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Performance Records Across every major asset class.

Institutional-grade performance intelligence across more than 17,100 private funds — giving allocators, fundraisers, and research teams a single source of truth for evaluating manager track records.

17,100+

Cities hosted across North America and internationally

7

Asset Classes Tracked

4

Core Return Metrics

Free

For investment sales professionals

4,600+
Private Equity Funds

4,200+
Private Real Estate Funds

2,900+
Hedge Funds

2,100+
private credit funds

1,600+
private infrastructure and real assets funds

1,000+
venture capital funds

700+
evergreen funds

What to Expect

Built by practitioners who understand
how allocation decisions are actually made.

The database delivers the diligence questions that actually drive allocation decisions — comparing returns, benchmarking strategies, and identifying managers worth a conversation — rather than forcing users to stitch together fragmented data from multiple sources.

Where generic platforms bury performance data inside broad, unfocused datasets, Dakota concentrates on the private fund universe that matters most to LPs and GPs, pairing depth of coverage with the usability that fast-moving fundraising and research workflows demand.

Brought to you by experienced fundraisers themselves, designed for investment sales professionals who want real insight — not theory.

The Core Promise
01

Benchmark With Confidence

Net IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI across 17,100+ funds — with vintage year, geography, strategy, and AUM dimensions available across all asset classes.

02

Filter & Surface the Right Managers

Filter and sort by asset class, sub-asset class, investment style, geography, AUM range, vintage year, and more.

03

Full Private Markets Landscape

Coverage spans private equity, real estate, hedge funds, private credit, infrastructure, venture capital, and evergreen vehicles.

04

Investment Committee–Ready Data

Fund-level metrics structured to support the diligence questions investment committees actually ask.

05

Credible, Comparable Intelligence

Ground every investment and capital-raising conversation in data that’s comparable across strategies and vintage years.

06

Wealth Channel Coverage

Dedicated benchmarking track for evergreen and interval fund structures operating in the wealth channel distribution context.

Our Offices

Live access to the fund data
you’re actually trying to find.

The Dakota Private Fund Performance Database gives you in-depth intelligence on manager track records — comparable, credible, and built around what you actually need before going into any allocation conversation.

Investment Style & Strategy Dimensions

Filter within each asset class by investment style — from lower middle market buyout to pre-seed VC — so comparisons stay meaningful.

ASSET CLASSES · STRATEGIES

Vintage Year & Geography Filters

Every fund record includes vintage year and geography dimensions available across all covered asset classes and strategies.

VINTAGE · GEOGRAPHY · AUM

Core Fund-Level Metrics

Net IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI tracked across every fund — the primary return metrics used by investment committees and LPs.

IRR · TVPI · DPI · RVPI

Hedge Fund & Evergreen Performance

Annualized performance on YTD, 1Yr, 3Yr, 5Yr, 10Yr, and since-inception basis for hedge funds and evergreen vehicles.

10-YEAR TRACK RECORDS

THE PERFORMANCE DATABASE

Live access to the fund data you’re actually trying to find.

The Dakota Private Fund Performance Database gives you in-depth intelligence on manager track records — comparable, credible, and built around what you actually need before going into any allocation conversation.

4,600+ Funds
Private Equity

Coverage across the full PE universe — lower middle market through large market buyout, growth equity, secondaries, and special situations. Fund-level performance data includes net IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI, with vintage year and geography dimensions available across all strategies.

Investment styles covered:

  • Lower Middle Market Buyout
  • Middle Market Buyout
  • Large Market Buyout
  • Growth Equity
  • Special Situations
  • Secondaries
  • Fund of Funds
4,200+ Funds
Private Real Estate

Fund-level performance data across core, value-add, and opportunistic real estate strategies, with property type dimensions that allow meaningful comparisons within each strategy type.

Investment styles covered:

  • Core / Core-Plus
  • Value-Add
  • Opportunistic
2,900+ FUNDS
Hedge Funds

Strategy and sector data across the hedge fund universe, with AUM tier and geography dimensions. Coverage distinguishes quantitative and systematic strategies from discretionary — the comparison that matters most when evaluating manager edge and repeatability.

Investment styles covered:

  • Equity Long/Short
  • Global Macro
  • Multi-Strategy
  • Credit / Fixed Income
  • Event-Driven / Merger Arb
  • Quantitative / Systematic
  • Emerging Markets
2,100+ funds
Private Credit

Performance records across the private credit spectrum — from corporate lending and asset-backed strategies through special situations. Borrower and collateral data enables meaningful comparisons within lending strategies focused on similar credit types.

Investment styles covered:

  • Corporate Lending
  • Special Situations
  • Asset-Backed
  • Real Assets Debt
  • Diversified
1,600+ funds
Infrastructure + Real Assets

Infrastructure, energy, and natural resources performance data — with sub-sector coverage that distinguishes renewables and energy transition from upstream O&G and midstream, reflecting the materially different return profiles and risk dynamics of each.

Investment styles covered:

  • Infrastructure
  • Natural Resources
  • Energy
1,000+ funds
Venture Capital

Early to multi-stage VC performance data, from pre-seed through late stage. Fund-level metrics include net IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI, with vintage year and geography dimensions across all strategies.

Investment styles covered:

  • Pre-Seed / Seed
  • Early Stage (Series A/B)
  • Late Stage (Series C and later)
700+ funds
Evergreen & Interval Funds

Semi-liquid private market vehicles are a growing and underserved coverage category. Dakota tracks non-traded REITs, interval credit funds, BDCs, and evergreen PE vehicles — with a dedicated benchmarking track built for the wealth channel distribution context these structures operate in.

Investment styles covered:

  • Non-Traded REITs
  • Interval Credit Funds
  • Evergreen PE Vehicles
  • BDCs
  • Semi-Liquid Private Equity Structures
  • Multi-Asset Alternatives

WHAT YOU’LL BE PREPARED WITH

Fund-level metrics Across Every Asset Class.

Dakota tracks the core performance metrics used by investment committees and LPs across all covered private funds and strategies.

Net IRR

Net internal rate of return, the primary return metric. 

TVPI

Total value to paid-in; realized + unrealized value as a multiple of capital invested

DPI

Distributions to paid-in; cash actually returned to LPs

RVPI

Residual value to paid-in; unrealized NAV as a multiple of capital invested. 

For hedge funds and evergreen vehicles, we track annualized performance on a YTD, 1Yr, 3Yr, 5Yr, 10Yr, and since inception basis. 

INSIDER INTELLIGENCE STARTS HERE

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Dakota Performance Database.

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