Custom Data Research for Private and Public Markets to Power Data Products
Published on: 21 Aug 2025
Last updated: 21 Aug 2025
Listen to audio summary of this article
Financial data products have become indispensable for both individual investors and financial institutions. These products, delivered through real-time feeds, analytical platforms, and subscription-based databases, enable millions of users to make smarter investment decisions. But at the heart of every financial product lies one essential ingredient: clean data.
For a financial data product to succeed in a competitive market, its data must be fresh, accurate, and comprehensive, covering the ever-evolving landscape of both public markets and private markets. Yet, while public market data often comes with structured disclosures and regulatory reporting, private market data remains opaque, fragmented, and challenging to collect.
This is where Ascentrik Research offers a clear edge. Unlike syndicated data providers who rely completely on software automation, Ascentrik delivers custom datasets built from the ground up, designed exclusively for your product and your users. Our team of domain experts specialises in secondary research for difficult-to-source areas such as private markets, ensuring your data is not just another commodity but a genuine differentiator.
In this article, we unpack why data research for private and public markets is so critical to financial data products and how Ascentrik helps product managers consistently access the right data.
The Need for Fresh and Accurate Data Across Private and Public Markets
Public Market Data: Structured, Transparent, and Readily Available
By design, public markets are structured to ensure transparency. Publicly traded companies must comply with stringent regulatory disclosures and regular reporting obligations. This creates a wealth of readily available information, from quarterly earnings and filings to analyst reports, financial news, and real-time trading data. For financial data product managers, this wealth of information means:
More standardised and consistent data points.
Easier access to technical and fundamental analysis tools.
Faster integration into investment platforms.
In short, public market research is comparatively straightforward, and while quality still matters, data availability isn’t the main challenge.
Private Market Data: Complex, Fragmented, and Niche
The real challenge for financial data products lies in the private markets—which encompass private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, and other alternative investments. Unlike public companies, private firms are under no obligation to disclose their financials, operational data, or strategic decisions to the public. This lack of regulatory oversight and limited transparency creates multiple challenges for data collection:
Incomplete reporting: Many private companies release no earnings, valuations, or investment details.
Fragmented sources: Information is spread across local registries, press announcements, PE/VC firm disclosures, and niche publications.
Data inconsistency: Different markets and geographies follow inconsistent reporting standards, making aggregation difficult.
Limited timeliness: Information is often outdated, with few mechanisms for real-time updates.
Yet, despite these hurdles, private market data is highly valuable. Investors are drawn to the unique opportunities this segment offers—potential for superior returns, diversification beyond traditional securities, and insights into fast-growing, innovative companies. For data product owners, this makes private market research a critical differentiator.
Bridging the Gap with Custom Secondary Research
This is exactly where Ascentrik Research stands apart. By combining domain experts with proven secondary (desk) research methods, we specialize in solving the puzzle of hard-to-find, niche data. Unlike firms that rely heavily on pre-packaged syndicated datasets—which quickly become outdated—our approach emphasizes:
Ground-up dataset creation tailored to your exact requirements.
Manual verification by skilled researchers to ensure accuracy and reliability.
Coverage that extends across both mainstream sources (filings, trade journals, financial portals) and obscure, fragmented datasets such as local registries, private funding announcements, and specialized news outlets.
This adaptability makes Ascentrik particularly valuable in the private markets space, where no two datasets are alike, and no off-the-shelf solution suffices.
How Ascentrik’s Custom Secondary Data Research Supports Financial Data Products
For financial data product managers tasked with keeping platforms relevant and competitive, the benefits of partnering with Ascentrik extend far beyond access to difficult datasets. Let’s walk through what makes our services unique for sourcing data for financial data products.
1. Fresh, Accurate, and Unique Datasets
We don’t recycle what everyone else has. Instead, we build datasets from scratch, ensuring that your financial product offers fresh content that competitors cannot replicate. The result: a significant competitive advantage in the crowded financial data industry.
2. Reliable Data Compliance
In a world of increasing data privacy regulations, compliance is non-negotiable. At Ascentrik, every dataset is curated in line with data privacy and compliance standards, ensuring your business stays ahead of regulatory compliance while maintaining user trust.
3. Expertise in Niche, Hard-to-Find Data
Whether it’s tracking funding rounds in venture capital, monitoring valuations of private equity portfolio companies, or sourcing performance data on real estate funds, our domain experts excel at identifying and validating information that most other providers cannot reliably access.
4. Quality Assurances and Pay-for-Value Model
Unlike generalised syndicated data providers, we adopt a strict quality-first approach. You only pay for verified, accurate, and relevant data records. This means no wasted expenditure on stale, irrelevant, or duplicate entries.
5. Scalable Financial Data Outsourcing Solution
Building an in-house team for large-scale data collection presents cost, time, and talent management challenges. Ascentrik offers an efficient alternative. By outsourcing your financial data research to us, you can channel internal resources toward product development, innovation, and marketing, while relying on us to handle the heavy lifting of custom data collection.
Think of our team as an extension of your data research function- integrated, responsive, and entirely aligned with your product goals.
Conclusion: The Right Partner for Financial Data Product Managers
The financial services landscape is evolving at speed, and the demand for actionable intelligence across both the transparent public markets and opaque private markets continues to grow. Investors no longer settle for generic data, they expect their financial products to offer fresh, accurate, and insightful data that captures hidden opportunities and presents them with clarity.
For product managers, the stakes are high. Your user base relies on you for trustworthy information. The more differentiated and reliable your data, the more you can increase subscriber confidence, and with it, your product’s growth and profitability.
This is why Ascentrik Research is the preferred partner for data-driven financial product leaders. By combining deep expertise in custom secondary data research with a proven model for sourcing niche, hard-to-find datasets, we offer a solution uniquely designed for your success.
If you are building or scaling a financial data product that demands accuracy, timeliness, and a competitive edge, partner with Ascentrik. With us, your data is always fresh, your research always complete, and your users always one step ahead.
Table of Content
