Stacks

What real firms actually run

See the tooling behind funds across strategies and sizes. Each stack is an editorial reconstruction built from public job postings, case studies and vendor references — a starting point for building your own.

BX$1.1T AUM

Blackstone

Large-Cap Buyout & Multi-Asset

The world's largest alternative asset manager, spanning private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure. Its scale demands enterprise-grade deal, fund-admin and portfolio-monitoring systems.

8 tools in stack

KK$600B AUM

KKR

Global Buyout & Alternatives

A global investment firm active in private equity, credit, infrastructure and real assets. Its institutional workflows lean on established CRM, data-room and monitoring platforms.

7 tools in stack

TB$160B AUM

Thoma Bravo

Software & Technology Buyout

A leading buyout firm focused exclusively on software and technology-enabled businesses. Its diligence-heavy, operationally intensive model pairs deal tooling with AI copilots.

7 tools in stack

IP$90B AUM

Insight Partners

Growth Equity (Software)

A global growth-equity firm backing high-growth software and internet companies from scale-up to buyout. Known for a large, data-driven sourcing engine.

7 tools in stack

A16$45B AUM

Andreessen Horowitz

Venture Capital & Growth

A multi-stage venture firm investing across software, crypto, bio and American dynamism. Relationship-graph CRM and cap-table tooling anchor its workflow.

7 tools in stack

SP$42B AUM

Summit Partners

Growth Equity

A growth-equity investor partnering with founder-led companies across technology, healthcare and growth products. Its outbound-sourcing culture depends on CRM and prospecting data.

6 tools in stack

Shore Capital Partners

Lower Mid-Market Buyout (Healthcare)

A microcap private-equity firm building platforms through buy-and-build in healthcare, food, business and industrial services. High deal volume favors a lean, proprietary-sourcing stack.

7 tools in stack

Trivest Partners

Lower Mid-Market Buyout (Founder-Owned)

A lower-middle-market firm focused exclusively on founder- and family-owned businesses. Its no-private-equity-feel brand relies on relationship CRM and targeted outreach.

6 tools in stack

Search Fund Partners

Search Fund / ETA

A pioneer investor in entrepreneurship-through-acquisition, funding searchers who buy and run a single company. Search-fund operators run famously lean, outbound-heavy tool stacks.

7 tools in stack

Permanent Equity

Independent Sponsor / Long-Hold

A long-hold investor buying and holding founder-owned businesses without a traditional fund clock. A small team keeps tooling simple and sourcing-led.

6 tools in stack

TinySeed

Venture Capital (B2B SaaS Accelerator)

A remote-first accelerator and fund backing bootstrapped-minded B2B SaaS founders. As a lean, modern shop it favors lightweight CRM, cap-table and productivity tools.

6 tools in stack