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title: "Altss vs PitchBook (2026): Full Comparison for Fund Managers"
description: "An honest comparison of Altss and PitchBook for fund managers raising from family offices and institutional allocators. Coverage, data freshness, OSINT…"
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# Altss vs PitchBook

By Altss  April 19, 2026  15 min read  Competitor figures re-checked August 6, 2026

PitchBook is the industry standard for deal and company data, a Morningstar subsidiary with 3,000+ employees and 100,000+ clients. Altss is an OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform: verified family-office and institutional-LP data and a live 35M+ company dataset, plus a built-in CRM, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence, and a relationship graph, built for fund managers raising from family offices and institutional allocators. This page covers where each wins, honestly.

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The short answer

Choose Altss when

You are raising capital and need allocator intelligence: who the LPs are, what they are mandating now, and who to contact. Plus a 35M+ company dataset for relationship context.

Choose PitchBook when

You are sourcing deals, running valuation comps, or benchmarking funds. PitchBook's 3.1M+ deals and transaction-level depth are the reference for that work.

9,000+

Family offices in Altss database

150,000+

Private-markets entities (broad)

35M+

Companies & startups in the company dataset

Dated

Full database re-verification cycle

## At-a-glance comparison

At-a-glance comparison of Altss and PitchBook

| Dimension | Altss | PitchBook |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Founded | 2025 | 2007 (Morningstar subsidiary since 2016)[8](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-8) |
| Scale | Lean 11-person OSINT-first team | 100,000+ clients, 3,000+ employees globally[3](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-3) |
| Primary use case | LP intelligence for fundraising | Deal and company data for sourcing investments |
| Family office coverage | 9,000+ global family offices[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10) | Limited — not PitchBook's primary dataset |
| Institutional LP coverage | Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | 64K+ limited partners (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| Company coverage | **35M+ company dataset**[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10) | 12.7M+ companies (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| Deal data | 1,538,822 deal records — 750,760 carrying an investor, a target company and a date, and 934,279 a disclosed amount[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10) | 3.1M+ deals (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| Investor coverage | Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | 634K+ investors (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| Fund coverage | 683,549 funds, with 543,250 LP-to-fund commitments and mandate data[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10) | 170K+ funds (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| People data | 2.6M+ contact records (email bounce-checked before it appears) | 4.2M+ professionals (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) |
| Data operations team | OSINT + AI-assisted verification + analysts | 1,800+ data operations professionals[4](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-4); 60+ research analysts[5](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-5) |
| Data collection method | OSINT (open-source intelligence) with source evidence attached to every record | Surveys, regulatory filings, FOIA responses, 1M+ news events weekly, 1M+ web crawlers, D&B partnership |
| Data refresh cycle | Source-specific dates; no universal freshness guarantee | Multiple daily updates for deal news; 3–4 month company-level refresh reported by users |
| Email verification | Bounce-checked before records appear | Self-reported and scraped; error rates on email extraction are a common user complaint |
| Allocator signals | Yes — mandate shifts, personnel changes, event participation, surfaced as they become publicly observable | Deal and transaction signals strong; allocator behavior signals weaker |
| Workflow tooling | Built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph | Database plus external CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud); no native CRM, outreach, or notetaker |
| Fund performance benchmarking | Not provided | Best-in-class — fund-level IRR, TVPI, DPI data with vintage benchmarks |
| AI features | OSINT pipeline + AI-assisted enrichment, a research copilot, and AI-assisted outreach | PitchBook Navigator AI (Nov 2025)[6](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-6); Premium Connector for Claude and ChatGPT Enterprise; Perplexity MCP server (2026)[7](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-7) |
| Pricing | Published. Intelligence plans **$15,000–$25,000/year**, one named user included. **Altss Fundraising OS from $25,000/year** adds the CRM, AI outreach and meeting intelligence. | Sales-gated. Entry bundle from $30K minimum for 2+ seats; ~$7K per additional seat; Enterprise (10+ users) $45K–$70K+/yr[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9) |
| Best for | Fund managers raising from family offices and global LPs | Investment teams sourcing deals, LPs benchmarking funds, corporate M&A |

At-a-glance comparison of Altss and PitchBook

- Founded

  Altss

  2025

  PitchBook

  2007 (Morningstar subsidiary since 2016)[8](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-8)
- Scale

  Altss

  Lean 11-person OSINT-first team

  PitchBook

  100,000+ clients, 3,000+ employees globally[3](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-3)
- Primary use case

  Altss

  LP intelligence for fundraising

  PitchBook

  Deal and company data for sourcing investments
- Family office coverage

  Altss

  9,000+ global family offices[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10)

  PitchBook

  Limited — not PitchBook's primary dataset
- Institutional LP coverage

  Altss

  Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions

  PitchBook

  64K+ limited partners (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- Company coverage

  Altss

  **35M+ company dataset**[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10)

  PitchBook

  12.7M+ companies (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- Deal data

  Altss

  1,538,822 deal records — 750,760 carrying an investor, a target company and a date, and 934,279 a disclosed amount[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10)

  PitchBook

  3.1M+ deals (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- Investor coverage

  Altss

  Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions

  PitchBook

  634K+ investors (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- Fund coverage

  Altss

  683,549 funds, with 543,250 LP-to-fund commitments and mandate data[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10)

  PitchBook

  170K+ funds (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- People data

  Altss

  2.6M+ contact records (email bounce-checked before it appears)

  PitchBook

  4.2M+ professionals (per pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- Data operations team

  Altss

  OSINT + AI-assisted verification + analysts

  PitchBook

  1,800+ data operations professionals[4](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-4); 60+ research analysts[5](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-5)
- Data collection method

