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Built within dakota marketplace, dakota Benchmarks provides the most comprehensive and continuously updated view of private fund performance across every major private market asset class.
With transparent, timely data, LPs can evaluate managers and portfolios with confidence, while GPs can position their track record against peers and communicate performance with credibility. Advisors gain the context needed to guide allocation, pacing, and strategy decisions.
dakota Benchmarks provides LP’s and GP’s with a clear view across the private markets landscape, offering return metrics segmented by vintage year, geography, and asset class:
Small, Middle, and Large Market Buyout
Direct Lending, Mezzanine, Opportunistic
Early, Growth, Multi-stage
Core, Core+, Value-Add, Opportunistic, Credit
Infrastructure, Energy, Natural Resources
Whether you’re an LP evaluating commitments against peers, or a GP positioning performance within a competitive set, dakota Benchmarks delivers the transparency and context required to inform allocation, diligence, and fundraising discussions in a historically opaque asset class.
Verified LP and GP reporting ensures accurate IRRs and return multiples, segmented by vintage year, geography, and strategy, giving allocators and managers a reliable baseline for comparison.
Link fund performance to portfolio company outcomes, sector dynamics, and sponsor cycles, helping LPs understand drivers of outperformance and GPs demonstrate value creation. Pair our performance data with qualitative insights, such as fund memos, consultant reviews, and more.
Unlike static reports, dakota Benchmarks is a living database, refreshing continuously and integrated with the dakota Marketplace intelligence layer, so LPs, GPs, and advisors always operate with the most current data.
dakota Benchmarks is built to integrate seamlessly into the workflows of LPs, GPs, and advisors:
Access benchmarks in the same platform you use for deal sourcing, manager targeting, and company intelligence.
Connect directly to the source of truth, enabling custom analysis, portfolio monitoring, and reporting at scale.
Identify top-performing GPs by vintage, strategy, and market segment.
Understand the transactions and portfolio companies driving returns.
Connect fund performance to the real economy, providing context behind value creation and cycle dynamics.
Equip yourself to make smarter allocation, fundraising, and advisory decisions with the only private fund benchmarking database designed for the speed, transparency, and complexity of today’s private markets.
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