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Fundraising and raising capital is hard. Dakota makes it easier.
Knowing who's actively raising capital right now, and at what size and structure, is one of the most useful signals available to a fundraiser, but most of that information is scattered across regulatory filings, secondhand chatter, or word of mouth.
In this article, we'll walk through the two ways Dakota Marketplace surfaces firms currently in the market, and how to use that signal to time your own launch and benchmark your terms.
What Currently Fundraising and New Fund Launches Actually Show You
Dakota Marketplace surfaces firms in the market in two ways.
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Currently Fundraising, on the homepage, shows investment strategies tagged with an "Open" fundraising status, pulled directly from Investment Strategies, a real-time snapshot of who's raising with no searches or filters required.
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New Fund Launches goes a step further: these are fund products sourced directly from Form D filings, the regulatory disclosures firms submit when they begin a private securities offering, and they only appear once Dakota's research team has confirmed the raise is real and built out a fully profiled strategy record.
Currently Fundraising surfaces the 14 most recent launches directly on the homepage, so the most current activity is visible the moment you log in.
3 Use Cases for New Fund Launches
Use It to Time Your Own Launch
Launch timing is easier to get right when you can see what else is hitting the market at the same time. One fundraiser said tracking new fund launches through the Form D-powered feed had become core to how she plans her own fundraising workflow, since knowing what peers are raising, and when, directly informs her own sequencing decisions. Checking Currently Fundraising and New Fund Launches before you finalize a launch date gives you a read on how crowded the market is for your strategy at that moment, rather than launching blind.
Watch a walkthrough of Currently Fundraising and New Fund Launches to see how the two views work together.
Use It to Benchmark Your Terms
A fully profiled New Fund Launch record includes fund size and structure, which makes it a real benchmark, not just a headline that a raise happened. Seeing what comparable funds are raising, at what size and through what structure, gives you a concrete reference point for your own terms instead of relying on general market assumptions. This is the difference between "the filing exists" and "we've fully profiled this fund," the confirmed, structured version of the signal is what actually makes benchmarking possible.
Use It to Consolidate Your Research Into One Source
Piecing together fund launch activity from multiple vendors or manually tracking Form D filings is its own kind of overhead. One team cited New Fund Launches specifically as part of their decision to consolidate data vendors and rely on Dakota as their primary source for LP coverage, since having the confirmed, profiled version of the data in one place removed the need to cross-check a second source.
Start Tracking Who's Raising Before You Plan Your Next Move
Whether you're timing a launch, setting terms, or just trying to understand how crowded your strategy is right now, Currently Fundraising and New Fund Launches give you that picture without digging through Form D filings yourself. One shows you the fast, real-time snapshot. The other gives you the vetted, structured detail once a raise is confirmed.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to see current fundraising activity in your asset class.
FAQs
What's the difference between Currently Fundraising and New Fund Launches? Currently Fundraising shows investment strategies with an "Open" status in real time, pulled from Investment Strategies. New Fund Launches are fully profiled fund records confirmed and built out by Dakota's research team from Form D filings.
How many fund launches does Dakota Marketplace track? 13,700+ fully profiled New Fund Launches, sourced from 23,100+ tracked Form D filings.
Where do I see the most recent fundraising activity? Currently Fundraising surfaces the 14 most recent launches directly on the Marketplace homepage.
