The firms winning in capital raising aren't working harder.
They're better informed.

250,000+ LP accounts. 386,000+ verified contacts. 640,000+ private companies. 57,000+ private funds. The RIA channel is consolidating. Family offices are multiplying. Private markets are exploding. Dakota gives your team the data, the tools, and the context to stay ahead of all of it.

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Built for Fundraisers, by Fundraisers®

Most data companies have never made a sales call.
We spent 20 years making them.

Every contact was evaluated the same way you evaluate prospects — by whether they actually allocate capital to outside managers. Two decades on the road built this platform.

100% verified active allocators — no filler accounts

Updated daily by our 60-person research team

75+ investment preference fields per allocator

Trusted by thousands of leading investment firms

250,000+

Total LP Accounts

386,000+

Verified LP Contacts

640,000+

Private Companies

57,000+

Private Funds Tracked

Why Dakota Exists

Built because the tools available to fundraisers weren't built by fundraisers.

Before Dakota Marketplace existed, our team spent years on the road raising capital. We sat across from allocators, built the same relationships, and learned what it actually takes to turn a conversation into a commitment.

We saw what was available, bloated platforms with stale contact data, databases built by engineers who had never made a sales call, tools that gave you thousands of names and none of the context that actually mattered. So we built our own.

Dakota is the database our own investment sales team uses every single day. Every data point is held to the standard of someone who has to rely on it in front of a real allocator.

A long list of contacts means nothing if none of them are buyers. Dakota gives you verified, qualified investors who are actively allocating, so your team spends less time chasing and more time closing.

Gui Costin — CEO & Founder, Dakota

Updated Daily, Not Quarterly

Our research team reviews and updates the platform every day. When a CIO changes firms or a family office shifts strategy, your data reflects it immediately, not months later.

Only Active Allocators, No Noise

We separate the family offices and RIAs that actually allocate to outside managers from those that don't. A database with 50,000 contacts that don't write checks wastes more time than it saves.

Context, Not Just Contacts

CIO bios. Investment preferences. Actual holdings. Fund performance. CEO backgrounds. Investment memos. Dakota tells you what you need to know before you pick up the phone.

Built Into Your Existing Workflow

Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, and more. Dakota lives inside the tools your team already uses, not as a separate tab nobody opens.

The Market Moment

The capital raising landscape has never been more competitive. It's only going to get harder.

The firms pulling ahead aren't bigger, they're better informed. Here's what's changing in the markets Dakota was built to serve.

17,000+

US Institutional · 46,000+ contacts

The RIA Channel Has Grown 5x in a Decade

From Charles Schwab's OneSource in 1987 to 17,000+ registered advisors in Dakota today. With 46,000+ verified contacts and full 13F holdings, CIO bios, and investment preferences, Dakota is the most actionable window into this channel.

3,800+

Wealth Channel · 7,000+ contacts

Family Offices Are the New Institutional LP

3,800+ legitimate family offices actively investing globally, with 7,000+ verified contacts. Many built by PE professionals and business owners who sold to sponsors. They invest fast, invest large, and early relationships endure.

Global

91 Countries · International coverage

Capital Is Global, Your Intelligence Should Be Too

Sovereign wealth funds, Middle East family offices, European institutional mandates, the most significant new sources of capital are increasingly outside the U.S. Dakota's international coverage reaches them.

The Data

One platform. Every allocator that matters.

US Institutional · 46,000+ contacts

17,000+

Dakota RIAs

Verified C-suite contacts, CIO bios, investment preferences, and full ETF, BDC, and closed-end fund holdings drawn from 13F filings.

Wealth Channel · 7,000+ contacts

3,800+

Dakota Family Offices

Only legitimate family offices actively allocating capital, with verified contacts, CIO bios, investment histories, and stated preferences by strategy and asset class.

Private Companies · 11 sectors

640,000+

Private Company Universe

Sponsor-backed portfolio companies and non-sponsor private businesses across Industrials (237K), Technology (101K), Health Care (81K), and eight more sectors.

Deal Intelligence · +2,000/month

20,000+

Dakota Transactions

Private market transactions mapped to the GP, fund, and portfolio company for complete deal context, growing at approximately 2,000 new transactions every month.

Performance · 57,000+ total funds

14,000+

Funds with Performance Data

Verified IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI with custom benchmarking technology. Build any peer group by vintage, strategy, geography, and fund size.

LP Intelligence · 385,000+ contacts

250,000+

Total LP Accounts

Corporate pensions, public pensions, foundations, endowments, banks, consultants, broker-dealers, insurance companies, and every other allocator channel, all in one platform.

Why Dakota

Built for the work. Not the pitch.

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28 Years of Proprietary Curation

We've been building this dataset since before most of the platforms you use today existed. That compounded institutional knowledge is not something a competitor can replicate by scraping the web.

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Research-Verified, Updated Daily

Our research team reviews every record. Nothing is auto-populated from a regulatory filing and called intelligence. The data you see today reflects what is true today.

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Integrated Into Your CRM

Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, Snowflake, and more. Dakota improves the work your team is already doing, inside the tools they already use.

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AI-Powered Intelligence Layer

Joe AI Report Builder and the Claude-powered intelligence add-on turn Dakota's data into answers, account summaries, meeting prep, portfolio analysis, in seconds, not hours.

Client Results

Don't take our word for it. Here's what clients actually said.

Dakota Marketplace has helped provide us with information about investors that would typically take at least one call or meeting to gather, what their current objectives are and who the correct contact is. It saves everyone time and has materially changed how we prioritize our outreach.

Transwestern Investment Group

Distribution Team

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Dakota Marketplace helped us overcome our stale and outdated data. Before Dakota, we were working from a contact list that hadn't been properly updated in years. The result has been a measurable increase in LP commitments from channels we had essentially given up on.

Bridge Investment Group

Investor Relations

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Get Started

See what Dakota looks like for your team.

A member of the Dakota team will follow up within one business day. No lengthy procurement cycles. No six-month onboarding. Most teams are productive within the first week.

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