Gui Costin
- Founder and CEO at Dakota
GetLatka interview
How Dakota Grew to 402 Customers and 115% Net Dollar Retention with a Bootstrapped SaaS Database (Interview with Founder and CEO Gui Costin)
Gui Costin (Founder and CEO of Dakota) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 4, 2021.
Dakota figures from the interview
- Customers (2021)
- 402
- Gross Churn (2021)
- 3%
- Net Dollar Retention (2021)
- 115%
- Team Size (2021)
- 45
“It's the only content and database that is built by fundraisers for fundraisers. And we now have over 400 investment firms and growing using our data to set up meetings to raise money.”
“It's 12,500 for two user licenses and then $1,000 for each additional user.”
“Our data set is about 4,500 different accounts and about 13,000 contacts. We have a ton of more data as well focused on serving one avatar, which is somebody who gets up every morning and has to raise money for their venture fund or private equity fund.”
Bio
Gui Costin is the founder and CEO of Dakota where he leads a team that has raised over $40 billion for investment firms since 2006. He has led the expansion of Dakota’s offerings into software and data to enable investment salespeople to sell more effectively.