Best Family-Office Database 2025: How Altss’s Real-Time ETL Surpasses FINTRX, Preqin, PitchBook, With Intelligence & Dakota

Every legacy family-office database—FINTRX, Preqin, PitchBook, With Intelligence/Highworth, Family Office Access, and Dakota—still relies on human analysts to chase down updates, while Altss streams regulator filings, web signals, and press-wire clues through an automated ETL loop that posts new offices within 24 hours.

The data race no GP can ignore

Global single-family offices surged from roughly 6,100 in 2019 to about 8,030 today and are forecast to top 10,700 by 2030, putting close to US $5 trn of deployable capital on the table.

What the incumbents really deliver

FINTRX

The banner headline—40 000 + family-office records and 100 k monthly updates—is compelling. Drill down and you’ll find a 70-person research desk that “meticulously verifies” each record. Great accuracy, but the cadence is ultimately human.

Preqin

Best-in-class for fund-performance analytics and now tracks “over 1,000 family offices” active in alternatives. Profiles are curated for institutional analysis, so direct-email fields often remain blank until a researcher fills the gap.

PitchBook

Its limited-partner module lists 6,194 family offices inside a universe of ~49 k LPs. The platform excels at deal-flow history, but family-office contact depth is thin and refresh cycles mirror broader investor updates, not FO-specific events.

With Intelligence / Highworth

After acquiring Highworth, the group claims the largest online SFO database, adding new profiles “weekly.” Yet additions depend on newsletter interviews, conference lists, and analyst phone calls.

Family Office Access

What began as a quarterly spreadsheet is now a web list priced at US $3,995 for global access, with a refund guarantee on bad contacts. Daily updates are promised, but still flow through staff verification and customer submissions.

Dakota Marketplace

Markets ≈1 000 U.S. offices plus 500 abroad inside its broader allocator platform. Data quality is strong, yet coverage fades in Asia and the Gulf, and every refresh sits in an analyst queue before going live.

Bottom line: Across the board, “AI + human validation” means waiting for a person to confirm a change.

Altss: automated pipelines, compliance-first design

Altss ingests registry filings, tax-incentive rosters, trademark apps, stealth URLs, and press wires in real time. Entity-resolution LLMs stitch trusts, SPVs, and venture arms into a single profile; dial-bots and bounce-logic keep phone and email fields live. Since mid-May, the system has captured 960 brand-new family-office entities—675 in Singapore, 145 in Dubai—within 24 hours of registration (none yet visible in several databases above).

Because Altss never exports bulk files or syncs to CRMs or APIs, contacts stay unburned and compliant—users work inside the platform or download single records for immediate outreach, preserving list integrity.

Three plays for faster allocations

Strike early: Outreach within 30 days of an office’s formation doubles reply rates; Altss flags those births overnight.

Leverage media breadcrumbs: Profiles link to blog or press mentions surfaced via Feedspot’s rankings, making cold emails feel bespoke.

Watch mandate pivots: Preqin notes family offices allocate nearly half their assets to alternatives. Altss pings you the moment an SFO files a new infrastructure or private-credit vehicle, so you hit the inbox before competitors reload quarterly spreadsheets.

Request a Demo

Trade manual lag for real-time signals—visit altss.com and book your 15-minute walkthrough. You’ll see the newest family offices hours after formation, complete with decision-maker contacts, before legacy platforms even schedule the verification call.