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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THOMSON FINANCIAL SECURITIES DATA�S NEW ISSUES AND VENTURE ECONOMICS DATABASES NOW AVAILABLE VIA DATA DOWNLINK�S .XLS SERVICE
New York, NY, September 13, 2000 - Thomson Financial Securities Data (TFSD) today announced an agreement to license its Global New Issues and Venture Economics� Venture Capital Financings databases to Data Downlink Corporation. The databases will be available as of today via Data Downlink�s Web-based information service, .xls (www.xls.com). The Global New Issues databases provide authoritative coverage of global debt and equity issues, Eurobonds, U.S. Private Placements, Medium Term Notes and more. In addition to the U.S. marketplace, more than 80 types of securities can be searched across eight additional marketplaces, including Latin America, Continental Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific and the U.K. The total Global New Issues database includes more than 300,000 securities transactions dating back to 1989. Users of .xls can either generate a report on an individual deal or search for deals meeting specific criteria by using the service�s custom report search. All reports download directly to Excel, and links to news headlines and stories relating to the transactions or its participants are accessible from the individual deal report. Thousands of data fields are available for reporting, including managers and fees, offering terms, gross spread, shares offered and other deal specifics. Thomson Financial�s Venture Economics group provides the largest private equity research database available, with more than 200,000 transactions dating back to 1970.
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Updated daily, the database includes complete and in-depth coverage of firms, funds, companies and executives. Venture Economics on .xls allows users to:
- Search for portfolio companies, firms, or funds meeting specific criteria, and download either a Standard or Custom report directly to a spreadsheet.
- Determine who the investors are in a specific company, when the investments were made and for how much.
- Find out what companies a VC firm has in its portfolio.
Venture Economics has been tracking and providing extensive private equity performance benchmarking and analytical research for institutional investors and private equity professionals since 1961. Through strong relationships within the business and banking communities, Venture Economics provides in-depth information on firms, funds, executives and companies available nowhere else.
"The integration of these two databases into our .xls service will dramatically improve our customers� ability to research the debt, equity and venture capital markets," said Steve Goldstein, founder and CEO of Data Downlink. "The addition of these databases to TFSD�s other high-quality offerings already available on .xls, such as its M&A data, provides an important resource to .xls customers." "Data Downlink has proved to be an excellent partner for TFSD," said Jerry Moskowitz, managing director of Thomson Financial Partners. ".xls is an ideal tool for accessing our databases, conducting precision searches and generating high-quality reports."
Data Downlink Corporation is a leading provider of Internet-based online information services. The privately owned company is headquartered in New York and London. In April 1997, Data Downlink introduced .xls (www.xls.com), a service which aggregates and cross-indexes over 70 premier business databases, delivering information directly to Microsoft Excel, HTML, Microsoft Word or PDF formats at the desktop. Other products subsequently introduced by the company include privatesuite™ fast, easy, cost-effective way to identify and retrieve profiles of privately held companies around the world-and compbook™, a tool for company peer analysis. In May 2000, Data Downlink launched Portal B (www.PortalB.com), the world�s first fully-integrated business information portal.
Venture Economics is the foremost information provider for private equity professionals worldwide. Venture Economics offers an unparalleled range of products from directories to conferences, journals, newsletters, research reports, and the VentureXpert™ database. For over 35 years, Venture Economics has been tracking the venture capital and buyouts industry. Since 1961, it has been a recognized source for comprehensive analysis of investment activity and performance of the private equity industry. Venture Economics maintains long-standing relationships within the private equity investment community, in-depth industry knowledge and proprietary research techniques. Private equity managers and institutional investors alike consider Venture Economics information to be the industry standard. For more information about Venture Economics, please visit www.ventureeconomics.com.
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TFSD provides business professionals with access to the world�s largest collection of in-depth research on companies and industries. TFSD information includes broker and market research, data on capital market transactions, securities ownership information and more. For more information on TFSD, go to www.tfsd.com.
TFSD and Venture Economics are part of Thomson Financial (TF). TF is a US$1 billion provider of information services and work solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation (TTC), one of the world's leading information companies. TTC, with annual revenues of more than US$6 billion, has interests in specialized information and newspaper publishing. TTC's common shares are traded on the Toronto, Montreal and London stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.thomsonfinancial.com. For more information about TFSD databases on .xls, contact Data Downlink in New York at 212.363.9620 or in London at 44.(0)20.3059.5765, or via email at [email protected].