About Data Company Valuation
A small team collecting the valuation multiples that M&A advisers, SaaS indices and academic tables publish for data businesses, and the tax and accounting rules on valuing what a buyer acquires.
Why we built this
Valuation figures for data companies circulate without their basis. A multiple only means something beside what it was measured on and when.
Who will find it useful
Owners and finance leads of companies whose product is data, from niche data providers to analytics and data software firms.
What it offers
The core is one question, "data company valuation", and a quote form that needs no login. Around it sit 4 guides. There is also a citable data table (figures and method) and the pages we read to build it.
- Data company valuation multiples, publisher by publisher: Data company valuation multiples from Aventis, Oaklins, Berkery Noyes, Lincoln, SEG, SaaS Capital and Damodaran, each with what it measures and when.
- Selling data companies: what moves a buyer up the range: Selling data companies: what the published reports say moves a deal up or down the range, from proprietary IP to billable-hours delivery.
- How to value data inside a company that is being bought: How to value data a buyer acquires: IFRS 3 fair value allocation, IFRS 13's definition of fair value and section 1060's split of the price across assets.
- How to value a database for tax when it is bought with a company: How to value a database for tax: in the US a database or customer list acquired and held for a trade or business is a section 197 intangible amortised over 15 years.
Where it stops
- We will not show a multiple no publisher stated.
- We will not put a value on a named company.
- We will not present a median as the price a buyer will pay you.
Accountability
Joseph Ellul-Turner, Director.
Get in touch
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We publish multiples others state and appraise no one. Our fee is paid by the company: 12.5% of the deal, with a minimum, when we act as its exclusive agent to license its data, or 10%, with a minimum, when its data joins a bundle; a whole-company sale goes to an adviser we introduce. Publishers on the table pay nothing to appear.