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PitchBook

software
Last discussed Oct 10, 2026

A financial data and software company that provides research on private capital markets.

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Max Freeman
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Used for: Pre-call account research

"You have to go perform your independent research. What does that mean? You got to go into LinkedIn. You got to go on their website. You got to go into PitchBook."

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Parag Agrawal
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"In your job, since I'm sitting with a VC, you probably have access to a Pitchbook or like a product like that to collect data. And so you get grounded in knowledge of what's happening and you get to use that data to figure out how to make decisions."

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a16z
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Used for: Private market financial data and startup ecosystem intelligence Praised: Comprehensive private market data vs: Compared to Cosign as a paid alternative in the startup data space

"Crunchbase, Pitchbook, you know, cost money, etc. They're great products, they have to be businesses, but we have the luxury of being able to just really offer this for the startup community."

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Dave Blundin
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Used for: Researching which investors backed admired companies to identify potential funding sources Praised: Allows reverse-engineering investor relationships from target companies

"If you get a Pitchbook account, you can actually look at every company you admire and then work back to who invested in them and then just go talk directly."

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Gabe Stengel
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vs: Mentioned alongside Bloomberg, FactSet, and Capital IQ as category peers

"They think of us, you know, in a similar category to Bloomberg, to FactSet, to Capital IQ, to Pitchbook."

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Jason Lemkin
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"Pitchbook had an article this week saying how much massively returns are being compressed on outcomes north of 500 million to a billion."

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Ian Rogers
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Used for: Discovering new music releases worth checking out vs: Compared to Mojo magazine as a music taste curator; Pitchfork now less reliab...

"Pitchfork tells me this is a great new rap record. I put it on and nine times out of 10 I'm like, this is not for me. That's the role that Pitchfork served for a very long time, less so today unfortunately, but still sometimes."

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TBPN
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Used for: Music journalism and reviews Praised: Very strong loyal audience in music category vs: Example of barbell effect - small niche brand performing well alongside large...

"pitchfork and music brand 1% of our revenue but it has a very strong loyal audience in the category that it covers. It's doing very well."

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"It's actually not really Crunchbase PitchBook. It's really like the unsexy financial cash flow data."

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