Yes — for an acquisitions team, the best market intelligence stack is usually a mix of pricing/competitive intelligence, valuation data, and macro/local market signals. The right choice depends on whether you’re buying businesses, real estate, assets, or public/private companies. Here are strong options by use case:

1) Broad market intelligence / competitive pricing

Best if you need pricing trends, market demand signals, competitors, and category-level intelligence.

• AlphaSense
  Strong for searching filings, earnings calls, news, expert transcripts, and documents across markets. Good for tracking market narratives and triangulating valuation signals.
• CB Insights
  Useful for private market activity, funding rounds, M&A, company tracking, and category heatmaps.
• PitchBook
  Excellent for private market comps, deal multiples, investor activity, and valuation benchmarks.
• Crunchbase
  More lightweight than PitchBook, but useful for company discovery and funding/activity tracking.

2) Valuation and transaction comps

Best if the acquisitions team needs comparable deals and valuation multiples.

• PitchBook
  Often the strongest single source for private company valuation and transaction comps.
• CapIQ / S&P Capital IQ
  Very good for public comps, M&A transactions, financials, and valuation screens.
• Bloomberg Terminal
  Best for public market signals, deal coverage, and live market data if you already have it.
• Refinitiv Workspace
  Similar category to Bloomberg/CapIQ; strong financial market and M&A data.

3) Real estate / location-based acquisitions

If “markets” means geographic markets or property acquisition.

• CoStar
  Industry standard for commercial real estate pricing, leasing, comps, and market analytics.
• Reonomy
  Useful for property intelligence and ownership data.
• Altus Group
  Strong for CRE market intelligence and valuations.
• Moody’s Analytics REIS
  Good for property market performance and forecasts.

4) Consumer / retail / e-commerce pricing intelligence

If you’re comparing product pricing and market positioning across regions.

• Minderest
• Prisync
• Competera
• DataWeave
• Intelligence Node

These tools are good for price monitoring, assortment, promos, and competitor tracking across markets.

5) Macro / country / sector signals

Helpful when acquisitions depend on regional economic trends.

• OECD / World Bank / IMF data portals
  Great for macro context, though not “software” in the classic sense.
• Statista
  Good for quick market sizing and trend references.
• D&B Hoovers
  Useful for company profiling and industry intelligence.
• FactSet
  Strong for market data, estimates, and analytics.

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Practical recommendation

If I were setting up an acquisitions team, I’d usually shortlist:

Best all-around for private market acquisitions

1. PitchBook
2. AlphaSense
3. CapIQ or Bloomberg for public comps

Best for multi-market pricing/competitive signals

1. AlphaSense
2. CB Insights
3. A category-specific pricing tool like Prisync/DataWeave if it’s product pricing

Best for real estate acquisitions

1. CoStar
2. Reonomy
3. Altus Group

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How to choose

Look for these features:

• Comparable transactions / valuation multiples
• Cross-market coverage (countries, sectors, regions)
• API / export capability for internal models
• Alerting for competitor moves, news, funding, pricing changes
• Historical data depth
• Data provenance so you can defend assumptions in IC memos

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A simple stack by budget

• Lean budget: Crunchbase + AlphaSense + Excel/BI
• Mid-market: PitchBook + AlphaSense + CapIQ
• Enterprise: PitchBook + AlphaSense + Bloomberg/FactSet + data warehouse/BI
• CRE-specific: CoStar + Reonomy + Altus

If you tell me:

1. what you’re acquiring (companies, real estate, products, etc.),
2. which geographies, and
3. your budget range,

I can recommend a much tighter shortlist and even suggest a workflow for comparing pricing and valuation signals across markets.