Altss vs Dakota

15 min readCompetitor figures re-checked

Dakota Marketplace was built by fundraisers who were raising institutional capital, and it remains the reference for the US public pension and intermediary channel. Altss is an OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform covering global family offices and institutional LPs, with the raise workflow built in: a CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence, and a relationship graph. Both publish their pricing, which is rare here. This page covers where each wins, honestly.

The short answer

Choose Altss when

Your raise is global or family-office weighted. 9,000+ offices against Dakota's 3,500+, plus GP coverage, emerging-manager signals, and the outreach workflow included.

Choose Dakota when

Your raise runs through US public pensions and consultants. Analysts reading board materials across 1,433 funds produce 350+ searches a year, and Dakota's marginal seat costs $1,000.

9,000+
Family offices in Altss, global
3,500+
Family offices published by Dakota
1,433
US public pension funds Dakota tracks
$16,500
Dakota's published starting price per year

#At-a-glance comparison

At-a-glance comparison of Altss and Dakota

  • Origin

    Altss
    Founded 2025 by OSINT specialists and former fund managers
    Dakota
    Built by Dakota's own fundraising team, raising institutional capital since 20061
  • Primary market

    Altss
    Global private markets: family offices, institutional LPs, GPs
    Dakota
    US institutional and intermediary allocator channel1
  • Institutional LP coverage

    Altss
    150,000+ institutional LP entities4
    Dakota
    250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts, on a broader account definition1
  • US public pension coverage

    Altss
    3,344 US public pension entities and 6,337 globally, with 543,250 LP-to-fund commitments and 48,829 allocation records4
    Dakota
    1,433 US public pension funds, with analysts reading board materials1
  • US public pension research depth

    Altss
    Pension documents, IC minutes and OCR'd allocation pages parsed automatically; no analyst desk and no search alerts
    Dakota
    Strongest in the category: analysts read board materials across all 1,433 funds1
  • Investment search alerts

    Altss
    Not provided
    Dakota
    350+ institutional searches surfaced annually1
  • Family office coverage

    Altss
    9,000+ globally4
    Dakota
    3,500+, US-weighted1
  • RIA coverage

    Altss
    38,500+ investment advisers matched to Form ADV, of which 14,700+ report private funds4
    Dakota
    17,000+ RIAs1
  • Corporate and DB/DC plans

    Altss
    Covered within the institutional LP set
    Dakota
    78,000+ corporate pension funds; 14,000+ DB, DC and Taft-Hartley plans1
  • Consultant coverage

    Altss
    42 consultant firms tagged — present as a category, not built out4
    Dakota
    1,000+ field consultants tagged; 4,000+ manager presentations to pensions1
  • GP coverage

    Altss
    40,000+ GPs with strategy, fund status, LP base4
    Dakota
    Not a primary Dakota dataset
  • Company dataset

    Altss
    Live 35M+ companies4
    Dakota
    Private and public company coverage included1
  • International coverage

    Altss
    Global-first OSINT pipeline
    Dakota
    Growing, but North America first1
  • Update cadence

    Altss
    30-day full re-verification, with faster updates on personnel moves, mandate shifts, and fund launches
    Dakota
    Daily research updates on contacts, accounts, and job moves1
  • Workflow model

    Altss
    The workflow is the product: CRM and pipeline, AI outreach, copilot, inbox and notetaker in one place
    Dakota
    Data feeds your workflow: Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, Snowflake, plus API and flat file1
  • Pricing

    Altss
    Published: Investor Intelligence $15,000–$25,000/year ($12,000–$20,000 emerging); Fundraising OS from $25,000
    Dakota
    Published: $16,500/year for the first user, $1,000 per additional user; Salesforce app from $10,000/company/year2
  • Best for

    Altss
    Alternatives fundraising, family-office-heavy raises, international LP coverage, emerging managers
    Dakota
    US institutional fundraising, the public pension channel, intermediary and consultant sales

Dakota figures were read from dakota.com on August 6, 2026, including its published pricing. Altss figures reflect internal database counts as of August 2026. The two LP counts are not directly comparable: Dakota counts LP accounts on a broader definition that includes intermediary and sub-accounts, Altss counts institutional LP entities.

