The Global Directory of Private Capital Associations
One hundred eight non-profit trade associations across developed and developing markets — venture, buyout, infrastructure, private credit and real estate.
Every entry verified live, on a stated date.
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Why we built it
There is no maintained global directory of these bodies. The most widely cited list still carries the branding of the organization it replaced in 2021, and names associations under titles retired as long ago as 2010. Regional and academic compilations cover fragments. Nothing covers the field whole.
So we built one, checked every entry against the association's own website on a stated date, and published what we found — including the parts we could not confirm.
What the verification turned up
- Twenty of the 108 associations have changed their names, several within the last three years. The European body became Invest Europe in 2015; the French association became France Invest in 2018. Most public lists still use the old names.
- Three organizations that circulate as separate entries are duplicates — one association under two names at two points in its life. One is routinely counted twice.
- Six acronyms collide. IVCA is used by associations in Ireland, India, Illinois and Iowa. NVCA means both the American body and the Norwegian one.
- Twelve Latin American associations operate as a bloc, jointly running an annual regional co-investment week. It has almost no English-language documentation.
- Four real estate bodies run a signed global alliance reconciling European, Asia-Pacific and North American reporting standards into one framework.
What it is, and what it isn't
Each entry records the association's current name and any former one, where it is constituted, its legal form, membership base, whether it publishes market data, what it convenes, whether members are listed publicly, and who may join — including whether firms based outside the jurisdiction are eligible.
No entry judges the quality of an association or the value of its membership. A directory is a map, not a recommendation.
Russia is excluded from the directory as a matter of firm policy — a decision about where Private Capital Development works, not a finding about any association. The directory says so in its own pages rather than leaving the absence unexplained.
Corrections are welcome and free. If your association is listed and something is wrong — or if it is missing altogether — tell us. Corrections carry no obligation of any kind, and are folded into the following edition. There is a form field for exactly that purpose.
No organization has paid for inclusion or been offered placement. Every entry is drawn from the association's own public website, and any association may correct its entry at any time by contacting us; the entries, and any judgment in them, remain ours.
Published by Private Capital Development, a capital mobilization and brand-building firm. We are not a placement agent, we do not sell securities, and we are not compensated on capital raised. Private Capital Development is not affiliated with, accredited to, or endorsed by the United Nations; the release timing marks the occasion and claims nothing more.