By PR@pitchbook.com
Publication Date: 2026-03-12 19:21:00
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PitchBook, 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.
AI 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.
“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…