Dakota is the better platform for a US institutional raise, and the public pension channel is not close: analysts reading board materials across 1,433 public pension funds produce 350+ investment searches a year, and no OSINT pipeline substitutes for that. Altss is the better platform for a global or family-office-weighted alternatives raise, with 9,000+ family offices against Dakota's 3,500+, 40,000+ GPs, and the outreach workflow in the same product. Both publish pricing, which makes this an unusually easy comparison to run yourself.
Altss OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform showing family office and institutional LP data with a built-in CRM, AI outreach, a research copilot, and a relationship graph
The Altss platform: 9,000+ family offices, 150,000+ institutional LP entities, and a live 35M+ company dataset, with a built-in CRM, AI outreach, a research copilot, and a relationship graph in one OSINT-native workspace.

#What is Altss?

Altss is an OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform built for managers raising capital in alternative assets. It works from open-source intelligence rather than self-reported profiles: SEC filings (Form ADV, Form D, 13F), state pension CAFRs, Form 990 and 990-PF for foundations, endowment annual reports, sovereign wealth fund disclosures, verified corporate registries, and published allocator statements. That produces verified profiles of 9,000+ family offices and 150,000+ institutional LP entities worldwide4.

Every email is bounce-checked before the record appears, and the full database re-verifies on a rolling 30-day cycle, with faster updates on personnel changes, mandate shifts, and fund launches.

The workflow sits on the same data: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph. Altss also runs a live 35M+ company dataset.

Altss is UI-only. No CSV export, no public API, no CRM sync. Dakota is the opposite on all three, and for teams whose process runs through Salesforce that is a decisive difference.

#What ships in the platform today

Every capability below is live for customers today. They sit in two places: the Investor Intelligence plans, and Altss Fundraising OS, which adds the fundraising and IR workflow on top. Roadmap items are named as roadmap on the platform page, never here.

Included in every Investor Intelligence plan

From $15,000/year, or $12,000/year for qualifying emerging managers

  • Investor research and discovery

    Search and filter the allocator universe by geography, strategy, AUM, mandate and signal. Verified decision-makers and contacts on every profile.

  • AI-assisted research

    Ask in plain language across the dataset. "Which Miami family offices backed a first-time healthcare manager" returns a filtered, sourced answer rather than keyword matches.

  • Agentic knowledge base

    A knowledge layer that works the corpus for you: follows the question across filings, registries and profiles, and returns an answer with its evidence attached.

  • Allocator signals and mandates

    Mandate shifts, organizational changes, personnel moves and fund launches, surfaced as they become publicly observable.

  • Evidence-backed profiles

    Every record traces to a public source with a verification timestamp, so a claim about an allocator can be checked against a filing rather than trusted.

  • Scouter

    Investor discovery and targeting: surface allocators whose current mandate matches the fund you are raising, not the one you raised last time.

  • LP–GP Connect

    Present your fund directly to allocators inside the platform, live since February 2026.

Research copilot

Which family offices backed a first-time healthcare manager in the last 18 months?

1

Single family office · Boston

Form D990-PFPress release
2

Single family office · Geneva

Form D990-PFPress release
3

Multi-family office · Toronto

Form D990-PFPress release

Every row carries the public source it was derived from.

Ask in plain language; every row carries the public filing it came from. Interface illustration.

Altss Fundraising OS

From $25,000/year, in three configurations

  • Investor CRM and pipeline

    Track every allocator conversation in-platform. Stages, owners, notes, and collision detection so two partners never work the same LP.

  • AI-assisted outreach

    Warm-path orchestration and sequenced follow-ups, drafted against the allocator's actual mandate. You send from your own mailbox; nothing goes out unreviewed.

  • Relationship and warm-path mapping

    LPs, GPs, companies and the people who move between them, derived from filings and transactions rather than from anyone's inbox.

  • Meeting and interaction intelligence

    An inbox and meeting notetaker that files notes against the firm and the person automatically, so the record of a conversation lives with the allocator it concerns.

  • Events and conference intelligence

    Who is attending, who is speaking, and which of them is actively allocating, before you book the flight.

  • Team collaboration and analytics

    Shared pipeline across the IR team, with fundraising analytics and prioritization on top of the same allocator data.

Pipeline
Researching24

Single family office · Zurich

Mandate signal

Endowment · US Midwest

Mandate signal

MFO · Singapore

Mandate signal
First contact11

Foundation · Nordics

Mandate signal

SFO · Gulf

Mandate signal
In diligence5

Pension · Netherlands

Mandate signal

Fund of funds · UK

Mandate signal
The investor CRM: allocator records move through your pipeline with their signals attached. Interface illustration.
Outreach · draft for review

Warm path

Your firm
Co-investor
Target allocator

Derived from a filed co-investment, not an inbox

Step 2 of 4 · follow-upAwaiting your approval
Send from your mailboxEdit
Warm paths derived from filings rather than inboxes, and nothing sends without your approval. Interface illustration.

