Seeking Differentiated Data for Differentiated Returns for Data Showcase Competition
BattleFin is inviting leading and emerging data providers to participate in a focused ‘New Data Provider Showcase’. We are looking for vendors who can deliver timely, predictive insights into company fundamentals, sector trends, and macroeconomic conditions — from transaction and web signals to geolocation and other novel datasets.
Who should apply
If you provide data or analytics that help investors see financial performance before it shows up in earnings, we’d like to hear from you.
If you, the firm, are new to BattleFin i.e. never participated at any one of our Discovery Day Conferences.
Please apply by Dec 29th, 2025 with a short description of your dataset(s), coverage, delivery methods, and any additional information that describes potentials insights from the data.
Process
We will do a review of all applications. All submissions that pass a quick sanity check will be set up with an account an Ensemble, our alt data catalog platform. The sanity check will include the following:
- New to BattleFin i.e. you have not attended any BattleFin conference before
- The product is an alt data or a platform dealing with alt data.
- Product is applicable to the financial industry for building investment models, research or risk management.
All qualified applicants will need to build out their full product profile on Ensemble. Cut off is Dec 31st but it is a rolling admission process whereby judges will pick favorites as they come in so enter early. We will conduct zoom calls for folks who have questions about this process on Dec 29th.
A team of experts will vet the final group and review the detailed product profiles based on the specified criteria and score them by Jan 5th. The top 3 providers will be invited to pitch their products to a panel of data experts and buy side audience at our Miami Alt data conference The data experts will score each one and announce a winner who will get a complementary data table, worth $12,500 at our next conference.
Qualification Criteria
Strategic Fit and Use Case Alignment
- Direct relevance to public-markets - equity, credit, macro, or private markets workflows.
- Evidence that dataset can inform specific questions: revenue nowcasting, share shift, pricing power, unit economics, labor cost, customer churn, R&D cost, etc.
Data Quality and Signal Strength
- Accuracy, completeness and stability of historical data; documented methodologies and FAQs.
- Clear explanations of sampling biases, panel construction and how noise is handled.
- Clearly documented predictive use cases for an economic activity associated with a firm/sector or macro event.
Coverage, Scalability, Timeliness, Latency and Refresh
- Breadth and depth across tickers, sectors, geographies, and time. Data Freq and delivery latency relative to investment horizon.
- Consistency of update schedules and policies for restatement or corrections.
Transparency, Compliance and Ethics
- Clear auditable data lineage.
- Compliance with privacy, consumer protection and data sourcing regulations (GDPR, CCPA, Sector specific rules).
- Comfort around web scraping practices, consent mechanisms and any sensitive/PII handling
You should definitely apply even if you don't have info on all the above listed qualification criteria. Please fill out the below form to kick off the application process.
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