Nasdaq IR Insight vs PitchBook

IR Insight is well suited for tracking investor interactions and basic analytic/reporting needs.

Overall, PitchBook is an enormously helpful resource for private market analysis and financials. It is a versatile platform that can be used for private market intelligence, sourcing investments and performing industry sector comps diligence, deal execution, business development, and networking. It is a comprehensive resource for enterprise corporate development, finance, and legal teams and for the most part, offer great real-time insights and access to company and industry data.

• User experience (device agnostic)
• Innovation/frequent product updates
• Responsive customer support

• 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.

• Data accuracy
• Limited insight into trading activity
• Limited email functionality/integration

• Can be glitchy when loading
• Contact information can be inaccurate
• Typically a day or two late to real time news and deals

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.

IR Insight is the most robust mobile friendly cloud-based solution we've seen. The competition is catching up but we've been pleased with the pace of innovation in the product.

We actually use both. CBInsights we use more regularly for market capture, and PitchBook when we are actively seeking acquisitions.

• Saves us countless hours of events management. Over the last three years we've gone from 2 sell-side analysts to 12 and more than doubled our IR related travel. IR Insight is critical in our day to day operations.
• The integration with FactSet was a great addition...saved us $10K that would have been spent on a FactSet subscription.

• Slightly costly for small firms and thus, not positive ROI for them
• More informed decisions for investments
• The contact information bounces and not that reliable.
• Great for diving deep into the funding and valuations news