Investment Screening with PitchBook: Finding VC Firms of Interest

• You can search Google for lists of top VC firms, like this one.
• You can search PitchBook for the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report, which will have league tables toward the end of the PDF. Q1, Q2, and Q3 reports have quarterly league tables; Q4 reports have annual league tables. Firms are ranked by number of deals.
• You can do an Investors and Funds screen in PitchBook for firms that meet your criteria, following the instructions below.

In the left sidebar under Screeners, click Investors & Funds.

Then, on the right side:

• under Investor Criteria, ​​​set your Investor Types (in this case, Venture Capital as the Primary Type)

• under Deal Criteria, set your
  • Deal Types (in this case, Series B and later)
  • Deal Size
  • Deal Dates (in this case, last 300 days)
  • Deal Location (in this case, United States)
  • Industries, Verticals, and Keywords (in this case, Fintech OR Cryptocurrency/Blockchain)

The results are ranked by number of deals. You can change the ranking by clicking on the sort arrow next to the column header of your choice.