Targeted buyer search

The hundred investors who would actually buy your business

There are 6,736 verified investors on this site. Somewhere between forty and a few hundred of them could plausibly buy a business like yours, and the rest are noise - wrong sector, wrong size, wrong strategy, or a fund that stopped deploying two years ago and has not said so.

Finding that set is a research problem, and it is the one thing this database was built to solve. We use it on our own mandates. This is the same work, sold on its own.

Verified investors6,736

Holdings we can match against62,698

Held five years or more1,681Owners under pressure to return capital

Shortlist turnaround10 days

Method

How the hundred are chosen

Four filters, applied in this order. Each one is a fact a firm published about itself, not a score we invented.

01
Strategy first, because it is a hard gate
A venture fund cannot buy a profitable business outright and a buyout fund will not lead a seed round. Getting this wrong wastes the whole list, so it is settled before anything else.
02
What they already own
The strongest signal that somebody will buy your business is that they already own one like it. We match against 18,000 disclosed holdings, not against a self-declared sector tag.
03
Cheque size against your size
A fund that writes $200m cheques will not do a $9m deal, however well it fits on paper. Where a firm has filed with the SEC we use what it actually raised, not what its website implies.
04
Whether they are still deploying
A fund at the end of its life is not a buyer. Filing history, portfolio dates and site activity separate the firms that are still investing from the ones that are quietly winding down.

Read the full methodology for how the underlying data is verified, and what we deliberately do not claim to know.

What it costs

Three ways to use it

Fixed fees, quoted before we start. The first two are one-off and there is no retainer attached to either.

Shortlist

$1,450

one-off

You approach them.

A researched shortlist of up to 100 investors matched to your business, each with a verified deal-team contact and a one-line reason it is on the list. Delivered as a workbook you own outright.

Up to 100 matched investors, ranked
A named contact and verified email for each
Why each one fits: what they already own, cheque size, sector
Firms to avoid, and why
A 45-minute call to work through it
Delivered ten working days from the kick-off call

Or talk to us first

Search & approach

$4,900

one-off

We approach them.

Everything in the shortlist, and then we make the approach ourselves - written properly, sent from our own domains, followed up, and handed to you as live conversations rather than a spreadsheet.

Everything in the shortlist
One campaign: up to 100 investors, up to three touches each, over eight weeks
A blind teaser written for your business
The approach made and followed up on your behalf
Your name withheld until you say otherwise
Replies routed straight to you, with our read on each
Fee credited in full against the success fee if you go on to a sale mandate

Or talk to us first

Sell-side mandate

Retainer + fee

by situation

We run the whole process.

A full engagement: preparation, materials, the competitive process, negotiation and close. Priced per situation, with the success fee doing most of the work.

Full preparation and information memorandum
A competitive process, not a single conversation
Negotiation, diligence management and close
Fees weighted to the outcome, not the hours

Talk to the desk

Fees are quoted and agreed in writing before any work starts. A shortlist that we cannot build to a useful standard - because the sector is too thin, or the business is too small for institutional capital - is not sold: we will tell you that instead, and we refund it in full. Payment is by card, through Stripe.

Deliverable

Where the depth is

What lands in your inbox, sector by sector.

Sector	Investors on file	Recorded deals	Most active buyer
Software & Internet	3,454	2,672	The Descartes Systems Group
Healthcare & Life Sciences	1,855	1,263	Boston Scientific
Industrials & Manufacturing	1,560	1,298	Patrick Industries Inc
Financial Services	1,337	726	AFH Financial Group
Consumer & Retail	1,286	837	High Tide
Business & Professional Services	1,093	668	Next 15 Group

Start

Start a buyer search

Tell us roughly what the business is. We will come back with the shape of the search and a sample of the investor set before you commit to anything.

Your name *

Email *

Company

Website

Sector

Revenue

EBITDA

Which of the three

Where you operate

Anything a buyer would fixate on

Also send me the monthly note on what businesses like mine sold for.

Whatever you send is confidential. We do not share your name, your company, or the fact that you made contact, with anyone - including any investor listed on this site - without your permission first.

Straight answers

Before you ask

Is this just a list you already have?: No. The database is the raw material, not the product. The work is deciding which hundred of seven thousand belong on your list, checking each is still deploying, and finding the right person inside each firm. A generic export would be worth what you would pay for it.
Will anyone know my business is for sale?: Not unless you say so. On the search-and-approach tier the first contact is a blind teaser: sector, size and shape, no name. Your identity is released firm by firm, only with your say-so.
What if the outreach gets nothing?: Sometimes it does. We tell you before we start if we think the set is too thin, and we would rather not take the fee than sell you a search we do not believe in. What we will not do is promise a result we cannot control.
Do you take a success fee?: On a full mandate, yes - that is where most of our compensation sits. On the two fixed-fee tiers there is no success fee unless you convert to a mandate, and then the fee you already paid is credited against it.
How current is the data?: Portfolios and contacts are re-verified continuously; every address on a shortlist is re-checked at the point we build it, not taken from a cache. Where the SEC has a filing we use it, because a firm's own filing beats its marketing page.