PITCHBOOK | STEPSTONE

Deal-level benchmarking
now available

PitchBook users can now access deal-level performance benchmarking through SPI by StepStone. Enhance investor
relations, underwriting, and due diligence with PitchBook private capital market data combined with StepStone’s
robust deal performance database. Available now as a paid add-on, users have direct access to StepStone’s deal
performance and operating metric benchmarks.

When StepStone meets PitchBook
When StepStone meets PitchBook
When StepStone meets PitchBook

StepStone delivers deal-level clarity built from over 4,000 GP relationships, and PitchBook contextualizes value creation. Together, we’re delivering peer set and performance data to give clients an independent, deal-level benchmark neither firm could offer alone.

  • Unlock deal-level benchmarks

    Access StepStone institutional-grade deal benchmarks to compare peer transactions across private equity buyouts, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure.
  • Deliver deeper investment insights

    Gain insight into key market trends to support firm-level strategy and investment research for general partners, investors, and service providers.
  • Benchmark with confidence

    As one of the largest private markets allocators, StepStone has produced one of the most comprehensive, trusted databases of aggregated, anonymized deal-level benchmarks.
Top features for deal performance and
operating metric data
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Discover advanced deal-level analytics

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Compare performance, deployment, operating metrics, and value creation analysis by leveraging StepStone’s robust deal-level dataset with custom analytics across strategy, industry, geography, transaction size, time period, and more.

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Enhance investor relations capabilities

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Leverage granular benchmarks to better articulate and quantify strengths and differentiators, improving transparency for reporting and fundraising materials.

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Strengthen underwriting analysis

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Detailed performance, valuation, and capital structure data across comparable transactions supports more rigorous deal underwriting, enabling better-informed investment decisions.

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Gain insight into key performance drivers

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Deal-level (versus fund-level) data allows for apples-to-apples performance and value-creation comparisons across a vast set of classifications, so investors can understand and articulate the underlying drivers of performance.

Discover what StepStone’s deal-level data reveals about the US middle market

Our latest research draws on SPI by StepStone’s deal-level benchmarks, allowing us to go even deeper. Q1 2026 middle-market deal value hit $103.8B, but the real story is playing out by size band.

Ready to start benchmarking at the deal level?

Discover how granular deal analytics can strengthen decision making for private market participants across private equity buyouts, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure.

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