--- title: "Altss vs Dakota Marketplace (2026): Full Comparison" description: "An honest comparison of Altss and Dakota Marketplace for fundraisers. Institutional LP coverage, US public pension intelligence, family office depth,…" canonical: "https://altss.com/vs/dakota" --- # Altss vs Dakota By Altss April 19, 2026 15 min read Competitor figures re-checked August 6, 2026 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. [Book a Demo](https://altss.com/book-demo) 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 | Dimension | Altss | Dakota | | --- | --- | --- | | Origin | Founded 2025 by OSINT specialists and former fund managers | Built by Dakota's own fundraising team, raising institutional capital since 2006[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Primary market | Global private markets: family offices, institutional LPs, GPs | US institutional and intermediary allocator channel[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Institutional LP coverage | Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | 250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts, on a broader account definition[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | US public pension coverage | 3,344 US public pension entities and 6,337 globally, with 543,250 LP-to-fund commitments and 48,829 allocation records[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | 1,433 US public pension funds, with analysts reading board materials[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | US public pension research depth | Pension documents, IC minutes and OCR'd allocation pages parsed automatically; no analyst desk and no search alerts | Strongest in the category: analysts read board materials across all 1,433 funds[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Investment search alerts | Not provided | 350+ institutional searches surfaced annually[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Family office coverage | 9,000+ globally[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | 3,500+, US-weighted[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | RIA coverage | 38,500+ investment advisers matched to Form ADV, of which 14,700+ report private funds[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | 17,000+ RIAs[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Corporate and DB/DC plans | Covered within the institutional LP set | 78,000+ corporate pension funds; 14,000+ DB, DC and Taft-Hartley plans[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Consultant coverage | 42 consultant firms tagged — present as a category, not built out[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | 1,000+ field consultants tagged; 4,000+ manager presentations to pensions[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | GP coverage | GP coverage with strategy, fund status, LP base[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | Not a primary Dakota dataset | | Company dataset | Live 35M+ companies[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) | Private and public company coverage included[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | International coverage | Global-first OSINT pipeline | Growing, but North America first[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Update cadence | Source-specific dates; no universal freshness guarantee | Daily research updates on contacts, accounts, and job moves[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Workflow model | The workflow is the product: CRM and pipeline, AI outreach, copilot, inbox and notetaker in one place | Data feeds your workflow: Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Dynamo, Altvia, Pinnakl, Satuit, Snowflake, plus API and flat file[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) | | Pricing | Published: Intelligence plans $15,000–$25,000/year; Fundraising OS from $25,000 | Published: $16,500/year for the first user, $1,000 per additional user; Salesforce app from $10,000/company/year[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2) | | Best for | Alternatives fundraising, family-office-heavy raises, international LP coverage, emerging managers | US institutional fundraising, the public pension channel, intermediary and consultant sales | 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 2006[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Primary market Altss Global private markets: family offices, institutional LPs, GPs Dakota US institutional and intermediary allocator channel[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Institutional LP coverage Altss Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions Dakota 250,000+ LP accounts and 386,000+ verified contacts, on a broader account definition[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - 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 records[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota 1,433 US public pension funds, with analysts reading board materials[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - 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 funds[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Investment search alerts Altss Not provided Dakota 350+ institutional searches surfaced annually[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Family office coverage Altss 9,000+ globally[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota 3,500+, US-weighted[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - RIA coverage Altss 38,500+ investment advisers matched to Form ADV, of which 14,700+ report private funds[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota 17,000+ RIAs[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - 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 plans[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Consultant coverage Altss 42 consultant firms tagged — present as a category, not built out[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota 1,000+ field consultants tagged; 4,000+ manager presentations to pensions[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - GP coverage Altss GP coverage with strategy, fund status, LP base[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota Not a primary Dakota dataset - Company dataset Altss Live 35M+ companies[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) Dakota Private and public company coverage included[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - International coverage Altss Global-first OSINT pipeline Dakota Growing, but North America first[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Update cadence Altss Source-specific dates; no universal freshness guarantee Dakota Daily research updates on contacts, accounts, and job moves[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - 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 file[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Pricing Altss Published: Intelligence plans $15,000–$25,000/year; 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/year[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2) - 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 are approved published coverage counts; no measurement date is recorded for them. The two counts are not directly comparable: Dakota counts LP accounts on a broader definition that includes intermediary and sub-accounts; Altss counts private-markets entities, which is not an LP-only count.