February 2025

Multi-source Company data

🗺 Mapping improvements

Funding data mapping: Improved entity matching between firmographic and funding datasets, resulting in:

• 110,000+ additional funding records now integrated into the dataset.

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🔧 Field enhancements

📍 Location data enrichment: When unavailable in core records, location fields are now enriched from external sources, increasing coverage by over 1 million companies.

Impacted fields:

• hq_country

• hq_location

• hq_full_address

• hq_city

• hq_state

• hq_street

• hq_zipcode

• company_locations_full

👥 Employee count improvements: Now includes profiles with blurred experience data for more accurate workforce metrics.

Impacted fields:

• employees_count_by_country

• employees_count_breakdown_by_region

• employees_count_breakdown_by_seniority

• employees_count_breakdown_by_department

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🐛 Bug fixes

• Resolved the mismatch between active_job_postings_count and active_job_postings_titles

• Fixed duplicate values in:

  • employees_count_by_month

  • professional_network_followers_count_by_month

  • active_job_postings_count_by_month

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📰 News category changes

Impacting: num_news_articles, news_articles Cause: Deprecation of the News category by a third-party data source Effect: Fewer or no updates for these fields in this release Next steps: Exploring alternative sources to restore coverage in future updates

Multi-source Company API

⚠️ Data category deprecation: Company News

Impacted dataset: Multi-source Company API Effective from: February 2025 Fields affected:

• num_news_articles

• news_articles

Impact: You may observe a noticeable drop in data updates for these fields due to the deprecation of the underlying News data category from our third-party provider.

Next steps: We are actively investigating alternative data sources to restore and improve Company News coverage in future releases.