The Private Markets Intelligence Platform for Reporters

The Data Behind the Stories Nobody Else Can Tell.

Private equity, credit, real estate, and infrastructure — the most important capital markets in the world, and the least transparent. Dakota changes that, with three decades of proprietary intelligence now queryable by Claude AI in natural language.

Private Equity Private Credit Real Estate Infrastructure LP Allocations GP Fundraising Transactions Family Offices Public Pensions Endowments
30 Yrs
Data Collection
17,000+
RIAs Tracked
150,000+
Portfolio Companies
$40B+
Transactions Tracked
AI
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The Reporter's Challenge

The most important — and least transparent — beat in finance journalism.

Public markets have Bloomberg. Private markets had almost nothing — until now.

Hours Become Seconds

LP commitments, GP relationships, filing cross-references — Dakota surfaces in seconds via Claude AI query what takes manual research hours.

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Data That Doesn't Exist Elsewhere

Family office allocations, private pension commitments, GP fundraising trends — captured by hand, not scraped.

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The Capital Flow Map

Who's committing to which GPs. Which pensions are increasing alternatives. The full picture, in real time.

The AI Research Assistant

Claude + Dakota Data = The Tool Journalists Have Always Needed.

Ask the smartest analyst in the room a question in plain English. Get a structured, sourced answer in seconds.

Reporter Asks
"Which public pension funds increased their private credit allocation in the last 12 months, and which GPs received the largest commitments?"
Dakota AI
Ranks pension funds with allocation data, specific GP commitments, dates, and fund names — in under 10 seconds. Replaces hours of CAFR review and phone calls.
Reporter Asks
"Map Blackstone's latest PE fund exposure to healthcare, and which GPs are competing in the same space."
Dakota AI
Pulls the full portco list, sectors, and a competitive landscape of overlapping GPs — the kind of map that takes researchers weeks to build manually.
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Natural Language Queries

Plain English. No syntax, no Boolean operators, no expertise required.

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Instant Trend Synthesis

Patterns across thousands of data points — surfacing trends that would take weeks to identify manually.

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Source Attribution

Every data point traceable to its source — verify, cite, and follow up with confidence.

Beat Coverage

Every corner of private markets, covered in depth.

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Private Equity

Fund closes, vintage data, LP commitments, GP performance, portco activity, and fundraising cycle tracking.

BuyoutGrowthVentureSecondaries
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Private Credit

Direct lending fundraising, BDC AUM trends, loan-level data, distressed activity, and LP credit allocations.

Direct LendingBDCDistressedMezzanine
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Private Real Estate

Core, value-add, and opportunistic fund closes. LP trends by geography and property type.

CoreValue-AddOpportunisticDebt

Infrastructure & Energy

Energy transition capital flows, infra fund closes, and LP appetite for greenfield vs. brownfield.

Energy TransitionDigital InfraTransportationUtilities
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Transactions & Deal Flow

Private company transactions, M&A across portcos, secondary deals, and co-investments — deal-by-deal.

M&ASecondariesCo-InvestIPO Exits
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Market Trends & LP-GP Dynamics

Allocation shifts, fee trends, GP consolidation, emerging manager activity, and macro LP-GP forces.

Fee TrendsGP StakesEmergingLP Behavior
LP Commitment Intelligence

Every major LP type — tracked, verified, searchable.

The first complete picture of where alternative investment capital is actually flowing — and why.

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Public Pensions

Public Pension Fund Commitments

State and municipal pension alternative decisions — publicly accountable, consequential, and tracked daily.

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Family Offices

Family Office Allocations

Single and multi-family office activity — increasingly direct, increasingly influential in which GPs win.

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Endowments

Endowment & Foundation Commitments

The original alternatives investors — still setting the tone for institutional private markets appetite.

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Insurance & Corporate

Insurance & Corporate Pensions

General accounts and corporate schemes growing alternatives exposure with the long-term capital GPs prize.

What Reporters Can Track Across Every LP Type
  • New commitment amounts and GP names
  • Asset class allocation shifts over time
  • First-time and re-up patterns
  • LP relationships with specific GPs
  • Target alternatives allocation %s
  • Investment committee contacts
Story Ideas & Angles

The stories Dakota data makes possible.

Data-driven stories Dakota + Claude make possible in hours, not weeks.

Private Credit · LP Flows

The Public Pensions Racing Into Private Credit — and the $300B Manager Winning Most

Which state pensions dramatically increased private credit in 24 months, which managers captured the commitments.

⊙ LP records + GP fundraising + BDC intelligence

Family Offices · PE Energy

How Family Offices Became the Power Behind the Energy Transition PE Boom

UHNW allocation patterns showing which energy GPs get funded and which don't.

⊙ Family office database + PE energy commitments + transactions

Infrastructure · Endowments

The Infrastructure Moment: Which Endowments Are Betting Biggest on Real Assets

A ranking revealing the concentrated bets storied institutions are making on digital infra and energy.

⊙ Endowment commitments + infrastructure GP data

PE · Portcos

The 10 PE Firms With the Highest Healthcare Concentration — and What Happens When Rates Change

Cross-reference of 150,000+ portcos identifying the most concentrated sector exposure heading into rate uncertainty.

⊙ Portco database + GP sector tagging + LP intelligence

Transactions · M&A

The Private Company Transaction Map: Where PE Deal Flow Is Concentrating in 2026

Private transaction activity by sector, geography, and deal size — where capital is actually deploying.

⊙ Transactions + portco tracking + GP deal teams

LP-GP Dynamics

Re-Up Rates Are Falling at the Largest Funds — and the Data Shows Exactly Who Is Losing LPs

Re-commitment behavior across vintages — which GPs are seeing attrition, which are gaining new relationships.

⊙ LP records + GP cycles + re-up pattern analysis

GP & Transaction Intelligence

The GP and deal data that drives the biggest stories.

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GP Fundraising & Fund Closes

Active fundraises, final closes, target sizes, and timing. Know before the press release hits.

Real-Time
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GP Team & Org Changes

Partner departures, new hires, spin-outs — the changes that signal strategic shifts before they're public.

Personnel
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Transaction & Deal Activity

Acquisitions, add-ons, recaps, IPOs, secondary sales — the deal-level activity that tells the real story.

Deal-Level
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Portfolio Company Intelligence

150,000+ portcos with owning GP, acquisition date, sector, geography, and revenue.

Portco DB
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Fund Performance Context

Benchmarking and vintage comparisons that calibrate fundraising outcomes in the right market context.

Benchmarks
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International & Cross-Border

European mandates, Middle East sovereign wealth, and cross-border LP-GP relationships reshaping alternatives.

Global
Getting Started

Press access in three simple steps.

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Request Press Credentials

Send your publication, beat, and data needs. Evaluated per-publication; includes verified database access.

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Platform Orientation

Walkthrough of the Marketplace — LP records, GP data, Claude AI, and the intelligence for your beat.

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Ongoing Research Partnership

Our team helps you verify data, provide deal context, and surface the intelligence behind rigorous reporting.

For Press & Journalists

The private markets beat deserves better data.

Three decades of proprietary intelligence, queryable by Claude AI, and a research team available to help you verify and contextualize what you find.

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Request Press Credentials

Tell us your publication and beat — we evaluate per-publication

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Sample Data Request

Tell us what you're researching — we'll pull a sample dataset before you commit