  Altss

  OSINT (open-source intelligence) with source evidence attached to every record

  PitchBook

  Surveys, regulatory filings, FOIA responses, 1M+ news events weekly, 1M+ web crawlers, D&B partnership
- Data refresh cycle

  Altss

  Source-specific dates; no universal freshness guarantee

  PitchBook

  Multiple daily updates for deal news; 3–4 month company-level refresh reported by users
- Email verification

  Altss

  Bounce-checked before records appear

  PitchBook

  Self-reported and scraped; error rates on email extraction are a common user complaint
- Allocator signals

  Altss

  Yes — mandate shifts, personnel changes, event participation, surfaced as they become publicly observable

  PitchBook

  Deal and transaction signals strong; allocator behavior signals weaker
- Workflow tooling

  Altss

  Built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph

  PitchBook

  Database plus external CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud); no native CRM, outreach, or notetaker
- Fund performance benchmarking

  Altss

  Not provided

  PitchBook

  Best-in-class — fund-level IRR, TVPI, DPI data with vintage benchmarks
- AI features

  Altss

  OSINT pipeline + AI-assisted enrichment, a research copilot, and AI-assisted outreach

  PitchBook

  PitchBook Navigator AI (Nov 2025)[6](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-6); Premium Connector for Claude and ChatGPT Enterprise; Perplexity MCP server (2026)[7](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-7)
- Pricing

  Altss

  Published. Intelligence plans **$15,000–$25,000/year**, one named user included. **Altss Fundraising OS from $25,000/year** adds the CRM, AI outreach and meeting intelligence.

  PitchBook

  Sales-gated. Entry bundle from $30K minimum for 2+ seats; ~$7K per additional seat; Enterprise (10+ users) $45K–$70K+/yr[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)
- Best for

  Altss

  Fund managers raising from family offices and global LPs

  PitchBook

  Investment teams sourcing deals, LPs benchmarking funds, corporate M&A

*Coverage numbers reflect Altss internal database as of August 2026, including a live 35M+ company dataset. PitchBook figures read directly from PitchBook's own data coverage page, pitchbook.com/data, on August 6, 2026. Pricing compiled from Vendr transaction data, TrustRadius customer reports, Failory, and independent pricing databases.*

> PitchBook has clear advantages in deal data, fund performance benchmarking, analyst research, and an extensive integration and AI ecosystem. Altss leads in family office coverage, company dataset scale (35M+ company records), OSINT methodology, allocator signals, and the workflow layer: a built-in CRM, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence, and a relationship graph. PitchBook is a database you query and export. Altss pairs that verified data and those allocator signals with the workflow in one platform. Where you spend most of your fundraising time determines which platform delivers more value.

Filters

- Entity typeFamily office
- MandatePrivate equity
- Cheque size$5M – $25M
- GeographyGlobal
- SignalRecorded activity

9,000+ family offices · published scope

 Illustrative rows · not live results

| Type | Region | AUM band | Decision makers | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SFO | US · West | $1B–$5B | 3 | Example |
| MFO | US · East | $5B–$25B | 5 | Example |
| MFO | UK | $1B–$5B | 2 | Example |
| SFO | CH | $250M–$1B | 4 | Example |
| SFO | CA | Over $25B | 6 | Example |

Source Example reference

Checked Example date

Context Unknowns retained

Illustrative record layout. How the work actually looks: filter the allocator universe, and every field on every row carries the public source it came from and the date it was last checked.

## What is Altss?

Altss is an OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform built for managers raising capital in alternative assets. The data layer is OSINT-powered: instead of relying on survey data, analyst-collected firm profiles, or scraped contact lists, Altss uses open-source intelligence — SEC filings (Form ADV, Form D, 13F), pension CAFRs, Form 990 and 990-PF for foundations, endowment annual reports, sovereign wealth fund disclosures, verified corporate registries, public news, and published allocator statements — to build verified profiles of 9,000+ family offices and 150,000+ private-markets entities worldwide[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10).

Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.

Around that data sits the workflow: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph. PitchBook is a database that pushes into external tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Excel) to do the actual work; Altss pairs the data with a built-in CRM, AI outreach, a research copilot, and a meeting notetaker in one platform.

**Altss now runs a live 35M+ company dataset**; PitchBook publishes 12.7M+ companies. This completes the relationship graph — LPs → GPs → portfolio companies — on a single OSINT-native platform. For fund managers who previously ran a separate PitchBook subscription for company data alongside an LP database, Altss becomes a single source for both sides of the workflow.

## What ships in the platform today

Every capability below is live for customers today. They sit in two places: the Intelligence plans, and Altss Fundraising OS, which adds the fundraising and IR workflow on top. Roadmap items are named as roadmap on the [platform page](https://altss.com/platform), never here.

### Included in every Intelligence plan

Global plans from $15,000/year

- #### AI-assisted research

  In-product natural-language research over the selected coverage, with supporting evidence and limitations.
- #### Agentic knowledge base

  Research across available filings, registries and profiles with source evidence.
- #### Scouter

  Investor discovery and targeting inside the authenticated research workflow.

Research copilot

Which family offices backed a first-time healthcare manager in the last 18 months?

1

Single family office · Boston

Source reference Date Unknowns

2

Single family office · Geneva

Source reference Date Unknowns

3

Multi-family office · Toronto

Source reference Date Unknowns

Evidence and source availability vary by record.

Ask in plain language; inspect the supporting sources and unknowns. Interface illustration.

