Help: PitchBook’s tracking scope

We comprehensively track investors, including PE, VC, Accelerators, Corporate Strategic, and Incubators, across all regions. Our priority areas are North America, Europe, and APAC (Asia-Pacific ), with recent expansions into MENA (Middle East and North Africa) as well as LATAM (South America, Central America, and the Caribbean).

PitchBook tracks all limited partners (LPs) in North America, Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific region (APAC). We also track global LPs with a known commitment to an alternatives fund managed by a GP based in North America, Europe, or Israel.

PitchBook tracks service providers hired to help facilitate transactions within PitchBook tracking criteria or provide debt financing. PitchBook prioritizes service providers in North America and Europe. We also track the most active service providers across Israel, the Asia Pacific region (APAC), the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Other regions are researched by request.

PitchBook tracks the following types of companies.

• All companies backed by private equity firms.
• Companies backed by venture capital firms.
• Companies acquired by a PE or VC-backed company.
• Companies with angel investments.
• Innovative early-stage companies that have raised funding.
• Any companies involved in a transaction within PitchBook’s transaction scope.
• All lenders to PE or VC-backed companies.
  

PitchBook researches and tracks all non-backed, private companies that are requested by clients or that interact with our various data offerings. PitchBook is also expanding its tracking scope to include non-backed companies that are searched for by clients, but PitchBook does not comprehensively track all non-backed, private companies in all regions as of now.

PitchBook tracks the following types of PE transactions.

• All transactions involving private equity firms.
• Transactions made by PE-backed companies.

PitchBook actively tracks all known PE deals in North America, Europe, and Israel regardless of transaction date with a focus on deals occurring from 2000 until the present. We also track PE deals for companies located in Asia Pacific region (APAC), Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey and Latin America from 2015 to the present.

PitchBook tracks the following types of VC transactions.

• All transactions made by venture capital firms.
• Transactions made by VC-backed companies.

PitchBook actively tracks all venture capital and early-stage deals from 2006 to the present for companies based in North America, Europe, and Israel. We also track VC deals based in the Asia Pacific region (APAC), Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and Latin America from 2015 to the present.

PitchBook tracks acquisitions of assets. Common examples of assets include buildings, hotels, pieces of land, rights for oil and gas exploration, solar farms or wind farms, oil pipelines, and mineral mines. We do not track assets that depreciate to scrap value (i.e., military vessels, boats, trucks) and domain names or websites.

PitchBook tracks transactions that include a declaration of bankruptcy by a firm that meets at least one other tracking criterion.

PitchBook tracks all mergers and acquisitions of public or private companies, irrespective of financial backing involvement. We refer to M&A as the substantive transfer of control or ownership. M&A excludes legal restructuring where substantive ownership does not change hands.

PitchBook does not track the issuance of Initial Coin Offerings, token sales, digital tokens, or blockchain tokens. None of these involve the transfer of equity in the company.

PitchBook tracks transactions involving debt financing provided by a lender or debt investor to a company. We actively track debt transactions from 2000 to the present.

PitchBook tracks the exercise of previously acquired options to acquire stock in a company. PitchBook does not track option agreements, resulting in the ‘option’ to purchase a stake in the company. This does not result in ownership.

PitchBook tracks Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) companies and acquirers.

• FBA companies are businesses that sell their products through Amazon.com. Amazon then packages and ships the products for the companies.
• FBA acquirers focus specifically on buying FBA companies and operating them under one roof, using their expertise and resources to scale them to brands.

PitchBook tracks transactions involving grant funding for companies that meet other PitchBook tracking criteria.

PitchBook tracks joint ventures where two or more entities develop a new entity or asset by contributing existing assets or capital for a stake in the new entity.

PitchBook tracks all companies that have been involved in a merger, acquisition, or corporate strategic investment. We track merger and acquisition activity across venture capital, private equity, public equity, and other asset classes. We actively track all deals from 2006 to the present. If a company in that scope has received investment before that date, we will track that historic deal.

PitchBook tracks acquisitions of rights resulting in full ownership of mining property and direct ownership in future revenue earnings.

PitchBook tracks Pharma acquisitions resulting in worldwide ownership of the product(s).

PitchBook tracks all equity crowdfunding transactions (transactions whereby individuals invest in private companies in exchange for an equity stake) and angel deals based in North America, Europe, and Israel from 2006 to the present.

PitchBook tracks all public companies. We track IPO’s for companies that are located in North America and Europe and trading on a stock exchange located in North America or Europe. PitchBook also tracks companies that do not meet the above criteria but have received PE funding, VC funding, Corp Dev investments, or have an M&A round. IPO tracking begins once the company has filed. IPO transactions are marked ‘closed’ when the first shares are sold.

Offering criteria includes:

• Common stock.
• Ordinary shares.
• American Depositary Shares (ADS).
• Units consisting of both common stock and warrants or another combination.
• Income Deposit Securities (IDS).

We actively track all deals from 2005 to the present. If a company matching our scope has gone public before that date, we track a shell IPO (meaning we will add the deal but not provide much detail on it).

Note: If there is a company of interest outside the above information, you can always submit a request for the team to collect the company’s information, which they can do upon request.

PitchBook tracks the following real estate transactions.

• Real estate firms acquiring another real estate firm (strategic transaction).
• PE/VC firms investing in real estate.
• Corporations strategically acquiring real estate.
• PE or VC involvement in a real estate investment.
• PE firms investing through their real estate fund.

PitchBook does not track the following real estate transactions.

• Investments by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (US).
• Investments by REITs (US) run by PE firms.
• Investments by foreign equivalents of REITs.
• Investments by real estate investors or through real estate investment funds.
• Investments by real estate developers.
• Real estate and infrastructure debt financings.

PitchBook tracks the following Infra transactions.

• Infra firms acquiring another Infra firm (strategic transaction).
• PE/VC firms investing in Infra.
• PE or VC involvement in Infra investments.
• PE firms investing through its Infra fund.