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PECCS™ is the acronym for PrivatE Company Classification Standard, the taxonomy of private companies, developed and maintained by EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets Research Institute, that covers a broad range of risk factors that cannot be captured by considering the industrial activity of a company alone.
The pillars of PECCS include:
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Industrial Activity
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Lifecycle Phase
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Revenue Model
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Customer Model
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Value Chain.
Each of these pillars has clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and comprehensive classes, into which private companies can be easily assigned, following the methodology available here.