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Every Buyer Rationale Defensible. Every Search Exhaustive.

MDs define the criteria. Vequity evaluates thousands of companies against them — and documents exactly why each buyer belongs on the list,

and why others don't. Cited sources. Transparent scoring.

Your expertise applied at scale.

MDs define the criteria. Vequity evaluates thousands of companies against them — and documents exactly why each buyer belongs on the list, and why others don't. Cited sources. Transparent scoring.

Your expertise applied at scale.

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The M&A Buyer Rationale Gap

The M&A Buyer
Rationale Gap

Your team identifies hundreds of potential buyers. But when your client asks "why is this name on the list?" — the answer shouldn't depend on who built the spreadsheet.

The Analyst Carousel

  • Buyer lists built by analysts who lack MD-level strategic intuition

  • Inconsistent format, rigor, and rationale across mandates and teams

  • Institutional knowledge walks out the door every 24 months

Inexperienced Analyst Builds the List

The Analyst Carousel

  • Buyer lists built by analysts who lack MD-level strategic intuition

  • Inconsistent format, rigor, and rationale across mandates and teams

  • Institutional knowledge walks out the door every 24 months

Inexperienced Analyst Builds the List

The Senior Bandwidth Tax

  • VPs and MDs correcting junior output instead of managing clients

  • Strategic buyer rationale lives in the MD's head, not in the process

  • Firm leadership unable to redeploy VPs toward relationship-driven revenue

VP Spends 4 hours Fixing the List

The Senior Bandwidth Tax

  • VPs and MDs correcting junior output instead of managing clients

  • Strategic buyer rationale lives in the MD's head, not in the process

  • Firm leadership unable to redeploy VPs toward relationship-driven revenue

VP Spends 4 hours Fixing the List

The Defensibility Risk

  • Client-facing buyer lists lack transparent, documented fit rationale

  • Quality variance across deal teams creates institutional risk

  • No audit trail proving strategic reasoning behind inclusions or exclusions

Client Asks Tough Questions

The Defensibility Risk

  • Client-facing buyer lists lack transparent, documented fit rationale

  • Quality variance across deal teams creates institutional risk

  • No audit trail proving strategic reasoning behind inclusions or exclusions

Client Asks Tough Questions

The Analyst Carousel

  • Buyer lists built by analysts who lack MD-level strategic intuition

  • Inconsistent format, rigor, and rationale across mandates and teams

  • Institutional knowledge walks out the door every 24 months

Inexperienced Analyst Builds the List

The Senior Bandwidth Tax

  • VPs and MDs correcting junior output instead of managing clients

  • Strategic buyer rationale lives in the MD's head, not in the process

  • Firm leadership unable to redeploy VPs toward relationship-driven revenue

VP Spends 4 hours Fixing the List

The Defensibility Risk

  • Client-facing buyer lists lack transparent, documented fit rationale

  • Quality variance across deal teams creates institutional risk

  • No audit trail proving strategic reasoning behind inclusions or exclusions

Client Asks Tough Questions

Let your team do what AI can't. Let AI do what your team can’t.

Let your team do what AI can't.

Let AI do what your team can’t.

Vequitymultipliestheexpertiseofyourteamandensuresnoqualifiedbuyerismissed,makingeachdefensibletoyourclient.
Builtonproprietarydataandacquisitioncriteriafromthousandsofcompanies,Vequityisaliveintelligencesystem,notastaticdatabase.Itgivesyouranalyststhepatternrecognitionofyourmostexperienceddealmakersfromdayone.
Vequitymultipliestheexpertiseofyourteamandensuresnoqualifiedbuyerismissed,makingeachdefensibletoyourclient.
Builtonproprietarydataandacquisitioncriteriafromthousandsofcompanies,Vequityisaliveintelligencesystem,notastaticdatabase.Itgivesyouranalyststhepatternrecognitionofyourmostexperienceddealmakersfromdayone.

What Changes

Three Outcomes That Move The Needle

Drive Competitive Tension

Surface buyers who already have a thesis in your client's space. More qualified bidders at the table means a stronger process and fee accelerators.

Drive Competitive Tension

Surface buyers who already have a thesis in your client's space. More qualified bidders at the table means a stronger process and fee accelerators.

Free Your Senior Bankers

Automate top-of-funnel research so senior bankers can focus on what only they can do: positioning, negotiation, and closing. 100+ hours saved per deal.

Free Your Senior Bankers

Automate top-of-funnel research so senior bankers can focus on what only they can do: positioning, negotiation, and closing. 100+ hours saved per deal.

Walk In With Proof

Present every buyer’s specific acquisition rationale - not

just names on a list. Your research wasn't just extensive,

it was exhaustive.

Walk In With Proof

Present every buyer’s specific acquisition rationale - not just names on a list. Your research wasn't just extensive, it was exhaustive.

Drive Competitive Tension

Surface buyers who already have a thesis in your client's space. More qualified bidders at the table means a stronger process and fee accelerators.

Free Your Senior Bankers

Automate top-of-funnel research so senior bankers can focus on what only they can do: positioning, negotiation, and closing. 100+ hours saved per deal.

Walk In With Proof

Present every buyer’s specific acquisition rationale - not just names on a list. Your research wasn't just extensive, it was exhaustive.

Ensuring no buyer is missed and every buyer is defensible to your client.

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Experience M&A Intelligence

Experience M&A Intelligence

Define

Discover

Validate

Institutional IP

Upload Your CIM.
Add What Your Team Already Knows

Upload Your CIM. Add What
Your Team Already Knows

Vequity reads the deal,

then identifies buyer segments

based on strategic fit,

not just NAICS codes.

