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Learn more about the PitchBook Institutional Research Group (PIRG), the team behind PitchBook’s private-market research, and where to find their reports on PitchBook.
The PitchBook Institutional Research Group (PIRG) within PitchBook provides our world-class research and analysis. Based in PitchBook’s extensive private market database, our research gives you the market context and performance data you need for confident investment decisions.
PIRG’s research appears in reports within our platform’s Research Center and informs the development of tools across our site. Outside of the PitchBook Platform, our reports are cited in the news along with expert commentary from our researchers. Additionally, PitchBook clients have the option to access our analysts directly via phone and email, or for in-depth presentations, on-site visits, ad-hoc research, and data support, where applicable. This article will tell you more about PIRG and how to find the team’s research.
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About PIRG
The PIRG team includes over 30 researchers with experience that covers former business operators, investors, consultants, and buy-side/sell-side equity research analysts. In addition to our researchers, the team includes support from experienced data analysts. Together, we provide investment strategy, fund performance, and industry research through a differentiated, framework-driven approach.
Our coverage areas span private equity, venture capital, real assets, leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, and private credit asset classes. In addition, we provide full-time analyst coverage of emerging technology industries, delivering comprehensive assessments of disruptive sectors to help clients better segment and size markets, understand company and investor landscapes, evaluate opportunities, and develop conviction around the growth trajectories of emerging industries.
Have you seen our analysts in the news recently? They are frequently featured in top-tier media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Financial Times, among others.
Private Market Research
Private Market Research provides comprehensive insights on trends, opportunities, and market shifts in private equity, venture capital, and fundraising. With coverage spanning asset classes, industries, and emerging technologies, investors can confidently navigate market shifts and identify the next big opportunity.
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- US and European VC Valuations – These reports cover VC valuations and trends linked to the valuation of VC-backed companies, such as how much they are worth and their associated deal value across the US and Europe. The report slices up the data in a number of ways, including financing stage, sector, region, types of investors, and exits. PitchBook’s VC Valuations reports are available on a quarterly or annual basis.
- Annual and Quarterly European Venture reports – These reports look at deals, exits, fundraising, and the capital flowing into VC rounds for startups across Europe. They also explore the exit value generated by those startups when they exit the VC ecosystem, and the fundraising activity by VC funds that deploy capital into VC rounds. The report slices up the data in a number of way,s including financing stage, sector, region, types of investors. PitchBook’s VC Venture reports are available on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Greater China Venture report – The Greater China Venture Report spans datasets covering Greater China’s VC deals by sector and region, as well as exit and fundraising activity. This report will be published annually after H2 2023 Greater China Venture Report is released at the end of 2024.
- PitchBook- NVCA Venture Monitor reports – The Venture Monitor charts the pace and trends of deal-making, exits, and fundraising in venture capital in the United States on a quarterly basis.
- Annual and Quarterly European Venture Monitor reports – The Venture Monitor charts the pace and trends of deal-making, exits, and fundraising in venture capital in the United States on a quarterly basis.
- Annual and Quarterly US PE Breakdown – This report provides an overview of the US PE landscape, including deal activity and fundraising over the past year or quarter
- Annual and Quarterly European PE Breakdown – This report provides an overview of the European PE landscape, including DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) deal activity over the past year or quarter.
- Annual and Quarterly US PE Middle Market reports – Our Middle Market reports cover trends such as deal value and fundraising on US-based companies acquired through PE buyout transactions between $25 million and $1 billion. The report slices up the data in a number of ways, including sector, region, and exits. PitchBook’s Middle Market reports are published on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Annual and Quarterly Global M&A reports – This report provides an overview of the Global M&A landscape over the past year or quarter.
- Annual and Quarterly Global Private Markets Fundraising reports – Global Private Markets Fundraising produced annually and quarterly provides an enhanced level of granularity that helps limited partners (LPs) make more informed asset allocation decisions, while general partners (GPs) can leverage our benchmarks to gauge and report the relative performance of their past and active funds.
- Quarterly PitchBook Benchmarks reports – Released quarterly, the PitchBook Benchmarks provide a detailed snapshot of the latest data on closed-end fund returns across strategies and vintage years. The report is split globally, North America and Europe as well as by the different asset classes: VC, PE, Real Estate, Real Asset, Private Debt, Fund of Funds, and Secondaries.
- Quarterly Global Fund Performance reports – Released quarterly, the Global Fund Performance Report is a companion to our PitchBook Benchmarks report, analyzing fund performance metrics across private equity, venture capital, real estate, real assets, private debt, funds of funds, and secondaries.
- Quarterly PitchBook Private Capital indexes – This report provides quarterly return benchmarks for each of the seven asset classes in the private market industry: private equity, venture capital, real estate, real assets, private debt, funds of funds, and secondaries.
- Annual Global Private Debt reports – The Global Private Debt Report analyzes trends shaping the private debt industry. While we provide aggregate private debt performance and fundraising data in other publications, this report takes a closer look at sub-strategies such as direct lending, distressed debt, credit special situations, infrastructure debt, and venture debt, among others.
- Quarterly Global Real Asset reports – The Global Real Assets Report analyzes fund flows and performance, as well as key macro drivers influencing closed-end real assets strategies. The report looks at trends in infrastructure, oil & gas, mining, timber, and agriculture funds.
- Biannual Global Real Estate reports – The Global Real Estate Report delves into real estate fundraising, dry powder levels, and technologies, especially affected by the year’s events.
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Accessing PIRG reports on PitchBook
You can find PIRG reports in multiple locations.
To access PIRG reports, select Research Center from the Research section of the left-hand sidebar of the PitchBook Platform.
Next, navigate to the Private Market Research section and click on View All to access a list of all PIRG reports.
Access PIRG reports on the go by using the PitchBook Mobile app. From the mobile app, click on the Research Reports tab, then select PitchBook from the top of the screen.
Your ability to benefit from PIRG’s research isn’t limited to their reports. You can find methodology developed by PIRG in a variety of tools available to you across the PitchBook Platform. For example, our Portfolio Forecasting tool uses PIRG methodology and calculations to generate customized predictions for commitments and cash flows across fund allocations. While our PitchBook Benchmarks tool relies on PIRG methodology to gather fund data into meaningful, convenient benchmarks of fund performance.
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Source : G2.com