Private markets research teams are under pressure.
More funds, more strategies, faster fundraising cycles, and higher expectations from investment committees.
The challenge isn’t just finding data. It’s centralizing it, validating it, and turning it into conviction.
That’s where Dakota Marketplace fits in.
Below are the ten most common ways private markets research teams use Dakota to improve underwriting, monitoring, and portfolio construction. All within one integrated platform.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to see how the platform can fit into your workflow.
Top 10 Ways Private Markets Research Teams Use Dakota Marketplace
1. Manager Due Diligence Materials
Research teams use Dakota to locate due diligence materials, GP presentation decks, consultant reviews, firm profiles, memos, and historical materials all in one place.
If your team is still piecing together diligence materials manually, it may be time to see how Dakota streamlines the process. Book a demo to see how research teams are accelerating underwriting workflows.
2. Performance & Benchmarking
Dakota helps teams benchmark managers against relevant peer sets (strategy, vintage, geography, fund size), and compare outcomes across cohorts.
Whether you’re preparing for an IC meeting or evaluating a re-up decision, having structured benchmarking reduces guesswork and strengthens recommendations. Book a demo to see Dakota’s performance and benchmarking data.
3. Market Intelligence
Private markets are cyclical, and capital flows tell a story.
Dakota gives teams a centralized view of fundraising conditions and capital flows across strategies, sectors, and sponsors, helping inform manager selection, pacing, and portfolio allocation decisions across asset classes.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to gain visibility into who’s raising, how much, and in what strategies.
4. Private Company Research
Understanding a GP means understanding their underlying portfolio.
Dakota helps teams research private companies by consolidating company profiles, management and sponsor backgrounds, ownership and cap table history, investor syndicates, and key company developments in one place.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to start conducting your own analysis.
5. Ongoing Monitoring
Commitment is only the beginning.
Research teams use Dakota to maintain a monitoring cadence across new investments, realizations, follow-on activity, fundraise updates, organizational changes, and portfolio developments without relying on ad hoc updates or quarterly surprises.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to monitor these updates.
Dakota Marketplace for Private Market Research Teams
Private markets research teams rely on Dakota Marketplace to centralize every layer of the underwriting process. From sourcing GP presentations, consultant reviews, and firm-level profiles to conducting peer benchmarking and vintage-year performance comparisons, Dakota brings structure and consistency to manager evaluation. Teams can assess competitive positioning with real context, not just standalone performance numbers.
Dakota also provides visibility into fundraising dynamics, capital formation trends, sector deployment activity, and underlying portfolio company holdings. This allows researchers to evaluate sponsor behavior, portfolio construction discipline, and thematic exposure across strategies and vintages.
Beyond initial diligence, Dakota supports continuous oversight and workflow management. Research teams track new fund launches, active fundraises, deal activity, exits, leadership changes, and portfolio developments while maintaining structured pipeline records for auditability and efficiency.
LP mapping and commitment intelligence offer insight into peer allocator behavior, while curated contact data across LPs, GPs, and consultants strengthens reference calls and ecosystem connectivity transforming fragmented research processes into a unified, institutional-grade infrastructure.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to see how the platform can fit into your workflow.
6. New Fund Launches & Fundraising Tracking
Fundraising windows move quickly.
Dakota provides visibility into active funds in market, upcoming launches, positioning, terms, and timelines so research teams can prioritize opportunities and manage diligence calendars more proactively.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace for proactive tracking for you and your research team.
7. Deal Sourcing Indicators
Investment activity tells you a lot about a GPs.
Dakota helps research teams track GP activity across acquisitions, add-ons, and exits to spot shifts in deployment pace, sector focus, and portfolio behavior often before it shows up in quarterly reporting.
Don’t wait for quarterly reports, book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to gain real-time insight into manager momentum.
8. Pipeline Management & Diligence Tracking
Research workflows often become fragmented across spreadsheets and internal documents.
Dakota serves as a central repository for tracking your manager pipeline, documenting diligence status, and housing key materials and underwriting notes so the entire team stays aligned and can reference a consistent evaluation record.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to explore how research teams are replacing fragmented tracking processes.
9. LP Mapping
Who else is investing in a fund matters.
Dakota helps teams understand the allocator ecosystem: who is in which funds, how peers allocate, how commitments shift over time, and where momentum is building.
To understand commitment ecosystems for stronger decision-making, book a demo of Dakota Marketplace.
10. Contact Network & Relationship Intelligence
Private markets remain heavily relationship-driven.
Dakota provides a centralized, up-to-date directory across LPs, GPs, consultants, and market participants, making it easy to find the right contacts, support reference work, and stay connected across the ecosystem.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to operate from a centralized ecosystem map.
From Data Collection to Strategic Decision-Making
Private market research is no longer just about gathering materials.
It’s about integrating data, benchmarking performance, tracking market developments, and continuous oversight.
Dakota Marketplace brings manager data, fund performance, fundraising intelligence, LP mapping, and workflow management into a single platform designed specifically for institutional research teams.
If you’re looking to modernize your private markets research infrastructure, book a demo of Dakota Marketplace and see how leading teams are centralizing their entire research process.
