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PrivCo is a financial data and intelligence company, based in New York City and operating as PrivCo Media LLC, that runs a subscription research platform focused on privately held companies in the United States. Its core product is a searchable database that pairs proprietary estimates of revenue, profit, EBITDA and company valuation with verified executive contact information, M&A deal records and employee counts, built from public filings, court records, trade press and its own analyst research rather than data companies self report. The company specialises in the mid-market and bootstrapped segment of the private economy, firms with roughly $1 million to $100 million in revenue that carry no venture capital or private equity backing and so leave little public trace. This sets it apart from competitors such as PitchBook and Crunchbase, whose datasets are built largely around VC and PE-funded, deal-active companies; PrivCo markets its own segment as the "80%" of private companies that approach overlooks. It says it combines an AI-assisted research pipeline with human quality assurance analysts to produce its estimates, and distributes the data through a web platform, a REST API with JSON and CSV export, custom analyst-built research reports, a Chrome browser extension and a Microsoft Copilot integration. Customers are concentrated in private equity and venture capital, investment banking and corporate M&A, sales and business development, executive search, and management consulting and academic research. PrivCo was founded in 2009 by Hussam "Sam" Hamadeh, who had earlier co-founded the career information company Vault.com in 1997 and sold it to private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in 2007 for close to $100 million. Hamadeh remained PrivCo's chief executive until his death in December 2015 at age 44; the company is now led by CEO Basil Hamadeh, per corporate data providers including The Org and Comparably. As of mid-2026, PrivCo's own site advertises coverage of more than 5 million private US companies, over $2.5 trillion in combined represented revenue, more than 100,000 tracked M&A deals, more than 70 million verified executive contacts and more than 146 million individual data points, built over what the company describes as 16 years of research. Listed clients include Deloitte, American Express, Microsoft, Bain Capital, Stephens Inc, Harvard Business School, Wharton School and executive search firm Spencer Stuart.
