Boardroom is an intelligence platform for people who deploy or raise institutional capital. It holds a record of the private capital market: the firms that manage money, the institutions that commit it, the funds they raise, the deals those funds do, and the people behind all of it.
The word that matters in that sentence is record. Boardroom is not a screening toy you open when you have a question and close when you have an answer. It is meant to be the place the answer already lives, so the work becomes reading a record rather than rebuilding one from filings and a spreadsheet every time.
The problem it is built against
An allocator evaluating a manager typically has the information they need, scattered. Performance sits in a PDF from the GP. Peer context sits in a benchmark subscription. Who else is in the fund sits in a colleague's memory. The manager's prior deals sit in a news archive. Each source is fine on its own and none of them talk to each other, so the analyst spends most of the work assembling rather than judging.
Boardroom's bet is that assembly is the expensive part and it should only happen once. Hold the entities in one place, link them properly, and the questions that used to take a week of stitching become a click through a graph that is already joined.
The four things it holds
Institutions: the firms and the capital pools. General partners split by type (private equity, private credit, hedge funds, venture, real estate and infrastructure), and limited partners split by type (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurance companies, family offices).
Funds and fundraising: the vehicles those firms raise, with their strategy, geography and vintage, plus what is in market now.
Deals and the companies behind them: sourcing, market maps, a deal marketplace, and the advisors who work the transactions.
People and relationships: who sits where, who has backed whom, and the capital tape that records commitments as they happen.
What it is not
It is not an execution system. Boardroom does not place trades, wire capital, or replace the fund administrator. It is the layer where a decision is researched and monitored, not the rail the decision settles on.
It is also not a CRM that happens to hold market data, even though it has a CRM inside it. The distinction matters: the CRM in Boardroom is fed by the same entity record everything else reads, so a relationship is attached to a real institution rather than to a contact card someone typed.