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Ontra launches ai-powered DDQ Solution to accelerate investor diligence for private markets firms. Co-developed with leading private markets firms, Ontra's solution delivers the speed, accuracy, and consistency investor diligence demands SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2026 Ontra, the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets, today announced the general availability of its new DDQ solution, the latest addition to Ontra's platform for automating critical workflows across the fund lifecycle. Purpose-built for the demands of investor diligence, the solution helps fund managers complete DDQs with the accuracy and speed institutional LPs expect. A More Demanding Fundraising Environment As LPs become more selective and competition for capital intensifies, investor DDQs have grown into a complex, high-stakes workflow that manual processes and generic tools can't handle. DDQs are growing longer, more complex, and more varied, spanning fundraising, operational, and ESG requests. ILPA's standard DDQ template, the industry benchmark, has expanded from 13 topic modules in 2013 to 20 today. The ILPA template is only the baseline. Each LP then introduces their own unique set of questions. Volume is rising in parallel. Ontra's co-development partners report fielding 15 to 30 DDQs per week during an active fundraise, each arriving in the LP's preferred format and timeline. Generic RFP software and horizontal AI tools weren't built for private markets diligence. These tools don't account for the context in which private markets investors ask questions. They also can't handle fund managers' end-to-end workflows - assigning questions to subject matter experts, routing through legal and compliance, and exporting in the LP's original format. Teams using them often find themselves reverting to inefficient manual methods to fill the gaps. Firms are demanding a better solution. More than 65 private markets firms, across PE, credit, and real estate managers, enrolled in early access to Ontra's DDQ solution ahead of today's launch - a clear signal of demand, and of dissatisfaction with what the market has offered to date. "Due diligence questionnaires have always been a fundraising requirement. For many LPs, they're also a first impression," said Troy Pospisil, CEO and Founder, Ontra. "How a firm responds signals how it operates. With LP scrutiny at its most intense in recent memory, the ability to answer quickly, consistently, and accurately has become a fundraising differentiator. Ontra's DDQ gives our customers a real operational edge in that environment." How Ontra's DDQ Solution Works Ontra's solution lets teams operate from a single source of truth and complete DDQs quickly and accurately. The result: consistent investor communications, faster turnaround, and a scalable way to handle growing questionnaire volume. Key capabilities include: * Centralized precedent library: AI digitizes a trusted answer bank using completed industry templates, DDQs, policy documents, and PPMs. * AI-powered responses: AI identifies approved answers from precedent or generates a custom response - both traceable to source - for team review. * Request workflow management: Assign questions, approve answers, and export completed questionnaires in the LP's original format. * Precedent search: Find, verify, and reuse the strongest answers to one-off investor questions by searching a precedent library. "Our co-development partners made one thing clear: private markets firms need AI that produces more accurate, up-to-date, and complete responses to investor questions. We built Ontra's solution specifically for the demands of investor diligence, so IR, legal, and compliance teams start from a trusted answer bank on day one and every response is traceable back to its source," said Ibrahim Bashir, SVP of Product, Ontra. Built With the Industry Ontra built its DDQ solution through a co-development program with nine leading private markets firms, who worked hand-in-hand with Ontra's team over months of discovery, design, and iteration. Building with customers is Ontra's standard practice - how Ontra, LLC identify the workflows that matter, solve them end-to-end, and deliver products that meet the real demands of private markets. It's why other solutions fall short: they can't see the full shape of a private markets workflow, and they aren't built to solve it from start to finish. About Ontra Ontra is the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra's solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what's important.

Ontra launches private markets' first forward-looking indicator for deal activity. Inaugural Market Index projects near-full recovery in Q1 2026 deal volume - a signal available now, months before closed deal data catches up SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2026 - Private markets have no shortage of benchmarks, but each one is built on closed deal data that arrives months after transactions close. None can signal where deal activity is heading. Today, Ontra is publishing the inaugural Market Index, introducing NDA data as a leading indicator for private equity deal activity. It projects that Q1 2026 deal volume will finish only 5% below Q1 2025 levels - a near-full recovery from the tariff shock, and a projection available now rather than in June when closed deal figures are expected. Liberation Day: A live test When the April 2, 2025, "Liberation Day" tariff announcement triggered a broad market shock, the index's value became clear. It showed that NDA volume across the private markets fell 30% year-over-year within days. Closed deal data didn't confirm the impact until June, when industry deal closing figures for the period became available. Smaller firms - the bottom 80% by NDA volume - bore the steepest impact, with deal activity falling 30%, compared to 15% for large firms. Both cohorts recovered equally well compared to pre-shock levels by July, and NDA volumes continued to climb through Q3 and Q4 2025, finishing the year essentially at parity with 2024. That recovery arc - shock, divergence, and rebound - was visible in NDA data months before traditional sources confirmed it Why NDA volume works as a signal The NDA is the first formal record of deal intent in any private markets transaction, preceding diligence, term negotiation, and capital commitment. It is the earliest systematic signal of where deal activity is heading. "NDAs are the starting line of every private markets transaction, and for years, private markets firms have been making deployment and exit decisions with data that's already months old," said Troy Pospisil, CEO and Founder of Ontra. "The Market Index changes that. Firms can now move faster when the market opens up, or time exits more deliberately when buyer activity is muted. Right now, the data points to near-full recovery from the tariff shock. The Market Index is an advantage that didn't exist before today." About the index Ontra processes almost 1,000 NDAs daily, including from nine of the top ten PEI-ranked asset managers. For this inaugural report, the analysis is based on NDA data across a sample of more than 150 firms. Validation across multiple time periods confirms a strong correlation (r=0.634) between NDA volume and closed deal volume 90 days later. The relationship is validated for stability across 2.5 years of historical data. The full inaugural report is available here. About Ontra Ontra is the leader in AI-powered solutions for the private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from over 2 million contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra automates critical private market workflows across the fund lifecycle. Ontra's solutions transform unstructured data trapped in static documents into actionable intelligence, enabling firms to accelerate contracts, streamline compliance, and automate entity management. Trusted by more than 1,000 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what's important.

Ontra launches outsourced KYC service for private markets. Ontra has launched a fully outsourced third-party KYC service for private market firms, the San Francisco-based AI-powered solutions provider said. The service provides fund managers with a dedicated analyst who handles each KYC request from initiation to clearance, including counterparty correspondence and documentation. Ontra's KYC solution operates from custom playbooks that define positions, templates and escalation rules for each firm, maintains a centralized knowledge base for KYC data and offers per-request pricing. The service addresses the growing volume of inbound KYC requests fund managers face as they manage multi-entity structures, credit facilities and vendor onboarding. "Our customers are constantly looking for ways to move faster amidst increased market complexity," Ontra CEO and founder Troy Pospisil said in a news release. "With KYC, you get a dedicated team backed by the leading platform built for the private markets."