* > 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+, GP coverage, and the outreach workflow in the same product. Both publish pricing, which makes this an unusually easy comparison to run yourself. Filters - Entity typeFamily office - MandatePrivate equity - Cheque size$5M – $25M - GeographyGlobal - SignalRecorded activity 150,000+ institutional LPs · published scope Illustrative rows · not live results | Type | Region | AUM band | Decision makers | Checked | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | SFO | US · West | $1B–$5B | 3 | Example | | MFO | US · East | $5B–$25B | 5 | Example | | MFO | UK | $1B–$5B | 2 | Example | | SFO | CH | $250M–$1B | 4 | Example | | SFO | CA | Over $25B | 6 | Example | Source Example reference Checked Example date Context Unknowns retained Illustrative record layout. How the work actually looks: filter the allocator universe, and every field on every row carries the public source it came from and the date it was last checked. ## 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+ private-markets entities worldwide[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface. 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 raw-data 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 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](https://altss.com/platform), never here. ### Included in every Intelligence plan Global plans from $15,000/year - #### AI-assisted research In-product natural-language research over the selected coverage, with supporting evidence and limitations. - #### Agentic knowledge base Research across available filings, registries and profiles with source evidence. - #### Scouter Investor discovery and targeting inside the authenticated research workflow. Research copilot Which family offices backed a first-time healthcare manager in the last 18 months? 1 Single family office · Boston Source reference Date Unknowns 2 Single family office · Geneva Source reference Date Unknowns 3 Multi-family office · Toronto Source reference Date Unknowns Evidence and source availability vary by record. Ask in plain language; inspect the supporting sources and unknowns. Interface illustration. ### Altss Fundraising OS From $25,000/year, in three configurations - #### Native investor CRM Altss is not a general-purpose CRM company. Altss Fundraising OS includes a native investor CRM and pipeline; Intelligence plans provide the research layer. Standard subscriptions do not include external CRM sync. - #### AI-assisted outreach Fundraising OS supports AI-assisted outreach and sequenced follow-ups under customer review and authorization. Altss does not independently solicit investors on behalf of customers or provide a bulk email-blasting service. - #### Meeting intelligence Meeting records and follow-up context inside authorized fundraising workflows. - #### Inbox and interaction context Customer-authorized communication context within the fundraising workflow. - #### Events intelligence Conference and event context for research and preparation. - #### Relationship and warm-path mapping Altss maps relationship paths that help users understand whom they already know around a target. Users independently decide whether to request an introduction through their own relationships. Altss does not make or broker investor introductions. Pipeline Researching 24 Single family office · Zurich Mandate signal Endowment · US Midwest Mandate signal MFO · Singapore Mandate signal First contact 11 Foundation · Nordics Mandate signal SFO · Gulf Mandate signal In diligence 5 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 Illustrative relationship evidence Step 2 of 4 · follow-up Awaiting your approval Send from your mailbox Edit An illustrative relationship path beside a follow-up draft for customer review. Interface illustration. *Standard subscription intelligence is used in-platform. No public raw-data API, CSV export or bulk download of Altss content, data feed or graph-replication access is offered; customers can export their own data. Public factual pages and their Markdown equivalents may be read and cited. Agents accepts scoped requests for bounded paid results through manual commercial review; no automated external task transport is live.* ## 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 publishes[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1): - **250,000+ LP accounts** and **386,000+ verified contacts**[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **1,433 US public pension funds**, with research staff reading board materials[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **350+ institutional searches** surfaced annually[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **78,000+ corporate pension funds** and **14,000+ DB, DC and Taft-Hartley plans**[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **17,000+ RIAs** and **3,500+ family offices**[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **340 broker-dealer platforms** with 200,000+ contacts[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **1,000+ field consultants** tagged and **4,000+ manager presentations** to pensions[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - **5,000+ customers** across fundraising, deal, and investment teams[3](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-3) 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 automatically[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 year[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2). 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, 2026[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1)[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). 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 it[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1)[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). 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 alerts[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1)[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). 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 year[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 globally[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4); Dakota publishes 3,500+, weighted to the US[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 accounts[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1); Altss publishes 150,000+ private-markets entities[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). 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, with each record dated by its source. ### Altss - Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface. - 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 activity[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Board-material review across 1,433 public pension funds, which no automated pipeline currently matches[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - Updates sync automatically into a connected CRM[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1) - 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**, **Global Investor Intelligence $18,000**, **Full Market Intelligence $25,000**. One named user included; additional named users $5,000 each. **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 user[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2) - **$1,000/year** per additional user[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2) - Salesforce app from **$10,000/company/year**, requiring an active Marketplace membership[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2) - 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 global plans start at $15,000 for Family Office Intelligence. 