### Altss Fundraising OS

From $25,000/year, in three configurations

- #### Native investor CRM

  Altss is not a general-purpose CRM company. Altss Fundraising OS includes a native investor CRM and pipeline; Intelligence plans provide the research layer. Standard subscriptions do not include external CRM sync.
- #### AI-assisted outreach

  Fundraising OS supports AI-assisted outreach and sequenced follow-ups under customer review and authorization. Altss does not independently solicit investors on behalf of customers or provide a bulk email-blasting service.
- #### Meeting intelligence

  Meeting records and follow-up context inside authorized fundraising workflows.
- #### Inbox and interaction context

  Customer-authorized communication context within the fundraising workflow.
- #### Events intelligence

  Conference and event context for research and preparation.
- #### Relationship and warm-path mapping

  Altss maps relationship paths that help users understand whom they already know around a target. Users independently decide whether to request an introduction through their own relationships. Altss does not make or broker investor introductions.

Pipeline

Researching 24

Single family office · Zurich

Mandate signal

Endowment · US Midwest

Mandate signal

MFO · Singapore

Mandate signal

First contact 11

Foundation · Nordics

Mandate signal

SFO · Gulf

Mandate signal

In diligence 5

Pension · Netherlands

Mandate signal

Fund of funds · UK

Mandate signal

The investor CRM: allocator records move through your pipeline with their signals attached. Interface illustration.

Outreach · draft for review

Warm path

Your firm

Co-investor

Target allocator

Illustrative relationship evidence

Step 2 of 4 · follow-up Awaiting your approval

Send from your mailbox Edit

An illustrative relationship path beside a follow-up draft for customer review. Interface illustration.

*Standard subscription intelligence is used in-platform. No public raw-data API, CSV export or bulk download of Altss content, data feed or graph-replication access is offered; customers can export their own data. Public factual pages and their Markdown equivalents may be read and cited. Agents accepts scoped requests for bounded paid results through manual commercial review; no automated external task transport is live.*

## What is PitchBook?

PitchBook is a private capital markets data provider headquartered in Seattle, founded in 2007 and operating as a subsidiary of Morningstar since 2016 (acquired for $225M)[8](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-8). The platform serves more than 100,000 clients worldwide and employs over 3,000 people[3](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-3) across offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, Mumbai, and other global locations.

Per PitchBook's own data coverage page (pitchbook.com/data, read August 6, 2026)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1), the platform covers:

- **12.7M+ companies**[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- **3.1M+ deals**[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- **634K+ investors**[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)
- **170K+ funds**[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)

The same page lists **64K+ limited partners**, **4.2M+ professionals**, **128K+ service providers**, **554K+ debt financings**, **15K+ lenders**, and **450K+ credit data points**[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1).

PitchBook's strength is breadth of financial data. The platform includes fund performance benchmarking, analyst research with direct consultation access (60+ analysts in the Institutional Research Group), public equity data on 110K+ companies, debt financings, and extensive integrations with CRM platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud), Excel, PowerPoint, Chrome, and AI platforms including PitchBook Navigator (launched November 2025), a Premium Connector for Claude and ChatGPT Enterprise, and a dedicated MCP server for Perplexity.

Data is sourced from surveys, regulatory filings, FOIA responses, 1M+ web crawlers, partnerships including Dun & Bradstreet, and over one million news events analyzed weekly. Deal and funding data refreshes multiple times daily; company-level profile data (headcount, descriptions, contact information) refreshes on what users report as a 3–4 month cycle. PitchBook is maintained by 1,800+ data operations professionals using 100+ proprietary processes, with 3.5M+ hours logged by the data ops team over the past 5 years.

## Coverage comparison

Companies

Altss

35M+ live

PitchBook

12.7M+

Read from pitchbook.com/data on August 6, 2026[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1). Altss covers company breadth, not deal records.

Limited partners

Altss

30,000+ investors & allocators

PitchBook

64K+

Altss's investor count spans institutional investors, RIAs and family offices; its separate 150,000+ figure counts private-markets entities and is not an LP count. Different definitions; compare on the segment you actually sell into[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1).

Deals tracked

Altss

750,760 fully-keyed

PitchBook

3.1M+

Altss holds 750,000+ deal records carrying an investor, a target company and a date[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1)[10](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-10).

Property ownership linked to firms

Altss

66,409 firm-linked

PitchBook

Not published

From a corpus of 91,191,608 US parcels with 14,500,336 distinct owners resolved to entity type, plus French and APAC/MENA land registries and 534,223 deed records. Measured August 10, 2026.

Aircraft and vessels linked to owners

Altss

1,362 aircraft, 4,966 vessels

PitchBook

Not published

Identified and linked to the owning entity, across 861 firms for aircraft. Measured August 10, 2026.

Relationship graph

Altss

7,871,996 edges

PitchBook

Not published

Across 6,493,533 resolved entities, including 3,584,276 firm-to-firm edges and 1,866,710 introduction paths. Derived from public transactions, filings and registries. Measured August 10, 2026.

### Company data

Altss runs a 35M+ company dataset; PitchBook publishes 12.7M+ companies (per pitchbook.com/data)[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1). The two counts are not like-for-like record definitions. The Altss approach is OSINT-native — every record traceable to public sources — which differs fundamentally from PitchBook's mixed methodology of scraping, survey data, and analyst-curated profiles.

PitchBook still leads on the depth attached to each company: deal history, valuations, financing rounds, and cap-table participants. Altss's company layer is built for relationship mapping and sourcing context, not transaction-level deal records.

### Deal data and valuations

PitchBook is the reference for transaction-level work: 3.1M+ deals[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) with financing history back to 2007, built for deal sourcing and valuation comps. Altss is built for the other side of the table — who allocates, on what mandate, through which relationship — and its company layer serves that, with the source and check date attached to every field.

