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What is PitchBook?

Founded in 2007 and acquired by Morningstar in 2016, PitchBook provides comprehensive data on the private and public markets to help business professionals discover and execute top opportunities. PitchBook’s data and analysis is available through our award-winning software, the PitchBook Platform, as well as our suite of integrated tools, industry news and in-depth reports. PitchBook is headquartered in Seattle, London, and Singapore with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. 1M+ professionals wake up to our newsletter. Get the latest industry news in your inbox: pitchbook.com/subscribe What you can do with PitchBook: - Private market intelligence - Fundraising - Sourcing investments - Due diligence - Business development - Networking - Deal execution PitchBook’s clients: - Venture capital firms - Corporate development groups - Investment banks - Private equity firms - Limited partners - Law firms - Accounting firms - Lenders - Commercial real estate firms - Executive search firms Request a free trial today and see what comprehensive private market data can do for your business: www.pitchbook.com/free-trial

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Global Private Equity & Venture Capital Data

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

PitchBook provides capital market data and intelligence solutions that help drive action. When our clients need answers, they need them fast—and that requires having reliable, intuitive tools that can adapt to their existing workflows.

That’s why we’ve built the most versatile financial analysis tools available. It’s also why we continue to differentiate ourselves from our competitors with unparalleled customer service and published research—so our clients always get more value out of their subscription than they would with other data providers.

All PitchBook clients get a dedicated customer success manager who works hard to learn about their business and the challenges they face. If our clients have a question, our customer success team has the answer.

Combining our best-in-class financial data and vast client network, PitchBook’s Institutional Research Group provides differentiated insight that helps our clients better navigate and capitalize on opportunities and advise their own customers.


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Teena s.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Best database for private companies deals data"
It's easy to use and their insightful quarterly deals reports and data are incredibly helpful for investors and financiers. In addition, the platfo...
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Shreyans P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Instrumental data and research platform for corporate development and venture capital professionals"
Pitchbook provides comprehensive, reliable, and verified research and news on capital markets, industry trends, and investors. Its depth of informa...
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"Great experience to work with, but lacks more support for small companies"
Large network of companies within a particular industry. Lots of filters to access the targets you are looking for.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

It's easy to use and their insightful quarterly deals reports and data are incredibly helpful for investors and financiers. In addition, the platform's team of experts and analysts offer helpful insights and advice, which makes it an invaluable resource for business development and dealmaking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

it can be quite time consuming to replicate the same query in order to update data sets. The mapping of pivot table data is a very long process. Multiple times it double count the deals data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

PitchBook offers research and analysis for deals in industries and sectors, helping to identify potential investment opportunities and assess market trends. It also allows me to analyze competition, benchmark companies, network with peers, and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Teena! We're glad to hear the PitchBook reports and analysts are an invaluable resource for you. We appreciate your feedback regarding difficulty with search building. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

Elias M.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

I use PitchBook to for financial intelligence.

My usage is weekly in my intelligence.

The platform provides information on private and public companies, venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions.

The data is well maintained and I receive regular updates on my tracking lists.

Customer support is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

PitchBook has made improvements in the UX, my suggestion for improvements are:

- Make it even easier, new users go through learning curves.

- Occasionally, I encounter minor discrepancies in data that require double-checking.

- The pricing may be a steep call for smaller organizations or individual users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

PitchBook use cases for me are all going towards financial analysis and investment intelligence:

- I save time of research and make better informed decision-making. I use it normally for due diligence.

- Investment Intelligence on deals, fundraising activities and investor profiles is of good quality.

