LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The private equity secondaries market is experiencing explosive growth, with global transaction volume and unrealized value at all-time highs. Navatar today announces record adoption of its next-generation, AI-powered CRM platform, purpose-built to help GPs, LPs, and advisors overcome the new complexities of cross-border secondaries, multi-fund baskets, and investor transparency.
Recent Preqin research reveals unrealized value in private equity reached 77% of AUM at the end of last year, locking up a staggering $9 trillion across nearly 250,000 companies. Amid this “exit overhang,” investor liquidity needs have driven secondaries from niche strategy to a mainstream pillar of portfolio management.
Deal activity reflects the market’s transformation. Jefferies reports secondaries transactions hit $103 billion in H1 2025, shattering prior records, while dedicated capital rose to $302 billion, powered by heightened institutional and retail participation.
A small boutique investment banking firm based in Canada consistently punches above its weight, competing against big firms like Bank of America, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs to win M&A deals in the supply chain sector. In this latest episode of the A-Game podcast, Peter Stefanovich, President of Left Lane Associates, describes how Left Lane’s deep knowledge and wealth of experience in the supply chain has turned them into the advisor of choice in the sector. Left Lane has been doing more deals in the supply chain sector than any other advisory firm in North America, based on deal volume. “Somebody like a Goldman Sachs, they are a behemoth, we look up to them, they’re obviously the gold standard. The difference is that the majority of our professionals have lived and breathed transportation. Some of them are third or fourth generation transportation company owners who bought and sold businesses,” says Stefanovich during the podcast conversation with Alok Misra, CEO of Navatar.
In this environment, competitive advantage depends on how well firms can capture and connect the intelligence they gather on funds, LPs, and GPs. That intelligence is what allows firms to source the right opportunities, move quickly, and execute with confidence to deliver the best outcomes. Yet most of this knowledge is trapped in emails, conversations or various platforms.
Navatar solves this by automatically capturing and structuring activity from emails, call notes, LinkedIn, Slack, documents, public domain and third-party data—including relevant benchmarks, market comps, and triggers from the public internet—turning your team’s daily activity into structured, usable intelligence for AI to operate on.
Multi-Fund Basket Complexity
Navatar AI automates exposure tracking across vintages and strategies, delivering instant insight for decision-makers and streamlining risk management.
Fragmented Data and Manual Processes
Disconnected spreadsheets, emails, and documents are replaced with automated data capture and enrichment directly within Navatar’s CRM. Reliable, clean data minimizes errors and expedites deal execution.
Counterparty Mapping and Intelligence Gathering
Navatar leverages intelligence from proprietary networks as well as public signals to surface active LP sellers, new GP continuation vehicles, and qualified buyers—giving dealmakers an information edge while ensuring confidentiality of proprietary data.
Regulatory Scrutiny and Transparency
Comprehensive recordkeeping and full audit trails satisfy regulators and inspire shareholder confidence in GP-led transactions and portfolio restructurings.
Globalization of Deal Flow
As deal flow expands across Asia, Europe, and North America, Navatar enables firms to spot regional arbitrage opportunities and manage multi-jurisdiction transactions seamlessly.
Investor Relationship Management
Navatar centralizes LP interactions, ensuring consistent, tailored communication and visibility into allocations, strengthening investor trust throughout the transaction process.
As secondaries evolve into a mainstream liquidity solution, Navatar’s blend of deep industry expertise, Salesforce’s trusted enterprise platform, and next-generation AI makes it the leading choice for GPs, LPs, advisors, and funds of funds seeking to master the complexity of today’s market.
Navatar combines the best of Salesforce AI (Agentforce 3) and Microsoft Copilot so dealmakers no longer need to log into a CRM to get intelligence. Whether working inside Outlook, Navatar or Slack, users receive real-time insights, recommendations, and automation—all natively delivered in the tools they already use.
Leveraging Salesforce’s Agentforce, Navatar ensures that all proprietary client and deal information remains private and compliant, never shared with or exposed to public AI models. Firms get the power of generative AI with the security of an enterprise-grade, private data environment.
About Navatar
Navatar CRM powers the private markets. From private equity and venture capital firms to credit, secondaries specialists, investment banks, placement agents, funds of funds, Navatar’s AI-powered platform is trusted to manage relationships, source deals, and serve investors.
Fully AI-enabled, Navatar automatically captures intelligence and delivers insights directly into Outlook, Slack, and CRM. Built on Salesforce and integrated with Microsoft Copilot, Navatar eliminates manual data entry, unifies relationship context, and orchestrates complex deal and fundraising processes — without disrupting how private markets professionals work.
Backed by over two decades of CRM and private markets expertise, Navatar is trusted by hundreds of firms worldwide to uncover more opportunities, win more deals and strengthen investor relationships.
For more information, please contact sales@navatargroup.com
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