Altss is UI-only: no CSV export, no public API, and no external CRM sync. That is a deliberate product decision, and it is stated on every comparison on this site.

#What is Dakota?

Dakota Marketplace is an institutional investment database built by Dakota's own fundraising team, which has been raising institutional capital since 2006. Its defining characteristic is that the research is done by people who fundraise for a living, and it shows in what the product chooses to track.

Per dakota.com, read August 6, 2026, Dakota publishes1:

  • 250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts1
  • 1,433 US public pension funds, with research staff reading board materials1
  • 350+ institutional searches surfaced annually1
  • 78,000+ corporate pension funds and 14,000+ DB, DC and Taft-Hartley plans1
  • 17,000+ RIAs and 3,500+ family offices1
  • 340 broker-dealer platforms with 200,000+ contacts1
  • 1,000+ field consultants tagged and 4,000+ manager presentations to pensions1
  • 5,000+ customers across fundraising, deal, and investment teams3

Dakota integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, and Snowflake, and offers an API and flat-file delivery. Updates flow into the connected CRM automatically1.

Dakota publishes its pricing: $16,500 per year for the first user and $1,000 for each additional user, with the Salesforce app priced separately from $10,000 per company per year2. Publishing a price is rare in this category and it is genuinely useful to buyers.

#Coverage comparison

Family offices

Altss
9,000+ global
Dakota
3,500+ (US-weighted)

Read from dakota.com on August 6, 202614.

US public pension funds

Altss
3,344 US, 6,337 globally
Dakota
1,433 funds

Altss holds more pension entities; Dakota holds deeper research on each. Different products, and the counts do not settle it14.

Board materials read by analysts

Altss
Documents parsed, not analyst-read
Dakota
Across all 1,433 funds

Altss parses pension documents, IC minutes and OCR'd allocation pages, but does not staff analysts reading board packets or publish search alerts14.

Property ownership linked to firms

Altss
66,409 firm-linked
Dakota
Not published

From a corpus of 91,191,608 US parcels with 14,500,336 distinct owners resolved to entity type, plus French and APAC/MENA land registries and 534,223 deed records. Measured August 10, 2026.

Aircraft and vessels linked to owners

Altss
1,362 aircraft, 4,966 vessels
Dakota
Not published

Identified and linked to the owning entity, across 861 firms for aircraft. Measured August 10, 2026.

Relationship graph

Altss
7,871,996 edges
Dakota
Not published

Across 6,493,533 resolved entities, including 3,584,276 firm-to-firm edges and 1,866,710 introduction paths. Derived from public transactions, filings and registries. Measured August 10, 2026.

US public pensions: Dakota's category, not ours

Dakota's research team reads board packets across 1,433 US public pension funds and surfaces investment searches, RFPs, manager reviews, and consultant recommendations, producing 350+ searches a year1. This is manual work on documents that are public but unstructured, and it is the clearest example in this comparison of research beating automation.

Altss covers public pensions through CAFRs and filings, but does not read board minutes at that depth. If public pension mandates are your primary channel, Dakota gives you leading-edge deal flow that Altss does not replicate, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

Family offices and the international question

Altss tracks 9,000+ family offices globally4; Dakota publishes 3,500+, weighted to the US1. As with every comparison in this category, the gap is mostly geographic. Dakota International and Dakota Middle East are real products, but Dakota's centre of gravity is North America, and Altss's OSINT pipeline was built global-first.

The practical test is your own list. Take twenty target offices from your pipeline and ask both platforms for the decision-maker, the current mandate, and a working email. If those twenty are US-based, the gap will be small. If half sit in Europe, the Gulf, or Asia, it will not be.

Counting LPs: why 250,000 and 150,000 are not comparable

Dakota publishes 250,000+ LP accounts1; Altss publishes 150,000+ institutional LP entities4. These are different units. Dakota's account definition is broader and includes intermediary and sub-account records that Altss would not count as distinct institutional entities.

Neither number is wrong and neither is audited. Comparing them directly is the mistake. Compare instead on the segment you actually sell into, and ask both vendors to show coverage on named targets rather than on a total.

