We have our PULSE on the global software market.

PULSE is One Peak's proprietary technology platform that's transforming how we invest in and support software scale-ups.


DATA FOUNDATION

Unified World View

PULSE tracks 20M+ companies and 930M+ professionals globally in real-time, creating a holistic view that connects firmographic intelligence with granular people data to surface emerging opportunities with unprecedented accuracy and scale. Our Unified World View is the cornerstone of our intelligent data platform, providing a unique perspective on the global software market through the integration of vast datasets and advanced processing of alternative data sources.

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Data Infrastructure

Continuously tracks and scores 20M+ companies and 930M+ professionals globally, creating the most comprehensive software market dataset in existence.

Real-Time Market Intelligence

Data is constantly refreshed and re-integrated from multiple sources, ensuring market shifts are captured as they happen with automatic re-scoring across our entire dataset.

People-Company Connection

The Unification Engine maps the intricate relationship between firmographic and people data, creating a unique signal for identifying high-potential companies in detail.

Alternative Data Processing

Embedded AI unlocks insights from alternative, unstructured data sources, unlocking hidden patterns and emerging trends.

Data-Driven Investment Advantage

By leveraging these data sources with proprietary processing techniques, our Unified World View delivers critical insights weeks or months before they become visible through traditional methods, providing our investment team with a significant competitive edge in identifying emerging opportunities and founders with the strategic intelligence needed to outperform their markets.

OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY

Lead Sourcing

PULSE's multi-dimensional approach to identifying investment opportunities combines various signals such as employee growth, company relevance and revenue predictions to surface the most promising opportunites before they appear on traditional investment radars. PULSE's Lead Sourcing algorithms continually analyze the global software market to identify and prioritize high-potential investment opportunities through multiple dimensions of scoring providing early signals of company success.

Too early
Employees:12
Revenue:€0.9M
Market Traction:22%
Customer Reviews:68%
Website Growth:18%
One Peak Suitability: 15%
Bad Market Position
Employees:45
Revenue:€4.2M
Market Traction:5%
Customer Reviews:74%
Website Growth:27%
One Peak Suitability: 18%
No Moat
Employees:50
Revenue:€5M
Market Traction:15%
Customer Reviews:28%
Website Growth:10%
One Peak Suitability: 2%

Employee Evolution

PULSE monitors hiring patterns as signals of company momentum, reflecting management confidence and successful funding rounds.

Company Relevance Scoring

ML models map and categorize companies by factors such as business focus, technology stack, and relative market position to identify those most aligned with our investment criteria.

Revenue Predictions

Proprietary algorithms work to estimate company financials & revenue trajectories, helping determine optimal timing for investor engagement.

Market Index Integration

PULSE leverages our One Peak Market Index to provide sector-specific benchmarks and identify companies outperforming within their categories.

Comprehensive Market Context

By synthesizing multiple data dimensions into a unified lead scoring system, PULSE enables more informed investment decisions based on empirical growth indicators rather than hype or market perception alone, allowing it to identify promising companies earlier in their growth trajectory.

AI-POWERED WORKFLOWS

Automation and Efficiency

PULSE deploys multiple AI agents that work together to leverage a decade of data to customize investment workflows, automate complex research tasks and enable our team to make smarter, faster, and more data-informed decisions. PULSE deploys multiple AI agents in orchestrated workflows to autonomously perform deep research tasks. These agents collaborate to search the web, analyze company websites, crawl industry databases, and synthesize comprehensive insights using advanced language models.

Feedback LoopsINPUT
Data Gatherer
Market Research
Financial Analyzer
Trend Curator
Internal CRM
Insight Merger
Data Extract
Report Writer
Data Visualizer
Critique
One Peak GPT
OUTPUT

Multi-agent Pipeline

Specialized agents handle different aspects of the research process: from data gathering and market analysis to report writing and citation management.

Comprehensive Research

PULSE explores multiple sources to compile company history, product strengths, customer feedback, leadership structure, and market positioning.

Automated Investigation

Research tasks that previously took days are now completed in minutes through autonomous agents that follow strategic search patterns.

Structured Output

Findings are automatically organized into consistent categories with proper citations, providing reliable and actionable competitive intelligence.

Efficiency Acceleration

By automating the labor-intensive aspects of company research, PULSE's automated workflows enable investment teams to focus on strategic analysis while accessing deeper competitive insights in a fraction of the time traditionally required.

PORTFOLIO GROWTH

Value Creation

Our hands-on value creation approach drives outperformance through deep sector expertise and proven ability to accelerate growth scalably across the entire company lifecycle, from talent acquisition to successful exit. Founders can leverage PULSE to recruit top talent, navigate markets via our extensive network, understand competitive dynamics in real-time, and gain actionable product insights - all in a self-serve manner.

2022202320242025202620272028Revenue (€M)€2.5M€4.3M€6.2M€12.3M€21.7M€50M€100M

Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS)

Leverage PULSE sourcing and scoring algorithms to secure world-class individuals and build search-firm quality longlists in minutes.

Network Mapping

PULSE enables founders to leverage the One Peak network to identify high-value connections to accelerate business development and go-to-market efforts.

Competitor Research

Proprietary intelligence models surface key purchase drivers, switching factors, and strategic inflection points to track how competitors scale, shift, and pivot in real time.

Product Intelligence

Agentic deepdives identify product strengths, blind spots, and integration challenges; empowering founders to guide roadmap development and M&A preparation.

Scalable Support Platform

The self-serve founder portal underpins scalable support across all value creation dimensions, providing technology tools, standardized benchmarks and best practices playbooks that enable portfolio companies to accelerate growth.

UNLOCKING VALUE

Benefits For All Stakeholders

PULSE powers relationships and growth across our entire investment lifecycle.

For Founders

Leverage our expansive founder network to access mentorship, share insights, and solve common challenges.

For Portfolio Companies

Accelerate scaling with talent identification, competitive intelligence, and targeted market mapping to uncover acquisition opportunities and expansion strategies.

For Investors

Access to proprietary deal flow discovered through algorithmic intelligence, with higher potential returns through earlier identification of market leaders.