology, compared
Where the screen comes from
Every platform is good at the thing it was built for. This is what each was built for.
| Best fit for screeningRegistry-firstGlobal Database | Funding-firstPitchBook, Crunchbase | Credit-firstD&B, Bureau van Dijk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01Universe | Global DatabaseEvery registered company, 600M+ across 200+ countries | PitchBook, CrunchbaseMainly companies that received funding | D&B, Bureau van DijkBroad, weighted toward credit-scored trading entities |
| 02Financials | Global DatabaseAccounts as filed, in the filing currency, with the reporting period | PitchBook, CrunchbaseMainly companies that received funding | D&B, Bureau van DijkBlended and modelled, methodology published |
| 03Source of a field | Global DatabaseNamed registry and filing date on every field | PitchBook, CrunchbaseAnnouncements, company submissions, editorial research | D&B, Bureau van DijkMixed: filings, trade experience, modelling |
| 04Ownership | Global DatabaseShareholder register and control chain built from each jurisdiction's own filings | PitchBook, CrunchbaseCap table where the company disclosed it | D&B, Bureau van DijkCorporate linkage, substantially modelled |
| 05Identifiers | Global DatabaseRegistration number and VAT alongside our own ID | PitchBook, CrunchbasePlatform identifier | D&B, Bureau van DijkProprietary identifier |
| 06Redistribution | Global DatabaseLicensed into your own products, models and warehouse | PitchBook, CrunchbaseRestricted | D&B, Bureau van DijkRestricted, typically per seat |
| 07Refresh | Global DatabaseDaily sync from source, change events on every watched name | PitchBook, CrunchbaseOn announcement | D&B, Bureau van DijkVaries by market and product |
Delivered the way your team works.
Start in the platform today, integrate when volume demands it. The underlying record never changes.
01
PlatformNo integration
Search, verify and export from the web application. Built for analysts running checks one company at a time.
02
APIREST · JSON
Deterministic endpoints for verification, officers, ownership, financials and screening, plus agentic Regis queries. Both run on one key, priced per result rather than per token.
03
Bulk dataCSV · S3 · SFTP
Daily, weekly or monthly registry exports loaded into your own database. Reseller and derivative rights available.
04
Browser extensionChrome
Verify a company from any website or LinkedIn profile without leaving the page.
05
CRMSalesforce · HubSpot · Dynamics 365
Push a shortlist straight into the CRM your deal team already runs, matched on registry number rather than company name. Target records refresh on the same daily sync, so the pipeline carries filed financials and ownership instead of typed notes.
06
Claude & ChatGPTConnector
One-click connectors for both assistants. Ask for a company in plain language and get the verified registry record back.
07
MCP serverEndpoint
Our MCP server exposes the platform as tools to Claude and any other Model Context Protocol client, on the same key and the same provenance fields.
08
Regis AIIn platform · API · Agentic
Our own AI model, built into the platform interface and available over the API. Ask a question that spans filings, entities or borders and it plans which registries can answer, calls them, and hands back every value with its registry, reference and timestamp. It cannot answer from training, only from what it retrieved.
Before you test it
Where does the data actually come from?
Primary, government-sourced. We collect from 400+ company registries and official gazettes across 200+ countries, and every field on a profile carries the registry it came from and the date it was filed. Where a value is calculated rather than filed, such as EBITDA derived from the accounts, it is labelled as derived on the record and in the API response.
Which countries and registries are covered?
400+ company registries and official gazettes across 200+ countries, resolving to more than 600 million company profiles. Depth is not uniform and we do not pretend otherwise: some registries publish full statutory accounts, shareholders and beneficial ownership, others publish identity, status and officers only. The data dictionary lists what is available per jurisdiction, so you can check your target markets before committing to anything.
How current is a screen?
Registry sources are synced daily and saved screens re-run against the latest sync. Publication cadence is set by each registry, so a filing that appears in Companies House on Tuesday reaches your screen within one business day, while a jurisdiction that publishes monthly moves at that pace. Sync status per source is visible in the platform.
Do you cover private companies that have never raised capital?
That is the point of the coverage model. The universe starts from the legal obligation to register and file, not from funding announcements, so companies that have never raised and never issued a press release sit on the same footing as venture-backed ones. This is where most mid-market deal flow lives and where funding-first platforms are thinnest.
Can we screen on ownership as well as financials?
Yes, and for origination it is often the more useful filter. Screens can be built on ownership type, whether a sponsor appears on the register, concentration of holdings, presence of an employee trust, foreign parentage, or a change of majority holder inside a window you choose. Those filters run against the shareholder register and the control chain rather than an inferred label.
Does it cover deal history and prior transactions?
Acquisitions, disposals, majority changes and funding events across the group, each tied to the filing or disclosure that evidences it. Where a transaction leaves a registry trace, such as a share allotment, a change of control filing or a note in the accounts, it appears on the timeline with that document referenced.
Can we put this in our own warehouse and models?
Yes. Bulk delivery to S3, GCS or Azure on a schedule you set, delivered with registration number and VAT alongside our own ID, so the join does not depend on a proprietary key, and licensed for redistribution into your own products and models. Commercial terms depend on scope, so the exact licence is agreed at contract.
How does this sit alongside what we already licence?
Most deal teams keep a market-intelligence subscription for the funded market and run us underneath it as the primary record: entity resolution, filed financials, ownership chains, officers and change monitoring. Because every record carries its registration number and VAT number, joining to your existing vendor IDs is a mapping table rather than a migration.
How is it priced?
By data scope and volume rather than by seat, so a screen covering six countries and one sector costs less than one covering the whole of Europe. Platform access, API and bulk delivery are priced separately, and redistribution rights are agreed at contract. Tell us the markets, the fields and the volumes and you get a number.
What does an evaluation look like?
Send a longlist or a screen definition. We run it against live data, return the resolved entities with financials, ownership and provenance, and you compare it against whatever you use now on the same names. Most teams know inside a week.
Compare it to your current source.
Send a sector, a geography and a size band, or a longlist you already hold. We run it against the registry record and hand back the same names with provenance on every field, so you can put the two side by side.