How Investors use Beauhurst to enrich their CRM
At Beauhurst, we speak with enough investors to know all about the challenges of juggling existing portfolios with finding new opportunities.
Whether you’re a VC, PE firm, or business angel, getting that balance right can be the difference between making consistent returns and struggling to raise your next fund.
One of the recurring challenges our team hears when we first speak to prospective clients concerns reliable data. An overreliance on spreadsheets and messy CRMs with duplicate entries and incomplete data are both common occurrences. This makes investment executives and portfolio managers heavily reliant on the quality of input, creating a level of uncertainty and risk.
This is where reliable, structured data comes in. A company data platform like BeauhurstInvest is designed from the ground up to help investors manage their portfolios and originate brand-new, high-quality opportunities.
In this article, we’ll walk through how existing clients, including Future Planet Capital, AlbionVC, and Coutts use the platform to ensure they’re always working with sound data and inform critical investment decisions. We’ll also share some practical steps on how you can do this too.
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Key data challenges for investors
Complex portfolios
Serial investors invariably possess rich and complex portfolios. Keeping on top of each company’s news and performance, whilst vital, can be a challenge.
Each company will have its own updates, from funding rounds and grants, patents registered, financials submitted, and changes in leadership. All of these need to be tracked and recorded — and the larger the portfolio, the greater the risk of errors or missed events.
Incomplete data
CRMs, even in the most organised businesses, can become convoluted without strict data cleanliness practices. And even then, duplicate entries (or worse, users failing to input data) can lead to an incomplete picture.
This impacts forecasting, reporting, and ultimately core decision-making. From the conversations we’ve had with Investment Associates through to Portfolio Managers, this challenge is faced by a number of firms.
Why investors choose Beauhurst
CRM enrichment
Using the BeauhurstInvest platform, clients can sync company profiles with their HubSpot and Salesforce CRMs. This ensures the data in an investor’s CRM is as rich, accurate, and up-to-date as possible.
Instead of a CRM containing only basic info, or becoming outdated quickly, Beauhurst’s native integration tool continuously enriches those records. This ensures that everyone on the team is always working with the most current and complete data on each company.
Angel and syndicate analysis
Through the Beauhurst API, investors can bring angel and syndicate activity, including new investments and M&A, directly into their existing systems.
This keeps their teams up-to-date with the latest information on who is investing, the industries they commonly invest in, and any frequent co-investors. This helps BeauhurstInvest clients spot emerging patterns and build reliable lists for outreach — without relying solely on manual research and fragmented spreadsheets.
Easier portfolio management
Investors with complex, expansive portfolios also use Beauhurst to track companies they’ve invested in, both past and present. To do this, BeauhurstInvest clients simply create a Collection on the platform, adding every company where their fund is on the cap table.
This data can either be uploaded via a spreadsheet, synced from your own CRM, or found directly on Beauhurst.
Once you have a complete collection of companies, you’ll be notified every time a key event happens — whether that’s a news item mentioning the company, patents issued, changes in leadership, new filings, and more.
Originating new investment opportunities
Got an ideal target company profile? Perhaps you’re looking to invest in seed-stage companies in a specific location, or seeking companies with a healthy cash flow balance with room to grow.
For investors seeking pre-seed companies, with no prior investment, Beauhurst is particularly valuable — it’s the only platform that comprehensively tracks and highlights early signs of potential, such as accelerator attendance, academic spinouts, and innovation grant recipients, meaning you can be sure that you’re always finding and working with the most reliable insights.
Regardless of your use case, BeauhurstInvest enables you to build hyper-specific criteria, return a list of companies that match some (or all) of those attributes, and save them as a Collection.
What’s more, this Collection can be set as a dynamic, serving investment executives with alerts of fresh opportunities as soon as they meet your criteria. These company profiles can then be synced with your CRM automatically, populating a fresh list of opportunities to be monitored or contacted.
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How BeauhurstInvest Integrations work
Step One
Connect your CRM to the Beauhurst platform
This step takes just a couple of seconds. Simply sign into your Beauhurst account, navigate to the Integrations tab in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and click ‘Connect’ for either your HubSpot or Salesforce CRM.
Step Two
Sync Beauhurst company Collections
Next, select which of your Collections you wish to sync with your CRM. This can either be done as a one-off sync or, should you wish, updated every night.
And to keep all of your CRM’s company records updated with Beauhurst data nightly, simply enable ‘Enrich’.
This will update your CRM overnight, matching your company records with Beauhurst and adding over 20 key data points including:
- Headcount
- Turnover
- Industries
- Growth, Innovation, ESG and Risk Signals
- Company description
- Total grants and fundraising raised
- And more
Step Three
Using our data in your CRM
Forget time-consuming searching, downloading and uploading data to add to your CRM. Simply open a synced company record in your CRM and enjoy access to our trusted data in your own system.
How AlbionVC uses the Beauhurst API to enrich its data
“Beauhurst has played a key part in helping us to augment our CRM and have a single source of truth, discovering companies and fundraisers that would have otherwise gone under our radar.”
How the BeauhurstInvest API works
Whereas our CRM Integrations are plug-and-play features, the API offers greater flexibility that means it can be used for everything from enriching your data (not dissimilar to the integrations) through to populating your reporting tools such as PowerBI.
With some development work, this means that you can use it in virtually any way you need, including:
01. Live data, synced with your platform
With the Beauhurst API, any CRM can be continuously refreshed with new and updated company records — so gaps in your data are filled automatically. Instead of spending time searching for information, your team has an ongoing stream of relevant opportunities and updates delivered straight into the tools they already use.
This constant flow of structured, high-quality data means you can rely on your CRM as a single source of truth, ensuring your team is always working with the most current and complete information. And as the only company data platform with unannounced fundraisings, this is especially useful for investor clients seeking to validate unique opportunities.
02. Build new tools
You can integrate Beauhurst data directly into your analytical models, dashboards, or proprietary systems. By feeding in high-quality, structured information, you can build live dashboards, improve model accuracy, strengthen your training datasets, and keep them refreshed with real-time updates.
The result is more reliable insights and stronger predictive performance — whether you’re building investment scoring tools, portfolio dashboards, or custom workflows.
03. Boost your reporting
Reporting is only as strong as the data behind it. By connecting Beauhurst data to tools like PowerBI or Tableau through the API, you can track portfolio growth, measure impact, and better understand your client base with reliable, segmented insights.
With real-time updates feeding directly into your dashboards, you remove manual effort and gain dynamic reporting that reflects the latest developments — helping your team make quicker, evidence-based decisions.
See the platform in action
At Beauhurst, we provide investors with the clarity needed to make confident decisions. Our coverage spans every UK private company, offering a comprehensive view of the market and the opportunities within it.
Behind the scenes, our team of more than 60 data analysts, supported by machine learning models, ensures the information you access is both current and reliable. This means you can spot emerging companies earlier, track their progress with confidence, and move quickly when a new investment opportunity fits your criteria.
To support this, our Account Managers work closely with clients to make sure the data is fully embedded into your workflows — whether for deal origination, portfolio monitoring, or market analysis.
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