PitchBook vs. Grata

Grata is much more than a PitchBook alternative. Grata is the future of private company sourcing and discoverability.
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Use the Right Tools for Your Strategy

Company profiles found in Grata and PitchBook are distinct. PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive data, research, and insights spanning global capital markets. Grata uncovers previously unidentified companies, even ones that have yet to go through an M&A transaction. 

PitchBook’s Focus

PitchBook is the leading resource for comprehensive financial data, in-depth market reports, and insights spanning the global capital markets. PitchBook can help identify new industries, territories, and accounts to pursue based on where venture capital and private equity are investing, which may make it a good fit for those investors whose thesis leans strongly on upper middle market opportunity. 

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Grata’s Focus

Grata was built to be the best resource for thesis-driven dealmakers looking to search companies in the middle market. Grata provides a comprehensive company profile with in-depth information from each level of a company’s entire website—including companies that have not undergone an M&A transaction yet.

Our proprietary artificial intelligence gathers information directly from companies in their own words but also translates what those words mean for an investor.

We not only collect website information, our tech knows how to speak a dealmaker’s language. Grata translates language like “tailored solutions” on a company’s webpage to the correct label “services company” and words like “platform” into “software company.” 

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When to Use Grata
When to Use PitchBook
Discovering some of the 12M middle market companies that fit your inorganic growth strategy/investment thesis
Searching for a company’s ownership details 
Collecting email addresses for CEOs of bootstrapped companies
Pulling reports with pre-calculated ratios and multiples
Building a list of similar companies (comp set) in seconds
Looking up a single company profile
Discovering middle market companies that fit your inorganic growth strategy/investment thesis
Collecting email addresses for CEOs of bootstrapped companies
Building a list of similar companies (comp set) in seconds
Searching for a company’s ownership details 
Pulling reports with pre-calculated ratios and multiples
Looking up a single company profile

Technology-Driven Means More Searchable Results

Grata is not a database, it is an ever-expanding universe of company search.
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Searches logged per hour
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Searching Middle Market Companies

Companies that fall under the US middle market banner account for 99% of all businesses and 50% of GDP–an overwhelming amount of investment opportunities. But dealmakers first need to identify those companies. That’s where Grata comes in.

Grata has a powerful keyword search-matching search tool. Type in any keyword and Grata will match against the company's entire website, enabling users to surface companies beyond high level industry classifications.

Grata includes evidence of why the company appears in the results as well as a comprehensive preview of the company within the search experience, allowing you to dig deeper or add more filters appropriately to hone in your search.

Looking for car washes with subscription services? Easy.
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Looking for bootstrapped commercial HVAC services? No problem.
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Let’s get more specific. Can Grata find companies that specialize in accident reconstruction with a focus on fires and explosions in Texas?
Yes, yes it can.
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Similar Company Search

Grata also has a feature called “Similar Search.”

Grata uses a deep understanding of a company’s website to identify the essence of a company factoring in hundreds of qualitative factors bucketed into groups like products, features, and target verticals, as well as quantitative factors like size and funding.

Clicking one button, “Similar Search” will automatically populate a new list of companies similar to one you were looking at. Better yet, give Grata a list of companies you’re looking at and “Similar Search” will find you the ones you missed.

Don’t miss out on the 9M additional companies you can find with Grata.

How Do Grata Features Compare
PitchBook
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Grata
Thematic sourcing middle market deals from over 12 million company profiles. 
Use case
Identify new industries, territories, and accounts to pursue based on where VE and PE firms are investing.
Search
Keywords on descriptions, industry classifications
Keyword search matches against the company's entire website.
Similar Company Search
Limited accuracy and relevance at times with no way to adjust filters to change results
Grata uses a deep understanding of a company’s website to identify the essence of a company factoring in hundreds of qualitative factors bucketed into groups like products, features, and target verticals, as well as quantitative factors like size and funding.
Company Growth Data
Revenue, web, and social growth data
Monthly/quarterly company growth breakdowns
Integrations
Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Affinity
Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Affinity
Plugins
Google Chrome, Excel
Google Chrome
Detailed Employee Headcount
Conference Lists
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List Expansion
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Signals
Use case
Thematic sourcing middle market deals from over 8.5 million company profile. 
Search
Keyword search matches against the company's entire website.
Similar Company Search
Grata uses a deep understanding of a company’s website to identify the essence of a company factoring in hundreds of qualitative factors bucketed into groups like products, features, and target verticals, as well as quantitative factors like size and funding.
Search
Keyword search matches against the company's entire website
Similar Search
Grata uses a deep understanding of a company’s website to identify the essence of a company factoring in hundreds of qualitative factors bucketed into groups like products, features, and target verticals, as well as quantitative factors like size and funding.
Company Growth Data
Monthly/quarterly company growth breakdowns
Integrations
Salesforce, Hubspot, DealCloud
Plugins
Google Chrome
Detailed Employee Headcount
Conference Lists
List Expansion
Signals
Use case
Researching companies among the 3.5 million company profiles sourced from private equity firms.
Search
Keywords on descriptions, industry classifications.
Similar Company Search
Limited accuracy and relevance at times with no way to adjust filters to change results.
Company Growth Data
Revenue, web, and social growth data
Integrations
Salesforce, Hubspot, DealCloud, Affinity
Plugins
Google Chrome, Excel
Detailed Employee Headcount
Conference Lists
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List Expansion
x
Signals
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FAQs
How are Grata and PitchBook different?
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Company profiles found in Grata and PitchBook are distinct. PitchBook is the industry leader in private capital markets data. Grata allows dealmakers to explore over 12 million companies with tools like thematic keyword search and similar company search. PitchBook and Grata have different use cases for investment bankers, private equity, and corporate development teams. 

How often are Grata and PitchBook updated?
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PitchBook's data operations team makes regular manual updates to datasets. However, PitchBook makes no claims of recency or freshness. Grata updates company data monthly and quarterly depending on the sector. But we are not only continuously updating information, we are always updating the way we pull in the data. Presenting data like employee count, job postings, and funding data as accurately as possible.

Do investors use PitchBook and Grata together?
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PitchBook is the industry leader in global capital markets data. Grata is the key to the middle market. Make sure you’re using the right tools for your strategy. It’s possible your criteria or brief includes multiple strategies. You’re not alone. Many Grata customers also use PitchBook.

"Grata removes the friction in finding private companies. Instead of spending countless hours sifting through databases and websites, we can find the information we need on middle-market companies through Grata. This has been essential for us to expand our reach and deliver care in today’s fast-moving market."
Shale Gulbas, Cypress Growth Capital
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"I previously used to have to do detective work to find good companies to call on. I've used many sources and evaluated many companies, and if I had to design a perfect tool for this it would be pretty close to Grata."
Frank Leibly, Alcon Partners
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"We can use Google, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, AND SourceScrub, or we can simply use Grata. Grata is more dynamic, complete, and fits the profile of a searcher better."
Aaron Perrine, Trilogy Search Partners
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