dakota_benchmarks

The New Standard in Private Markets Performance

12,000+ funds tracked across Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate and Real Assets

A Clear View of Private Markets, Built Into dakota marketplace

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.

Comprehensive Coverage Across Private Markets

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:

Private Equity

Small, Middle, and Large Market Buyout

Private Credit

Direct Lending, Mezzanine, Opportunistic

Venture Capital

Early, Growth, Multi-stage

Private Real Estate

Core, Core+, Value-Add, Opportunistic, Credit

Real Assets

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.

What Sets dakota Benchmarks Apart

Quartiles You Can Trust

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.

Context That Matters

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.

Continuous, Database-Driven Insights

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.

Delivery Where You Need It

dakota Benchmarks is built to integrate seamlessly into the workflows of LPs, GPs, and advisors:

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Access benchmarks in the same platform you use for deal sourcing, manager targeting, and company intelligence.

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Connect directly to the source of truth, enabling custom analysis, portfolio monitoring, and reporting at scale.

The dakota marketplace Advantage

With dakota marketplace + dakota Benchmarks, you don’t just view fund performance,
you gain visibility into the entire private market ecosystem in one platform:

 

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Identify top-performing GPs by vintage, strategy, and market segment.

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Understand the transactions and portfolio companies driving returns.

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Connect fund performance to the real economy, providing context behind value creation and cycle dynamics.

Experience the Next Generation of Private Market Benchmarking

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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