September 23, 2025
If you’re in fundraising or deal sourcing, you already know: your time is valuable – and too much of it is spent tracking down information instead of making real progress.
Fundraisers:
You’ve likely spent hours digging through outdated databases, cross-checking contact info, and chasing down firm intel — all before you even make your first call.
Deal Sourcers:
Piecing together sponsor relationships, private company data, and executive contacts can be equally time-consuming — and by the time the puzzle is complete, the opportunity might already be gone.
That’s exactly why we built dakota marketplace.
We created a platform that cuts through the noise and gets you straight to what matters: qualified, verified information so you can spend your time raising capital, sourcing deals, and moving your business forward.
It’s the same database our own sales team has relied on since 2006, and it’s trusted today by hundreds of investment firms, private equity teams, and corporate development professionals.
Below, we highlight the 10 most powerful features of dakota marketplace and how you can use them as your go-to fundraising and deal sourcing guide.
Dakota Marketplace gives you access to the most complete, up-to-date coverage of institutional investors, RIAs, family offices, consultants, and intermediaries — all updated daily. If our team wouldn’t use the data, we don’t expect you to
Getting to the right person at the right time is critical. Every contact in the platform is verified and maintained daily, so you're always reaching decision-makers directly. No guessing, no dead ends.
With data on 134,000+ sponsor-backed companies and 68,000+ executive contacts, dakota marketplace helps deal teams:
It’s more than just a contact list. It’s a smart, streamlined way to identify and evaluate opportunities.
Dakota Marketplace offers public company intelligence including earnings calls, transcripts, filings, 13F data, and AI summaries. Whether you’re tracking investor activity or identifying potential buyers and strategic partners, you have the information at your fingertips.
The Metro Area tab makes geographic targeting effortless. In seconds, you can pull up complete lists of allocators by city, giving you a clear view of who to meet where. Whether you’re planning a roadshow, attending a conference, or scheduling client visits, the Metro Area tab helps you maximize every trip and ensure no opportunity is missed.
Dakota Marketplace’s AI tools deliver concise summaries on private company CEOs, accounts, and earnings call transcripts. It’s a huge time-saver that ensures you walk into every meeting fully prepared and confident, with the context you need right at your fingertips.
Manager presentations and consultant review documents in dakota marketplace give you a unique competitive edge. By seeing what competitors have done, and how they’ve positioned themselves, you gain insight into where money has been moved, what strategies are resonating, and how consultants are evaluating managers. It’s intelligence that helps you sharpen your own pitch and approach allocators with confidence.
For fundraisers, our GP data gives you a clear view of who else is in the room showing how peers and competitors are positioning themselves in front of allocators. For deal teams, it helps surface the most active sponsors in your sector and identify potential buyers for your portfolio companies. It’s actionable intelligence that helps you anticipate what’s coming and enter every conversation with a sharper strategy.
The Transactions tab gives you a real-time view of deal activity across industries. Track who’s actively buying, selling, or allocating, and filter results by target, participant, transaction type, sub-type, sector, transaction value, or status. You can even run keyword searches on specific segments to zero in on the opportunities most relevant to you. With this level of granularity, you’ll always know where capital is moving and which players to engage with.
Dakota Marketplace’s Conference tab gives you a single view of upcoming industry events, with the ability to filter by investment focus, date, and metro area. Align your travel with allocator attendance, identify where your prospects will be, and maximize every networking opportunity with precision planning.
In this industry, time is money. The longer you spend chasing information, the less time you have to raise capital, close deals, and build relationships.
Dakota Marketplace gives you that time back.
By combining daily-updated allocator data, verified contacts, and public/private company insights into one intuitive platform, Marketplace empowers you to move faster and smarter – with confidence.
It’s not just a tool. It’s your competitive edge.
Want to explore dakota marketplace further? Book a demo here!
Morgan Holycross is a Marketing Manager at Dakota.
