Stears: African financial data, solutions and insight

Accurate and actionable intelligence for African fund managers, corporates and service providers

Private Equity

Find the right investment opportunities to deploy and return capital so LPs continue to invest

Global Corporates

Conduct market analysis and explore industry trends using our exclusive insights

Investment Banks

Discover and evaluate new market trends & opportunities in Mergers & Acquisitions

Service Providers

Identify market opportunities and stay ahead of competitors using our proprietary analysis and trusted data

We empower our customers to

Evaluate investments opportunities

Stears helps you discover which sectors are growing and how much capital has been invested over time by industry, vertical, deal type, and more.

Identify macro & industry trends

Stears’ Country Risk helps you put your opportunities in broader market context by letting you see how African economies are performing.

Conduct market analysis

Stears’ exclusive research allows you to monitor, analyse and understand promising trends shaping markets

Our Data Coverage

Built for African-focused investors:

Transactions & Deals

Gain visibility into market data on M&A, exits and fundraises across the African continent

Industry Research

Analyse market size & segmentation, growth, competition, barriers to entry and regulation

Companies

Understand and evaluate target opportunities faster with our company data and consumer analysis

Macro & Country Risk Analysis

Utilise forecasts on currency risk, interest rates, economic performance and regulatory risk

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Advisory

Engage our team of analytical thinkers for custom intelligence services.

Market Research & Due Diligence

Impact Assessment

Policy & Advocacy

Thought Leadership

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Open Data

Data collection to understand citizen sentiment

August 2023

Stears conducted a multi-dimensional assessment of trust levels in key national institutions, generating detailed profiles for policy development and institutional reform. The data was used to design a public index that evaluates consumer sentiments and expectations in response to political shifts and policy advancements.

Results

Approval Rating Index which measured the country’s approval of policy implementations
Consumer Expectations Index, which monitors how Nigerians feel about the future
Confidence Score, which gauges Nigerian’s confidence and trust in institutions

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Open Data

Real-time election data collection, analysis and dissemination

Stears built Nigeria’s first real-time election data-site for the public. We employed first-of-its-kind mapping data to visualise voting results across all nationwide races. We created the only existing map of constituency boundaries for the legislative races and delivered results to users in real time via a mobile-first interface.

Results

Served over 2 million users globally during the elections
Built a public database covering over 1,477 races and 14,822 candidates
Tracked, in real-time, over 1400 races during the Nigerian elections

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Open Data

Nigeria’s first real-time election data platform

Stears built a proprietary estimation model that predicted voting patterns for silent voters, enabling comprehensive forecasts of the 2023 presidential elections. The underlying polling data included 22 questions (on demographics, voting history, top-of-mind-issues, religion, ethnicity, confidence in INEC etc), and was conducted in five major languages: Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin English and English

Results

Accurately predicted the outcome of the presidential elections using the estimation model
Accurately predicted the outcomes on 6 out of 7 key states using the estimation model
Conducted the largest public opinion poll for the 2023 elections with 6,220 respondents.

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