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A Complete Database Solution Across All Investment Channels.

250,000+ LP accounts. 386,000+ verified contacts. Built and updated daily by fundraisers who have been raising capital since 2006. Dakota Marketplace is the database your investment sales team has been waiting for.

250,000+
LP Accounts
386,000+
Verified Contacts
17,000+
RIAs
3,500+
Family Offices
Daily
Research updates , not scraped from filings
Trusted By
Cerberus Capital GoldenTree Nuveen Fifth Wall GQG Partners Bridge Investment Group
Why Dakota Marketplace Exists

Built for Fundraisers, 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, databases built by engineers who had never made a sales call, platforms loaded with contacts that don't allocate to outside managers, tools with no context for the conversations that actually matter. So we built our own.

Dakota Marketplace is the database our own investment sales team uses every single day. That standard, data that holds up in front of a real allocator, is what separates Dakota from everything else on the market.

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
Complete and accurate contact data across every institutional and intermediary channel in the US and globally
Updated daily by our research team, not scraped from filings or crowd-sourced
Only accounts that actively allocate to outside managers, no noise, no dead ends
CIO bios, investment preferences, and actual holdings for every account
Clean user interface, find what you need in clicks, not hours
Integrated with Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, Snowflake, and more
Pricing
$16,500 / year
$1,000 per additional user · Contact us to build your plan

Everything Your Team Needs. One Platform.

No more switching between your CRM, spreadsheets, and databases. Dakota Marketplace brings every workflow into one place so your team spends more time in front of the right people.

Targeting
Create Targeted Lists
Build custom views and reports on exactly the allocators, asset classes, and decision-makers you want to reach. Filter by account type, geography, investment strategy, AUM, and more, then export directly into your CRM.
Data Quality
Track Real-Time Industry Turnover
The investment industry moves fast. Dakota tracks personnel changes, title updates, and firm-level transitions daily, so your team is always calling the right person, in the right role, at the right place. No wasted outreach on bad emails.
Field Coverage
Maximize Travel with City Scheduling
The Map It feature lets your team plan trips around concentrations of target accounts, booking additional meetings, identifying nearby firms that allocate to your strategy, and finding remote due diligence professionals in any city.
Market Intelligence
Dakota Live! Insights & AI Report Builder
Access weekly Dakota Live! call insights in-platform, key account interviews, metro area overviews, and market intelligence, alongside Joe AI, which generates account summaries and meeting prep in seconds using live platform data.

Institutional Intelligence That Changes Your Conversations.

Every Dakota Marketplace subscription includes access to proprietary research and intelligence capabilities that go far beyond a standard contact database.

350+
Institutional Searches Per Year
Comprehensive investment search alerts delivered directly to your inbox. Over 350 searches found in 2023 alone, identify mandates before your competition does.
Daily
Public Plan Meeting Minutes
Daily reports of public pension investment committee meeting notes, recent hires, RFPs, portfolio allocation changes, and manager decisions. Intelligence no other platform delivers.
4,000+
Manager Presentations to Pensions
Access presentations given by other managers to public pension funds, see what competitors are saying, how they're positioning, and what funds are hearing from the market.
1,000+
Field Consultants Tagged
Over 1,000 field consultants tagged to 172 consulting firms, with name, account, and email. The consultant channel, finally mapped at the individual level.
800+
Investment Fee Studies
Exact fees paid to managers by public funds, searchable by manager and asset class. Know what the market is paying before your next fee negotiation.
14,000+
DB, DC & Taft-Hartley Plans
Identify leads by targeting decision-makers, review manager rosters, and identify service providers including plan record-keepers and investment consultants across 14,000+ plans.

One Platform. Every Allocator That Matters.

Dakota Marketplace covers every institutional and intermediary channel , with exact, verified numbers across every account type.

Wealth Channel · 46,000+ contacts
17,000+
RIAs
Verified contacts, CIO bios, investment preferences, and full ETF, BDC, and closed-end fund holdings from 13F filings.
Family Wealth · 7,000+ contacts
3,500+
Family Offices
Only legitimate family offices that actively allocate capital, with CIO bios, investment histories, and stated preferences.
Institutional · 53,000+ contacts
78,000+
Corporate Pension Funds
The largest single account category in the database, corporate pension investment offices with verified investment team contacts.
Institutional · 5,586 contacts
1,433
Public Pension Funds
State and municipal pensions with daily meeting minutes, investment committee intelligence, and direct contact data for the teams that make allocation decisions.
Intermediary · 200,000+ contacts
340
Broker-Dealer Platforms
340 broker-dealer platforms carrying 200,000+ individual contacts, the wealth distribution channel mapped at the broadest possible scale.
Other Channels
250,000+
Total LP Accounts
Plus: 800+ foundations, 650+ endowments, 500+ consultants, 1,110+ banks, 1,000+ Taft-Hartley plans, 2,00+ insurance companies, and more.

What Dakota Marketplace Actually Delivers.

$800M
Long-Only Equity Manager · Riverwater Partners
Dakota Marketplace gave us the ability to find the right contacts at the right firms, contacts we simply wouldn't have been able to identify on our own. The quality of the data made a direct difference in the conversations we were able to have.
$7.3B
Real Estate Investment Firm · Transwestern Investment Group
Dakota Marketplace helped provide us with information about investors that would typically take at least one call or meeting to gather. It saves everyone time and has materially changed how we prioritize our outreach.
$49.4B
Private Equity Real Estate · Bridge Investment Group
Dakota Marketplace helped us overcome our stale and outdated data. The result has been a measurable increase in LP commitments from channels we had essentially given up on.
$2B
Long-Only Equity Manager · Saratoga Investment
The combination of accurate contact data and real-time industry intelligence allowed our team to approach conversations with genuine preparation, a level of context we hadn't previously been able to bring to first meetings.

$16,500

Per year · Full platform access

$1,000 per additional user. All teams at your firm can have access, investment sales, marketing, research, and leadership, under a single subscription with per-seat expansion at a flat rate.

Contact us to discuss your team size and build a plan that works for your organization. Demo available within 24 hours.

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What's Included
250,000+ LP Accounts & 386,000+ Contacts
Every institutional and intermediary channel in the US and globally
Institutional Search Alerts
350+ investment searches delivered annually
Public Plan Meeting Minutes
Daily investment committee intelligence
Manager Presentations (4,000+)
What competitors are presenting to public pensions
13F Holdings Data
RIA ETF, BDC, and closed-end fund holdings
CRM Integrations
Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo & more
Joe AI Report Builder
Account summaries and meeting prep in seconds