LP Database: the money behind the money

Every fund you pitch is raising from someone too. 11,212 limited partners (family offices, funds of funds, pensions, endowments, sovereign and public investors) with what we have watched them do directly, their SEC registrations and their US tax filings.

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The record

Who backs the funds

Family offices, pensions, endowments and sovereign funds, each with its SEC registration, US tax filings and the startups it backed directly.

11,212LPs on record
1,004also seen investing directly
591registered with the SEC
$2.0Theld by US foundations

Six kinds of limited partners

6,256Family officeA family's own capital: patient, private, often direct570 seen investing directly2,743Institutional LPPensions, endowments and sovereign funds80 seen investing directly908GovernmentPublic money: development banks and state funds209 seen investing directly495Wealth managerPrivate banks and wealth platforms19 seen investing directly445Asset managerManagers allocating to private markets50 seen investing directly365Fund of fundsFunds that back other funds76 seen investing directly

LPs that back startups directly

The LPs we see backing startups most often.

  1. 1National Science FoundationGovernment · United States1,869rounds, last Sept 2026
  2. 2BpifranceGovernment · France1,151rounds, last Oct 2026
  3. 3EIC AcceleratorGovernment · European Union875rounds, last Oct 2026
  4. 4Korea Tech Incubator Program For StartupGovernment · South Korea597rounds, last Sept 2026
  5. 5US Department of EnergyGovernment · United States453rounds, last Sept 2026
  6. 6Shenzhen Capital Group Co.Government · China447rounds, last Jul 2026
  7. 7Enterprise IrelandGovernment · Ireland445rounds, last Sept 2026
  8. 8National Institutes of HealthGovernment · United States387rounds, last Sept 2026
  9. 9Innovation WorksGovernment · United States321rounds, last Sept 2026

Family offices, by country

Where the 6,256 family offices on our records are based.

42%are in United States, the rest spread across 110 more countries

United States2,317United Kingdom381Germany313Switzerland244United Arab Emirates197Canada154India151France147Singapore138Australia120

The largest foundations and endowments

Ranked by the assets on their latest IRS tax return.

#1Private foundation · INLilly Endowment$106BThe eight largest hold $449B, 22% of everything on these returns.
  1. 2The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityUniversity endowment · CA$69B
  2. 3Yale UniversityUniversity endowment · CT$59B
  3. 4The Wellcome TrustPrivate foundation$58B
  4. 5Princeton UniversityUniversity endowment · NJ$46B
  5. 6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity endowment · MA$45B
  6. 7The University of PennsylvaniaUniversity endowment · PA$37B
  7. 8University of Notre Dame du LacUniversity endowment · IN$30B

Why a founder should care

1Funds raise on a clock.

A fund that just closed has years of cheques ahead; one near the end of its fund is saving for follow-ons. 10,578 firms filed to raise a new fund in the last 18 months.

2LPs shape what funds back.

A fund whose LPs are climate endowments will not lead your gaming round. Knowing who backs a fund tells you what it can say yes to.

3Some LPs go direct.

Family offices especially. 570 family offices on our records have backed companies themselves.

Where it comes from

SEC Form ADVAdvisers registered with the SEC, and what they manage.
IRS exempt organisationsUS foundations and endowments, with the assets on their latest return.
13F filingsThe public holdings of the largest institutions.
Rounds we watchedEvery direct deal, with the article or filing it came from.

Which LP committed to which fund is not public for most funds, and we do not guess it. What is shown is who they are, where, and what they were seen doing.

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