PitchBook, a leading private capital market intelligence platform, has announced a new partnership with AI-answer engine Perplexity, enabling users to access PitchBook’s firmographic intelligence directly within Perplexity’s conversational interface through its new PitchBook Essential MCP server.
AI adoption is increasing across financial services, with high-quality, comprehensive data considered crucial for informed decision-making and tangible returns on investment. PitchBook’s strategy for AI and machine learning focuses on combining advanced technology with human expertise to build a robust private market dataset.
Perplexity’s answer engine retrieves and synthesizes information from authoritative sources in real-time, providing cited and verifiable answers essential for high-stakes financial decisions. The Essential Partner integration allows Perplexity users to ask complex questions about companies and deals, receiving clear, sourced insights supported by PitchBook’s intelligence.
Tom Van Buskirk, EVP of Technology & Engineering at PitchBook, stated, “Together, PitchBook and Perplexity are expanding access to private market intelligence. AI is most effective when it’s powered by the most accurate, high-quality data. Perplexity’s conversational interface opens new ways to explore information and pairing it with PitchBook’s insights helps professionals find the clarity they need to make confident decisions.”This integration offers Perplexity users several capabilities: the ability to surface company and deal information using PitchBook’s dataset, receive high-level summaries with links to original PitchBook sources, ask targeted questions about firms, transactions, investors, and market themes, and explore private market trends through existing tools.
Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity, commented, “PitchBook’s data helps hundreds of thousands of investors make decisions with confidence every day. By bringing PitchBook’s trusted intelligence into Perplexity’s conversational interface, we’re enabling new ways to explore private markets, where professionals can conduct deep research, ask follow-up questions, and uncover connections they might not have found through traditional search.”This collaboration with Perplexity is the latest in PitchBook’s growing network of AI partnerships, which includes Anthropic, Farsight AI, Finster, Hebbia, Model ML, OpenAI, Rogo, and Writer. These partnerships reflect PitchBook’s approach to integrating across the AI ecosystem, aiming to provide access to private market intelligence wherever professionals operate.
PitchBook, a Morningstar company, provides real-time data, research, and technology for investors, dealmakers, and innovators in private capital markets. Founded in 2007, it serves over 100,000 clients globally. Perplexity, established in 2022, is an AI-powered answer engine that sources information from credible sources, processing over 150 million questions weekly.
