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Dakota Marketplace tracked 53 family office direct investments globally in May 2026, worth a combined $79.44B, according to our May 2026 Family Office Deal Tracker.
That activity is invisible to most databases built for the fundraising industry. Plenty of platforms list family office contact details. Far fewer actually track what family offices are doing with their capital: which deals they're backing, at what stage, and alongside which co-investors.
That distinction matters for fund managers.
A family office's direct investment history predicts sector conviction and check size appetite better than any stated preference on a contact card.
This post compares six databases built to capture that activity, from deal-first platforms like PitchBook and Crunchbase to Dakota Marketplace's purpose-built family office transaction data.
Top Databases for Tracking Family Office Investments
1. PitchBook
PitchBook's core strength is deal data, and family offices show up wherever they invest: venture rounds, growth equity, buyouts, and M&A. Its depth on deal terms, valuations, and co-investor mapping is difficult to match, which makes it useful for understanding the full context around a transaction a family office has backed.
Family office coverage on PitchBook is a byproduct of its deal database rather than a dedicated focus. Contact-level detail for the family offices themselves, sector preferences, check size ranges, and decision-making structure, is thinner than platforms built specifically around allocator intelligence.
2. Dakota Marketplace
Dakota Marketplace standardizes actual closed transactions rather than survey responses or stated preferences. Every record reflects a deal that closed, with detail on sector, stage, co-investors, and deal size, continuously updated as Dakota's research team identifies and verifies new activity.
The differentiator is what the data is built for. Dakota's transaction data connects directly to allocator profiles, so a fund manager can move from "which family offices are investing in my sector" to a specific contact at that family office without switching platforms. Dakota's sector coverage of family office activity shows this in practice: technology, industrials, and health care consistently account for more than half of tracked deal volume, and fund managers can filter directly to the families active in those sub-sectors.
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3. Preqin
Preqin's strength is institutional analytics: fund performance, allocation trends, and benchmarking across alternative assets. Family office activity is captured within that broader institutional dataset, useful for understanding how family offices behave relative to pensions, endowments, and other allocators over time.
The tradeoff is granularity. Preqin is built for market-level analysis rather than deal-by-deal family office tracking, so it works better as a benchmarking tool than as a source for identifying which specific family offices are active in a given sector right now.
4. CB Insights
CB Insights focuses on venture and growth-stage market intelligence, tracking funding rounds and investor participation with analytics layered on top to flag market signals. Family offices that participate in venture deals appear in this data as the rounds are captured.
Its lens is sector and market trend analysis rather than allocator relationship building. Useful for understanding where family office capital is clustering at a market level, less built for building an outreach list of specific family offices with fund allocation history.
5. Crunchbase
Crunchbase tracks funding rounds in near real time as they're publicly announced, and family offices participating in venture rounds appear as those announcements happen. Its strength is speed and breadth on newly disclosed activity.
Data depth varies significantly by company and round. Crunchbase prioritizes coverage and immediacy over verification, so family office participation data drawn from Crunchbase is a starting point for research rather than a verified record.
6. Dealroom.co
Dealroom maps startups and investors by region and sector, tracking investor participation, including family offices, within that market view. It's built for understanding how capital moves through a specific country or vertical.
The regional framing is useful for geography-specific research (which family offices are active in a given country's startup market, for example) but less suited to building a cross-border, sector-agnostic view of family office direct investment activity.
What to Look for in a Family Office Investment Database
Not every platform that mentions family offices actually tracks their investment behavior, and the difference shows up in a few specific places.
- Verified transactions vs. stated preferences. A family office's contact card might say it's "interested in health care." A verified transaction record showing six direct health care investments in eighteen months says something a stated preference never will. Dakota Marketplace's family office data is built entirely on the latter: closed deals, not survey responses.
- Update cadence tied to actual deal closings. Family office direct investment activity moves monthly, not quarterly. Dakota tracks and publishes deal activity every month, so a fund manager working a sector today sees which family offices deployed capital there in the current cycle, not eighteen months ago.
- Deal-level detail that connects to outreach. Knowing a family office invested in a sector is a start. Knowing the stage, check size, and co-investors on that specific deal is what turns a data point into a qualified prospect. Dakota's transaction records carry that detail and link directly to the contact information needed to act on it.
- Coverage across sectors, not just venture. Family office capital moves across venture, growth equity, buyouts, and credit. A database built primarily around venture-stage activity will miss the buyout and credit deals where a meaningful share of family office capital is deployed.
See Family Office Direct Investment Data With Dakota Marketplace
Dakota's family office investments are built on actual closed transactions rather than survey responses, standardized and continuously updated as Dakota's research team verifies new activity.
Each record carries deal-level detail, round type, sector and sub-sector, deal size, co-investors, and how the transaction fits into a family office's broader investment history, so the data supports precise targeting rather than a general sense of interest.
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