Expanded data coverage enhances PitchBook’s coverage of private credit deal activity, providing users with essential information to make strategic decisions
PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public equity and credit markets, has released its bi-annual snapshot of data coverage across the global financial markets. This update highlights PitchBook’s unparalleled data coverage through its expanded platform, reinforcing its status as the essential source of information for all private capital market participants. The snapshot provides transparency into PitchBook’s extensive data coverage and collection processes and showcases significant growth in credit deals and leveraged finance. With the addition of more than 20,000 private credit transactions in the last six months, PitchBook now offers the most comprehensive private credit deal database in the market. Investors can search more than 65,000 private credit deals at a time when private credit is emerging as leading strategy amid ongoing market turbulence.
“Data has the power to transform decision-making for businesses and individuals, especially in times of market uncertainty,” said Peter Escher, Chief Data Operations Officer at PitchBook. “We focus on continuously refining and expanding our Data Operations to deliver information our clients can’t find anywhere else. By expanding these processes, we ensure our data stays current with market trends, allowing us to serve every customer and their evolving business needs. The accuracy, transparency, comprehensiveness and timeliness of our data is what gives our clients the edge and makes PitchBook the best-in-class financial data provider.”
PitchBook’s extensive data operations infrastructure, comprising over 1,800 global researchers and cutting-edge technology, ensures the delivery of the most accurate and comprehensive market data. With more than 100 proprietary processes, PitchBook’s datasets equip market leaders with the insights they need to make informed decisions. In the last six months, PitchBook has expanded the data points that are critical to understanding financial market activity, including the following:
- 7,084 Limited Partners
- 34,707 Fund Commitments
- 47,984 Investors
- 18,008 Funds
- 197,475 Fund Returns
- 1,611,291 Companies
- 290,831 Deals
- 23,374 Private Credit deals
- 29,033 Valuations
- 2,210,314 Financials
- 11,244 Service Providers
The PitchBook platform seamlessly integrates data across all relevant financial metrics, providing an unparalleled view of fund performance, investments, and market trends to empower investment professionals to discover new opportunities, make well-informed decisions, and drive strategic success. With coverage spanning nearly 6 million companies, 2.7 million investments, 570,000 investors, 56,000 limited partners, 147,000 funds, and 4.4 million people, PitchBook offers comprehensive insights into venture capital, private equity, leveraged loans, private credit, real estate, real assets, infrastructure, funds of funds, secondaries, co-investment, CLOs, and more. PitchBook’s platform gives access to data across a variety of platforms—via our desktop platform, Excel plug-in, API, CRM integration, or mobile app.
PitchBook’s breadth and quality of data is made possible by its extensive team of researchers and proprietary processes. Data collection begins with a trigger event such as news articles, client requests, regulatory filings, or results from the more than one million web crawlers. This information is fed to a secondary data operations team and undergoes quality assurance leveraging over 100 proprietary processes, which is further accelerated by AI. As a final step, PitchBook’s primary research team makes direct contact with industry professionals to confirm accuracy and acquire nonpublic information. Over the last five years, the Data Operations team has logged over 10 million hours of research to collect, vet, and verify data. PitchBook’s data powers its institutional-grade research, quantitative intelligence models, and machine-learning-powered tools, delivering actionable insights to financial market participants.
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About PitchBook
PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides transparency into the capital markets to help professionals discover and execute opportunities with confidence, and efficiency. PitchBook collects and analyzes detailed data on the entire venture capital, private equity, and M&A landscape—including public and private companies, investors, funds, investments, exits, and people. The company’s data and analysis are available through the PitchBook Platform, industry news, and in-depth reports. Founded in 2007, PitchBook operates globally with more than 3,000 team members. Its platform, data, and research serve over 100,000 professionals around the world. In 2016, Morningstar acquired PitchBook, which now operates as an independent subsidiary.
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