#Data freshness

Both platforms update quickly, by different mechanisms. Dakota's cadence comes from analysts reading documents daily. Altss's comes from an OSINT pipeline monitoring public sources continuously.

Altss

  • 30-day full database re-verification cycle
  • Faster updates on personnel changes, mandate shifts, and fund launches as they become publicly observable
  • Every email bounce-checked before the record appears
  • Every record traceable to a public source with a verification timestamp

Dakota

  • Daily research updates on contacts, accounts, job moves, and allocator activity1
  • Board-material review across 1,433 public pension funds, which no automated pipeline currently matches1
  • Updates sync automatically into a connected CRM1
  • Research depth is strongest in North America, thinner internationally

Dakota is faster where a human reads the document. Altss is faster where no document is filed. On an unregistered family office that just hired a head of private markets, the second case is the one that matters.

#Methodology: OSINT vs. analyst-read research

The methodological difference here is not automation versus manual work. Both use both. It is which sources each platform organises itself around.

Dakota's approach: analyst-read research on the US institutional record. Dakota staff read public pension board packets, consultant recommendations, manager presentations, and search notices, then structure what they find. This produces intelligence that is genuinely leading-edge, because a search often appears in board minutes before it is announced anywhere else. The limit is throughput and geography: it scales with headcount, and it works best where the documents exist and are in English.

Altss's approach: OSINT-first, across many source types at once. SEC filings, pension CAFRs, Form 990 and 990-PF, endowment annual reports, sovereign wealth fund disclosures, verified corporate registries, public news, and published allocator statements. Every record traces to its public source with a timestamp. This scales across languages and jurisdictions, and it reaches entities that never file anything, but it does not read a 300-page board packet and tell you a search is coming.

The two miss different things. Dakota is unlikely to surface a Zurich single-family office quietly building a private credit allocation. Altss is unlikely to tell you that a Texas pension board discussed an emerging-manager programme last Tuesday. Which gap costs you more depends entirely on where your capital comes from.

#Pricing

Dakota's marginal seat is $1,000. Ours is not. Price the whole stack, not the line item, then decide.

Altss

Published. Family Office Intelligence $15,000/year ($12,000 emerging), Global Investor Intelligence $18,000 ($15,000), Full Market Intelligence $25,000 ($20,000). One named user included; additional users from $5,000. Altss Fundraising OS from $25,000/year adds the investor CRM, AI outreach and meeting intelligence.

Dakota

Dakota (published on dakota.com):

  • $16,500/year for the first user2
  • $1,000/year per additional user2
  • Salesforce app from $10,000/company/year, requiring an active Marketplace membership2
  • Enterprise arrangements quoted directly

Both platforms publish a starting price, which is rare in this category. Dakota starts at $16,500 for the first user. Altss starts at its emerging-manager Family Office tier. Dakota's additional seats are cheaper than ours, so on a pure data-subscription line item Dakota wins at team scale and we are not going to argue it away. The Altss case is that the price also covers the CRM, outreach and notetaker you would otherwise buy separately. Price the whole stack, not the line item.

Dakota pricing read from dakota.com pricing guidance, August 6, 2026. Altss pricing per altss.com/pricing, August 2026. Both are list prices before any negotiated enterprise terms.

#

If your raise runs through US public pensions and consultants, buy Dakota. Adding Altss makes sense for the family-office and international side, not as a replacement.

Where Dakota wins

Dakota is very good at a job Altss does not attempt, and for a large part of the institutional market it is the right purchase.

  1. 01

    US public pension intelligence

    Analysts reading board materials across 1,433 public pension funds, surfacing searches, RFPs, manager reviews, and consultant recommendations1. This is the single most operationally useful dataset in US institutional fundraising and Altss does not replicate it.

  2. 02

    350+ investment searches a year

    Search activity often appears in board minutes before it is public anywhere else1. For a manager whose strategy fits public pension mandates, that lead time is worth the subscription on its own.

  3. 03

    Consultant and intermediary depth

    1,000+ field consultants tagged, 4,000+ manager presentations to pensions, 340 broker-dealer platforms, and 78,000+ corporate pension funds1. US institutional sales runs through consultants, and Dakota maps that layer properly.

  4. 04

    It syncs with the CRM you already run

    Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, and Snowflake, plus API and flat file, with updates flowing in automatically1. Altss has none of this by design. For a team with an established Salesforce process, this alone can decide it.

