PitchBook named to 2026 Top 100 Inspiring Place to Work lists for global and North America, marking consecutive-year recognition. Published on 09/18/2026 at 09:01 am EDT Business Wire PitchBook, the leading private capital market intelligence platform, today announced it has been named a 2026 Top 100 Global Inspiring Place to Work by Inspiring Workplaces Group (IW) for the second consecutive year. The company was also named a 2026 Top 100 Inspiring Place to Work in North America for the third consecutive year, ranking 41st on the list. The Global Top 100 list recognizes the highest-scoring organizations across all IW regions, including Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, and the UK. The awards honor companies that build trust and purpose to create environments where people can thrive. It evaluates organizations across six pillars: culture and purpose, leadership, wellbeing, employee voice, employee experience, and inclusion and belonging. This year, judges recognized PitchBook's wellbeing, inclusion and belonging as strengths. "PitchBook demonstrates a strong, values-driven people strategy supported by robust programs and high engagement," IW judges said. "Culture at PitchBook is intentional, and it's foundational to how we operate," said Rod Diefendorf, President and COO at PitchBook. "That starts with how we hire, and continues through how we invest in people's growth and wellbeing. Things aren't always easy and we face challenges like any organization does, but it's our people and our culture that carry us through those moments. We're proud of what we've built and the teams who put our values into practice every day." Being recognized globally as well as in North America reflects the strength of PitchBook's culture, values, and people, and the company's commitment to helping its teams adapt, learn, and grow alongside the markets they serve. That commitment matters as private capital markets move faster than ever before - enabling PitchBook to support its clientele with the most comprehensive and timely intelligence to drive better decision-making in an evolving landscape. About PitchBook, a Morningstar company As the pulse of private capital markets, PitchBook delivers trusted, real-time data, research, and technology to help investors, dealmakers, and innovators make decisions with confidence. Its products provide comprehensive information on companies, investors, funds, deals, and people, along with tools that help professionals analyze market activity and make informed decisions. Founded in 2007, PitchBook today serves more than 100,000 clients worldwide and is recognized as the leading source of private capital market intelligence. PitchBook has grown to over 3,000 employees across offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, Mumbai, and other global locations. Since 2016, PitchBook has operated as a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. About Inspiring Workplaces Group The Inspiring Workplaces Group is a global organization dedicated to recognizing and advancing PeopleFirst culture. Through its two flagship programs: Certified PeopleFirst(TM) and the Inspiring Workplaces Awards. The organization celebrates and certifies workplaces where people and performance thrive together. Operating across North America, UK & Ireland, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa and beyond, Inspiring Workplaces has recognized thousands of organizations and continues its mission to change the world through the world of work. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260918352424/en/ (C) Business Wire - 2026

Weekly news - week of september 7, 2026. Investors continue to back fund operations with a new raise in the past week. Data providers are opening distribution channels, senior commercial hires signal a go-to-market push, and AI remains a roadmap priority. New & updated products. Specter has introduced Specter Agent, an AI agent that sources companies, researches markets and runs repeatable workflows across its private-market intelligence and the web. CAIS has released a set of platform enhancements spanning its CAISey assistant, new capital markets capabilities and expanded integrations. ROYC has launched an AI agent that lets GPs and fund administrators query committed capital, calls, distributions and compliance records in natural language. Taghash has released a WhatsApp deal-flow agent that reads inbound pitch decks in context, matches them to existing deals and files attachments and activity to the right record automatically. Drooms has brought full Q&A and user and permission management to its mobile app, letting deal teams run the Q&A process and manage access from a phone. qashqade has enabled natural-language AI querying of its private markets platform through the Model Context Protocol, with no additional plugins or tooling required. FINTRX has launched Fin, an always-on AI agent that surfaces advisor moves, allocation shifts, filings and M&A activity inside email, Slack, Teams and calendar tools. Deal activity. Fundcraft has raised €12m in growth financing co-led by Riverside Acceleration Capital and CCAP Investments, taking total capital raised to €40m. Partnerships & integrations. Intapp has released a DealCloud with Celeste plug-in for ChatGPT for Financial Services, letting deal teams query their firm's client, deal, investor and relationship records from within ChatGPT. Datasite is integrating with Rogo so dealmakers can run Rogo AI tools on live, permissioned Datasite deal content without exporting documents. iConnections has brought Carta into its Get Verified programme, so Carta fund-manager clients can share independent, administrator-sourced performance data directly with allocators researching them. Tracxn has made its private-market intelligence accessible directly inside ChatGPT using the Model Context Protocol, enabling plain-language queries within AI workflows. Quantios has expanded its partnership with Laserfiche specialist Manx Business Solutions to add intelligent document management around its Quantios Core platform for trust and corporate services firms. CB Insights now distributes select private-markets datasets through Nasdaq Data Link, aimed at closing the disclosure gap for institutional investors. New clients. Quantium alongside A11, has been selected by European VC Project A Ventures (c.€1.2bn platform) to rebuild its data foundation, delivering faster reporting and AI-ready data. Chronograph has been adopted by lower-middle-market PE firm Renovus Capital Partners (c.$2.5bn AUM) to automate portfolio data collection, valuations and reporting. Office & personnel. Arcesium has named Brian Rosenberg President, Revenue and Commercial, appointing him to its Executive Committee to lead go-to-market and client development; he was previously President and CRO at Wilshire Indexes. PitchBook has appointed Brian LaMonica as General Manager and Managing Director of its New York office to drive commercial growth. Titanbay has hired Ludovico Buffo to build partnerships with Italian banks, wealth managers and asset managers. Vendor research & whitepapers. Axial has published its 2H 2026 M&A Outlook survey, in which 91% of dealmakers expect competition to hold or increase, only 45% of buyers will stretch on valuation, and 57% cite valuation gaps as the top reason deals failed. Altus Group has released its Q2 2026 US commercial real estate report, showing dollar volume rising faster than deal count, with a breakdown of which sectors captured the most capital. Forge has released Future Private, produced with Charles Schwab, a data-driven report on the trends shaping private markets and their growing role in the broader capital markets. Fintent has published a healthcare M&A propensity analysis flagging biotech and pharma (2.02x) and therapy and rehabilitation (1.52x) as the sub-sectors most primed for dealmaking against a 0.98x sector baseline. Did Holland Mountain Group forget something? Do you have vendor news to share? Holland Mountain Group want to know! Please reach out to Holland Mountain Group at [email protected] Thinking about your data and tech stack? Holland Mountain Group can help! Holland Mountain Group help LPs & GPs find the system, supplier or market data provider that is best-suited for their current and future needs. Get in touch with its team today.

PitchBook has become a data partner for ChatGPT for Financial Services, OpenAI's new offering for investment banking and equity research teams. The partnership makes PitchBook's firmographic dataset on companies, investors, and funds accessible directly within ChatGPT. Teams using ChatGPT for Financial Services can query PitchBook's dataset without switching platforms. The data is delivered through the Essential connector and indexed within ChatGPT for Financial Services, requiring no separate activation. PitchBook, Morningstar's private capital market intelligence platform, provides human-verified data to support AI-driven investor workflows. The integration allows users to access private market intelligence whilst building models, pitchbooks, and client materials. Data appears with citations, enabling teams to inspect supporting evidence. Tom Van Buskirk, PitchBook's EVP of Technology and Engineering, emphasised that the partnership reflects the industry's view of PitchBook as a primary data source.