Private Equity Intelligence
Firms, funds, people, portfolio companies and transactions from sworn filings and cited announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Reported gross assets are never fund size, regulatory AUM is never dry powder, and a deal value prints only when someone disclosed it.
What the graph holds, counted, zeros included
Counts refreshed yesterday. Last completed ingest Sep 16, 2026. A zero means nothing of that kind has been collected, not that none exists. A candidate is not counted as private equity. A ratio whose denominator is zero is not computable and says so.
- admitted from a public record
- 7,447
- classified private equity
- 7,173
- candidates, not yet classified (not coverage)
- 274
- classified not private equity (hidden)
- 0
- buyout, probable or confirmed
- 3,727
- growth equity
- 80
- secondaries and continuation fund managers
- 19
- private credit managers
- 202
- fund of funds managers
- 776
- sector specialists
- 0
- lower middle market
- 3,360
- middle market
- 774
- upper middle market
- 258
- large cap
- 74
- profiles not seen in 90 days
- 0
- funds and vehicles
- 60,721
- typed Private Equity Fund on Form ADV
- 51,889
- with a vintage
- 41,222
- with a target, close or announced size
- 204
- with reported gross assets (Form ADV)
- 56,065
- with a Form D amount sold
- 4,533
- with a lifecycle state
- 41,763
- annual reporting rows
- 289,779
- fund events, 30 days
- 171
- people
- 68,643
- current investment professionals
- 26,000
- current operating partners
- 1,437
- professionals with a business contact
- 11,740
- people moves, 30 days
- 0
- board relationships
- 55
- executive relationships
- 2,812
- companies
- 33,613
- portfolio companies
- 33,012
- currently held
- 20,529
- portfolio relationships
- 37,512
- platforms
- 2,618
- add-ons
- 1,932
- transactions
- 5,655
- platform acquisitions
- 1,861
- add-on transactions
- 2,023
- exits
- 578
- sponsor to sponsor
- 64
- with a disclosed value
- 67
- with a deal partner attributed
- 2,311
- with a fund attributed
- 169
- announced in 30 days
- 158
- intermediary relationships
- 11,528
- placement agent relationships
- 8,418
- lender relationships
- 382
- co-investor relationships
- 126
- LP commitments
- 3,117
- links to family office graph
- 815
- links to independent sponsor graph
- 4,016
- links to venture capital graph
- 22,695
- new entities, 7 days
- 196,474
- dated events
- 151,265
- observations
- 269,597
- open research tasks
- 67,625
- transactions per classified firm
- 0.788
- platforms per classified firm
- 0.365
- add-ons per platform
- 0.738
- share of transactions with a deal partner
- 0.409
- share of transactions with a fund
- 0.030
- professionals with a contact, per professional
- 0.452
- lender relationships per classified firm
- 0.053
- intermediary relationships per classified firm
- 1.607
What each source has produced so far. A source with zero runs has been registered but not read yet. Sources classified as prohibited are not listed.
| Source | Rights | Runs | Failed | Records read | New entities | Observations | Events | Transactions | Parties | Investments | Relationships | Roles | Last finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio company websites (about, news, leadership, locations) company_website | restricted | 5 | 0 | 1,300 | 0 | 1,300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sep 16, 2026 |
| DFX graph bridge (shared CRD, CIK, EIN, SEC fund id and individual CRD across fo/isi/vc/pe) dfx_graph_bridge | open | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6,625 | 0 | 294 | 412 | 1,127 | 7,275 | 7,972 | 0 | Sep 16, 2026 |
| DFX derived intelligence (classification, lifecycle, behaviour, scores, matches) dfx_model | open | 106 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 3,447 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 2,236 | 0 | Sep 17, 2026 |
| DFX analyst research (cited claims with URL and quote) dfx_research | open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | never |
| Investment organization websites (team, portfolio, strategy, criteria, news) firm_website | restricted | 25 | 0 | 6,609 | 78,979 | 144,458 | 18,613 | 0 | 0 | 43,876 | 92,464 | 44,863 | Sep 18, 2026 |
| News search feeds (Google News RSS: headline, publisher, date and a link back) news_search_rss | restricted | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 315 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sep 16, 2026 |
| Press release wires (PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, Business Wire public pages and RSS) press_release_wire | restricted | 71 | 0 | 18,644 | 8,905 | 8,572 | 18,413 | 5,616 | 26,209 | 5,441 | 20,242 | 2,347 | Sep 18, 2026 |
| Public pension private-markets disclosures, read through the venture lane's LP report tape public_pension_disclosures | open | 1 | 0 | 5,137 | 14 | 0 | 3,117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,615 | 0 | Sep 13, 2026 |
| SEC EDGAR full-text search (8-K, 10-K, S-1, SC TO, DEFM14A, 425 texts) sec_edgar_fts | open | 2 | 0 | 695 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | Sep 14, 2026 |
| SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) sec_form_adv | open | 4 | 0 | 0 | 987 | 36,821 | 4,971 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sep 14, 2026 |
| SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B, 1.I websites) sec_form_adv_history | open | 3 | 0 | 93,729 | 114,551 | 91,430 | 115,730 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 180,194 | 44,738 | Sep 13, 2026 |
| SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) sec_form_d | open | 2 | 0 | 4,771 | 11,601 | 50,189 | 4,333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20,908 | 0 | Sep 13, 2026 |
| SEC IAPD daily compilation report (registered + exempt reporting advisers) and Form ADV Part 1 PDFs sec_iapd_daily | open | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 49 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sep 16, 2026 |
Every published source with its rights determination, cadence and last success.
