Fundraising in the alternative investment world is changing fast.

In 2025, capital allocators are more selective, decision cycles are shorter, and personalized engagement is now the baseline. Whether you're a general partner at a venture capital firm, a private equity dealmaker, a placement agent, or an M&A advisor, the ability to access accurate, up-to-date investor intelligence can make or break your next raise.

Legacy platforms like Preqin, PitchBook, and Dakota Marketplace have long dominated this space—but they're increasingly falling behind in a market that demands real-time data, customized insights, and global LP discovery.

Enter Altss: a next-generation, AI-powered institutional investor intelligence platform built by fund managers, for fund managers. Purpose-built to support GPs, investment banks, and placement agents, Altss delivers verified, OSINT-enriched, continuously updated LP data—tailored to your strategy, structure, and stage.

In this article, we’ll explore:

• How investor databases have evolved

• A breakdown of the top platforms (Preqin, PitchBook, eVestment, Dakota)

• Why Altss is outperforming in 2025

• The key features that differentiate it

• Cost comparisons

• Use cases for different fund managers

• What’s next in LP intelligence

The State of Institutional Investor Databases in 2025

The core challenge facing capital raisers today is not access—there’s more money in the market than ever before. It’s matching: identifying the right investors, at the right time, with the right mandate, and delivering outreach that feels relevant and personalized.

The traditional investor databases helped solve part of the problem. PitchBook gave deep firm-level insights. Preqin unlocked data on fund returns and mandates. eVestment surfaced pension activity. Dakota made it easier to find RIAs and consultants.

But as of 2025, these tools face limitations:

• Stale or infrequently updated data: Most platforms rely on manual surveys or old filings.

• Fragmented data sources: Users must switch between multiple platforms to gather insights.

• Lack of OSINT integration: Public data, social signals, mandate shifts, and press mentions are largely missing.

• Outdated UI/UX: Designed for desktops, not integrated with AI outreach workflows.

• High cost for emerging managers: Up to $25,000+ per year with limited customization.

These gaps inspired the development of Altss, which takes a radically different approach to LP discovery.

What Is Altss?

Altss is an institutional investor intelligence platform built by the team behind Infinium Ventures, a venture studio and capital group that has worked across the VC, PE, and alternative investing ecosystem. Having raised capital globally, the team understood firsthand the limitations of the current tools—and set out to build what they wished existed.

Launched in early 2025, Altss already houses over 10 million profiles of LPs, allocators, GPs, sovereign funds, RIAs, family offices, and intermediaries. It combines proprietary web crawling, OSINT-based signal tracking, and manual verification to ensure monthly accuracy of contacts, mandates, firm preferences, and fund activity.

Altss is not just another data repository—it’s a real-time investor search engine, purpose-built to help fundraisers:

• Discover new LPs aligned to their thesis

• Access verified contact information, mandates, and deal history

• Track changes in investment behavior (new mandates, geography, allocations)

• Automate outreach via integrated AI tools

• Order custom investor research in under 72 hours

What Makes Altss Different?

Altss was designed from the ground up to serve a new generation of fund managers and capital advisors who need:

1. Real-Time Data

While most platforms refresh their databases quarterly (or even annually), Altss updates its records every 30 days using a combination of:

• Public document parsing (SEC filings, announcements, hiring trends)

• Social and press monitoring

• Web crawling and enrichment tools

• Manual verification and QA

This means you can act on new mandates, fund launches, or allocator hires as they happen.

2. OSINT-Powered Intelligence

Altss integrates open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods to bring in dynamic data most platforms miss:

• Board announcements

• Allocation shifts from media mentions

• Co-investment history

• Emerging fund activity

• Changes in LP team composition

• Web and dark web signals

The result: context-rich, personalized insights at your fingertips.

3. Custom Research & Filters

Need to find 75 family offices in Europe who recently allocated to AI-focused venture funds? Altss can deliver it, pre-qualified, in 24–72 hours.

Altss offers both live search tools and custom research-as-a-service, giving your team deep granularity across asset class, structure, geography, and allocation size.

4. Coverage Breadth

Altss is not U.S.-only or institutional-heavy. It includes:

• 5,000+ verified family offices globally

• 3,000+ RIAs with discretionary mandates

• Corporate pensions, foundations, endowments

• Banks, wealth advisors, and intermediaries

• LPs across LATAM, MENA, Asia-Pacific, and Europe

Altss is the only platform actively scaling global LP coverage to support cross-border capital raising.

5. Built for Emerging Managers

Unlike legacy platforms that prioritize institutional clients, Altss offers flexible pricing, including:

• $12,000/year flat rate for emerging GPs

• Discounted multi-user plans

• Free trial access to explore the platform before committing

This levels the playing field and makes institutional-quality data available to more managers.

2025 Database Comparison: Altss vs. Others

Use Cases: Who Uses Altss Today

1. Venture Capital Funds

Targeting seed to Series B LPs? Altss gives VCs direct access to family offices, early-stage-focused endowments, and microfund LPs who are still flying under the radar.

2. Private Equity & Growth Equity

Looking for LPs that co-invest or allocate to secondaries? Altss tracks deal activity and allocator behavior—ideal for deal-by-deal fundraising or thematic raises.

3. Investment Banks & Placement Agents

Whether you're running a M&A deal, capital raise, or strategic outreach, Altss helps bankers source and qualify leads faster—reducing reliance on junior researchers or scattered CRM tools.

4. Emerging Fund Managers

If you're a first- or second-time fund manager without a full-time IR team, Altss is your edge. Use the data to fuel outbound via tools like Superhuman or Aisdr.

The Future of Investor Intelligence: Altss OSINT Layer

By mid-2025, Altss will expand its OSINT stack to include:

• Mandate change alerts: Instant notifications when LPs change strategy

• LinkedIn and web signal tracking: See when decision-makers switch firms or update investment theses

• Generative insights: Automatically summarize an LP’s allocation history, thesis, and ideal check size in a single profile view

Conclusion: The Smart Choice for 2025

In an environment where capital is abundant but attention is scarce, your edge is data. Not just more data—but better, verified, targeted, and actionable intelligence.

Altss is not a PitchBook clone, a Preqin alternative, or a Dakota add-on. It’s a category-defining LP intelligence engine—built from scratch for how capital is raised in 2025.

Whether you're raising a $20M emerging fund or a $500M growth equity vehicle, Altss helps you move faster, qualify better, and close more.

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