OC&C and Gain analysed 10,000+ deals to reveal the strategies top-quartile PE investors use to accelerate growth, sharpen focus, and outperform in today’s market.

Gain, the winner of the Data Provider of the Year: Overall category at the Private Equity Wire US Awards 2025, combines the speed of AI with human-verified research to deliver deal-ready insights clients can trust. Co-Founder and co-CEO Frister Haveman, outlines what set the company apart and how it helps clients meet their challenges and take advantage of opportunities.

Gain has been recognised in the 2025 DataTech50, FinTech Global’s annual list spotlighting the world’s most innovative data solution providers in financial services.

We’re proud to share that Nicola Ebmeyer, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gain, has been named a finalist for the 2025 Leading Entrepreneur in Tech Award, presented by Techleap.

We’re excited to see Gain's data cited in FundsPeople España's latest analysis of Europe’s private equity landscape. The article highlights the most active investors by enterprise value, sector specialization, and regional leadership using insights from our Europe 250 ranking.

We’re thrilled to see Gain cited in EY’s latest State of Private Equity (PE) Report Europe 2024 Review. The State of PE Report provides a comprehensive analysis and review of European PE activity for 2024, including investments, holding periods, exits, and valuation gaps.

The Dutch fintech company offers investors access to data on four million companies worldwide. “We do the work of analysts, but ten times faster and more efficiently,” says Nicola Ebmeyer, CEO of Gain.

Gain supports ABN AMRO as data partner for The Makers Top 100. The annual list aims to provide greater visibility into the Dutch manufacturing industry, a sector that generates €102 billion in annual revenue and supports over 300,000 jobs. Gain's private market intelligence to offer valuable insights into the growth and investment dynamics driving the sector.

Gain supports ABN AMRO as data partner for The Makers Top 100. The annual list aims to provide greater visibility into the Dutch manufacturing industry, a sector that generates €102 billion in annual revenue and supports over 300,000 jobs.

At Gain, we are pleased to announce that we have completed our SOC 2 Type II audit and achieved a clean report – a display that we are committed to the highest standards of data security.

Gain places 154th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2023, achieving an impressive growth rate of 1,142% between 2019 and 2022. What’s even better is that we are one of only 30 Dutch companies to be included in the list and one of 175 to have a growth rate above 1,000%.

The Financial Times featured Gain's research in a recent article, highlighting a significant trend within the European private equity landscape: the extended holding periods for assets. The article reveals the average holding period for assets has now reached nearly six years - the longest period since 2010.

After the release of Gain's most recent report, "The State of European Private Equity," I sit down with Sid Jain, Head of Insights, to break down the trends in PE in Europe from over H1 2024. We discuss what's happening with the overall deal activity, underlying trends in the market, valuations and PE portfolio performance.

In the eighth edition of the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list, Gain was ranked 151st, boasting over 100% growth year-over-year between 2019 and 2022.

Despite the past few years being a challenge for many fintech companies, Gain has been doubling down on growth and has seen net retention figures north of 130%. The private market intelligence platform now serves the biggest names in private equity, M&A and consulting. 

We are honored that Gain has been named a Challenger50 company by MT/Sprout for 2023. This list recognizes the 50 most innovative and challenging businesses that have entrepreneurs who are breaking the status quo.

In Nicola’s interview, she opens up about her entrepreneurial journey that all started when she dared to end her career at McKinsey to start a fintech company with co-founder and co-CEO, Frister Haveman. She shares her unwavering ambition to become a global player from the very beginning and reflects on the challenges she faced while staying true to her vision.

When you co-found a company as a woman, you are instantly a minority in the scaleup landscape. In fact, women-founded scaleups account for only 8% of the total value of all European scaleups according to a recent Dealroom report.

We are thrilled to announce that Gain has been accepted into TechLeapNl’s prestigious Rise program. Rise is an exclusive group for tech leaders and founders of scaleups in the Netherlands, with only 10 companies accepted into the community every quarter.

Everyone has been talking about ChatGPT – the natural language processor by OpenAI. Since its grand reveal in November 2022, it’s sent shockwaves across all industries, with people either extremely impressed by the technology or fundamentally unsettled by it.

Every year, Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE) creates a SHE LEADS Dashboard to highlight female founders in the Netherlands. With only 10 percent of companies headquartered in the Netherlands (co-)founded by women, this dashboard is created in order to celebrate those who are challenging the norm.

Historically in private equity, you rarely heard the words “data” and “transparency” next to each other because it was never a top priority.

As we wrap up the year, we wanted to reflect on the significant progress we have made in 2022 to provide our clients with an unrivaled private market intelligence platform.

Creating efficiency within private equity has become a major initiative in recent years as investors have been stuck using legacy programs.

Gain is named one of the Top 5 Young Scalers in the Netherlands by Nlgroeit.

Gain has grown from the original team of 5 to an impressive team of 134 across our offices in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Bangalore.

Financial metrics like revenue growth and profitability margins have always been the primary markers in assessing investment opportunities...

Why it is a crucial part to becoming a top performing PE.

Since joining Gain earlier this year it became very clear, very quickly that I was in the company of two incredibly inspiring co-founders – one of which happens to be a woman.

$10m in funding will accelerate growth of unique SaaS solution delivering unparalleled visibility and time-saving insights into private companies 

There are often stories on how technology, and most notably AI will disrupt the M&A market and even make M&A advisors largely redundant.

Gary: My guest today is Nicola Ebmeyer, who three years ago co-founded Gain, a European FinTech looking to become the Bloomberg of the private finance market.

Growth is a key investment criteria for most investors out there. Resilience, defined as through-the-cycle performance, is also on the top of the industry's list.

2021 was a record year for the European private equity industry on many fronts. European PEs raised c. €90bn and invested almost €800bn in >7,000 deals.

In our last piece, we presented our view on the present and future of deal sourcing technology. To summarize, today it is in the same stage as CRM software was as at the beginning of the century.

Welcome back. Last time we talked about the past and the present of deal sourcing. Now it’s the time to look ahead. But what do we see when we look at the future?

Looking back on the past 16 months, I think it is safe to say two things. First, it has been a period of massive disruption. Something nobody could have expected.

There are some words that Private Equity (PEs) investors just love to use. Value-add. Stickiness. Platform. But there is one that is on top of everyone’s list. Proprietary.