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Investment Data as Datums
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Written by Joshua Vance
Updated over 3 months ago

Firms have the ability to utilize company-level investment data in many parts of our application. These values can be pulled from the API, viewed in the company metrics tab, displayed in tear sheets, used as benchmarks, or included as part of calculated metrics.

Check out this brief video walking through some ways to utilize investment data on the platform:

FAQ


What can users do with this data?

Users can see investment data in a monthly, time-series fashion throughout Standard Metrics and its APIs.

Investment Data will be useable in:

  • The Company Metrics Tab

  • Calculations

  • The API

  • Excel Plug-in

  • Tear Sheets

Company Metrics Tab

Users can pull company level investment data into the company metrics tab alongside their existing metrics. This allows investment data to be displayed in a time series format and answer questions like “What was our valuation for Airchair QoQ?”

The image below shows how investment data period over period is displayed in the metrics tab.

Calculations

When creating a calculation, users can use the new investment data metrics just like they would any other metric.

Example:

{Ownership} will return ownership

{InvestmentAmount} will return investment amount

{PostMoneyValuation} will return post money valuation.

The example below shows MOIC being calculated using investment metrics and with the calculation shown in the DDT.

API

When querying the /Metrics endpoint, users will get investment data metrics back for their companies just like they do Datums.

This is the API response for an investment data category:

Here is the result of searching for an investment data value:

Excel Plug-in

Users will be able to pull investment data in the excel plug-in just like they would any other metric with our SM.GET syntax.

=SM.GET(”Airchair”, “ownership”, “monthly”, “2023-12-31”) would return ownership for airchair.

All investment data metrics available in the app are available in Excel.

Tear Sheets

Users can select investment data as part of their metrics block for companies and view investment data alongside other metrics like Revenue or Runway.

Benchmarking

Users can use investment data datums in benchmarking just like they would any other category. Investment metrics are only available for portfolio benchmarking and are not available in global benchmarking.

What investment data is now available?

The following metrics are available as Standard Metrics that can be selected in the Metrics Library:

  • Fair value

  • Total Realized value

    • This is the running sum of realized value

  • Total Investment Amount

    • This is the running sum of investment amount

  • Post money valuation

  • Pre money valuation

  • Ownership

  • Latest Price per share

  • Fully diluted share count

  • IRR

  • MOIC

Once I edit an investment detail, when should I see the datum update?

Whenever an investment detail is edited, a pipeline is kicked off to create investment details datums. This pipeline takes ~5 minutes, so you can expect to see datums update in around 5 minutes whenever you make a change to investment data.

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