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Joe, Powered by Dakota: One Platform for Everything Private Markets

Written by Gui Costin, Founder & CEO | Aug 18, 2026, 2:58:34 PM

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Benchmarking a fund's performance today shouldn't require three vendors and a compliance headache.

But that's the reality most consultants, allocators, and GPs live with (stitching together numbers from deal-flow databases with thin performance histories, benchmarking tools with narrow strategy coverage, and manager-reported figures nobody has independently verified).

Everyone pays the same tax: incomplete comparisons, stale vintages, and hours lost reconciling numbers that should already agree.

Joe, Powered by Dakota was built to end that tax.

Here's what's actually inside Joe: fund performance, GP and sponsor intelligence, transaction data, and custom benchmarking, what it costs, and who it's built for.

One Platform, Not a Patchwork

Joe brings fund performance, GP & sponsor intelligence, private company transaction data, and custom benchmarking together in a single place — everything you need to source new managers, run diligence, and evaluate performance with confidence, without switching between tools.

Private Fund Performance

159,000+ performance records across 18,000+ funds and 7 asset classes — private equity, venture capital, private credit, private real estate, real assets & infrastructure, hedge funds, and evergreen & interval funds. Net IRR, TVPI, DPI, and RVPI are standardized so you can compare directly across strategy and vintage.

GP & Sponsor Intelligence

8,000+ active sponsor profiles across 20,000+ investment firms tracked — investment theses, portfolio companies, deal activity, and team intelligence. Know your counterpart before the call.

Private Company Transactions

Deal-level entry multiples, structures, and sector coverage across sponsored and non-sponsored businesses — including proprietary coverage of 143,000+ non-sponsored companies most databases don't track at all.

Custom Benchmarking

Build bespoke peer groups by vintage, strategy, geography, fund size, and portfolio company sector — your comparisons, not a vendor's predefined categories.

And every record is reviewed by Joe's research team before publication. Not auto-populated, and not filtered through a single GP's marketing deck.

Coverage, By the Numbers

Asset Class | Funds Tracked | Performance Records

Private Equity | 5,200+ | 30,500+

Private Real Estate | 4,600+ | 77,000+

Private Credit | 1,900+ | 10,500+

Real Assets | 1,300+ | 20,500+

Venture Capital | 1,100+ | 5,700+

Private Infrastructure | 550+ | 7,000+

Hedge Funds / Liquid Alts | 2,800+ | 4,600+

Evergreen & Interval Funds | 300+ | 600+

See where your funds and comparables fall in this coverage. Request access to Joe.

The Math That Matters

Our top competitors price this kind of access at $30,000 for three user licenses.

Joe is $9,500 a year for up to five user licenses.

That's not a modest discount, it's a fundamentally different cost structure. For roughly a third of the price, you get more seats, not fewer. No tiered upsell path required to get real functionality, and no procurement fight to get your whole team access instead of rationing logins between two or three people.

Built on Dakota's Data Infrastructure

Joe is built on the same data infrastructure that powers Dakota Marketplace, the LP database used by fundraisers across every institutional and wealth channel, globally. That same commitment to completeness and daily accuracy now extends to fund performance, GP intelligence, and transaction data — which means you're getting an established, actively maintained dataset on day one, not a v1 product still filling in coverage gaps.

Looking for LPs to raise capital from instead? That's Dakota Marketplace.

Who Joe Is Built For

Joe is built for the people who have to defend the number:

  • Investment consultants: benchmark manager performance against true peer sets, not approximations
  • Allocators & CIOs: validate GP track records during diligence with independent data
  • GPs & IR teams: position fund performance credibly against real market comparables
  • Secondaries buyers: underwrite with performance context across vintage and strategy
  • Family offices & OCIOs: evaluate fund commitments with independent, comparable data
  • PE deal teams: validate entry multiples against real transaction comps and map sponsor activity
  • Investment bankers: identify active sponsors and comp private transactions for pitch books

Get Started

Joe, Powered by Dakota is live now.

Five user licenses, 18,000+ funds across 7 asset classes, GP & sponsor intelligence, private company transaction data, and custom benchmarking — for $9,500/year.

Book a demo to see Joe in action.