Institutions is the spine of Boardroom. Almost every other surface is a view onto it: a fund belongs to a manager, a commitment runs from an LP to a fund, a person sits at a firm, a deal is done by one.
It splits in two because the market does. General partners manage capital. Limited partners commit it. The same platform serves both, and which side you sit on decides which half you live in.
The GP side
General partners are filed by what they actually do: private equity, private credit, hedge funds, venture capital, real estate and infrastructure. The split is by strategy rather than by size because strategy is what makes two firms comparable.
For an LP this is the manager universe. For a GP it is the competitive set: who else raises in your lane, at what size, on what cadence.
The LP side
Limited partners are filed by institution type: pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurance companies and family offices. Each type has a different mandate, a different liability, a different constraint set and a different tolerance for illiquidity, which is exactly why they are separated rather than pooled into one "investors" list.
For a GP this is the fundraising universe, and the type filter is the first cut of a target list: an insurance balance sheet and a university endowment are not the same buyer and should never sit on the same outreach list.
What a good entity record carries
A firm record is worth reading when it answers: what they run, how much, out of which vehicles, with which people, alongside which co-investors, and how that has changed over time. The last part is the one that separates a database from an archive. A manager who has quietly moved from mid-market buyouts to growth equity across three funds is telling you something no single snapshot will.
Where the data comes from, and its limits
Coverage is built from regulatory filings, public disclosure and curated research, so it is deepest where disclosure is richest and thinnest where a market does not disclose. Family offices are structurally the hardest, because most have no obligation to say anything at all.
Treat any single field as a lead rather than a fact when the stakes are high. The platform is at its strongest telling you where to look and who to ask, and it does not pretend to replace the confirmation step.