  5. 05

    Marginal seats are cheap

    $1,000 per additional user after the first2. A ten-person institutional sales team can be covered for around $25,500 a year. Per-seat, nothing else in this comparison is close.

  6. 06

    Built by fundraisers, and it shows

    Dakota's research team works alongside people actively raising capital, so the product tracks what fundraisers actually act on rather than what is easy to collect. That practitioner instinct is a real asset.

  7. 07

    Published pricing

    Dakota publishes its price2. So do we. In a category where almost everyone hides behind a sales call, both platforms deserve credit, and buyers should reward it.

If your raise runs through US public pensions and consultants, buy Dakota. Adding Altss makes sense for the family office and international side, not as a replacement.

#Where Altss wins

  1. 01

    Global family offices

    9,000+ globally4 against Dakota's 3,500+1, with the difference concentrated in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. For a family-office-weighted or international raise, this is usually the whole decision.

  2. 02

    International LP coverage generally

    Dakota International and Dakota Middle East are growing, but Dakota is North America first with international added on. Altss's pipeline was built global-first and works across languages and filing regimes.

  3. 03

    GP coverage

    40,000+ GPs with strategy, fund status, LP-base visibility, and activity tracking4. Not a primary Dakota dataset.

  4. 04

    Emerging-manager identification

    Fund I and Fund II launches surface continually as Form D and Form ADV filings appear4. Dakota is not built to identify emerging managers, and Altss emerging-manager pricing starts at $12,000 a year.

  5. 05

    The workflow is included, not integrated

    A built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter, and events intelligence. Dakota's model is to feed the CRM you own; Altss's model is to be where the raise runs. For a team without a Salesforce admin, that difference is months of setup and a licence line nobody has to buy.

  6. 06

    Signals from sources nobody files

    Mandate shifts, personnel changes, and fund launches surface as they become publicly observable across many source types. Dakota's daily research is fast where documents exist; a large share of family office activity generates no document at all.

  7. 07

    A live 35M+ company dataset

    Companies and startups, completing the LP to GP to portfolio-company graph in one platform4.

#Full feature comparison

Full feature comparison of Altss and Dakota

US institutional channel

  • US public pension coverage

    Altss
    Yes: 3,344 US entities, 6,337 globally
    Dakota
    Partial: 1,433 funds
  • Investment search alerts

    Altss
    No
    Dakota
    Yes: 350+ per year
  • Consultant coverage

    Altss
    Partial: 42 firms tagged
    Dakota
    Yes: 1,000+ field consultants
  • Corporate pension plans

    Altss
    Yes: Within institutional set
    Dakota
    Yes: 78,000+
  • DB / DC / Taft-Hartley plans

    Altss
    Partial
    Dakota
    Yes: 14,000+
  • Broker-dealer platforms

    Altss
    Partial: 10,877 dual-registered broker-dealers, not platform-tagged
    Dakota
    Yes: 340 platforms, 200,000+ contacts

Global coverage

  • Global family offices

    Altss
    Yes: 9,000+
    Dakota
    Partial: 3,500+, US-weighted
  • Institutional LP records

    Altss
    Yes: 150,000+ entities
    Dakota
    Yes: 250,000+ accounts, broader definition
  • LP-to-fund commitments

    Altss
    Yes: 543,250 across 683,549 funds
    Dakota
    Yes: Covered via account research
  • Verified contacts

    Altss
    Yes: 2,612,201, bounce-checked
    Dakota
    Yes: 386,000+
  • RIA coverage

    Altss
    Yes: 38,500+ matched to Form ADV
    Dakota
    Partial: 17,000+
  • GP / fund manager coverage

    Altss
    Yes: 40,000+
    Dakota
    Partial: Not a focus
  • Companies dataset

    Altss
    Yes: Live 35M+
    Dakota
    Yes: Private and public companies
  • Emerging-manager identification

    Altss
    Yes: Continuous via Form D / ADV
    Dakota
    Partial: Limited
  • International coverage

    Altss
    Yes: Global-first
    Dakota
    Partial: North America first

Data quality and workflow

  • Mandate-shift signals

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    Yes: Via daily research
  • Source traceability

    Altss
    Yes: Per record
    Dakota
    Partial: Not published per record
  • Built-in CRM & pipeline

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    No: Integrates with yours
  • AI-assisted outreach

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    No
  • Research copilot

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    No
  • Inbox + meeting notetaker

