Company filters

This page walks through every filter in Company Search, group by group. For the basics of running a search, start with Company search.

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How the panel works

• Filters combine with AND. Every filter you add narrows the universe. Within one filter, multiple values match any of them (OR), unless noted otherwise.
• The live count is your feedback loop. The button at the bottom recalculates as you edit (“Show 3.9M+ companies”), so add criteria one at a time and watch what each one does.
• Finding a filter: the search box at the top of the panel filters the panel itself.
• Pinning: the pin icon on each section keeps your favorites handy at the top.
• Missing something? The Request a filter link at the bottom goes straight to us.

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Locations

• Location: filter by company headquarters. Pick a city and choose a radius: None for exact-city matches, or 5 to 250 miles (default 50) to include nearby cities. Picking a state or country matches everything in it. View on Map previews the area you have covered.
• Expanded matching: some companies only carry a state- or country-level location. Checked, a city search also includes those; unchecked (the default), you get only companies matched to the exact city.
• Nearby Locations: click Suggest Nearby for one-click additions of neighboring metros.

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Sectors

• Sector: the heart of company search. Click the box to open the Sector Browser, which has two modes:
  • AI: describe what you are targeting in plain language (“Industrial automation and robotics”, “B2B fintech for cross-border payments”) and matching sectors are picked for you, with related suggestions grouped for one-click Add All.
  • Keyword: browse and search the full sector tree yourself, with company counts per sector and an optional sort-by-count.
• Sector Boolean expressions: the Boolean button accepts full logic:
  • Quote multi-word phrases: "Digital Media" OR "Internet News"
  • Group with parentheses: ("Artificial Intelligence" OR "Machine Learning") AND "Software"
  • NOT binds tightly: A OR B NOT C reads as A OR (B NOT C)
  • Wildcards: *Energy* matches “Renewable Energy” and “Energy Storage”
• Primary Sector Only: checked, only companies whose main business is the selected sector; unchecked, primary or secondary sector both match.
• Company Type: Product/Manufacturing versus Services businesses.
• Domains: B2B versus B2C.

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Scale

• Current Stage: the company’s current funding stage, Seed through Series H. This filter also limits results to operating companies (a company that exited is no longer “at” a stage).
• Funding History: stages the company has been through, current or past. “Series B” here means it raised a Series B at some point, even if it is at Series D today; use this for “companies that made it past stage X”.
• Market Cap (millions): market capitalization range, in $M.
• Revenue (millions): latest reported annual revenue range, in $M.
• Total Funding (millions): total capital raised, in $M.
• Current Company Headcount: employee count today, in standard bands (1-10 up to 10,000+).

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Attributes

• Asset Class: current ownership profile:
  • Public: publicly traded.
  • Private: any privately held company.
  • Private - PE-Backed: has private equity investors.
  • Private - PE-Primary: the primary owner is a private equity firm.
  • Private - VC-Backed: has venture capital investors. Multiple selections match any of them.
• Status: where the company is in its lifecycle: Private (operating), Public, Acquired, or Closed.
• Exclude Sector: remove whole industries from the universe (e.g., searching “AI” companies but not Gaming).
• Exclude Customer Sector: remove companies that sell into specific industries.
• Company Investors: companies backed by specific investors. The reverse direction works too: every investor profile lists its portfolio.

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Keywords

• Company Text: free-text search over company descriptions, specialties, products, and technologies. The go-to filter for niches the sector tree does not name yet (“grid-scale storage”, “revenue intelligence”). Terms with AND / OR / NOT are honored as Boolean logic.
• Advanced (the button next to the input) tunes how keywords behave:
  • With sector operator: AND (default) requires companies to match your keywords and your selected sectors; OR broadens to either.
  • Semantic Expansion: expand your terms to similar concepts using AI.
  • Include Patents and Include Websites (both on by default): also surface companies whose patents or website content match your keywords, catching companies whose short description undersells what they do.

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Date Filters

Three dropdowns, each with All / Last Decade / Last 5 Years / Last 2 Years / Last Year:

• Founded Date: when the company was founded.
• Funded Date: when it last received funding. “Last 2 Years” is a quick recency screen for active fundraisers.
• Exit Date: when it went public or was acquired.

Each option means “on or after that point”: Last 5 Years = any time in the last five years.

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Smart Tags

AI-powered tags for domains where sector labels are too coarse, in two families:

• Biotech: Disease Areas (a browsable tree of indications) and Therapeutics (modalities and mechanisms, four levels deep).
• Real Estate: Property Types: Data Centers, Healthcare, Hospitality, Housing, Industrial, Land, Multifamily, Office, REIT, Residential, Retail.

Pick tags in the selector; multiple tags within a family match any of them. Matching is intentionally broad: a tag matches companies whose tags contain it, so “Housing” also captures adjacent tags like “Housing Finance”.

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Company Name

Look up companies by name, full or partial; word order does not matter (“labs acme” finds Acme Labs). Search one name at a time; for jumping to a specific known company, Quick Find (Ctrl+Shift+L) is usually faster.

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Unsure what a filter will do? Add it alone and watch the live count, or ask us. If the filter you need does not exist, Request a filter at the bottom of the panel tells us exactly what to build.