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 recommendations[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 else[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 funds[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 automatically[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-1). 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 first[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2). 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 price[2](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-2). 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+ globally[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4) against Dakota's 3,500+[1](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-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 GP coverage with strategy, fund status, LP-base visibility, and activity tracking[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). Not a primary Dakota dataset. 4. 04 ### Emerging-manager identification Fund I and Fund II managers are identified from Form D and Form ADV filings[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). Dakota is not built to identify emerging managers. 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 platform[4](https://altss.com/vs/dakota#source-4). ## Full feature comparison Full feature comparison of Altss and Dakota - Feature | Altss | Dakota - US institutional channel - US public pension coverage | Yes: 3,344 US entities, 6,337 globally | Partial: 1,433 funds - Investment search alerts | No | Yes: 350+ per year - Consultant coverage | Partial: 42 firms tagged | Yes: 1,000+ field consultants - Corporate pension plans | Yes: Within institutional set | Yes: 78,000+ - DB / DC / Taft-Hartley plans | Partial | Yes: 14,000+ - Broker-dealer platforms | Partial: 10,877 dual-registered broker-dealers, not platform-tagged | Yes: 340 platforms, 200,000+ contacts - Global coverage - Global family offices | Yes: 9,000+ | Partial: 3,500+, US-weighted - Institutional LP records | Yes: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | Yes: 250,000+ accounts, broader definition - LP-to-fund commitments | Yes: 543,250 across 683,549 funds | Yes: Covered via account research - Contact records | Yes: 2.6M+ (email bounce-checked before it appears) | Yes: 386,000+ - RIA coverage | Yes: 38,500+ matched to Form ADV | Partial: 17,000+ - GP / fund manager coverage | Yes: Strategy, fund status, LP base | Partial: Not a focus - Companies dataset | Yes: Live 35M+ | Yes: Private and public companies - Emerging-manager identification | Yes: Via Form D / ADV filings | Partial: Limited - International coverage | Yes: Global-first | Partial: North America first - Data quality and workflow - Mandate-shift signals | Yes | Yes: Via daily research - Source traceability | Yes: Per record | Partial: Not published per record - Built-in CRM & pipeline | Yes | No: Integrates with yours - AI-assisted outreach | Yes | No - Research copilot | Yes | No - Inbox + meeting notetaker | Yes | No - Events & conference intelligence | Yes | No - CRM integrations | No: By design | Yes: 8 named platforms - Commercial - API / flat file | No: By design | Yes - Bulk export | No: By design | Yes - Published pricing | Yes: Global plans from $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K | Yes: $16.5K first seat, $1K after 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: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions 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 - Contact records Altss Yes: 2.6M+ (email bounce-checked before it appears) Dakota Yes: 386,000+ - RIA coverage Altss Yes: 38,500+ matched to Form ADV Dakota Partial: 17,000+ - GP / fund manager coverage Altss Yes: Strategy, fund status, LP base Dakota Partial: Not a focus - Companies dataset Altss Yes: Live 35M+ Dakota Yes: Private and public companies - Emerging-manager identification Altss Yes: Via Form D / ADV filings 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: Global plans from $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K 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.* ## 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. 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. Fund I and II managers are identified from Form D and Form ADV filings. 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 - +GP coverage with strategy, fund status, and LP-base visibility - +Emerging-manager identification via Form D and Form ADV monitoring - +Built-in CRM, AI outreach, research copilot, inbox and notetaker, Scouter, events intelligence - +Live 35M+ company dataset - +Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface. - +Published pricing, with global plans from $15,000 Cons - −Public pensions covered through CAFRs and filings rather than board-minute research - −Strongest on family offices and direct allocators; lighter on US consultants and Taft-Hartley plans - −No CRM integrations, no public raw-data 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 private-markets entities, which is not an LP-only count. 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 does not include standard external CRM sync, no public raw-data 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? Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface. 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 $15,000 to $25,000 a year for its global Intelligence tiers, depending on tier, with one named user included and additional named users $5,000 each. You can compare both before taking a sales call. Can I evaluate Altss before switching? Yes, through a guided demo rather than a trial: Altss does not offer a free trial or a trial account. On the call we run the registry live against your own target list, geography, and LP type, including where coverage is thin. A demo is optional; published plans are bought online. ## 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. [Book a Demo](https://altss.com/book-demo) [See pricing](https://altss.com/pricing) See also [All comparisons](https://altss.com/vs) [Altss vs Preqin →](https://altss.com/vs/preqin) [Altss vs PitchBook →](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook) [Altss vs FINTRX →](https://altss.com/vs/fintrx) [Altss vs PEI Group →](https://altss.com/vs/pei-group) [Altss vs Affinity →](https://altss.com/vs/affinity) [Altss vs DealCloud →](https://altss.com/vs/dealcloud) ## 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 ↗](https://www.dakota.com/dakota-marketplace) 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 ↗](https://www.dakota.com/resources/blog/how-much-does-dakota-marketplace-cost) 3. 3.**Dakota customer count:** dakota.com, read August 6, 2026 (5,000+ customers across fundraising, deal, and investment teams) [View source ↗](https://www.dakota.com/about-us) 4. 4.**Altss internal database counts and live 35M+ company dataset:** Internal platform metrics (9,000+ family offices and 150,000+ private-markets entities: approved published coverage, measurement date not recorded; live 35M+ companies, revised August 6, 2026; measured August 8, 2026: 683,549 fund records and 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 ↗](https://altss.com/) ## Canonical URL https://altss.com/vs/dakota