The most rigorously verified data in private markets, priced so the people who actually need it can get it.
"A number you can't verify isn't worth defending. Dakota spent 20 years building the fundraising intelligence infrastructure the industry actually uses — Joe applies that same standard to fund performance, GP intelligence, and transaction data, so the people who have to defend the number never have to guess where it came from."
Building from a boutique fundraising firm into a leading data and intelligence platform
Customers across fundraising, deal, and investment teams worldwide
Funds tracked by Joe, with 164,000+ performance records across 7 asset classes
Of records reviewed by Joe's research team before publication — not auto-populated
Dakota was founded in 2006 as a boutique investment management fundraising firm. Out in the field raising capital, the team kept hitting the same wall: the data, contacts, and intelligence fundraisers needed simply didn't exist in a form that was accurate, actionable, or built for how they actually worked. So Dakota built it — starting with Dakota Marketplace, the database its own team used every day.
Twenty years later, allocators, consultants, and GPs kept running into a version of the same problem fundraisers faced in 2006: fund performance data stitched together from providers built for different jobs, self-reported numbers with no independent verification, and pricing that required a sales call just to see a quote. So Dakota built Joe the same way it built Marketplace — sourced from primary materials, reviewed by a research team before publication, and priced so it's usable rather than gated behind an enterprise quote.
Gui has spent nearly 20 years building Dakota from a boutique fundraising firm into one of the most respected data and intelligence platforms in private markets. Joe extends that same research standard to fund performance, GP intelligence, and transaction data.
Boutique investment management fundraising firm in Philadelphia. Mission: help investment managers raise capital.
The LP/GP database Dakota's own team built to fill the intelligence gap it experienced every day in the field.
GP data, portfolio company intelligence, international coverage, AI-powered search, and integrations with every major CRM.
Fund performance, GP & sponsor intelligence, private company transactions, and custom benchmarking — built on the same 20-year data foundation, applied to a new problem.
Whether it's a consultant benchmarking a manager, an allocator validating a track record during diligence, or a GP positioning performance credibly against real comparables, Joe's job is to make sure the number they're standing behind can actually hold up.
"You can build the most rigorously verified dataset in private markets and still price it so the people who need it can actually buy it. We've spent 8 years proving that with Dakota Marketplace. Joe is the same idea, applied to performance data."
The same research discipline Dakota built Marketplace on, applied to every fund, GP, and transaction record in Joe.
Same research standard, same 20-year data foundation, one login.
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