### Family office coverage

Altss leads decisively. PitchBook was built around deal and company data, with LPs as a secondary dataset.

### Institutional LP coverage

Both platforms cover institutional LPs, but with different focuses. PitchBook lists 64K+ limited partners[1](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-1) and has strong historical allocation data. Altss has 150,000+ private-markets entities with current mandate, personnel, and allocation signals. For current targeting, Altss; for historical allocation research, PitchBook.

### Email and contact data

Email error rates on extracted contact data mean campaigns run against PitchBook's LP contacts often bounce at unacceptable rates. Altss bounce-checks every email before it reaches the UI, so invalid mailboxes never surface.

### Workflow: database vs. in-platform intelligence

The deeper difference is what sits around the data. PitchBook is a database — you query it, then push records into Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, or Excel to actually run a process. Altss is an in-platform intelligence workspace: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph.

For a manager raising capital, that means targeting, research, outreach, meeting capture, and pipeline tracking happen in one place — rather than a database subscription plus a separate CRM, email tool, and notetaker stitched together.

## Data freshness

### Altss

- Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.
- Continually updated on personnel changes, mandate shifts, and fund launches
- Every email is bounce-checked before appearing in the platform
- Every record is traceable to a public source with a verification timestamp

### PitchBook

- Deal and funding news updated multiple times daily (1M+ news events analyzed weekly, 1M+ web crawlers)
- Company-level profile data (headcount, descriptions, contacts) refreshes on a 3–4 month cycle per user reports
- Survey + scraped + analyst-curated data model; no live email verification
- Personnel changes and mandate shifts surface through news analysis but depend on public disclosure

For deal news and headline M&A announcements, PitchBook is fresh. For the contact and mandate data that matters in fundraising outreach, Altss is materially fresher.

## Methodology: OSINT vs. mixed aggregation

**PitchBook's approach:** Mixed. PitchBook's own documentation cites data sources including survey requests, regulatory filings, FOIA responses, and analysis of 1M+ news events weekly, maintained by 1,800+ data operations professionals using 100+ proprietary processes. This model produces broad coverage across deals and companies with strong deal-news velocity, but produces inconsistent quality at the contact and allocator level, where currency depends heavily on whether the firm has proactively updated its profile. A key part of PitchBook's company dataset expansion came through its partnership with Dun & Bradstreet, adding companies with $1M+ in annual sales.

**Altss's approach:** OSINT-first. Altss treats LP and company intelligence as an open-source intelligence problem. Data is sourced from SEC filings (Form ADV, Form D, 13F), state pension CAFRs, Form 990 and 990-PF for foundations, endowment annual reports, sovereign wealth fund disclosures, verified corporate registries, public news, and published allocator statements. The live 35M+ companies dataset extends the same OSINT methodology to company data — every record traceable to its public source and timestamped.

The practical difference for fundraising: if a family office promoted a new head of investments last month, Altss can pick it up from public OSINT signals, dated when observed. In PitchBook, the same change might not appear until the firm proactively updates its profile — which many private family offices never do.

## Pricing

Altss publishes its price. PitchBook does not publish pricing at all, which is why every figure here is attributed to third-party transaction data rather than to PitchBook.

### Altss

Published, and below PitchBook's reported $30K minimum multi-seat bundle[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9). **Family Office Intelligence $15,000/year**, **Global Investor Intelligence $18,000**, **Full Market Intelligence $25,000**. One named user included; additional named users $5,000 each. **Altss Fundraising OS from $25,000/year** adds the investor CRM, AI outreach and meeting intelligence. Full detail is on the pricing page.

### PitchBook

**PitchBook (sales-gated; figures compiled from Vendr, TrustRadius, Failory, and third-party pricing databases, 2026):**

- Entry bundle: **$30,000/year starting at 2+ seats minimum** (no solo tier for most buyer segments)[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)
- Additional seats: approximately **$7,000/year** each, based on customer reports[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)
- Standard bundle for 3 users: approximately **$24,000–$35,000/year** depending on modules and contract[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)
- Enterprise (10+ users): **$45,000–$70,000+/year** depending on modules[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)
- API access and data feeds priced as paid add-ons (30–60% over base)
- Median customer spend per verified transaction data: approximately **$30,875/year**; average revenue per account: approximately **$58,300/year**[9](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook#source-9)

**Key pricing observation:** PitchBook's entry point is a multi-seat bundle — $30K for 2+ seats, scaling to $70K+/year for enterprise deployments. For fundraising use cases, Altss typically comes in materially below PitchBook's list pricing. Teams once paid PitchBook's premium partly for company data alongside their LP database; with Altss now running a live 35M+ company dataset inside the same platform as the CRM, research, and AI outreach, more of that spend can consolidate onto fewer tools. Intelligence plans are published on the pricing page and bought online; Fundraising OS and multi-team deployments are scoped with sales.

*PitchBook pricing compiled from Vendr Marketplace transaction data, TrustRadius verified customer reports, Failory customer surveys, CostBench software pricing database, and RevPilots customer interviews. Accessed August 2026.*

## PitchBook prices transactions. Altss maps the people who fund them, and shows the public source behind every field.

Where PitchBook wins

The two platforms are built for different jobs. These are the jobs PitchBook is built for.

