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# Company Type Change

> The company's entity type changed.

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  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `company_type_change`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    Structure
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Company Professional Network page (company type field).
  </Card>
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The company's entity type changed.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `company_type` field value changes (for example, Privately Held → Public Company).
</Card>

## Magnitude

High, entity-type shifts are rarely minor.

<Note>
  For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see [Magnitude buckets](/buying-signals/concepts/magnitude-buckets).
</Note>

## Why it matters

Entity-type shifts are rarely minor. Moving from Privately Held to Public Company is an IPO; other transitions reflect acquisitions or restructurings. This signal underpins the ipo\_signal composite.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="Lifecycle event">
    Type changes mark major corporate milestones.
  </Card>

  <Card title="IPO trigger">
    Private → Public is the basis of ipo\_signal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Budget reshape">
    Public status changes scrutiny and spending.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Major event. Private → Public means new budget and compliance tooling needs.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="Nonprofit to For-Profit" href="/buying-signals/signals/structure/nonprofit-to-for-profit">
    The company changed between nonprofit and for-profit status.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Subsidiary Status Change" href="/buying-signals/signals/structure/subsidiary-status-change">
    The company became or stopped being a subsidiary.
  </Card>

  <Card title="IPO Signal" href="/buying-signals/signals/composite/ipo-signal">
    A company went from private to public.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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