What is your best way of tracking buyers, PE funds size?

I spend way too much time collecting from different sources so starting to start my own master file. If anyone has thoughts please share

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If your bank has a financial sponsors group (anywhere in the world for that matter) reach out to them as they’ll likely have a pretty comprehensive spreadsheet of funds, dry powder etc.

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