1. 01

   ### Fund performance benchmarking

   PitchBook's IRR, TVPI, and DPI data across funds and vintages is best-in-class. If your workflow requires benchmarking specific fund returns against peers by vintage and strategy, PitchBook is the tool for that.
2. 02

   ### Analyst research

   PitchBook's Institutional Research Group — 60+ analysts — produces regular reports on PE, VC, credit, and industry-specific analysis. Direct analyst consultation access is included with enterprise tiers. Altss does not produce equivalent research.
3. 03

   ### Integration ecosystem

   Excel, PowerPoint, Chrome extension, Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, API, and PitchBook Navigator AI with connectors for Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Perplexity. PitchBook's integration depth is mature and broad. Altss is UI-only by design.
4. 04

   ### Historical deal data depth

   PitchBook has tracked deals since 2007 — nearly 20 years of transaction history with valuations, deal structures, and participant tracking. Altss's company dataset is new; historical depth will take time to build.
5. 05

   ### Public equity and credit data

   PitchBook covers 110K+ public companies, 528K+ debt financings, 65,000+ private credit deals, and extensive credit markets data.
6. 06

   ### Cross-asset-class breadth

   PE, VC, M&A, credit, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries. For multi-asset-class firms, PitchBook's breadth is a genuine advantage.
7. 07

   ### Morningstar infrastructure

   Enterprise buyers value the stability that comes from Morningstar ownership, a 3,000+ person operation, and integration with Morningstar's broader financial data.
8. 08

   ### Brand and scale

   100,000+ clients worldwide. When an investment team references "the industry standard" for deal data, they usually mean PitchBook.
9. 09

   ### Third-party LLM connectors

   PitchBook Navigator (launched Nov 2025), a Claude/ChatGPT Premium Connector, and a Perplexity MCP server let external AI tools query PitchBook data. Altss has its own in-platform research copilot and AI outreach, but does not yet offer equivalent connectors into outside LLM products.

If your primary workflow is fund performance benchmarking, historical deal research, or accessing analyst reports — PitchBook delivers more than Altss today.

## Where Altss wins

1. 01

   ### Family office depth

   9,000+ family offices globally vs. PitchBook's limited family office coverage.
2. 02

   ### Company & startup coverage scale

   A 35M+ company dataset, including startups and VC-backed companies, against the 12.7M+ companies PitchBook publishes. Altss does not match PitchBook's deal-level depth (deals, valuations, financing rounds); its company layer is built for relationship and sourcing context.
3. 03

   ### Data others can't replicate — plus the workflow to act on it

   PitchBook is a database that pushes records into Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, or Excel to do the actual work. Altss ships the data with the workflow: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph. It brings targeting, research, CRM, outreach, and pipeline into one place — on top of OSINT data competitors can't match.
4. 04

   ### Data freshness on allocator contacts

   Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.
5. 05

   ### OSINT methodology

   Every record traces to a public source. No reliance on whether the LP has proactively submitted data or updated their PitchBook profile. This methodology extends to the live company dataset.
6. 06

   ### Email bounce-verification

   Invalid emails never reach the UI. PitchBook users frequently cite email error rates as a campaign-breaking issue.
7. 07

   ### Allocator signals

   Mandate shifts, personnel changes, fund launches, and event participation surface as they become publicly observable — not quarterly profile refreshes.
8. 08

   ### Purpose-built for fundraising, not sourcing

   PitchBook was architected for deal teams. Altss was architected for GPs raising capital. The workflows reflect the difference.
9. 09

   ### Enterprise pricing scoped to your team

   Altss is scoped to what your team actually needs — coverage tier, seat count, organization type. PitchBook pricing is sales-gated with a $30K minimum bundle for 2+ seats, scaling to $70K+/year for enterprise deployments.
10. 10

    ### Global family office coverage

    Altss covers North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern family offices with comparable depth. PitchBook family office coverage skews US/EU.
11. 11

    ### Evidence and source linking

    Every Altss record shows the public source behind each data point, with a verification date. PitchBook data does not cite sources at the record level.

## Full feature comparison

Full feature comparison of Altss and PitchBook

- Feature | Altss | PitchBook
- Coverage
- Family office coverage | Yes: 9,000+ | Partial: Limited
- Institutional LP coverage | Yes: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | Yes: 64K+ LPs (Aug 2026)
- Company coverage | Yes: 35M+ | Yes: 12.7M+ (pitchbook.com/data, Aug 2026)
- Deal data | Partial: 750,760 deals with an investor, a target and a date | Yes: 3.1M+ deals (Aug 2026)
- Investor coverage | Yes: LP-focused (150K+) | Yes: 634K+ investors (Aug 2026)
- Fund count | Yes: 683,549 funds | Yes: 170K+ funds (Aug 2026)
- LP-to-fund commitments | Yes: 543,250 | Yes: Covered within deal and fund data
- Contacts | Yes: 2.6M+ contact records (email bounce-checked before it appears) | Yes: 4.2M+ professionals
- Fund performance benchmarking | No | Yes: Best-in-class (IRR, TVPI, DPI)
- Analyst research access | No | Yes: 60+ analysts (IRG)
- Data quality and method
- 20 years historical deal data | Yes: 1,180,090 deals dated 2006 or later | Yes: Since 2007
- Data refresh (LP contacts) | Yes: See record dates | Partial: 3–4 months
- Deal news velocity | Partial: From a news pipeline, dated per signal | Yes: Multiple times daily
- Mandate-shift signals | Yes | Partial: News-derived
- Email bounce-verification | Yes | No
- OSINT source traceability | Yes | No
- Evidence links per record | Yes | No
- Workflow and AI
- Personnel change tracking | Yes: Continually updated | Partial: Lagging
- Event & conference intelligence | Yes | No
- Built-in CRM & pipeline | Yes: Native | No: External integrations only (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud)
- AI-assisted outreach | Yes | No
- Research copilot | Yes | Partial: Navigator AI
- Inbox + meeting notetaker | Yes | No
- Browser extension | No | Yes: Chrome (data lookup)
- Commercial
- Relationship graph | Yes: 7,871,996 edges over 6,493,533 entities | Partial: Data only, no workflow
- Excel/PowerPoint plugins | No | Yes
- API access | No: UI-only by design | Yes: Paid add-on
- LLM integrations | Partial: Roadmap | Yes: Navigator, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity MCP
- Published pricing | Yes: Global plans from $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K | No: Sales-gated
- Credit/debt market data | Partial: Limited | Yes: 65,000+ private credit deals
- Public equity coverage | Partial: 13F positions on 7,560 advisers, no public-company profiles | Yes: 110K+ public companies
- Regulatory filing integration | Yes: Form ADV, Form D, 13F | Yes
- Global FO coverage depth | Yes: NA/EU/Asia/ME | Partial: Primarily US/EU
- Emerging manager focus | Yes | No
- Employee count | 11 (lean team) | 3,000+ globally
- Client count | Private | 100,000+
- Starting price | Global plans from $15,000/year (Family Office Intelligence) | $30K minimum for 2+ seats
- Parent company | Altss LLC | Morningstar (since 2016, $225M acquisition)

