Dun and Bradstreet's Credit Insights is for any small business owner who wants to know their business’s credit, offering real-time alerts when there are changes to business scores and ratings so the user can quickly spot potential issues and act fast. Strong business credit scores may not only help secure favorable financing terms and attract potential investors, but it may also signal reliability and trustworthiness to interested suppliers, partners, and customers.
$49
per month
PitchBook
Score 8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
PitchBook is a resource for data, research, and insights spanning the global capital markets. Founded in 2007 and acquired by Morningstar in 2016, PitchBook's data on the private and public markets helps business professionals discover and execute opportunities.
D&B Credit Insights allows an organization to improve their credit score. It is great for companies who already have established credit terms but may not have kept up with improving their D&B scores. Small companies may find D&B Credit Insights challenging because it requires established credit relationships with vendors. It can be challenging to have D&B approve your documentation as a small business.
Finding a list of largest PE buyout firms and breaking it down. There's some good categories to break data into which makes it useful for some searches, so for example if we were looking for European focused large PE firms, it can create a really strong list we can use, because the data is there.
Tells you if businesses pay their bills: They're really good at providing reports that show how reliably a company pays its debts. This helps you decide if you can trust them as customers or partners.
They have tools that give you detailed information about businesses, making it easier to find potential customers for what you sell.
PitchBook provides a very comprehensive database of not just companies and investors but also M&A activity, financials, funds and LPs.
Pitchbook is multi-dimensional it how it can be used. For example, it can help to accomplish various business objectives, including deal sourcing, due diligence, private market intelligence and fundraising.
PitchBook has an easy-to-navigate user interface. It enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
Using the correct personal credit score. My score is not right and won't allow me to change it.
Have more financial options available for businesses that actually need funding. The requirements state we need to make a certain large amount in order to be approved for funds.
New and slow growing businesses should have business lives of credit automatically.
The usability is good but could be better in my opinion. Once you login, the dashboard is great to quickly view things but they could have a better login experience. Overall, I think the usability is fine though as they provide a bunch of information that you can view quickly and easily.
The matching process is fairly simple and comprehensive. The search and filter functions are clear and easy to use. We are able to export all information so that we do not miss any details when consuming the information. The layout of the extracts is sensible and the data easy to consume.
The overall support for PitchBook is about average. It is not excellent for two primary reasons. First, PitchBook can run slow from time to time, and I cannot copy and paste from the Chrome extension. I have found neither of those issues to be a function of the computer I am using. However, the PitchBook support team has proved helpful on several occasions.
I would say that D&B Credit Insights in comparable to Equifax Credit Risk and Experian Credit Risk. There is very little that set each apart as all provide vague information related to the credit of your business. All of them lack any specific recommendations for a business owner to improve their business credit standing.
Certain regards, such as comprehensiveness and ability to store and export searches and data related to searches PitchBook performs better than the above and remains our go to tool. However we also use DealRoom to supplement some of that data to ensure comprehensiveness and accuracy. Crunchbase appears less sophisticated and hence less relevant for us
Being able to secure favorable terms for business financing has a huge impact on my business. Before building my business credit I had to rely solely on my personal credit and provide a personal guarantee. Now my business is separate and has its own business scores.
Previously I had to utlize MCA loans and other short term, high interest loans, where now I can qualify for much more favorable terms, lower interest rates, and business credit cards with better perks.
I'll pull ~25 company descriptions on occassion instead of writing them myself. Each time I grab one of those I'm saving myself 2-3 minutes. Easily save an hour+ on this simple / repetitive task related to a daily / weekly work product.
If I want to understand other companies in the industry, PB's search function will save me from skimming the internet for hours. This can result in 4-7 hours of time savings across a more macro or industry-wide project.
Quickly finding who invested in an asset can save sometimes 30-45 minutes of searching the internet. While I wish it provided more details on the specific fund that invested (i.e., Fund IV), it provides sufficient direction for me to begin searching internal databases.
