Discover and organize target markets faster with the new Company Research App

These product updates highlight the latest features, enhancements, and integrations designed to help you and your team work smarter, move faster, and get more value from Findem.

Executive search and research teams often need to build precise market maps before they can build precise candidate maps. That usually means bouncing between Crunchbase, analyst reports, spreadsheets, PDFs, and browser tabs just to define the right set of companies to target. It’s slow, manual, and disconnected from the rest of the search workflow.

The new Company Research App centralizes all of that work. You can now discover, filter, and organize companies by detailed criteria — industry, funding stage, business model, investor, and more — directly inside the Executive Search Platform. It’s a faster, more scalable way to define your market, validate search strategy, and operationalize research across downstream mapping and engagement.

What’s new

• Company-level discovery: Search across a live company database and filter by industry, company stage, funding status, organization type, or investor to define precise target markets.
• Enriched profiles: Access detailed company pages with funding rounds, investor lists, headcount, verified domains, and other enrichment from Crunchbase and Findem data.
• Smart shortlisting: Bookmark companies or add them in bulk to lists. Use AI to identify related companies or fill in gaps when your list needs broader coverage.
• Dynamic research lists: Build market maps that function like ICP-style research lists, refine them in real time, and convert them into reusable company lists for other Findem apps.‍
• Integrated workspace: Work in a familiar table view from the Executive Search Platform, with built-in sorting, pagination, and bulk actions.

Why it matters

Company intelligence is the foundation of every high-quality executive search. Understanding which companies are growing, hiring, gaining investor attention, or standing up new functions gives you a smarter starting point and a more credible, data-driven narrative for clients.

The Company Research App brings that context into a single, integrated workspace, eliminating the need for external tools and manual aggregation. Your research lists plug directly into market mapping and candidate search, creating a continuous path from market definition to candidate identification to outreach. Use it to:

• Build target company lists for retained searches
• Identify comparable organizations for talent calibration
• Map investor-backed companies for client development
• Speed up early-stage research for new mandates

With one centralized environment, research teams can move faster, reduce toggling, and ensure every search starts with a stronger, more defensible market map.

How to get started

1. From the Findem navigation, open Company Research under the Executive Search workspace.
2. Click “Create New” to start a research list. Build with AI, upload existing research, or paste company names to centralize your work you've already done.
3. Apply filters such as industry, location, company stage, or investor to generate results.
4. Bookmark or bulk-select companies of interest.
5. When ready, click “Use in Other Apps” to convert your research list into a company list used across Findem’s modules.

This feature is now available to all Executive Search customers. Log in to explore the Company Research App and start building smarter, more targeted market maps in minutes.