Full feature comparison of Altss and PitchBook

### Coverage

- Family office coverage

  Altss

  Yes: 9,000+

  PitchBook

  Partial: Limited
- Institutional LP coverage

  Altss

  Yes: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions

  PitchBook

  Yes: 64K+ LPs (Aug 2026)
- Company coverage

  Altss

  Yes: 35M+

  PitchBook

  Yes: 12.7M+ (pitchbook.com/data, Aug 2026)
- Deal data

  Altss

  Partial: 750,760 deals with an investor, a target and a date

  PitchBook

  Yes: 3.1M+ deals (Aug 2026)
- Investor coverage

  Altss

  Yes: LP-focused (150K+)

  PitchBook

  Yes: 634K+ investors (Aug 2026)
- Fund count

  Altss

  Yes: 683,549 funds

  PitchBook

  Yes: 170K+ funds (Aug 2026)
- LP-to-fund commitments

  Altss

  Yes: 543,250

  PitchBook

  Yes: Covered within deal and fund data
- Contacts

  Altss

  Yes: 2.6M+ contact records (email bounce-checked before it appears)

  PitchBook

  Yes: 4.2M+ professionals
- Fund performance benchmarking

  Altss

  No

  PitchBook

  Yes: Best-in-class (IRR, TVPI, DPI)
- Analyst research access

  Altss

  No

  PitchBook

  Yes: 60+ analysts (IRG)

### Data quality and method

- 20 years historical deal data

  Altss

  Yes: 1,180,090 deals dated 2006 or later

  PitchBook

  Yes: Since 2007
- Data refresh (LP contacts)

  Altss

  Yes: See record dates

  PitchBook

  Partial: 3–4 months
- Deal news velocity

  Altss

  Partial: From a news pipeline, dated per signal

  PitchBook

  Yes: Multiple times daily
- Mandate-shift signals

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  Partial: News-derived
- Email bounce-verification

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- OSINT source traceability

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- Evidence links per record

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No

### Workflow and AI

- Personnel change tracking

  Altss

  Yes: Continually updated

  PitchBook

  Partial: Lagging
- Event & conference intelligence

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- Built-in CRM & pipeline

  Altss

  Yes: Native

  PitchBook

  No: External integrations only (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud)
- AI-assisted outreach

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- Research copilot

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  Partial: Navigator AI
- Inbox + meeting notetaker

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- Browser extension

  Altss

  No

  PitchBook

  Yes: Chrome (data lookup)

### Commercial

- Relationship graph

  Altss

  Yes: 7,871,996 edges over 6,493,533 entities

  PitchBook

  Partial: Data only, no workflow
- Excel/PowerPoint plugins

  Altss

  No

  PitchBook

  Yes
- API access

  Altss

  No: UI-only by design

  PitchBook

  Yes: Paid add-on
- LLM integrations

  Altss

  Partial: Roadmap

  PitchBook

  Yes: Navigator, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity MCP
- Published pricing

  Altss

  Yes: Global plans from $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K

  PitchBook

  No: Sales-gated
- Credit/debt market data

  Altss

  Partial: Limited

  PitchBook

  Yes: 65,000+ private credit deals
- Public equity coverage

  Altss

  Partial: 13F positions on 7,560 advisers, no public-company profiles

  PitchBook

  Yes: 110K+ public companies
- Regulatory filing integration

  Altss

  Yes: Form ADV, Form D, 13F

  PitchBook

  Yes
- Global FO coverage depth

  Altss

  Yes: NA/EU/Asia/ME

  PitchBook

  Partial: Primarily US/EU
- Emerging manager focus

  Altss

  Yes

  PitchBook

  No
- Employee count

  Altss

  11 (lean team)

  PitchBook

  3,000+ globally
- Client count

  Altss

  Private

  PitchBook

  100,000+
- Starting price

  Altss

  Global plans from $15,000/year (Family Office Intelligence)

  PitchBook

  $30K minimum for 2+ seats
- Parent company

  Altss

  Altss LLC

  PitchBook

  Morningstar (since 2016, $225M acquisition)

*Comparison accurate as of August 6, 2026. Altss coverage figures reflect internal database counts, including a live 35M+ company dataset. PitchBook figures (12.7M+ companies, 634K+ investors, 3.1M+ deals, 170K+ funds, 64K+ limited partners, 4.2M+ professionals, 128K+ service providers, 554K+ debt financings, 15K+ lenders) read directly from pitchbook.com/data on August 6, 2026. Pricing compiled from Vendr, TrustRadius, Failory, and independent sources.*

## Which is right for you?

For VCs and investors sourcing deals

PitchBook for transaction-level work. Altss now runs a live 35M+ company dataset, but it is built for relationship mapping and sourcing context, not deal records or valuations. If your workflow depends on deal history, financing rounds, and valuation comps, PitchBook remains the right tool.

