Preqin Pro and aVenture both live under the "private markets data" umbrella, but they answer different questions. Preqin's center of gravity is the fund: performance, benchmarks, and the limited partners who commit capital. aVenture's center of gravity is the company: who builds what, who competes, who invested, and what the public record says. If you have been comparing the two, the honest answer is that the overlap is narrower than the category label suggests — and that makes the choice easier.
Preqin facts below come from aVenture's public research record on Preqin Pro, as recorded at the time of writing.
What Preqin Pro is
Preqin Pro is the flagship data platform from Preqin (founded 2003, London), covering alternative assets: private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and infrastructure. It provides detailed fund performance data, investor profiles, and market benchmarks used by institutional investors worldwide.
The platform supports asset allocation decisions, fundraising strategies, and competitive benchmarking through proprietary datasets covering thousands of funds and limited partners across global alternative investment markets.
Where Preqin Pro is strong
- Fund performance and benchmarks. Net returns, quartile rankings, and market benchmarks across alternatives are the product's core — data that is genuinely hard to assemble.
- LP intelligence. Investor profiles and commitment histories serve fundraising teams mapping who allocates to what.
- Multi-asset-class breadth. Coverage spans private equity, venture, hedge funds, real estate, and infrastructure in one platform.
If you are a GP raising a fund or an allocator building a pacing model, Preqin Pro is built for your desk.
Where aVenture takes a different approach
aVenture works at the layer beneath the fund: the companies capital actually flows into. The platform tracks over 100,000 venture-backed startups from more than 1,200 sources, structured as a linked research graph:
- Company records with full context. Funding rounds with participating investors, founder and team career timelines, the products the company sells, news mentions, and website evidence — all on one canonical profile.
- Investor activity from the company side. Firms and funds link to their rounds and portfolio companies, so "who is actually deploying into this space" is readable from the deals themselves.
- Product-level competitive maps. Competing products are joined to each other and rendered as side-by-side comparison tables — market structure observed from what companies sell.
- Provenance on every record. Sources and change history are attached to each claim.
- An honest coverage note. aVenture's depth today concentrates on current venture-backed, primarily US companies; older, non-venture-backed, and non-US companies — and Preqin's multi-asset fund universe — sit outside that core while our dataset builds out rapidly.
Feature comparison at a glance
| Dimension | aVenture Research Platform | Preqin Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Core unit of analysis | The company | The fund |
| Asset-class scope | Venture-backed startups | PE, VC, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure |
| Fund performance data | Not the focus | Core strength: returns and benchmarks |
| LP / allocator data | Not the focus | Investor profiles and commitments |
| Company depth | Products, people, competitors, news, websites | Portfolio-level company data |
| Competitive mapping | Product-to-product joins with tables | Fund and market benchmarking |
| Typical buyer | Researchers, investors, operators | GPs, LPs, institutional allocators |
| Price point | $199/month list | Enterprise, quote-based |
Pricing
- Preqin Pro: institutional subscription; pricing is quote-based and not recorded as a public list price in our database.
- aVenture: $199 per month list. A limited-time early-user promotion currently price-matches Crunchbase Pro's published $588-per-year rate for new sign-ups while the promotion runs.
Which one fits your workflow
Choose Preqin Pro if your job runs on fund-level data — raising, allocating, benchmarking performance, or mapping LPs. aVenture does not compete with that desk, and pretending otherwise would flunk our own fact-based standard.
Choose aVenture if your questions are about the companies: sourcing, diligence, competitive analysis, founder research, or tracking a portfolio's actual operating context. Many institutional readers will find the two complementary rather than substitutable — funds on one screen, the companies they own on the other.
How we sourced this comparison
Preqin Pro and aVenture Research Platform are joined as competing products in aVenture's public research graph, which is where every Preqin fact in this article was read from. The methodology is the product.