- PitchBook offers a single platform place where to find all information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Elias! We're glad to hear you find PitchBook to be a comprehensive tool that helps save you time when performing due diligence. We appreciate your feedback regarding UX, data accuracy, and pricing. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

Shreyans P.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

Pitchbook provides comprehensive, reliable, and verified research and news on capital markets, industry trends, and investors. Its depth of information is unparalleled compared to other data and organizational research platforms that I have used and researched. It is an incredible asset for sourcing new investment opportunities and performing due diligence on investment targets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

PitchBook's earnings analysis summaries, analysis on specific subsectors within industry verticals, and portfolio simulator can certainly be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

PitchBook provides incredible market intelligence, research, and due diligence. It is a great platform for deal sourcing and competitive analysis. PitchBook also helps with market analysis, entry, and expansion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Shreyans! We're glad to hear PitchBook helps with market and competitive analysis. We appreciate your feedback regarding our analysis summaries. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

Pablo J.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

Pitchbook offers a vast repository of information on private companies and deals globally, along with insights on investment firms, family offices, funds and manager performance... Its customizable features tailor research to specific needs, providing targeted data for informed decisions.

I'd also like to highlight its excellent customer support, ensuring a smooth user experience.

Overall, it's a top-notch platform for investors and financial professionals navigating the private investment landscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

It's not cheap and the portfolio simulator could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us navigate the private investments deal history so we have a better understanding of market dinamics when doing our own deals. Also, it helps us be aware of which investors are active in our country and what kind of companies they are buying.

It also gives us insight on private equity funds, which are kind of obscure in terms of public information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Pablo! We're glad to hear PitchBook's data and search customization has helped you stay informed of updates in the private investment landscape. We appreciate your feedback regarding price. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

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What do you like best about PitchBook?

I really like the data that PitchBook has from private markets. Our detailed financials, market analysis and company profiles allow us to make quick investment decisions based on a straight up view of our potential investments. With it integration with Excel we can easily export and analyze datas in excel and thereby save our time in generating reports. Secondly, it provides us with research tools such as tracking industry trends and competitors as well as giving our team an edge on how our products can sit on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

A limitation to PitchBook is the ability of the platform to take time to retrieve data especially when working with a larger data set. This lag is really inconvenient when we’re urgently in peril of needed data during the meetings or our presentations. Still, another prospect is that some fields may contain stale information or lack certain data altogether which is why we have to check with third parties occasionally. These are wrong hiccups, which slow our productivity and create more steps to follow in any research we are undertaking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

Through centralizing a boom of private market data, PitchBook has tremendously improved how we research investments. In the past we would spend hours trying to put together information from many different places, but now we can get financials, valuations, and trends in one place fast. It saves time for our team and it helps us make better decisions. In addition, the platform’s analytics tools give us important information, allowing us to examine risk better and make smarter investing decisions with resultant better client outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Pierre! We're glad to hear PitchBook has saved you time and allowed you to make more informed decisions, leading to better outcomes with your clients. We appreciate your feedback regarding the speed of the platform, as well as the data freshness. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

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What do you like best about PitchBook?

Firstly - the support is terrific.

Up-to-Date information

Ability to sort the database in multiple ways

Biographies that are searchable

Contact information!

Queries easily saved and information downloaded

This database has uses beyond pitches and deals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

Companies have to be assured that the benefits of licenses exceed the cost!

New users need real examples that are meaningful when trained - they only need to ask! I think this would result in more frequent use and intergration into every day use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

An unusual engagement, and not how I generally employ Pitchbook but have had success, in identifying potential Board members for a non-profit. Candidates must reside/work in particular states and specific industries and will be additive in expanding and supporting the mission of the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Sandra! We're glad to hear PitchBook has positively impacted your workflow in so many different ways. We appreciate your feedback regarding training new users and informing them of all the relevant benefits. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

Nipun M.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

PitchBook has data regarding the investors, funding deals, financials, and valuations that no other database covers in such a comprehensive manner. Moreover, the excel formulae make the experience even better with providing pulls for information quickly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

Understanding excel formulae can be a little complicated in the starting, so can provide some help regarding how it works for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

PitchBook provides a lot of comprehensive and reliable data regarding individual companies making it easy to benchmark companies and draw comparitive analysis. It also has more information regarding Financial sponsors related to their current and former investments which really helps me in building their profiles accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Nipun! We're glad to hear you find PitchBook's data to be comprehensive. We appreciate your feedback regarding the Excel formula builder. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

Kenneth M.
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What do you like best about PitchBook?

