D&B Hoovers vs. PitchBook

D&B Hoovers is excellent for when you need to find companies that meet certain parameters. It is great at telling you in a neat, summarized way about contact or location information. It is not great at giving you a scope or scale of the company. That typically requires a little due diligence checking against other sources.

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If you are a company or an individual that needs reliable information about SMEs or startups, this is the best platform for you to get this information in a very efficient way. If you are just doing a basic due diligence to see active VC funds, figuring out valuations or companies in one industry, or just getting general information about an industry, it is probably better to get it from somewhere else on the internet. The reasoning behind it is that PitchBook is very expensive as opposed to other options out there.

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• Easy to filter a list of hundreds of contacts to pair it down to just a few key people in either purchasing or engineering departments.
• Searching for a company by their web domain instantly brings up the profile.
• Once I have identified a company I wish to speak with, I can also see corporate linkage to other satellite offices or divisions under the corporate umbrella.

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• Tools for data analysis, idea generation, and workflow management.
• Easy access to trusted news, data, analytics and insights.
• Industry sector specific metrics and analytics to inform decision-making.

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• We should be able to "exclude" words from titles or company names
• Able to access titles and email addresses more easily - not look at list first, select find matching contacts button, then go back to sort to add titles contain and email addresses, etc. This is a two-step process to get what I need.

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• Can be glitchy when loading
• Contact information can be inaccurate
• Typically a day or two late to real time news and deals

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We have been D&B Hoovers customers for a long time. We know the good and bad, and we have learned to utilize D&B Hoovers for the good and unfortunately we have to look at other data sources to compensate for the areas where they are bad. If D&B Hoovers can get better in these other areas as mentioned in other places in the review, they could get a larger dollar spend from my company

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Whenever I had to use D&B hoovers, I never had a hard time with getting what I need. Additionally, when I show the tool to others, they tend to understand the platform quite quickly. The tool itself is very good and straightforward when I use it to help me put analyses together.

Always available on desktop or mobile.

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Meets our needs

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They are terrific at giving instruction/webinars. I am able to call, directly, to an individual and talk to that person. I'm not talking to a robot. They give personal service which is really special.

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The overall support for PitchBook is about average. It is not excellent for two primary reasons. First, PitchBook can run slow from time to time, and I cannot copy and paste from the Chrome extension. I have found neither of those issues to be a function of the computer I am using. However, the PitchBook support team has proved helpful on several occasions.

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for our use case, the implementation was minimal and we did not need a lot of help. The D&B Hoovers platform is pretty intuitive and our account manager was ready for any questions that came up when we use the D&B Hoovers platform

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D&B is more cost-effective and is by far superior in its search and list-building capabilities. The main benefit (and really the only reason we use it) is that RocketReach has the ability to scan a LinkedIn profile and extract an email.

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We actually use both. CBInsights we use more regularly for market capture, and PitchBook when we are actively seeking acquisitions.

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We're a small company with few users, so scalability has not been an issue.

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• Helps me zero in on the right target companies based on various filters.
• Time required to do the research has reduced many folds.
• I think it also helps finds clients who have buyer intent and are most likely to buy our services.
• Prospect response rates have increased by at least 20-30 %.

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• Saved us from investing with an incorrect valuation (multiple times)
• You need to pay per license per user. It is definitely expensive for a small accelerator.

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