| Source | Type | Rights | Cadence | Last success | What it contributes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio company websites (about, news, leadership, locations) each company · terms | web · html | restricted | 720h | Sep 16, 2026 | Platforms announce add-ons before the sponsor's site does ('acquired', 'joins', 'welcomes'); leadership pages carry CEO/CFO changes; 'backed by' sentences corroborate ownership. |
| DFX graph bridge (shared CRD, CIK, EIN, SEC fund id and individual CRD across fo/isi/vc/pe) DFX Intelligence | dfx_graph · dfx_graph | open | 6h | Sep 16, 2026 | The same adviser, fund or person on the family office, sponsor and venture graphs. |
| DFX derived intelligence (classification, lifecycle, behaviour, scores, matches) DFX Intelligence | derived · compute | open | 6h | Sep 16, 2026 | Every derived fact names its model version, its components and the observations under it. |
| DFX analyst research (cited claims with URL and quote) DFX Intelligence | manual_research · search | open | manual | never | Gold profiles, adjudications, merges with a cited basis. |
| Investment organization websites (team, portfolio, strategy, criteria, news) each organization · terms | web · html | restricted | 720h | Sep 18, 2026 | Stated criteria (revenue, EBITDA, EV, check, sectors, geography, control), the team with titles, the portfolio with current/realized status, and news. Portfolio pages drop exited companies: every sighting is dated so history survives the page. |
| News search feeds (Google News RSS: headline, publisher, date and a link back) Google News (aggregated publishers) · terms | news · rss | restricted | manual | Sep 16, 2026 | Ownership the company's own site never states: 'X acquires <company>', '<company> joins <platform>', '<sponsor> invests in <company>'. Read per candidate before a match is served (match-v6d-blind-1: six of nine wrong acceptances were owned already and only the news said so). |
| Press release wires (PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, Business Wire public pages and RSS) PR Newswire / GlobeNewswire / Business Wire · terms | news · rss | restricted | 6h | Sep 18, 2026 | Reverse transaction discovery: an acquisition release names the target, the buyer, the sponsor ('a portfolio company of'), the platform (add-on), the seller, the advisers and lenders ('served as financial advisor', 'provided debt financing'), the partner quoted and often the board appointee. Every unknown party becomes a candidate. |
| Public pension private-markets disclosures, read through the venture lane's LP report tape each plan (CalPERS, CalSTRS, WSIB, NYCRF, Oregon PERF, PSERS, MSBI, NJ DOI, APFC, COPERA, LACERS ...) | dfx_graph · dfx_graph | open | 720h | Sep 13, 2026 | LP -> fund commitments with vintage and the LP's own amount, IRR and multiple. The venture lane already reads every row of each plan into vc_lp_report and admits only venture vehicles; this adapter resolves the buyout, growth, credit and secondaries rows it leaves. |
| SEC EDGAR full-text search (8-K, 10-K, S-1, SC TO, DEFM14A, 425 texts) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms | filing · api | open | 24h | Sep 14, 2026 | Transactions a public company or a BDC had to file: acquisitions of sponsor-owned companies (8-K 2.01 names the seller), take-privates (the sponsor is the buyer of record), BDC schedules of investments (lender -> sponsor-backed borrower), IPO exits (S-1 names the sponsor as selling shareholder). Values here are regulatory_filing basis. |
| SEC Form ADV monthly roster (registered + exempt reporting advisers) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms | filing · bulk_file | open | 720h | Sep 14, 2026 | Advisers that filed after the extract ends (2025+), current office, website, RAUM (the adviser's, never a fund's), and which of the graph's advisers stopped filing. |
| SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B, 1.I websites) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms | filing · bulk_file | open | 8760h | Sep 13, 2026 | The sworn PE universe: 55,681 vehicles an adviser itself typed 'Private Equity Fund' across 6,058 advisers, each with gross asset value and owner count per year since 2011, the adviser's owners and control persons with the month each role began, its website, its other names and CIK, and each fund's Form D file number. GAV is never fund size. |
| SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms | filing · bulk_file | open | 168h | Sep 13, 2026 | Every pooled fund declaring itself a Private Equity Fund, quarterly since 2021 on disk: the vehicle, offering and amount sold (kept apart; neither is a close), first sale date (vintage basis), investor count, related persons (the GP entity and the partners who sign) and placement agents. New funds after the ADV extract ends; fundraising events. |
| SEC IAPD daily compilation report (registered + exempt reporting advisers) and Form ADV Part 1 PDFs U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · terms | filing · bulk_file | open | 12h | Sep 16, 2026 | A new adviser the day after its IAPD status date (the monthly roster took a median 44 days): CRD, SEC file number, registration type and date, website, and the Schedule D 7.B.(1) fund types from its Form ADV PDF, so a new private equity adviser is an event within days. |