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PitchBook, the leading private capital market intelligence platform, has announced a new partnership with Perplexity, the AI-answer engine. Through Perplexity’s PitchBook Essential MCP server, users can now directly surface PitchBook’s trusted firmographic intelligence within Perplexity’s conversational interface, complete with full source attribution.
As AI adoption accelerates in financial services, the demand for answers grounded in accurate, comprehensive, and verifiable data continues to grow. PitchBook’s strategy pairs advanced AI and machine learning with human-curated insight to maintain one of the industry’s most reliable private market datasets. Perplexity’s real-time retrieval from authoritative sources delivers cited responses ideal for high-stakes decisions.
“Together, PitchBook and Perplexity are expanding access to private market intelligence,” said Tom Van Buskirk, EVP of Technology & Engineering at PitchBook. “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.”
“PitchBook’s data helps hundreds of thousands of investors make decisions with confidence every day,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. “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.”
The integration allows users to:
This milestone strengthens PitchBook’s intentional approach to AI partnerships, extending trusted private capital intelligence across the ecosystem where professionals already work. It enables faster, more informed exploration of private markets while preserving data accuracy and attribution.
PitchBook continues to lead in delivering real-time data, research, and technology for investors, dealmakers, and innovators in private capital markets.
About
PitchBook, a Morningstar company As the pulse of private capital markets, PitchBook delivers trusted, real-time data, research, and technology to help investors, dealmakers, and innovators make decisions with confidence. Its products provide comprehensive information on companies, investors, funds, deals, and people, along with tools that help professionals analyze market activity and make informed decisions. Founded in 2007, PitchBook today serves more than 100,000 clients worldwide and is recognized as the leading source of private capital market intelligence. PitchBook has grown to over 3,000 employees across offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, Mumbai, and other global locations. Since 2016, PitchBook has operated as a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc.
About Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that draws from credible sources in real time to accurately answer questions with in-line citations, perform deep research, and more. Founded in 2022, the company's mission is to serve the world's curiosity by bridging the gap between traditional search engines and AI-driven interfaces. Each week, Perplexity answers more than 150 million questions globally.
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