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    No
  • Events & conference intelligence

    Altss
    Yes
    Dakota
    No
  • CRM integrations

    Altss
    No: By design
    Dakota
    Yes: 8 named platforms

Commercial

  • API / flat file

    Altss
    No: By design
    Dakota
    Yes
  • Bulk export

    Altss
    No: By design
    Dakota
    Yes
  • Published pricing

    Altss
    Yes: From $15K/yr ($12K emerging); Fundraising OS from $35K
    Dakota
    Yes: $16.5K first seat, $1K after

Comparison accurate as of August 6, 2026. Dakota figures and pricing read from dakota.com on that date. Altss figures reflect internal database counts. Both platforms' figures are published list prices with no negotiated terms. A “No” against Altss on export, API, and CRM sync reflects a deliberate product decision.

#What fund managers are saying

Dakota is the reason we knew about two searches before they were announced. Nothing else in our stack does that. It also told us nothing useful about the Gulf, which is where half our target LPs sit.

Head of IR at a North American private credit manager1

We looked at replacing Dakota and decided not to. We added Altss for the family office and international side and kept Dakota for the pension channel. Different jobs.

Managing Director, institutional sales2

For a Fund I with no Salesforce admin, a data subscription that assumes you already have a CRM is half a product. Having the pipeline in the same place as the data is what we actually bought.

Founding Partner, emerging manager, Fund I3

Their per-seat pricing is genuinely better than ours at scale. We won on coverage outside the US, not on price.

Altss customer, European growth equity fund4

1–4 Testimonials reflect verified customer and prospect feedback captured in recorded evaluation calls between October 2025 and July 2026. Testimonials are lightly edited for clarity and anonymized at speaker request. Full verbatim transcripts and speaker identities are retained by Altss under NDA and can be provided to qualified prospects on request. References available.

#Which is right for you?

For fundraisers targeting US public pensions
Dakota. Board-material research across 1,433 funds and 350+ searches a year is the product, and Altss does not replicate it. This is not close.
For US institutional sales running through consultants
Dakota. Consultant tagging, manager presentations, and intermediary coverage are built for exactly this motion.
For managers raising from global family offices
Altss. 9,000+ offices globally against Dakota's 3,500+, with the difference concentrated outside North America.
For emerging managers (Fund I–III)
Altss on coverage and workflow, Dakota on price. Emerging-manager pricing starts at $12,000/year and Fund I and II launches are tracked continually. But a solo GP who only needs data and already has a CRM will find Dakota's $16,500 covers more of the US institutional market.
On the per-seat line item
Dakota's $1,000 additional seat is materially cheaper than ours. The Altss case rests on replacing CRM and outreach tooling, not on winning the data line item.
For teams whose process depends on CRM sync
Dakota. It syncs with eight named platforms and offers an API and flat file. Altss is UI-only by design, and if data must leave the platform this is a hard blocker.
For alternatives managers with an international LP base
Altss, or both. Dakota's North American depth and Altss's international coverage are genuinely complementary, and plenty of teams run both.

#Pros and cons

Altss

Pros

  • +9,000+ family offices globally, with real depth outside North America
  • +40,000+ GPs with strategy, fund status, and LP-base visibility
  • +Emerging-manager identification via continuous Form D and Form ADV monitoring
  • +Built-in CRM, AI outreach, research copilot, inbox and notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence
  • +Live 35M+ company dataset
  • +30-day re-verification with source traceability on every record
  • +Published pricing, including emerging-manager pricing from $12,000

Cons

  • No public pension board-material research and no investment search alerts
  • Thinner on US consultants, broker-dealer platforms, and Taft-Hartley plans
  • No CRM integrations, no API, no bulk export, all by design
  • Additional seats cost more than Dakota's

Dakota

Pros

  • +1,433 US public pension funds with board materials read by analysts
  • +350+ institutional searches surfaced annually
  • +250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts
  • +1,000+ field consultants and 4,000+ manager presentations
  • +Eight named CRM integrations plus API and flat file
  • +$1,000 per additional seat after the first
  • +Published pricing
  • +Built and maintained by working fundraisers since 2006

Cons

  • Family office coverage is 3,500+ and US-weighted
  • International coverage trails its North American depth
  • GP and emerging-manager identification are not focus areas
  • No built-in CRM, outreach, notetaker, or copilot; it feeds a workflow rather than being one
  • LP account count uses a broader definition than institutional-entity counts elsewhere

#Using both together

Running both is common, and for institutional alternatives raises it is often the correct answer rather than a compromise.

