PitchBook parent Morningstar has completed its acquisition of private-debt data provider Leveraged Commentary Data from S&P Global, forging an integrated research platform that will serve as a one-stop shop for news and research on private finance.

PitchBook is poised to expand its footprint in the growing market for private-debt data and insights after parent company Morningstar agreed to acquire the Leveraged Commentary Data unit of S&P Global.

In honor of our anniversary, were looking back at how our world and our industry have changed since we started.

We’re always looking for better ways to serve our customers, and in 2016, we continued to obsessively focus on data, and also invested in workflow and discovery tools.

Recently, our founder and CEO, John Gabbert, sat down with, Jason Carlson, CTO and co-founder at Liquid Planner, Chad Wittman, VP of Product and co-founder at Dolly, and our own Director of Product, Angus Fan, to discuss building companies and doing business in the Now Economy. Here are five key takeaways from their conversation.

Founders vs. CEOs. Paper gains. Mega-funds. Marijuana. Fintech. China’s M&A boom. Drones. We covered all this and more over the past month; take a look at our most popular articles of April.

From a datagraphic on female-founded companies to a list of our favorite PE/M&A podcasts, here are our 10 most read and shared blog posts from March.

Our product team just pushed a release with a few improvements for you related to deal filtering, fund downloads and angel investor displays. With this latest release, you can now search for self-funded startups, download fund IDs and see the relationship an angel investor has with another firm from the main search bar.

As part of our ongoing 2015 in Review coverage, we recap five of the coolest new features added to the PitchBook Platform over the past year, including tools to track private-company social media and web growth, explore VC co-investor networks and more.

Tracking private market data is a tricky business, but it can be done well.

Over the last eight years, we have built and constantly refined the PitchBook research process, and it might (finally) be time for it to step into the spotlight.

We took a look back at some of our most popular blog posts of 2014 in the first of our “2014: Year in Review” series.

Here is the presentation deck on 2013 trends in PE and VC at the American Bar Association’s PE & VC Committee Spring Meeting in April 2014.

McGladrey has published its 2013 Year in Review Private Equity Deal Flow Profile for the healthcare industry.

This video walkthrough of our platform shows how you can increase deal flow by finding the most active business intermediaries and I-banks in your market.