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Welcome to another edition of our Sunday “Resources” stream where we share our most valuable data & resources across four rotating formats:

For 1. and 3., we collaborate with best-in-class partners to ensure you get the highest quality data. For 2. and 4., we leverage our ever-growing product portfolio and share selective snapshots of the most sought-after resources from The Lab.

Two weeks ago, we shared “312 Family Offices that actively invest in funds & startups” as the first snapshot of our Limited Partner list. The list is a result of a large-scale research initiative combined with crowdsourced DDVC community submissions, aiming to save all of us dozens of hours when preparing for fundraising.

Access the full list for all LP categories via the website or stay tuned as we share category by category snapshots across our Sunday Resources episodes.

Today, we continue with the second LP group: Pension Funds.

Next up, we have a more conservative group that has gradually increased exposure to alternative asset classes over the last years.

Pension funds are institutional investors that manage retirement funds for employees in various sectors. These funds are critical players in the global financial markets, primarily due to the vast sums of capital they manage.

In the context of venture capital, growth, and private equity, pension funds invest with the goal of achieving long-term capital appreciation and stable returns to secure future payout obligations to retirees.

Pension funds are typically conservative in their investment strategies due to their fiduciary responsibility to retirees. However, with the increasing need for higher returns in a low-interest-rate environment, many pension funds have gradually increased their allocations to alternative investments including venture capital, growth funds, and private equity.

Pension Funds are distinct from other types of LPs such as Family Offices or Wealth Managers in several ways:

We merged all Pension Fund lists that we found online into one, complemented it with crowdsourced input from our community, and then enriched it with various sources of publicly available information.

What’s inside?

If you’re raising, the list below will save you dozens of hours of investor research and put you in front of people who actually write checks.

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