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Gui Costin, Founder and CEO

Gui Costin

Founder, CEO

Gui Costin is the Founder and CEO of Dakota, a financial, software, data and media company based in Philadelphia, PA. Dakota’s flagship product, Dakota Marketplace, is a database of institutional investors used by over 6,000 fundraisers and many of the leading global investment firms. Prior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Gui earned his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Communications from the University of Virginia. In 2001, he relocated to Philadelphia, working for a number of firms in the area before founding Dakota in 2006.

Blogs Written By Gui

Emerging Manager Growth Show Episode #44

Banks & Broker-Dealers, New Media, and the AI Tools Emerging Managers Need to Build a Pipeline Hosted by Gui Costin, Founder & CEO, Dakota and Andrew O'Shea, VP Investment Sales Watch on YouTube |...

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How We Turned Our Slack Channels Into an Intelligence Asset with Claude

Tuesday was W Day, our monthly offsite of what’s working and what’s not working. The theme was: come up with one idea for how you’ll use Claude in Slack. Slack is now a system of record that we can...

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The Workflow Is Already Yours: How Dakota Marketplace in the Claude App Eliminates the Switching Cost

Every CEO of a data company eventually learns the same lesson: the hardest competitor isn’t the better product. It’s the workflow your buyer has already built. A deal team that has spent two years...

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