Inven vs. Pitchbook

Find and win more deals with Inven

Inven helps dealmakers find companies others can’t. Inven’s AI-native platform enables users to reach insights faster and cover lower and middle market in greater depth.
Global reach: Uncover 28M+ companies — from hidden local firms to high-growth cross-border opportunities.
AI-native discovery: Forget rigid filters. Type your search like you’d ask an analyst.
Intelligent automation: Instantly enrich profiles, spot intent-to-sell signals, and capture deals before they hit the market.
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What sets Inven apart

Inven combines broader coverage on global private markets with AI-native search and workflows that surface high-potential companies often missing from traditional databases.

User case

Inven offers global coverage of deals and companies across all sizes, with valuable insight into the typically harder-to-find lower-middle and middle-market businesses.

PitchBook is focused on large enterprises and and is useful when analyzing already identified target companies in detail.

Coverage

Inven database covers 28M+ companies globally.

~5.3M private companies, mainly financed or investor backed.

Search precision

Search the way you think with high-precision, AI-driven natural-language search.

Filter-based search centered on structured categories.

Data refresh

Continuous, daily updates.

Analyst-verified and updated periodically.

Intent signals

AI-powered predictive signals identify owners seeking an exit or companies approaching a funding round.

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Contact data

430M+ verified executive contacts from various data provider partners.

4M+ executive contacts, primarily tied to financial transactions.

Financial data

Includes revenue estimates, public financials, funding data, and registry-based private financials with increasing coverage.

PitchBook includes deep transaction, valuation, and investor data.

CRM integration

Inven has CRM integration included in the price.
CRM integration as an add-on feature.
Pricing
Offers competitive pricing for smaller teams and flexible customization for enterprise clients.
Enterprise pricing, not publicly listed.
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"I don't know what the secret sauce is, but there are definitely names that showed up on Inven that didn't show up on other deal sourcing platforms."

Ben Rapaport
Partner and Co-Founder at Edgehill Management

Inven vs. PitchBook explained

An overview of the most common questions about how Inven compares to PitchBook.
What’s the main difference between Inven and PitchBook?
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PitchBook focuses on financial and investment data such as valuations, fund performance, and deal activity. The PitchBook data process includes a manual verification by analysts. It’s widely used for due diligence and financial validation rather than active deal origination. Inven is built for M&A professionals working with modern deal sourcing. As an AI-native platform, it enables proactive discovery by identifying private companies long before they appear in traditional financial databases. Inven’s global coverage and natural-language AI search make it ideal for teams looking to uncover new, off-market opportunities faster and at scale.

Which platform has broader company coverage – Inven or PitchBook?
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Inven tracks over 28 million companies globally – from established organizations and recent deal participants to the often harder to find lower-middle-market, private, and startup segments. Its AI engine continuously scans multilingual sources, registries, and partner data to surface emerging and niche companies long before they appear in traditional financial databases. PitchBook’s coverage includes about 5.3 million companies, primarily those with disclosed financials, institutional backing, or active fundraising. While it provides strong visibility into tracked deals and investors, its focus on reported transactions means fewer insights into privately held or early-stage opportunities.

What makes Inven an AI-native platform?
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Inven represents a new era of deal sourcing – one where the entire platform is built on AI, rather than AI being added on as a feature. As the first global AI-native deal sourcing platform, Inven understands context and continuously analyzes a wide range of data sources and partner insights to deliver unique intelligence and capabilities. AI is the foundation of how Inven’s data is collected, processed, and connected. This foundation allows users to search in natural language and instantly receive context-aware results enriched with ownership, financial, and intent-to-sell insights. Users can also leverage AI to enrich lists with data points tailored to their sourcing needs. Because AI operates at the core of the system – not just on top of it – Inven delivers a faster, more adaptive, and globally scalable sourcing experience.

Why choose Inven for deal sourcing?
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Choose Inven if your team values intelligent, AI-driven discovery that adapts to your search intent and identifies niche or emerging opportunities earlier and across markets. Inven tracks 28+ million companies globally and provides insights into past deals, ownership structures, intent-to-sell indicators, and other key company data. Inven stands out as the go-to platform for M&A professionals who want to go beyond financial databases, save research time and streamline sourcing workflows.

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CUSTOMER RESULTS

Faster insights, better value

1000+ leading M&A firms use Inven to find niche private market companies globally.

30% more targets found with Inven

“Compared to other platforms, Inven has added at least 30% more targets for me. It provides a more thorough search experience, almost like scrubbing the entire internet.”
Cam Bryan
Managing Partner at Augusta Advisors

3x more buyers per project

“Inven doesn’t just make us faster — it helps us grow revenue by finding buyers we wouldn’t reach otherwise.”
Rafael Frugis
Partner at IGC

10x faster sourcing process

“With Inven, we go from nothing to a clean, enriched, and actionable list in just 15–30 minutes. And with the integrations in play, we can start an outreach right away.”
Thomas Archer
Investment Analyst at Lexar Partners

Stop searching, start finding

Stop missing opportunities and wasting time on manual filters and narrow datasets. Inven lets you analyze any market with global coverage and zero blind spots.

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