Easiest way to get a pitchbook subscription: hire an intern at a college looking to get M&A or searchfund experience - have them mine data for you for $10-15/hour.

Anecdote: I was given access to PitchBook for a demo. I was targeting a niche that requires state licensure in most cases. Most are under $1M in EBITDA, a minority may be in the $2-3M EBITDA range. I could not find any data brokers selling lists of licensed facilities.

PitchBook identified 35 targets in one state, about a dozen of which were actually in a different industry. Google revealed more than sixty targets in the same state on one single website found in the top ten results. A VA could have found 100+ in an hour max digging through the first fifty or so results.

As others have suggested, I would try to get a demo or access through a library or alma mater. See if the data is there for the industry / size you are targeting before committing.