In corporate venture, the stakes are high and the windows are short.
You’re expected to identify the right companies, spot strategic fits early, and build relationships long before the market catches on. But most of the time, you're making those calls with incomplete information, fragmented tools, and more uncertainty than confidence.
It’s not that you can’t spot a winner.
It’s that you’re asked to do it without a clear view of the field.
We’ve seen this firsthand, and we have Dakota Marketplace to solve it.
The Real Challenge Isn’t Strategy. It’s Visibility.
Corporate venture teams are constantly asked to cover more ground with less time.
You're scanning emerging sectors, building market maps, evaluating deals, and trying to predict where innovation is heading all while your data sources pull you in different directions.
When your view of the market is scattered, everything slows down:
- Promising startups get missed.
- Strategic insights stay stuck in spreadsheets.
- And market maps take weeks to build, only to be outdated by the time you’re done.
See the Full Landscape, Not Just Pieces of It
Dakota Marketplace gives your team the complete, current view you’ve been missing. Inside, you get instant access to 157,000+ sponsor-backed and independent private companies, all enriched with verified intelligence:
- Leadership bios and contact info
- Ownership structures and sponsor details
- Transaction histories and strategic context
- Revenue estimates and employee counts
It’s everything you need to understand a company’s trajectory: in one platform, updated continuously.
Build Market Maps That Actually Keep Up
One of the biggest frustrations we hear from corporate venture teams:
“By the time we finish mapping a market, it’s already changed.”
Dakota Marketplace fixes that.
With industry, sub-industry, and segment-level tagging, you can build (and rebuild) complete market maps in minutes. And because the data updates daily, you’re never operating off last quarter’s view.
When the market shifts, your strategy shifts with it — not after it.
Know When to Act, Not Just Where to Look
Seeing the right companies is only part of the job. Knowing when to lean in is what turns insights into investments.
That’s why Dakota Marketplace tracks 2,000+ transactions per month, plus sponsor cycles, executive changes, and strategic activity — so you get real signals on:
- When a portfolio company becomes a bolt-on target
- When a founder is entering a raise
- When ownership shifts suggest new strategic direction
- You don’t have to wait for a press release. The signal is already in your hands.
Operate with Clarity, Not Guesswork
Corporate venture looks very different when you're not stuck stitching together a view of the market.
With Dakota Marketplace, you’ll always know:
- What’s out there
- Who owns it
- When to act
That’s the clarity that drives faster decisions, stronger partnerships, and better outcomes.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to see how corporate venture teams are using Dakota Marketplace to move faster and stay ahead of the next opportunity.
