Has anyone used pitchbook.com as a private equity resource/database? If so, how is it different from factset, capital iq, bloomberg, etc? Thanks in advance.
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Yep, use it at work every day. Can't say how it differs from the other programs but it's a pretty good tool once you get the hang of it.
My biggest suggestion regarding Pitchook, go to "Search People", then search for people who are alumni of your school, it will give you the emails of tons of high up alumni at various banks and open up a lot of networking opportunities.
I'm a researcher at PitchBook, so I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents (hopefully minus too much marketing shtick).
Basically we see 2 major differences: 1. Our research focus is only private/opaque markets 2. We cover every aspect of the industry's lifecycle
To elaborate on 1, we do not track public M&A like some of the companies on the list provided by the OP, just private deals or investments in public companies by PE firms. That said, we really push to cover the private side, and we have over 47,000 private deals right now, which is more than anyone else by a significant margin.
For 2, some firms only cover the deal, the comps, the funds or the people, but we track it all so that you can see where the money goes and who is involved in each step. In addition to tracking companies, investors, banks, advisors, etc. we track funds/fund returns, and have public comps/public financials.
I'd be happy to answer questions here or off-list, and if you're with a firm we can give you a more involved walkthrough.
Just to follow up, I think that pitchbook is an excellent tool. Say you have a client with $15 mil in EBITDA looking for a $100 million investment for an MBO. You can load up pitchbook, fill in your numbers and preferences as search criteria, and you will get the results of every PE firm that has preferences to do such a deal. So pitchbook definitely makes deal sourcing significantly easier.
What does a single pitchbook.com subscription cost?
Thanks
If you're deep in the PE world or are an LP or secondary fund looking to buy LP shares or track PE fund performance Pitchbook is good. Best for that narrow audience though. Cosrs about $50,000/yr
It's expensive. There are some cheaper alternatives that can run similar searches for sourcing. But, if you want the best of the best, Pitchbook makes sense.
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