Vequity reads the deal, then identifies buyer segments

based on strategic fit, not just NAICS codes.

Vequity reads the deal, then identifies buyer segments based on strategic fit,

not just NAICS codes.

Surface Every Qualified Buyer Automatically

Vequity evaluates millions of companies and their acquisition criteria to surface buyers with real strategic fit, including those often missed.

Know Why Every Buyer Made The List

Know Why Every
Buyer Made The List

Every buyer comes with a fit score and written rationale. Vequity answers your

questions with cited sources,

so every name is defensible.

Every buyer comes with a fit score and written rationale. Vequity answers your questions with cited sources, so every name is defensible.

Turn Every Analyst Into Your Best Analyst

Turn Every Analyst
Into Your Best Analyst

Senior dealmakers set the

rules by firm or industry group.

Every analyst follows the same process, turning first-year output from C+ to A-. Your system gets smarter with every deal.

Senior dealmakers set the rules by firm or industry group. Every analyst follows the same process, turning first-year output from C+ to A-. Your system gets smarter with every deal.

Your Data Advantage

Every bank has Pitchbook.
This is what they don’t have

Every bank has Pitchbook.
This is what they don’t have

Every bank has

Pitchbook. This is what they don’t have

Most buyer intelligence stops at public data. Vequity goes

three layers deeper - down to buyer-declared proprietary acquisition criteria.

Most buyer intelligence stops at public data. Vequity goes

three layers deeper - down to buyer-declared proprietary

acquisition criteria.

Most buyer intelligence stops at public data. Vequity goes three layers deeper - down to buyer-declared proprietary acquisition criteria.

Public DataInferred DataDry Powder VelocityOnly VequityLegacy Coverage132K+Acquisitive Strategics Tracked42kPE Portcos TrackedProprietary Buyer Mandates

The Deliverable

This is What Your Client Sees Monday Morning

This is What Your Client Sees

Monday Morning

Scored by rules your MDs defined. Client-ready. Exportable. Defensible.

Institutional IP

Your Senior Team’s Instincts, Codified.

Defined once by the MD. Applied to every deal, by every analyst, automatically

Defined once by the MD. Applied to every deal, by every analyst, automatically

Cross-Border Strategic Prioritization

Cross-Border Strategic Prioritization

Cross-Border Strategic Prioritization

For any precision manufacturing or automation target, always include the top European industrials acquirers (particularly DACH-region) and the three largest Japanese trading houses with industrial portfolios.

For any precision manufacturing or automation target, always include the top European industrials acquirers (particularly DACH-region) and the three largest Japanese trading houses with industrial portfolios.

Strategic Acquirer Filtering

Strategic Acquirer Filtering

Strategic Acquirer Filtering

For any target with >40% revenue from aftermarket parts & service, prioritize strategics with existing service networks in

adjacent verticals.

For any target with >40% revenue from aftermarket parts & service, prioritize strategics with existing service networks in

adjacent verticals.

For any target with >40% revenue from aftermarket parts & service, prioritize strategics with existing service networks

in adjacent verticals.

Powered by Data Built for M&A

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Data Built for M&A

Not just public data. Vequity layers in proprietary acquisition criteria verified directly by buyers, with new firms verifying every week.

Not just public data. Vequity layers in proprietary acquisition criteria verified

directly by buyers, with new firms verifying every week.

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From hoping to proving

  • "Vequity surfaced buyers we had not considered — and each one came with a clear rationale for why they would care about our client's business.  We weren't guessing.  We could evaluate the strategic logic in minutes and feel confident putting them in front of our client."

    Joe Zanca, Managing Director

    "Vequity surfaced buyers we had not considered — and each one came with a clear rationale for why they would care about our client's business.  We weren't guessing.  We could evaluate the strategic logic in minutes and feel confident putting them in front of our client."

    Joe Zanca, Managing Director

  • "I expected to receive a bigger list.  What I didn't expect was that every buyer came with a specific reason they'd be interested — not just an industry match, but a real strategic angle. Several were names we'd never seen before, and the rationale held up under scrutiny."

    John Marsh, Managing Partner

    "I expected to receive a bigger list.  What I didn't expect was that every buyer came with a specific reason they'd be interested — not just an industry match, but a real strategic angle. Several were names we'd never seen before, and the rationale held up under scrutiny."

    John Marsh, Managing Partner

  • "Vequity matched us with one of the most compelling deals we've acquired in many, many years — and there's no way we would have found it on our own."

    Andy Code, Family Office

    "Vequity matched us with one of the most compelling deals we've acquired in many, many years — and there's no way we would have found it on our own."

    Andy Code, Family Office

18+ months

of live mandates powered by
the Vequity system

18+ months

of live mandates powered by
the Vequity system

20%

more qualified buyers surfaced
per mandate vs. legacy methods

200+ hours

of manual research
replaced per engagement

100%

of buyer recommendations
include cited rationale

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently
Asked Questions

Everything you might want to ask before we begin our design journey together.

How is this different from PitchBook + ChatGPT?

Can we use this alongside our existing tools?

How long does onboarding take?

What does this cost?

Do we lose control of the process?

What does my team actually need to do?

Is our deal data secure?

What if the output doesn't meet our standard?

How is this different from PitchBook + ChatGPT?

Can we use this alongside our existing tools?

How long does onboarding take?

What does this cost?

Do we lose control of the process?

What does my team actually need to do?

Is our deal data secure?

What if the output doesn't meet our standard?

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