Key Takeaways
- • Dakota Marketplace launched its Private Fund Performance & Custom Benchmarking dataset, covering 14,000+ private funds across Private Equity, Private Credit, Venture Capital, Private Real Estate, Private Infrastructure, and Private Energy.
- • The product is included in the Dakota Marketplace subscription and is also available standalone at $2,995 per user per year.
- • The suite offers manager, peer, fund-type, and vintage benchmarking, with API and Snowflake Data Cloud integrations and daily updates from Dakota's data research team.
- • Founder and CEO Gui Costin positions the launch as lowering cost and access barriers that have historically limited private fund performance data to the largest firms.
Summary
Dakota Marketplace, a Philadelphia-based provider of investment intelligence for fundraisers and deal sourcers, announced the launch of its Private Fund Performance & Custom Benchmarking dataset, according to a Business Wire release dated November 19, 2025. The dataset covers more than 14,000 private funds across Private Equity, Private Credit, Venture Capital, Private Real Estate, Private Infrastructure, and Private Energy. The company describes the release as a major expansion of its platform, aimed at investment teams seeking deeper performance visibility, faster analytics, and lower-cost alternatives to legacy data providers.
Dakota will introduce the offering as Dakota Private Funds & Benchmarks within its Dakota Marketplace subscription. It will also be sold as a standalone product priced at $2,995 per user per year. The suite includes performance analytics drawn from the 14,000+ funds, custom benchmarking tools for manager, peer, fund-type, and vintage comparisons, integrations via API and the Snowflake Data Cloud, and daily updates curated by Dakota's dedicated data research team.
Gui Costin, Founder and CEO of Dakota Marketplace, said that access to private fund performance information has historically been limited to the largest firms and that the company aims to democratize access to private markets intelligence. The release is promotional in nature and the company's claims regarding coverage and accuracy have not been independently verified in the source material.
Dakota will introduce the offering as Dakota Private Funds & Benchmarks within its Dakota Marketplace subscription. It will also be sold as a standalone product priced at $2,995 per user per year. The suite includes performance analytics drawn from the 14,000+ funds, custom benchmarking tools for manager, peer, fund-type, and vintage comparisons, integrations via API and the Snowflake Data Cloud, and daily updates curated by Dakota's dedicated data research team.
Gui Costin, Founder and CEO of Dakota Marketplace, said that access to private fund performance information has historically been limited to the largest firms and that the company aims to democratize access to private markets intelligence. The release is promotional in nature and the company's claims regarding coverage and accuracy have not been independently verified in the source material.
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