Pitchbook

Pitchbook

Pitchbook

Access information:

Access on and off campus.

All currently enrolled students, faculty, or staff members are now able to open an account with Pitchbook using their University UNN and this link.

Just input your University credentials in the following format: UUN@ed.ac.uk and hit login. You will be re-directed to a standard UoE login page, which will then take you through to PitchBook.

Please note users signing up will be asked to read and agree to Pitchbook’s terms and conditions. These include agreeing that you will not share your account details and will only use the site for academic, educational, and scholarly use.

Description:

Pitchbook is a financial database platform covering private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A activity. It provides insight on deals, investors, venture backed companies and general technology trends.

Access has been funded by the Data Driven Entrepreneurship Beacon Programme and delivered by Edinburgh Innovations.

Interested in commercialising your research or idea?

Please visit the websites of EI and the DDI and get in touch to see how we can help.
Coverage: 2021-2022
Help:

Pitchbook have a Help Centre available to all users of Pitchbook (authentication required), here you can find videos and tutorials to help with getting started on the platform as well as advanced navigations, our methodology and data information and popular articles.

You will also find additional videos on the Pitchbook Youtube channel: Online training materials
Note: PitchBook can be used as a research tool at the company/investor level and can also be used to identify wider market trends and statistics via use of the charting and pivot table functionality found in the advanced search result page. Please note however that PitchBook cannot be used for bulk downloads of raw data as individual student download limits do not allow this.