For GPs raising capital from family offices

Altss. PitchBook's family office coverage is a widely-cited gap, and email error rates on PitchBook contact data are a campaign-level problem for active fundraising. Altss is purpose-built for this workflow — the data, plus a built-in CRM, AI outreach, and a meeting notetaker in Altss Fundraising OS.

For emerging managers (Fund I & II)

Altss. PitchBook's pricing and LP-side orientation don't match the emerging manager budget or workflow. Altss offers the family office depth, current allocator signals, and built-in fundraising workflow aligned with first-time fundraising.

For multi-strategy firms doing both sourcing and fundraising

Often both. PitchBook for deal-level sourcing, valuations, and fund benchmarking. Altss for allocator targeting, family office outreach, company-level relationship mapping, and running the LP-intelligence and research side in one place. Teams that don't need transaction-level deal data increasingly consolidate the fundraising side onto Altss.

For institutional LPs conducting due diligence

PitchBook. Fund performance benchmarking, analyst research, and historical allocation data are what due diligence requires. Altss is built for the fundraise, not the fund audit.

For GTM teams selling to fund managers or allocators

Depends on target. PitchBook for selling to VCs/PEs about deal workflows. Altss for selling to GPs/IR teams about LP outreach.

For placement agents and capital introduction

Altss does not offer placement-agent licenses under its current eligibility policy. Altss provides research and customer-controlled workflows and does not make investor introductions.

## Pros and cons

### Altss

Pros

- +9,000+ family offices across North America, Europe, MENA and APAC
- +150,000+ private-markets entities with current data
- +35M+ company dataset for relationship and sourcing context
- +Full workflow: built-in CRM, AI outreach, research copilot, inbox + notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence, and a relationship graph
- +Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.
- +OSINT methodology with source traceability
- +Email bounce-verification
- +Continually updated mandate and personnel signals
- +Transparent and predictable enterprise pricing (custom-scoped)
- +Purpose-built for fundraising workflows
- +Evidence links attached to every record

Cons

- −Built for the raise, not for benchmarking fund returns
- −The company layer serves relationships and sourcing, not transaction pricing
- −Worked in the platform, not through Excel or PowerPoint plugins
- −UI-only access (no data export by design); API + external CRM integrations on roadmap

### PitchBook

Pros

- +12.7M+ companies and 3.1M+ deals (pitchbook.com/data, August 2026)
- +Best-in-class fund performance benchmarking
- +Full cross-asset-class coverage (PE, VC, M&A, credit, real estate)
- +1,800+ data operations team + 60+ analysts
- +Mature integration ecosystem (Excel, PowerPoint, CRM, LLM)
- +PitchBook Navigator AI, Claude/ChatGPT Premium Connector, Perplexity MCP
- +110K+ public companies covered
- +65,000+ private credit deals
- +Morningstar-backed enterprise stability
- +100,000+ clients, 3,000+ employees globally

Cons

- −Limited family office coverage
- −Email error rates a common user complaint
- −3–4 month company-level data refresh reported by users
- −Sales-gated pricing (entry bundle $30K minimum for 2+ seats, scaling to $70K+/year)
- −Heavier platform requiring significant onboarding
- −Not purpose-built for LP outreach workflows
- −Weaker on global (non-US/EU) family office data
- −Users report difficulty exiting subscriptions

## Using both together

Many sophisticated firms use both platforms because they solve different problems.

- **PitchBook** for deal sourcing, valuations, fund benchmarking, and cross-asset-class research
- **Altss** for allocator signals, family office outreach, LP contact accuracy, current mandate data, and running the LP intelligence, CRM, research, and AI outreach in one place

If your team does both active deal work and active fundraising, both tools are appropriate and serve different parts of the workflow. If your team's primary job is raising capital — especially from family offices — Altss alone typically replaces PitchBook's LP-side use.

With Altss now running a live 35M+ company dataset inside the same in-platform workspace as the LP data, CRM, research, and AI outreach, many teams consolidate the fundraising side onto Altss and retain PitchBook only for deal-level data, fund performance benchmarking, and analyst research where those are critical.

## Frequently asked questions

Is Altss a full replacement for PitchBook?

It depends on the workflow. PitchBook has broader deal-level data and valuations. For LP-side fundraising (especially family office targeting), Altss replaces PitchBook for most fund managers — and with a live 35M+ company dataset, plus a built-in CRM, AI outreach, and a meeting notetaker in Altss Fundraising OS, many teams consolidate the fundraising side onto Altss and retain PitchBook only for fund performance benchmarking and historical deal research.

How much does Altss cost compared to PitchBook?

Altss publishes its pricing: Family Office Intelligence at $15,000/year, Global Investor Intelligence at $18,000 and Full Market Intelligence at $25,000; Altss Fundraising OS, which adds the CRM and outreach workflow, starts at $25,000. PitchBook pricing is sales-gated; based on Vendr transaction data and customer reports, the entry bundle starts at $30,000/year for 2+ seats minimum, with each additional seat at approximately $7,000/year. Enterprise 10+ user deployments run $45,000–$70,000+/year. The median PitchBook customer spends approximately $30,875/year. Book a demo for pricing scoped to your team.

