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For private equity: deals beyond startups, and live data from the companies you run.

Everything a venture fund gets, plus deal sourcing for acquisitions, roll-ups and arbitrage, and real-time operating data.

Private equity firms hold fewer, larger positions and often control the companies they own. They need two things venture funds do not: deals found well beyond startups, and each company's operating numbers, live.

What we usually find in private equity.

Deal flow from the same brokers

Everyone sees the same auctions. Deals outside them depend on a few partners' relationships.

Monthly packs, weeks late

Operating data arrives after the moment to act has passed.

Value creation that is hard to prove

The plan is made at entry, but nobody tracks it against reality month by month.

Fundraising and reporting

The same investor and reporting work as any fund, with larger amounts at stake.

Checking targets takes months

Due diligence is long, expensive and done against a deadline.

The tools we would choose.

The venture fund set plus the Hands-On Monitor. The Deal Scout works in private equity mode.

Deal sourcing beyond startups.

In private equity mode, the Deal Scout looks for every kind of opportunity your strategy allows, not only young companies.

Acquisitions

Companies to buy outright or take control of, found through changes of ownership, public registries and advisors.

Roll-ups

Fragmented niches where many small companies can be joined into one larger, more valuable group, with a list of platform and add-on targets.

Arbitrage

Price gaps: between small private companies and larger groups, between markets, and between a company's value and its price in a forced sale.

Succession

Founder-owned companies where the next generation will not continue: a large and quiet source of deals.

Carve-outs

Divisions that larger groups want to sell because they no longer fit.

Secondaries

Stakes in companies or funds sold by investors who need cash early, often at a discount.

Listed companies too small for the market

Small listed companies that would be worth more as private businesses.

Usually: Done-for-you Platform or Combined

Firms with their own deal teams often choose the Done-for-you Platform and own it. Firms that want more deal flow without hiring choose Combined.

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