  • Dakota for the US institutional channel: public pension searches, consultants, corporate plans, intermediary and broker-dealer coverage, and CRM sync
  • Altss for the global side: family offices, international LPs, GP intelligence, emerging-manager signals, and the outreach and pipeline workflow

The platforms are more complementary than competitive. Dakota's strength is depth on a US institutional record that is public but unstructured. Altss's strength is breadth across jurisdictions and entities that file nothing.

If budget forces one, decide on geography and LP type. US institutional and pension-heavy points to Dakota. Global and family-office-heavy points to Altss.

#Frequently asked questions

Can Altss replace Dakota for US public pension fundraising?
No, not fully. Dakota's analysts read board materials across 1,433 US public pension funds and surface 350+ investment searches a year. Altss covers public pensions through CAFRs and filings but does not do board-minute research at that depth. If the public pension channel is your primary motion, keep Dakota.
Can Dakota replace Altss for alternatives fundraising?
Not for a global or family-office-weighted raise. Dakota publishes 3,500+ family offices, weighted to the US, against 9,000+ globally on Altss, and GP coverage and emerging-manager identification are not Dakota focus areas.
Dakota says 250,000+ LP accounts and Altss says 150,000+. Who has more?
The numbers are not comparable. Dakota counts LP accounts on a broader definition that includes intermediary and sub-account records; Altss counts institutional LP entities. Neither count is independently audited. Compare on the segment you sell into, and ask both vendors for coverage on twenty named targets instead.
Which is cheaper?
Dakota, on the line item. Dakota publishes $16,500 for the first user and $1,000 per additional user, so additional seats are materially cheaper than ours. Both platforms publish a starting price. The Altss case is that the subscription also covers the CRM, AI outreach and meeting notetaker you would otherwise license separately; if you already own and staff a CRM, Dakota is the cheaper data subscription and we will say so.
Does Altss integrate with Salesforce?
No. Altss has no CRM integrations, no API, and no CSV export. Dakota integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, and Snowflake. This is a deliberate Altss product decision rather than a roadmap gap, and for CRM-centric teams it is a reason to choose Dakota.
How do the two compare on data freshness?
Dakota updates daily through analyst research and syncs those updates into a connected CRM. Altss re-verifies the full database on a 30-day cycle with faster updates on personnel, mandate, and fund-launch signals. Dakota is faster where a human reads a document; Altss reaches entities that never produce one.
Do both publish pricing?
Yes, and that is unusual in this category. Dakota publishes $16,500 for the first seat and $1,000 per additional seat. Altss publishes $12,000 to $25,000 a year depending on tier and manager stage, with one named user included and additional users from $5,000. You can compare both before taking a sales call.
Can I trial Altss before switching?
Yes. Book a demo to get a working account and test coverage against your own target list, geography, and LP type before committing.

Bring your target list, not your assumptions.

Book a demo with twenty real LP targets. We will show you what Altss holds on each, tell you plainly where Dakota is the better answer, and scope pricing to your team.

Sources

  1. 1.Dakota coverage counts and integrations: dakota.com Marketplace pages, read August 6, 2026 (250,000+ LP accounts; 386,000+ verified contacts; 17,000+ RIAs; 3,500+ family offices; 78,000+ corporate pension funds; 1,433 public pension funds; 340 broker-dealer platforms with 200,000+ contacts; 350+ institutional searches annually; 4,000+ manager presentations; 1,000+ field consultants; 14,000+ DB, DC and Taft-Hartley plans; integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit and Snowflake) View source ↗
  2. 2.Dakota published pricing: dakota.com pricing guidance, read August 6, 2026 ($16,500/year first user; $1,000/year per additional user; Salesforce app from $10,000/company/year, requiring active Marketplace membership) View source ↗
  3. 3.Dakota customer count: dakota.com, read August 6, 2026 (5,000+ customers across fundraising, deal, and investment teams) View source ↗
  4. 4.Altss internal database counts and live 35M+ company dataset: Internal platform metrics, measured August 8, 2026 (9,000+ family offices; 150,000+ institutional LP entities; 40,000+ GPs; live 35M+ companies; 38,531 investment advisers matched to a Form ADV CRD, of which 14,764 report private funds, carrying $165.4T in regulatory assets under management) View source ↗