PitchBook

PitchBook

PitchBook

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	PitchBook Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook FINTRX is good at identifying family offices and, similar to PitchBook, adding new groups to the site consistently and often. However, the quality of leads on FINTRX was poorer in general, and it was more difficult to identify investment theses and appetites for the family … Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose PitchBook Pitchbook has way better information on private companies, it is more reasonably priced and has better research Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook ChatGPT is a good tool as well and I use it regularly to seek harder to find information or help me understand insurance terms I am not familiar with. PB is more specific to healthcare companies so it is a practical in my research and analysis. Incentivized Helpful? CG Conal Gallagher Analyst Chose PitchBook it is by far the most use friendly of the peer group. I think it missesd a lot of private data vs FAME, it misses some transaction data points vs mergermarket Helpful? CG Conal Gallagher Senior associate Chose PitchBook I think they all have their own strengths. In particular CapIQ I think is more outdated and less user friendly as a platform but I do think it was some better data on valuation multiples of precedent transactions Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose PitchBook We have not used any other products like PitchBook. It was our first and only choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose PitchBook n/a Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose PitchBook I have not used other tools for PE data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook Compared the FactSet: PitchBook is far superior in providing private company data. On the excel tool front, we use Factset far more often due to the formulas and public company data availability AlphaSense: we use PitchBook as our first source when looking for private company … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook Compared to D&B Hoovers, PitchBook offers more relevant, detailed, and up-to-date data for our research needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose PitchBook PitchBook is superior in terms of aggregating a bunch of different data you would need to get from disparate systems Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook I think PitchBook is the best for private markets compared to these platforms. These platforms may surpass PitchBook for public markets work. Incentivized Helpful? Reuben Saint Juste Investment Analyst Chose PitchBook Pitchbook is carrying the market share Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose PitchBook A bit more robust for public company data - mostly used CapIQ when in banking. Especially the CapIQ excel plug in. As a VC, I need private company data and Pitchbook is better at that Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose PitchBook I’ve used or evaluated tools like Macabacus and Grata. Macabacus is stronger than Pitchbook in Excel and PowerPoint workflow enhancements, which are critical for banking productivity. However, Pitchbook is far superior to Grata due to its richer public company information, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Strategist Chose PitchBook We switched over for Preqin and haven't looked back, Preqin felt as a pay-as-you-go system and as a relatively young alternatives program we kept facing paywalls so not ideal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose PitchBook Pitchbook has the most exhaustive coverage of private market data, and that makes it uniquely differentiated against any other data sources mentioned above. As for public data, I dont think it is any unique compared to AlphaSense or CapIQ Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook Products mentioned have similar but different use cases. First off, PB has better private company data than both of these (for now). I use CapIQ for public company data which PB lacks in many regards. I could see Alpha Sense taking priority over PB as the data offered on that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook I also use SignalNFX, but it doesn't exist in the dropbox. Signal is a much more practical tool when it comes to a preliminary search, and when it comes to connecting with the right person. It scrapes your gmail history and linkedin to find who you're really connected to and … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Stewart Director - Impact Investing Chose PitchBook PitchBook has a different value proposition in that it offers the Morningstar equity research, which we regard highly. It is also easier to use and navigate than the other terminals. Bloomberg and FactSet have a slightly different use case in that they provide real time market … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook PitchBook has more accurate information and does a much better job of updating information frequently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Strategist Chose PitchBook CB Insights have a better market research functionality, offering pre-defined market definitions and proprietary framework for market analysis. They list all the significant players within a market and classify them into categories, which gives you a sense of who is doing well … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Advisor Chose PitchBook 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 … Incentivized Helpful? RN Ray Nicholls Founder Chose PitchBook PitchBook has a far broader and richer source of data. Looking retrospectively at company/fund performance was incredibly useful. I also like that there is a 'rumour' element to the news. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose PitchBook PitchBook is the most polished and the most comprehensive tool of everything that I have tries in this space. Unparalleled coverage and structure. And to top it all of, the customer service is top notch. I have analyst hours each month to get any customized projects done by … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

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Financial Research

Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
	PitchBook 6.5 82 Ratings 13% below category average
Private Company Data	7.381 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information	6.778 Ratings
Independent Research Access	6.569 Ratings
M&A Analysis	7.174 Ratings
Supply Chain Data	6.236 Ratings
ESG Data	5.740 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports	5.439 Ratings
Macroeconomic News	6.454 Ratings
Search Tools	7.271 Ratings

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User Ratings
	PitchBook
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.4 (81 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	5.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	PitchBook PitchBook is excellent for building a rolodex of contacts, especially for firms which may be newer and lacking an established reputation within their given industry. I have used it as a tool to identify groups which may be interested in equity investments in one-off real estate deals, though the platform more prominently features groups which are more interested in programmatic/JV fund structures. PitchBook can also be useful as a tool for identifying industry trends, as it tends to capture creation of new funds and their investment appetites at any given time. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	PitchBook 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	PitchBook It would be nice to have the best parts of the deal tab merged into the general information tab for a company. If possible, gather more information on certain executives. There are use cases where our clients want us to research candidates who may not have much information on LinkedIn or RocketReach. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	PitchBook I think its a great platform as is. Its usable and we get most of the information as and when we need. I don't like the landing page after login, so I don't like to go to PitchBook every day to review daily updates on the industry. It's way too cluttered and requires MFA every time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	PitchBook 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	PitchBook did not participate Incentivized Mike Arazyan Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	PitchBook I also use SignalNFX, but it doesn't exist in the dropbox. Signal is a much more practical tool when it comes to a preliminary search, and when it comes to connecting with the right person. It scrapes your gmail history and linkedin to find who you're really connected to and figures out how to leverage that to get an intro. Sales NAVIGATOR is better for massive outbound, but not very relevant otherwise. PitchBook's real value is in the database. It won't help you reach out, but it sure will find you every single VC firm that could ever invest in your company. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	PitchBook we can give access to anyone interested Incentivized Mike Arazyan Director Read full review
Return on Investment	PitchBook 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! Incentivized RN Ray Nicholls Founder Read full review
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