Great platform for SMEs, Startups, and VCs
We use PitchBook to look for information for a specific startup or about a particular industry (i.e. multiples, other deals in the space, …
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What is PitchBook?
PitchBook is a resource for comprehensive data, research and insights spanning the global capital markets. PitchBook has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, London and Hong Kong.
PitchBook Features
- Supported: Comprehensive Private Market Intelligence
- Supported: Venture Capital Data
- Supported: Merger and Acquisition Data
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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PitchBook is a business intelligence software offering from PitchBook.
The most common users of PitchBook are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 15, 2023
Great platform for SMEs, Startups, and VCs
We use PitchBook to look for information for a specific startup or about a particular industry (i.e. multiples, other deals in the space, financial performance of competitors).
We also use PitchBook to validate the assumptions we use when creating financial models for our portfolio companies in the accelerator program. This information is extremely helpful since it is the most updated information (way better than reports that usually cover information from 2-3 years ago).
We also use PitchBook to validate the assumptions we use when creating financial models for our portfolio companies in the accelerator program. This information is extremely helpful since it is the most updated information (way better than reports that usually cover information from 2-3 years ago).
- Provide the most accurate information about SMEs and Startups
- Give aggregated industry information to validate assumptions
- Keeps you updated about the industries you are interested by signing to their reports
- Reduce the price and allow users to share licenses. It is really expensive for companies that are not investment banks to access this information. Maybe consider different tiers
- Tell when the information has been audited by a third party. In some cases, the information may be wrong for early stage companies.
PitchBook has been an instrumental SaaS data and research platform for my team and organization, as it provides comprehensive research and news on private capital markets, including VC, private equity, and M&A transactions. Its database, research, and insights spanning global capital markets is truly unparalleled in the industry of financial research software. PitchBook has particularly been valuable in sourcing investments, performing due diligence, and business development.
- Tools for data analysis, idea generation, and workflow management.
- Easy access to trusted news, data, analytics and insights.
- Industry sector specific metrics and analytics to inform decision-making.
- User license seats can get expensive as PitchBook is scaled across the enterprise.
- It can be challenging to distill the exact insights that we are looking for due to the vastness of data and resources available - a guided resource would be great.
- Valuations and quarterly financial numbers are not fully up-to-date at times.
July 11, 2022
One stop place for market and company information
Pitchbook provides a great platform to get information on the companies' recent investment activities, how are the competitors doing in terms of valuations and funding. It also gives relevant trends across the industries. I use it everyday to gather information on the funding status and information on the leadership contacts on early startups of the Fintech industry. Its a great resource to discover the upcoming deals and M&As. It also sends regular newsletters and updates to keep us up-to-date on the changes on the go.
- Information on upcoming deals and M&As
- Funding news and alerts across the industries
- Company investment rounds and valuations
- Expensive and not cost effective for small firms
- The contacts are not that relevant as it bounces
July 08, 2022
Companies & products information
PitchBook provide us with competitors companies and product market info details hence helping us to align and adjust our go to market strategy. PitchBook also regular send out news letter via email hence also providing us the lastest update in the market that we are concern about. We can read this info on the go from our phone.
- Market information
- Company information
- Product launch
- Product Event launch timeline
July 05, 2022
PitchBook for sales teams
I use PitchBook every day in my role. I use it to gather information about early to middle stage startups, funding news, organizational changes, leadership contact information, etc. PitchBook is a great resource when looking for startup funding alerts and upcoming deals. Great for building reports and account mapping with sales leadership.
- Funding news and alerts
- Organizational changes
- Contact information
- Can be glitchy when loading
- Contact information can be inaccurate
- Typically a day or two late to real time news and deals
January 10, 2022
Pitchbook is a good tool for understanding the PE and VC space
I use PitchBook to understand recent investment activity and the valuation of small and medium businesses in relevant verticals. This helps me understand how competitors are growing and what the relevant trends are across the industry. PitchBook has great tools for discovering and browsing relevant companies and understanding details of what's driving investment and valuation.
- Understanding company valuation.
- Discovering recent investment rounds.
- Finding companies by industry or value prop.
- Too much is behind a paywall.
- Incomplete coverage in some verticals.
PitchBook is being used primarily, although not exclusively, by the research division within my organization. When conducting diligence on fund managers or specific companies, PitchBook serves as a source of quality information. Because of the wide breadth and unique data points PitchBook offers, the software is a crucial provider of data that my organization is not able to find elsewhere.
- 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.
- Financials on PitchBook are not always up to date. For example, despite Q1 2020 financials already being published by companies, PitchBook was still missing their FY2019 results.
- The market intelligence features are not as developed as S&P Capital IQ. For example, the public markets plugin does not track indices.
- The cons mentioned above are minor. PitchBook has very few meaningful downsides as it offers more private market data than any of its competitors.
March 01, 2019
PitchBook Review
We used PitchBook for about 1 year, mostly on researching investment history to target Angels and VCs and comparable market valuations.
- Data set of investments and acquisitions.
- Contact information and key personnel.
- Industry reports.
- Expensive for small firms.
- A good percentage of contacts bounce, so we need to use separate email list verification tools.
- Most relevant searches were completed early on, not much use for us in ongoing work.
February 23, 2019
Best When Serious About Acquiring!
We are always watching for companies to acquire. I’ve used PitchBook at another company for the same primary reason. The secondary benefits are tremendous, as there is much to be learned about bankable market trends based on what decisions PE, VC, and fund managers are making (putting real makers behind new deals)
For us, we value PitchBook for the quality of the data, and seek to approach the right acquisitions based on data that would be far too time consuming to capture on our own.
- Extremely well-researched data, critical to any M&A decision.
- Customer support: real humans respond, and follow-up diligently.
- High trust resource: provides private company information too, which is far more valuable/ harder to access than public.
- The price could be lower. If you’re serious about investing, then the Price is not a hurdle. But if you want to watch market cash trends, there are other great choices at lower costs.
April 04, 2016
PitchBook: Augment the quality of any client pitch book
The group I was in specialized in private capital markets and private placements, and needed a specialized source for accessing the latest available data on transactions in the market. PitchBook was used by my group as well as by other groups firmwide.
PitchBook helped us address the following problems:
-Limited sources of reliable information for private capital markets data
-Easily exportable datasets for use in custom analysis related to private capital markets activity
-Research on prospective investors based on investment history for purposes of investor targeting and transaction marketing
- Voluminous and detailed datasets: PitchBook was a consistently reliable source of information on the most recent private capital markets transactions, as well as the key investors participating in said transactions.
- Ease of use: PitchBook allowed for easy exporting of screens in Excel for use in our own analyses with minimal friction, and a robust interface ensured a sufficient level of granularity for conducting research.
- Customer support: PitchBook customer support was extremely helpful and was frequently able to provide answers to any questions that arose.
- Missing functionality: At times the ability to drill down further by transaction type and/or security was not available, and necessitated further data manipulation in Excel to arrive at the desired result.