What is Altss's company dataset?

Altss runs a 35M+ company dataset; PitchBook publishes 12.7M+ companies. The Altss approach is OSINT-native — every company record traceable to public sources — which differs from PitchBook's mixed methodology of surveys, scraping, and analyst-curated data. It completes the relationship graph on one platform: LPs → GPs → portfolio companies. Note that Altss's company layer is built for relationships and sourcing context, not deal records or valuations; PitchBook remains the reference for transaction-level data.

Is Altss just a database, or something more?

More. PitchBook is a database that you push into Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, or Excel to actually run a process. Altss pairs the data with a full in-platform fundraising workspace: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph. Targeting, research, outreach, meeting capture, and pipeline tracking happen in one place.

Does Altss cover fund performance benchmarking?

No. Altss is focused on allocator intelligence, company data, and the fundraising workflow around them. Fund performance benchmarking (IRR, TVPI, DPI with vintage comparisons) requires different data structures and is not part of Altss's current product scope. PitchBook remains the right tool for this workflow.

Who owns PitchBook?

PitchBook has been a subsidiary of Morningstar since 2016. Morningstar acquired PitchBook for $225 million that year. PitchBook today serves 100,000+ clients and employs over 3,000 people globally.

Can I migrate my PitchBook data to Altss?

Altss operates as a UI-only platform with no bulk export or import of records. When switching an LP-focused workflow, running both platforms in parallel lets you identify gaps before fully transitioning. Altss support can help with onboarding.

Does Altss have a CRM, or integrate with mine like PitchBook does?

Altss Fundraising OS has a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI outreach, and a meeting notetaker live in-platform, so you can run the raise without stitching tools together. External CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud) remain off by design — Altss is in-platform only to protect data quality and deliverability. PitchBook, by contrast, has no native CRM and relies entirely on pushing data into external tools.

How fresh is Altss data vs. PitchBook?

Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.

What about PitchBook Navigator and the Claude/ChatGPT integrations?

PitchBook launched Navigator in November 2025 — a generative AI feature delivering natural-language search over PitchBook data. PitchBook also offers a Premium Connector for Claude and ChatGPT Enterprise, and an MCP server partnership with Perplexity. These are live today. Altss has its own in-platform research copilot and AI outreach, but does not yet offer equivalent connectors into outside LLM products.

Can I evaluate Altss before switching?

Yes, through a guided demo rather than a trial: Altss does not offer a free trial or a trial account. On the call we run the registry live against your LP targets, geography, and ticket-size focus, including where coverage is thin. A demo is optional; published plans are bought online.

## Ready to see Altss live?

Book a demo and evaluate Altss for your LP targeting workflow — the live 35M+ company dataset, the research copilot, the family office and institutional coverage, and, in Altss Fundraising OS, the built-in CRM and AI outreach. We'll walk through your specific targets, and show you the live coverage against PitchBook. Published plans can also be bought online without a demo.

[Book a Demo](https://altss.com/book-demo) [See pricing](https://altss.com/pricing)

See also

[All comparisons](https://altss.com/vs) [Altss vs Preqin   →](https://altss.com/vs/preqin) [Altss vs FINTRX   →](https://altss.com/vs/fintrx) [Altss vs Dakota   →](https://altss.com/vs/dakota) [Altss vs PEI Group   →](https://altss.com/vs/pei-group) [Altss vs Affinity   →](https://altss.com/vs/affinity) [Altss vs DealCloud   →](https://altss.com/vs/dealcloud)

## Sources

1. 1.**PitchBook company, deal, investor, and fund counts:** PitchBook data coverage page, pitchbook.com/data, read August 6, 2026 (12.7M+ companies, 634K+ investors, 3.1M+ deals, 170K+ funds, 64K+ limited partners, 4.2M+ professionals, 128K+ service providers, 554K+ debt financings, 15K+ lenders, 450K+ credit data points) [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/)
2. 2.**PitchBook limited partner count, people data, private credit deals:** PitchBook, "PitchBook Strengthens Leadership in Global Capital Market Data Coverage," bi-annual data snapshot press release, May 8, 2025 (65,000+ private credit deals, 2.7M investments) [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
3. 3.**PitchBook company scale:** PitchBook press release, "PitchBook Releases 2026 Outlook Reports," December 12, 2025 (100,000+ clients, 3,000+ employees globally) [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
4. 4.**PitchBook data operations team:** PitchBook press release, May 2025 (1,800+ data operations professionals, 100+ proprietary processes) [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
5. 5.**PitchBook analyst research team:** PitchBook press release, December 2025 (60+ analysts in Institutional Research Group) [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
6. 6.**PitchBook Navigator launch:** PitchBook press release, November 2025 [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
7. 7.**PitchBook Perplexity MCP partnership:** PitchBook partnership announcement, 2026 [View source ↗](https://pitchbook.com/news)
8. 8.**Morningstar acquisition of PitchBook:** PitchBook company profile; acquired October 2016 for $225 million [View source ↗](https://www.morningstar.com/company/newsroom)
9. 9.**PitchBook pricing:** Vendr Marketplace transaction data; TrustRadius verified customer reports; Failory customer interviews; CostBench pricing database; accessed August 2026 [View source ↗](https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/pitchbook)
10. 10.**Altss internal database counts and live 35M+ company dataset:** Internal platform metrics, measured August 8, 2026 (live 35M+ companies; 38,531 investment advisers matched to a Form ADV CRD, of which 14,764 report private funds, carrying $165.4T in regulatory assets under management) [View source ↗](https://altss.com/)

## Canonical URL

https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook