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PitchBook Announces New Essential MCP Integration with Perplexity, Expanding Access to AI-Powered, Verifiable Market Intelligence
Perplexity users can now surface PitchBook’s industry-trusted firmographic data with full source attribution SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PitchBook, the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPerplexity users can now surface PitchBook’s industry-trusted firmographic data with full source attribution\n\n\n SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPitchBook, the leading private capital market intelligence platform, today announced a new partnership with Perplexity, the leading AI-answer engine. Through Perplexity’s new PitchBook Essential MCP server, users can now access PitchBook’s trusted firmographic intelligence directly within Perplexity’s conversational interface.\n\n\nAI adoption continues to accelerate across financial services, but the ability to ask questions and receive answers powered by high-quality, comprehensive data is what drives better decision making and delivers meaningful ROI. PitchBook’s AI and machine learning strategy centers on pairing advanced technology with human insight to create one of the most comprehensive and dependable private market datasets in the industry. Perplexity’s answer engine retrieves and synthesizes information from authoritative sources in real-time, delivering citied, verifiable answers that are crucial for high-stakes financial decisions. Through this Essential Partner integration, Perplexity users can ask complex questions about companies and deals and receive clear, sourced insights supported by PitchBook’s intelligence.\n\n\n“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.”\n\n\nWith this integration, Perplexity users gain the ability to:\n\n\n\nSurface company and deal information supported by PitchBook’s robust dataset\n\n\n\nReceive high-level summaries with links to original PitchBook sources, enabling PitchBook users to easily explore underlying data\n\n\n\nAsk targeted questions about firms, transactions, investors, and market themes\n\n\n\nExplore private market trends through the tools they already rely on\n\n\n\n“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 PitchBoo...