How to Use Clay's Beauhurst Integration for UK/Germany Funding Data

Clay's changelog entry for March 10, 2026 is one line long, which is usually a sign the underlying feature is bigger than the copy admits: a native Beauhurst integration that pulls private-company financials, funding rounds, and corporate structure for the UK and Germany straight into a Clay waterfall, paid for with ordinary Clay Credits instead of a separate Beauhurst contract.

What Beauhurst actually adds to a Clay waterfall

Beauhurst is a UK data vendor, founded in 2010, that tracks "every UK & Germany private company" and updates its profiles daily instead of on a quarterly refresh. As of March 2026 it ships inside Clay as three separate waterfall actions covering firmographics, funding, and corporate structure for UK and German companies - billed in ordinary Clay Credits, no separate Beauhurst contract required.

Clay's own writeup, "Clay Partners with Lusha and Beauhurst for the best EMEA Data," breaks the integration into three separate enrichment actions: Enrich Company (UK & Germany) for firmographics - phone number, registration number, LinkedIn URL, activity status, verified location; Find Company Funding (UK & Germany) for round count, total amount raised, grant funding, and latest valuation; and Find Company Corporate Structure (UK & Germany) for the full entity tree, ultimate parent down to child entities.

Beauhurst surfaces private company data across the UK and Germany, revealing financial information that typically remains unpublished. [...] "roughly 70% of UK fundraising is never publicly announced."

That 70% figure is the whole pitch. It landed the same week Clay opened its first international office in London (March 4, 2026), alongside a new Lusha partnership for EMEA contact and signal data and deepened coverage through existing Dealfront and Openmart integrations. Two months later, Beauhurst itself took on a GBP 7 million growth-credit line from Palatine to fund expansion into Ireland, then France, Spain, and Italy. "This funding marks an important milestone for Beauhurst as we accelerate our European expansion," said Toby Austin, founder and CEO of Beauhurst, in the announcement. (I read that as Beauhurst betting its own balance sheet on the same EMEA data gap Clay just started selling access to - which is a more convincing signal than a changelog entry on its own.)

How to wire the Beauhurst actions into a Clay table

The setup follows the same pattern as any other Clay waterfall enrichment - open the Enrichment Panel on the table column you want filled, search for "Beauhurst" among the provider list, and add one or more of the three actions above. Company Domain is the only required input for all three; Clay will auto-detect the column if it's named sensibly, or you pick it manually from the dropdown.

A few placement details that aren't obvious until you've burned credits on the wrong order. Put Beauhurst's Find Company Funding action _after_ a free or cheap firmographic check, not before it - there's no point spending a Beauhurst credit enriching a US company that will never match the UK/Germany filter. If you're already running a five-step Clay waterfall for general company enrichment, Beauhurst's three actions slot in as UK/Germany-specific steps near the end, gated on a country field so non-EMEA rows skip them entirely. Test on ten rows before running the full table - the "Save & Run (10 Rows)" button exists precisely so a bad column mapping doesn't burn your whole Beauhurst allocation on one mistake.

How to read the funding fields Beauhurst returns

The Find Company Funding output is built for routing and scoring, not for writing a press release. You get round count and total amount raised as numbers you can threshold against - Beauhurst's own marketing mentions setting minimums to "spot stealth rounds and early-stage raises before they hit the news," which in practice means a Clay filter like "total raised > 2000000 AND rounds >= 1" feeding a lead score bump. Grant funding is broken out separately from equity rounds, which matters in the UK and Germany where Innovate UK and various German Land-level programs fund a meaningful share of early-stage companies that never take outside equity at all. Latest valuation, when Beauhurst has it, is the field most likely to be blank - private valuations are the hardest number to get right anywhere, and Beauhurst doesn't fabricate one when it doesn't have a reliable source.

Find Company Corporate Structure is the action worth running even when you don't care about funding. It returns the ultimate parent, any intermediate parent, and every child entity tied to a domain - useful for merging duplicate account records, routing a subsidiary to the rep who owns the parent account, and disqualifying a record whose ultimate parent puts it outside your ICP (a five-person "startup" that's actually a subsidiary of a bank is a very different sales motion).

Find the gap Companies House and the Bundesanzeiger leave open

The obvious objection: Companies House and the German Bundesanzeiger are free public registries, so why pay Clay Credits for what's already public? The honest answer is that "public" and "usable" aren't the same thing. A UK confirmation statement is a company-details snapshot - registered office, officers, share capital, shareholders - and explicitly does not report financials or funding transactions. Share allotments do get filed separately, but those filings carry no round size, no valuation, and no investor names; you'd have to know to look, per company, for a form that doesn't say "funding round" anywhere on it. In Germany, GmbH and UG entities have up to twelve months after fiscal year-end to publish annual accounts through the Bundesanzeiger, so a company that closed a round in Q1 may not show a trace of it in a public filing until sometime the following year.

We think about this a lot because Leadex's own company enrichment step already returns total funding and last-round fields alongside headcount and founded year, and does it "typically completes in under 60 seconds" per batch - the same shape of problem Clay's waterfall is now solving with Beauhurst, just reached through a chat brief instead of a waterfall you configure column by column. Neither approach beats the registries on cost; both exist because the registries are structurally late.

None of this is unique to Beauhurst - it's the same tradeoff behind every EMEA data partnership Clay has stacked up this year, including the EMEA coverage gaps that push teams toward a multi-provider stack in the first place, and the reason Clay bills all of it through the same Clay Credits pool rather than a pile of separate vendor invoices.

FAQ

What is Beauhurst?

Beauhurst is a UK-based private-company data provider, founded in 2010, that tracks financials, funding history, corporate structure, and other signals for private companies in the UK and, more recently, Germany. It sells directly (Beauhurst Advise, Invest, Sales, Impact, Insights, and API access) and, as of March 2026, is also available inside Clay as a waterfall enrichment provider.

Does Clay's Beauhurst integration cost extra?

No separate contract - Beauhurst enrichment inside Clay is billed through standard Clay Credits, the same balance used for every other waterfall provider. There's no additional Beauhurst subscription to buy just to use it inside a Clay table.

Does Beauhurst replace Companies House and the Bundesanzeiger?

No. Companies House and the Bundesanzeiger remain the statutory registries and the underlying source of record. Beauhurst aggregates and enriches on top of them, adding funding, valuation, and grant data that those registries don't structure or surface on their own - and doing it faster than the up-to-twelve-month lag on German annual accounts filings.

Can I use Beauhurst without Clay?

Yes. Beauhurst sells direct access through its own products (Advise, Invest, Sales, Impact, Insights) and a standalone API. The Clay integration is a convenience for teams already running enrichment waterfalls in Clay, not the only way to reach Beauhurst's data.

What are the three Beauhurst actions available in Clay?

Enrich Company (UK & Germany) for firmographics, Find Company Funding (UK & Germany) for round count, total raised, grants, and valuation, and Find Company Corporate Structure (UK & Germany) for the parent/child entity tree. Each is a separate action in Clay's Enrichment Panel and can be added independently.