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Overview

Private market information is often fragmented and hard to benchmark, which can make it difficult to put deals, funds, and trends into context. PitchBook Institutional Research Group research draws on PitchBook’s private market database to give you the market context and performance data you need to make investment decisions with confidence.

PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports can be found in our Research Center, and their analysis informs the development of tools across our site. Outside of the PitchBook Platform, our reports are also cited in the news along with expert commentary from our researchers. Additionally, you 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 tells you more about PitchBook Institutional Research Group’s research and how to find the team’s research.

About PitchBook Institutional Research Group

The PitchBook Institutional Research Group 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.

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 assessments of emerging sectors to help you better segment and size markets, understand company and investor landscapes, evaluate opportunities, and develop conviction around the growth trajectories of emerging industries.

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PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports

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, you can confidently navigate market shifts and identify emerging opportunities.

Venture capital

• 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 ways including financing stage, sector, region, and 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. Starting with the H2 2023 Greater China Venture Report, released at the end of 2024, this report is published annually.
• PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reports – The Venture Monitor charts the pace and trends of dealmaking, 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 dealmaking, exits, and fundraising in venture capital in the United States on a quarterly basis.
  

Private equity & M&A reports

• 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 – The Global Private Markets Fundraising report, published annually and quarterly, provides an enhanced level of granularity around global private market funds. The report 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 into global, North American, and European data, 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.
  

Private debt reports

• 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.
  

Industry and technology research reports

Emerging Technology Research provides research on nascent tech sectors such as fintech, mobility, and machine learning. Our research follows a rigorous methodology to replicate the framework used by investors when evaluating a sector—from mapping the ecosystem and sizing markets to providing detailed industry outlooks, opportunity versus risk assessments, and value chain analysis. Our thematic and sector research helps you better understand and navigate the opaque and changing markets you operate in.

Accessing PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports on PitchBook

You can find PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports in multiple locations.

Research Center

To access PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports from the Research Center, select Research Center from the Research section of the left-hand sidebar. Then, navigate to the Private Market Research section and click on View All to access a list of all PitchBook Institutional Research Group reports. To learn more about the tools and features available to you in the Research Center, check out Navigating the Research Center.

PitchBook Mobile

Access PitchBook Institutional Research Group 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.

PitchBook Institutional Research Group methodology in PitchBook tools

Your ability to benefit from PitchBook Institutional Research Group’s research isn’t limited to their reports. You can find methodology developed by PitchBook Institutional Research Group in a variety of tools available to you across the PitchBook Platform.

• Our Portfolio Forecasting tool uses PitchBook Institutional Research Group methodology and calculations to generate customized predictions for commitments and cash flows across fund allocations.
• The PitchBook Benchmarks tool relies on PitchBook Institutional Research Group methodology to gather fund data into meaningful, convenient benchmarks of fund performance.
• Our Manager Scoring tool uses PitchBook Institutional Research Group’s quantitative framework designed to assess the performance track record of a fund manager’s closed-end private market strategies.
• The VC Exit Predictor leverages machine learning, our database, and PitchBook Institutional Research Group’s expertise to assess a startup’s chances of a successful exit.

Helpful links

To understand how PitchBook Institutional Research Group’s research fits into a broader workflow, check out PitchBook Pioneer’s courses, Deal Execution: Buy Side or Deal Execution: Sell Side, depending on your area of interest.