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PitchBook's Kyle Walters joined BG Insights to break down why North American M&A deal count is holding up even without a repeat of 2025's mega-deals. He also gets into the AI and data center-driven M&A wave hitting Energy & Infrastructure, and why founder-owned businesses remain private equity's top target regardless of market conditions. Listen here 🎤

Most students only scratch the surface of what PitchBook can do. This live, 30-minute training is built specifically for students with university access to the platform. Genevieve Gibson, one of PitchBook's Customer Trainers, will walk through how to research companies, deals, and market trends, build custom screeners, and identify your school's alumni founders and spinout companies. We'll also cover how to explore PitchBook's research reports and emerging spaces coverage. Two live sessions are open now: Sept. 30 at 9 a.m. PDT and Oct. 8 at 8:30 a.m. PDT. Seats are limited to keep things interactive, so register early. Save your spot: https://lnkd.in/ejtsZ5jq What's the first thing you'd want to figure out in PitchBook: Sourcing a target company, building a screener, or tracking your school's founders? 🎓

Fund sizes are shifting, talent markets are tightening, and comp structures at investment firms are under more pressure to keep pace than they have been in years. 📊 For GPs, that means live decisions on pay and carried interest design that stale benchmarks can't answer, and for LPs, banks, and advisors, it's a real signal of how firms are managing alignment and retention. 🔍 Jody Thelander (J.Thelander Consulting), Rachel Goddard (Cooley), and PitchBook's Kaidi Gao return for the Q3 2026 update to their compensation benchmarking partnership, breaking down real-time pay data by AUM, fund size, and firm type, plus fund formation and carried interest design. 💡 Register for “Insights into Investment Firm Compensation: Q3 2026 Update,” live September 23 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ePXXi3By #PrivateCapital #VentureCapital #CompBenchmarking 

UK-based executive recruitment firm Axon Moore completed a CFO search in a matter of weeks, a placement that wouldn't have happened without PitchBook. From tracking senior candidates to monitoring funding and identifying high-growth companies, PitchBook is an end-to-end solution for Axon Moore. 🎯 As the firm’s use of the PitchBook Platform has grown, it has been able to widen its services and take on searches beyond its existing network. Our powerful search functionality and innovative tools help Axon Moore: - Track market activity and funding rounds to zero in on high-growth companies.  - Build targeted candidate lists quickly.   - Close specialized executive searches with confidence. Read our case study to discover how firms such as Axon Moore use PitchBook to identify trends, understand why they matter, and know how to act 🚀 : https://lnkd.in/eG2bGrzu

Lumonic 12.0 is here, and it's a new kind of platform: you can now direct Lumonic using plain-language instructions, and every action it takes gets logged for review, with human approval required before anything is written. The first capability built on that foundation is automated data extraction. Lumonic reads documents from portfolio companies and borrowers, pulls the data out on its own, and traces every value back to the exact page it came from. Decisions your firm makes once, like how a metric is defined or how a new line item should be treated, carry forward automatically after that, so the same reporting pack doesn't produce different numbers depending on who reviews it. Lumonic is a PitchBook company, and this is the first of several AI workflow capabilities coming to the platform over the next few months. See how the self-monitoring portfolio works here: https://lnkd.in/e2spZhQR

Get the full story on manager rankings and reported returns  📊 Standard performance rankings can obscure as much as they reveal, and reported returns often understate a fund's true volatility, a real risk for allocators relying on either to guide manager selection. In this webinar, PitchBook analysts unpack two new studies: Our Global Manager Performance Scores provide fund rankings based on track records, and our Q2 2026 Return Smoothing in Evergreen Fund Indexes, one of the first industry reports to adjust evergreen fund index returns to reveal their true volatility.  Join Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA, Juan Mier, CFA, and Nathan Schwartz for a practical look at what these findings mean for portfolios and manager selection. Register now.  https://lnkd.in/eNpR2HCV  

Two cities, four days, dozens of conversations about where private capital is headed next. We opened the week at IPEM Global in Paris, where the team hosted a booth and talked GPs and LPs through the two topics dominating every conversation this year: AI and MCP, and what they mean for how diligence actually gets done. Nicolas Moura, CFA, CAIA, Sr Analyst on our EMEA Private Market team, also took the stage at the Private Equity Summit to unpack the European PE macro picture using PitchBook data. The headline: fewer funds, sharper focus. European PE fundraising has slowed to 76 new funds raising €50B YTD in 2026, yet mid-market buyout funds between €1B and €5B still pulled in 52% of that capital. Day one wrapped at Caves du Louvre, where we hosted clients for our annual wine event in the heart of Paris. Meeting clients where they are in the region is always the priority. By Thursday we were back in London for the UK Private Capital Summit, with our institutional research team taking two moderating slots and the commercial team building relationships and sharing what's new on the platform. Two cities, one clear signal: private capital keeps moving, and we're moving with it. Download our Q2 2026 European PE report to read more: https://lnkd.in/eteGn86t #PrivateEquity #PrivateCapital #Europe

Megadeals fell 43.5% year-over-year in Q2, but the middle market picked up the slack, growing its share of total PE buyout value to 61.9%, up from 54.8% a year ago. 💪 Deal value still slipped to $92.4 billion, down 8.7% quarter-over-quarter. But deal count climbed 25.7%, a sign sponsors leaned into smaller, lower-risk transactions instead of sitting out. 🏗️ Exits told a tougher story. Q2 exit value dropped to $24.7 billion, the lowest level since Q2 2020, and PE's backlog of aging, hard-to-sell portfolio companies keeps building: more than $860 billion in NAV is now sitting in buyout funds held for seven-plus years. ⏱️ Thanks to our report sponsors, Stax and Insperity, for their perspectives on diligence and workforce strategy in this environment. What's your read on the middle market heading into H2? 📊 Get the full Q2 2026 US PE Middle Market Report: https://lnkd.in/dcEj7jNd

Private company data now flows straight into deal workflows, no lookups required. We've partnered with Maywood to integrate PitchBook's data into Maverick, its proactive AI agent, giving dealmakers 30+ key firmographic details on private companies as they track signals and work toward more informed deal decisions. Maverick users get PitchBook data delivered directly through email, Teams, and the platform, so the signals are already there the moment a name hits the pipeline. Congrats to the Maywood team on the launch. 🤝

Investment banking and equity research teams just got a faster way to bring private market intelligence into their daily workflows. 🔍 PitchBook is a data partner for ChatGPT for Financial Services, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work experience purpose-built for IB and equity research. Through the Essential connector, teams can query PitchBook's expanded firmographic dataset, covering companies, investors, and funds, directly inside ChatGPT, with citations back to the source. 💡 "The value of any AI-driven insight starts with the quality of the underlying data. Partnering with OpenAI on this launch reflects something bigger: AI platforms turning to data they can trust, from sources the market turns to first. Through this collaboration, PitchBook is the grounding source behind the query, giving investors a way to work with trusted private market data inside a platform they already use."— Tom Van Buskirk, EVP of Technology and Engineering at PitchBook 🎯 This builds on PitchBook's growing network of AI partnerships, joining integrations with Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Rogo, all designed to meet investors where they already work. 📈 Where do you want your data to meet you next? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6bzKy6U