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Fundraising and raising capital is hard. Dakota makes it easier.
At Dakota, our mission is simple: make fundraising easier for investment sales teams. Dakota Marketplace is the only database built, used, and updated by fundraisers just like you, and we're constantly evolving it to help you spend less time researching and more time closing.
This June, we shipped the biggest product release in Dakota's history. From a brand-new benchmarking dataset to expanded AI connectivity to deep data enhancements across transactions, service providers, and 13F holdings, here is everything that went live and why it matters to your workflow.
Top New Features from June
1. Dakota Benchmarks
The private fund performance question fundraisers hear most from allocators is not "what are your returns?" It's "compared to what?" Until now, answering that question required cobbling together data from multiple sources, none of which were standardized, filterable, or built for fund managers.
Dakota Benchmarks is now live in Dakota Marketplace. It's a standardized dataset showing fund performance by asset class, vintage year, and metric across Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Assets and Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Private Credit. Vintages go back to 2004. Metrics covered are Net IRR, TVPI, and DPI. For each vintage and asset class, you'll see performance at five reference points: Top Decile, Top Quartile, Median, Bottom Quartile, and Bottom Decile, with constituent counts behind every number.
Benchmarks are built by the Dakota Research team using performance data already on the platform and will be updated quarterly. 3Q25 data is live now, with 4Q25 coming shortly. Phase 2 will let users click through from any benchmark row to the constituent funds powering that data point.
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2. Family Office Investments Tab
A new sub-tab under Investments now surfaces family office transactions directly in Dakota Marketplace. Users can filter and view family office investment activity without navigating to the transactions tab or individual family office pages.
For fundraisers calling on family offices, this consolidates deal activity into a single view and makes it faster to understand where a family office is deploying capital before a meeting.
3. MCP Connector: 8 New Data Sets
Dakota Marketplace expanded its MCP connector with eight new data sets for use inside Claude and ChatGPT. The new sets are: Dakota Recommends, Form ADV, Career History, Documents, Investments, Form D, City Guides, and Public Plan Minutes.
If you're already using Dakota's MCP integration with Claude, disconnect and reconnect to activate the new data sets. No admin action required. The ChatGPT connector update is coming soon.
4. Service Providers from Form ADV
Finding out which firms use which service providers has historically meant digging through individual ADV filings, one fund at a time, across documents that aren't structured or searchable.
Dakota Marketplace now surfaces structured service provider data for all relevant RIAs and investment firms, sourced directly from Form ADV. On any firm's account page, you can see which Fund Administrators, Auditors, Third Party Marketers, Custodians, and Prime Brokers that firm works with, without leaving Dakota. The launch includes 2,540 unique service provider accounts representing 5,814 total accounts serviced: 868 custodians, 755 administrators, 515 auditors, 480 third-party marketers, and 202 prime brokers. More accounts are being added and enriched by the data team now.
Additional Updates
Revenue and Enterprise Value on Transaction Records — Revenue and Enterprise Value fields are now visible directly on Transaction records in Dakota Marketplace. Users can assess the size and scale of a deal without leaving the record or conducting additional research. Revenue reflects the target company's annual sales. Enterprise Value reflects the company's total value including equity and debt, the standard metric for evaluating acquisition targets. These fields display when data is available.
Conference Organizer Page Redesign — The conference organizer page has an improved layout, making it easier to navigate and surface the most relevant information quickly.
See What These Features Can Do for Your Team
June's releases were built in direct response to what fundraisers told us they needed most. Dakota Benchmarks gives GPs the context to have better conversations with allocators. The Family Office Investments Tab consolidates deal intelligence into one view. The MCP expansion means Dakota data is available wherever you already work. And Service Providers from Form ADV opens up new end markets and competitive intelligence across the platform.
More updates across AI, data depth, and platform integrations are already in development.
Book a demo of Dakota Marketplace to see how these features can help your team raise capital more efficiently.
