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Dakota Marketplace for Universities

Your Alumni Run the Investment Industry. Now You Can Find Them.

Dakota Marketplace maps the investment industry: the firms, the funds, the people who lead them and where they went to school. Every team on campus can finally see who is connected to your university, and put that network to work.

Advancement:Find alumni who are founders, partners and CIOs at investment firms.
Faculty:Recruit guest speakers and bring real private markets data into the classroom.
Career Services:Build employer pipelines with firms that never come to campus.
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20,000+
Investment Firms
57,000+
Private Funds
14,000+
Funds With Performance Data
650+
Endowments
DailyResearch verification by human team, not AI-scraped
The Challenge

Your most valuable industry relationships are hiding in plain sight.

Your graduates run private equity firms, lead venture capital funds and manage institutional portfolios. But most universities can't see them, and every team on campus ends up working from the same short list of contacts.

Alumni Records

Career moves go untracked

Investment professionals change firms, launch funds and move into senior roles faster than alumni databases can keep up.

Campus Recruiting

Most firms never come to campus

Middle-market private equity, venture capital and private credit firms hire through relationships, not career fairs.

Networking Tools

Job titles without context

General platforms show titles. They don't show what a firm invests in, how large it is or who leads it.

Who Uses Dakota at Universities

Built for five teams across your campus.

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Advancement & Prospect Research

Identify Investment Industry Alumni

Find alumni who are founders, partners and CIOs at investment firms, and give prospect research a qualified starting list.

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Business School Faculty & Deans

Recruit Guest Speakers

Find private equity partners, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers and CIOs for lectures, panels and executive education.

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Career Services

Open Doors for Students

Discover firms that don't recruit on campus, find alumni already working there and build internship and mentoring pipelines.

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Professors & Researchers

Teach With Real Market Data

Bring fund performance, benchmarking, private company transactions and institutional investor research into the classroom.

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University Investment Offices

Benchmark Private Markets Funds

Compare private equity and private credit funds by asset class, strategy and vintage using IRR, TVPI and DPI data.

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One Platform

Every Team, One Network

An alumnus who starts as a guest speaker can become a mentor, an employer partner, a board member and a donor.

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How Universities Use It Day-To-Day

Six specific ways Dakota puts your network to work.

Every search starts with your institution and ends with a named list your team can act on.

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The goal isn't to find more alumni. It's to understand who they are, what they do and how your university can build lasting relationships with them.

Dakota Marketplace for Universities
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Map Your Investment Industry Alumni

See which graduates work in private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private credit and asset management today.

02

Build a Major Gift Starting List

Filter alumni by seniority, from founders to CIOs, ready for your prospect qualification process.

03

Fill the Speaker Calendar

Find practitioners by specialty and city, from direct lending executives to early-stage technology investors.

04

Build Employer Pipelines

Create target lists of firms by sector and market, then reach the people who lead them about internships and recruiting.

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Plan Targeted Alumni Events

A private equity dinner in New York, a venture capital panel in San Francisco, an asset management reception in Chicago.

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Benchmark Managers

Compare private equity and private credit funds by strategy and vintage before your next investment committee meeting.

What's In The Platform

The investment industry, fully mapped.

Researched by Dakota's in-house team and updated daily, not scraped.

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Investment Firms

Strategy, size, funds and leadership across private equity, venture capital, private credit, hedge funds and asset management.

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Professionals & Contacts

Current roles, titles and verified contact information for founders, partners, CIOs and managing directors.

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Education & Alumni Data

Where investment professionals went to school, searchable by institution, degree and graduation year.

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Private Funds & Performance

Fund-level IRR, TVPI and DPI by vintage for benchmarking and classroom research.

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Private Market Transactions

Buyouts, add-ons and exits, with the investment firms and advisors involved in each deal.

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Institutional Investors

The allocators behind the funds, including endowments, foundations, pensions and family offices.

The University Advantage

Your alumni database tracks giving. Dakota tracks the industry.

Alumni systems, job boards and networking platforms all have a place on campus. Dakota Marketplace adds the investment industry layer none of them were built to provide.

  • Current roles researched and updated daily
  • Firm strategy, size and leadership
  • Education data searchable by institution
  • Verified contact information
  • Fund performance and benchmarks
  • Transactions, funds and investors per firm
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Ready to see who's in your network?

See which of your alumni work at private equity, venture capital and asset management firms, and how every team on campus can use that network.

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