IPO Origination Intelligence

Find the markets heating up, the future bench forming, and the companies worth covering before competitors do.

The IPO Pipeline Origination Dashboard helps ECM teams approach origination through a market lens first. It uses CB Insights' proprietary market taxonomy and forward-looking signals to identify where IPO supply is building, where relationship depth already exists, and which private companies are most worth cultivating over the next 24 to 36 months.

Market-first workflow

Forward-looking signal model

Explainable and transparent

Why it is different

It reframes IPO origination around markets, not just individual names, making it easier to spot emerging supply before it becomes consensus.

How ECM teams can use it

Frame IPO origination through specific private-market categories instead of broad sector labels.
Identify the markets where momentum and future issuer depth overlap most clearly.
Move from a market thesis into a ranked relationship-build list of companies.
Allocate banker time earlier, before the most important names become obvious IPO conversations.

How to use the dashboard

Start with the markets view to see where private-market activity is strongest, use the matrix to understand where heat overlaps with depth, and then drill into the company view to prioritize specific relationship targets.

Markets

Rank CBI markets by momentum to identify categories where quality, funding, and late-stage formation are strongest.

Matrix

Find the opportunity zone where strong market momentum overlaps with a deeper relationship-build bench.

Companies

Convert the market thesis into a prioritized list of companies to cover, cultivate, and monitor more closely.

Methodology at a glance

The dashboard combines three complementary layers: a market heat model, a market depth view, and a company-level relationship-build model.

1. Market momentum score

Measures whether a market is heating up now.

Average Mosaic level across companies in the market
Mosaic YoY change
Funding breadth in the last 12 months
Late-stage deal breadth in the last 12 months
Hiring momentum at the market level

This is the primary score that drives market ranking and tiering. Recent exit activity is shown separately as validation, not as part of the momentum score itself.

2. Bench depth and matrix view

Measures whether a market has enough future issuer depth to justify focused coverage.

Overlap-adjusted count of relationship-build companies
Unique high-potential company count
Average score of the strongest companies in the market
Matrix framing of momentum versus depth

Bench depth does not change the base market momentum rank. It adds context for the matrix and helps identify where strong market heat is translating into a real pipeline bench.

3. Company relationship-build score

Prioritizes companies most worth building relationships with over the next 24 to 36 months.

Current Mosaic score
Mosaic YoY change
Commercial maturity
Total funding and headcount scale
Company age and capital recency
Latest round stage
IPO probability and M&A probability

Higher-scoring companies appear in the relationship-build or immediate-action cohorts, helping teams distinguish directional future targets from the most obvious near-term names.