Career Research Tip: Pitchbook for Company Lists and Industry Research


Pitchbook covers startups, VC and PE-backed companies, as well as mature private and public firms, investors, buyers, and funds.  You can research and target firms by industry or vertical, as well as financing history. PitchBook’s competitors lists are great for identifying both large and small competitors to firms – great for target company lists when contemplating your career search, as well as researching the firm and competitors.

You can also use Pitchbook to understand new investment strategies, benchmark fund performance, map company ecosystems, and more. You can run targeted searches, research emerging technologies, create data visualizations, and generate comps on private and public companies, investors, deals, mergers and acquisitions, funds, advisors, and people. Pitchbook also provides commentary and analysis of current events, trends, and issues relevant to the capital markets.

If your company research is ongoing, save your search strategies and company lists within your PitchBook account for future reference, or set up daily, weekly or monthly alerts for new companies that meet your criteria  You may also export a limited number of company records to .xls. This is limited to a maximum of 10 rows daily and 25 rows monthly, so be thoughtful in what you export.