S&P Capital IQ vs. PitchBook

Best in class tool to source financial data from public companies. Great integration with Excel. Must-have tool for anyone performing financial analysis on a regular basis. Easy to use interface with excellent product support to answer questions about functionality and capabilities. Tool has continued to grow in features over the years and expect to continue in the future.

Incentivized

Sourcing of companies. Augmenting information about existing companies. MArket research, example AI for cyber security. Using the data for internal data purposes. Researching a particular market segment (example insuretech). You have had pieces on LP environment in the past that I have found to be very interesting as well. THank you

Incentivized

• S&P Capital IQ's blackline tool allows for the effortless comparison of changes in company filings over time.
• The screening tool when searching for comparable companies and/or transactions is very comprehensive and customizable.
• It allows users to customize their dashboards and tearsheets in any number of ways.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Sources. In Bloomberg, when you click on a figure anywhere it leads you to the source. That is a great feature, as in finance everything has to be backed with the original source.
• Cannot always find the needed information, the menu is too complex.

Incentivized

• Better use of Generative AI (At this point, I should be able to type in a natural language search and PitchBook should give me that answer without having to go through the old school search of checking boxes and setting parameters)
• If possible, include preliminary data on un-funded startups, perhaps by scraping various non-financial filing records.

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[It's the] best ever.

Incentivized

S&P CIQ Pro has great data, however, the new pro version is currently difficult to use given how slow the data is to process

Incentivized

I personally love the organization structure of PitchBook. I think others like the UI of Crunchbase but I am not a fan of CB. It is too flashy. PitchBook gives you eveyrhign you need and makes it black and white. No need to flash up the data.

Incentivized

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

While Bloomberg has a much more comprehensive view of the markets and typically has more up-to-date information in terms of overall news, Cap IQ is easier to integrate into existing financial models, and the formula builder included with the Excel plugin makes it easy to pull relevant financial data as well as update it based on a specific time frame.

Incentivized

We use Pitchbooks concurrently with HG and ZoomInfo Sales. Pitchbooks primarily brings the funding status and information to the table. However, it's company description that is available in the extract along with the revenue growth figures have also been useful when collating the data. It does not have as much contact information as Zoominfo nor the tech database that HG has but this was made clear when purchasing the solution.

Incentivized

• The breadth and depth of the company's financial data set are what sets it apart as the finest in the industry.
• Having the ability to pay the monthly fee online is a major benefit. Neither is it very high, but I wouldn't characterize it as low, either. It's quite economical.
• Data quality and accuracy are what set it apart from competitors.

Incentivized

• I'll pull ~25 company descriptions on occassion instead of writing them myself. Each time I grab one of those I'm saving myself 2-3 minutes. Easily save an hour+ on this simple / repetitive task related to a daily / weekly work product.
• If I want to understand other companies in the industry, PB's search function will save me from skimming the internet for hours. This can result in 4-7 hours of time savings across a more macro or industry-wide project.
• Quickly finding who invested in an asset can save sometimes 30-45 minutes of searching the internet. While I wish it provided more details on the specific fund that invested (i.e., Fund IV), it provides sufficient direction for me to begin searching internal databases.

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