Resources · Guides
Practical guides, step by step.
Step-by-step guides to checking companies and founders from public records, screening for sanctions and prospecting on trigger events.
About this section
Each guide explains how to do the job from public records — what to check, in what order, and what the sources will and will not tell you — and then how MarketPrior automates it. You can follow the steps by hand.
Due diligence
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How to Do Due Diligence on a Startup
Before the data room, before the reference calls, there is a lot you can learn about a startup from public records. This guide walks through the checks in the order that saves the most time.
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Founder Background Check from Public Records
Founders are the biggest variable in an early-stage investment. This guide shows how to check a founder’s professional record from public sources — without confusing them with a namesake.
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How to Screen a Company for Sanctions
Sanctions screening is simple to describe and hard to do well: the lists are public, but matching names to the right company and people is where screening succeeds or fails.
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How to Check a UK Company
The UK publishes more about its companies than most countries. This guide shows where each piece lives — Companies House, the London Gazette, the disqualified-directors register, the FCA — and what to look for.
Read →Prospecting
6 min read
How to Find Companies That Just Raised Funding
Funding announcements are selective; filings are not. In the US, most private raises leave a public trace on EDGAR within weeks — here is how to use it.
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Trigger-Based Prospecting Playbook
Trigger-based prospecting replaces “who might buy?” with “who just changed?”. This playbook shows how to pick the right events, filter them to your market and turn them into conversations.
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Name a company or founder and get a risk × upside verdict where every finding links to its source document.