D&B Credit Insights vs. PitchBook

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.

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Appropriate: We will use Pitchbook, for example, when we need to screen for companies in a certain sector or when a keyword gets a priced funding round (Seed, Series A, B, C). Screening of deal as a way to benchmark prices of potential investments Screening of potential LPs based on past investments Challenging: Quickly pull analyst commentary on certian companies/events. consensus sales or prices Analyse non venture deals. for example in biotech, licensing deals are key ways to create value and always analysed in detailed. We will probabaly use dealbook or Cortellis for this

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• 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.

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• Historical deal dynamics detailing pricing and financing as well as which parties worked on the transaction
• Initial screenign on public and private comparables
• Breadth of private companie details including descriptions, financials, etc.
• Ability to filter / sort and eventually export details on private companies

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• 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.

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• The price is insane. Most of their competitors are free, and those that aren't are less than 5% the price of PitchBook.
• The excel plugin is incredibly complicated and the formula builder function is awful. You cannot search easily to find formulas for things you don't already know (unless you ask support)
• The UI is old, and they are slow to innovate. They need to add in a new incredible feature in the next year or two or my firm might move on, as it's getting harder to justify the price when competitors get better every year (signalnfx!) and PitchBook doesn't.

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Best product I've tried

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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.

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I rely on PitchBook when researching potential investments, particularly in the tech and AI space. It’s an excellent tool for early-stage market analysis and becomes especially valuable when evaluating private or emerging startups. PitchBook provides all the essential company details—financials, funding history, valuations—which are critical for my work as an investment professional. The three points I took out is for the lack of market analysis framework and the lack of P&L data.

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It's always available

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Yes very fast load, accurate insights and breaks down details to help it's great

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Very friendly and efficient

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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.

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Very easy and understandable

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did not participate

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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.

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Really well - though I think Beauhurst has the edge on UK specific investments, and Bloomberg has the edge on immediate updates. I think PitchBook is better than fDi Markets though, I would definitely recommend purchasing a PitchBook license over fDi Markets - but in a policy area that isn’t considering international investment, I might go with Beauhurst.

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Very easy and accurate information

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we can give access to anyone interested

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• 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.

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• It has allowed us to be more targeted in our sales campaigns.
• Great headhunting and market mapping data.
• We have been in a very difficult hiring market so it hasn't given me the ROI I would have hoped, but that isn't PitchBook's fault!

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