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Company data feed for financial services & fintech

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What financial services & fintech teams need from company data feed, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

5 recipes use company data feed for financial services & fintech teams.

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A selection of teams in financial services & fintech using Forager for company data feed · plus other teams on Forager

For financial services & fintech teams

The job: Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates.
When: An M&A advisor or PE associate starts a buy-side screen or a sell-side mandate.
Outcome: Dealmakers build target long lists in minutes instead of weeks and run broader buyer outreach.

Lead recipe 1

Power private-market deal sourcing and buyer lists with a company feed

When to use it: An M&A advisor or PE associate starts a buy-side screen or a sell-side mandate.

Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date)
Attach owners and leadership from people_feed
Reveal work_email and mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints
For sell-side, find strategic acquirers with similar profiles and their corp-dev leads via POST /person_role_search/

Inputs	Outputs
screening criteria	`target long-list`
mandate profile	`owner/leadership contacts`
	`acquirer list`
	`corp-dev contacts`

Lead recipe 2

Benchmark AI talent density and hiring across an industry

When to use it: A research firm updates its quarterly AI-readiness index.

Show the steps

Classify AI roles in people_feed by title and skills
Compute AI talent per company normalised by headcount from company_feed
Add AI hiring velocity and talent moves from job_postings_feed and people_feed changes
Publish ranked benchmarks and competitor deltas

Inputs	Outputs
company universe	`AI talent density`
AI role taxonomy	`AI hiring velocity`
feeds	`talent inflow/outflow`
	`index rank`

Open the recipe: Benchmark AI talent density and hiring across an industry

Lead recipe 3

Track hiring across public and private companies as alternative data

When to use it: A research team adds hiring as a model input, or extends coverage to a new set of companies.

Show the steps

Load job_postings_feed deliveries into the warehouse and join to company_feed on organization_forager_id = forager_id
Map companies to the team's own security or entity identifiers by domain
Aggregate postings per company per week using date_featured, is_active, title and parsed_location
Publish the series to research models and dashboards, with history kept from each delivery

Inputs	Outputs
job postings feed	`weekly new postings per company`
company feed	`active postings`
company-to-security mapping	`postings by function and location`

Open the recipe: Track hiring across public and private companies as alternative data

Fields

Fields you get back

target long-list
owner/leadership contacts
acquirer list
corp-dev contacts
AI talent density
AI hiring velocity
talent inflow/outflow
index rank
weekly new postings per company
active postings
postings by function and location

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Company data feed and the Company data feed documentation.

Who owns this

Who evaluates company data feed at financial services & fintech teams, and what they are judged on

Data engineering lead who ingests the feed: judged on fields and freshness
Data acquisition or partnerships lead: judged on licence terms and cost
Product owner of the search or intelligence product: judged on what users find

A selection of teams in financial services & fintech using Forager for company data feed · plus other teams on Forager

SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.

2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account¹
Evident
- Market intelligence
Publisher of the Evident AI Index, which ranks banks, insurers and payments firms on AI maturity.
MarketMapr
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: licensed people and company feeds that let recruiters map a whole niche.
DealSource
- VC & PE research
Selected use case: company and people data for private-company profiles.
Vieu
- ABM & intent
Relationship-mapping platform that helps sales teams and AI agents find warm introductions.
SBR2TH
- Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
Adzact
- ABM & intent
B2B advertising platform that models ideal buyers from business signals.
Chamaeleon
- VC & PE research
Early-stage venture firm that analyses companies with its own AI and quantitative engine.

Sources

¹ SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

“Forager leads in accuracy across all regions, Forager's dual strength in accuracy and volume makes it a powerhouse for sales teams that are targeting businesses around the globe.”

ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships

800M+people

65M+companies

How to test it

Test company data feed on your own sample

Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do financial services and fintech companies use the company data feed?

Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates. A licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

How much does the company data feed cost for financial services and fintech companies?

Company data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. The price depends on the records, fields and refresh schedule you license, so talk to sales with your use case and we quote it.

Which financial services and fintech workflows use the company data feed?

Power private-market deal sourcing and buyer lists with a company feed, benchmark AI talent density and hiring across an industry and track hiring across public and private companies as alternative data. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How do I find owners of private companies contact?

Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date). Attach owners and leadership from people_feed.

Is there a free way to try Forager?

Yes. Request a sample extract of the company data feed on a 30-minute call and check the fields against your own records before you license it.

How do I track competitor AI hiring?

Add AI hiring velocity and talent moves from job_postings_feed and people_feed changes. Publish ranked benchmarks and competitor deltas.

How do you check data quality?

The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

Should I use the company data feed or the company enrichment API?

Use the company enrichment API to fill one record when a user asks. License the company data feed when your product searches, scores or ranks across many companies and needs the firmographics in your own warehouse.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

Data feeds are licensed on an annual agreement, with the term, volume and refresh schedule written into it. There are no self-serve plans for feeds.

Is there volume or annual pricing for financial services and fintech companies?

Pro, the largest self-serve plan, includes 22,500 credits a month (1,500 mobiles or 4,500 emails). Above that, enterprise plans with volume pricing are agreed with our team, and yearly billing costs 10% less than month to month on every self-serve plan. Platforms that embed Forager in their product pay per record at volume.

Where does Forager data come from, and is it compliant?

Financial services and fintech companies often have to explain their data source to their own customers. Bring your legal and security questions to a call with our team, and we take you through how Forager data is sourced and the terms that cover company data feed for financial services and fintech companies. Forager's privacy policy is public, and anyone can send a request about their own personal data through the consumer rights form on forager.ai.