PitchBook’s data coverage on startups and venture-backed firms is the best overall among all solutions on the market and I would know, since I have access to many of them as a research manager that does startup scouting and technology research for a large consulting firm.

One huge advantage is the robust search functionality covering the relatively detailed company descriptions and extracted keywords as well as the classification of firms into industries, verticals and emerging spaces. This combined with the data on investors, deals, patents/clinical trials, people and related reports makes the tool very useful for screenings.

The interface is so user-friendly, fast and easy to navigate that I even use it for searches where other providers may have deeper datasets (e.g. LSEG or mergermarket for M&A deals). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

Even though the database is best in class for my specific use case, there are some things that could be improved on or useful features that could be added:

- There should be a detailed taxonomy for firms within software and SaaS (this also applies to some other categories, but is most acute within software), so screenings could also be conducted within more granular spaces (see for example the G2 categories). PitchBook analysts could also rate the firms in the way that tech research firms like Gartner do it.

- There are some features that seem to have been neglegted or could be far more useful if improved, incl. Signals (more details would be better, such as app downloads and breakdown by country), information on customers/references, partners, suppliers and the tech stack of companies, Market Size Estimates Search (not very useful; if PitchBook analysts could model and estimate all PitchBook industries, verticals and emerging spaces that would be great!), Market Maps (in this form not visually appealing and cannot be used for slide decks).

- More estimated revenue numbers and revenue forecasts as well as estimated valuations would make screenings and comparables with financials far more practical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

PitchBook is my primary source for startup scouting and VC/PE transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Kenneth! We're glad to hear you find PitchBook's data coverage on startups and venture-backed firms helpful. We appreciate your detailed feedback on taxonomy for software firms, enhanced features, and additional financial data. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

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What do you like best about PitchBook?

Pitchbooks has the most comprehensive data on global Companies, VCs, PEs, and fundraise / M&A / IPO deals. It's very easy to generate screeners, perform sector scans, find other relevant data on the platform. it also has built-in alerts / watchlist functionality which I find very useful to track companies of interest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

Given the amount of data they have on their platform, at times ,the tagging of companies w/r/t their industry / service line is a bit different from what one would expect it to be. But more often than not, it is on point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pitchbook is helping me keep track of our M&A pipeline by providing important intel in a very timely and intuitive manner. I use the platform very extensively to learn more about what our potential target companies are up to, as well as, which PE/VCs are active in our industry. This has helped a lot in my day-to-day work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review! We're glad to hear that PitchBook has helped keep track of your M&A pipeline, and that you find our data to be comprehensive. We appreciate your feedback on the tagging of our entities. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!

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What do you like best about PitchBook?

PitchBook offers a large amount of information with a very broad database, making it an excellent tool for complex financial analysis and market research. The user-friendly interface and powerful search capabilities allow you to search for data efficiently and in detail. The platform's ability to provide in-depth insights into market trends and financial performance is unmatched, and the customer support team is always responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PitchBook?

Although the database is extensive, it would be very helpful if PitchBook reviewed and updated company profiles more frequently. Currently, team information is often outdated and email contacts may be incorrect. I use it almost every day, but sometimes the profile for the companies I am interested in are missing. Also, while the interface is user-friendly, it could still be simplified and made more comprehensive. Including video explanations with examples of how to find certain information in the system would also improve the user experience and help new users navigate the platform more effectively.The ease of implementation and integration could also see improvements to further streamline the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PitchBook solving and how is that benefiting you?

The PitchBook system helps me get detailed and comprehensive lists of investors, which is very important for a business. The platform allows me to quickly find and refine contacts for each company. This feature greatly expands the possibilities for conducting targeted informational and analytical work and increases the success rate of the projects I work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sally Davis of PitchBook

Thank you for your review, Kateryna! We're glad to hear PitchBook helps you create a targeted list of investors. We appreciate your feedback on the data accuracy and user interface. We have flagged this feedback in our system. Thanks for being a PitchBook customer!