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Vequity gives M&A teams the complete acquisition intelligence system to best advise their clients, whether a strategic add-on the sponsor hadn't thought of or the comprehensive buyer universe for a sell-side mandate. Each target or buyer prospect with its written rationale, in hours instead of weeks.
170,000
deals analyzed over 26 years
2.3M
company profiles, mapped by capability
1,900+
firms and portfolio companies with declared proprietary acquisition criteria
470 investment firms and 1,481 portfolio companies
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Global Head of FIG
Top-20 investment bank, July 2026
Vequity keeps that record across 170,000 deals, so your bank does not have to.
The problem
Paid for insight. Buried in research and list building.
Static databases and legacy relationships leave clients with recycled buyer and target lists, generic market updates, and nothing new between mandates.
The coverage gap
Relationships go cold between mandates
No specific reason to call a client between deals. Add-on and buyer insight lives in one MD’s head, not the firm’s system.
The senior bandwidth tax
Senior time spent on research
VPs and MDs rework junior output instead of advising clients. Knowledge walks out with every 24-month analyst cycle.
The missed-buyer risk
Lower tension, lower fees
Screens recycle the same sponsors; premium strategics sit outside the industry code. When a client asks why not this buyer, there is no documented answer.
Meanwhile: PE buyers see only about 18% of the deals that match their acquisition criteria. The right buyer is out there. Today’s process misses many of them.
The stuck vintage
The largest fee pool in your market is stuck.
32,000
unsold PE-backed companies, worth $3.8T
$76Bn
implied sell-side fee pool on the 2020 to 21 vintage
~7 years
average buyout hold at exit, up from 5 to 6 years in 2010 to 2021
Bain & Company, Global Private Equity Report 2026. Fee pool is a Vequity estimate at 2.0% of $3.8T enterprise value. LP distributions were 14% of NAV in 2025.
Sponsors who bought at 2020 to 2021 peaks cannot exit sponsor-to-sponsor without being below the current mark. Every stuck asset is a mandate waiting for a credible strategic exit. The banker who can name the premium strategics wins the engagement.
Advise and position
Be the thought partner before the engagement.
Sponsor stranded 2020 to 2021 asset
Strategics ranked by the gap the asset fills: TAM, logos, capabilities, geography
A credible path to exit at or above the mark, and the mandate
Pitching a PE sponsor
Add-on targets for each portco, matched on capabilities, not industry codes
Named targets ranked by fit, each tagged bolster or gap-fill, with owner context and a written rationale
Courting a founder-owned business
Who acquires companies like theirs, and which capabilities earn a premium
A premium-buyer map, plus the add-ons that could lift their multiple before a sale
Quarterly sponsor check-in
Market activity: new deals, active buyers, and targets refreshed as criteria change
A reason to call: 3 to 5 new names worth their time, every quarter
Hand the client a market map where every name has a substantiated reason
Sell-side mandate
What a strategic pays a premium for.
Sponsor-to-sponsor EV is dependent upon current market EV/EBITDA multiples. A strategic prices what value the target adds to its own business. Vequity scores every acquirer on the six reasons it would pay more.
New TAM
A market the acquirer wants and cannot build in time.
Logos
Customers or industry segments the acquirer wants to own.
Capability gap
A product or service the acquirer’s roadmap already names.
Bolster the core
Scale in a line the acquirer is already committed to.
Geography
A region the acquirer has declared it will enter.
Channel
A route to market the acquirer lacks.
The stranded-asset pitch, in three steps
1
Map
Which acquirers have declared one of these six as a priority
2
Pitch
The sponsor’s exit case, built on that acquirer’s own stated intent
3
Win
The mandate, with the premium bidders named before launch
Sell-side mandate, in hand
Mandate in hand: from CIM to defensible buyer list.
Define: upload your CIM and add what your team already knows
Vequity reads the deal, then identifies buyer segments based on strategic fit, not just NAICS codes.
Search mode:
Balanced
Project Eagle
The company is a specialty distributor and solutions provider, offering lifecycle solutions to customers and services throughout the lifecycle of flow control and measurement.
Targeting
Strategic Buyers
Investment Buyers
Firm Types
Private Equity
Family Office
Located in
Dallas, Texas, US
Project Eagle.pdf
2MB
Discover: surface every qualified buyer automatically
Vequity evaluates 2.3M company profiles and 1,900+ firms and portfolio companies with declared proprietary acquisition criteria to surface buyers with real strategic fit, including those often missed.
Alpine Capital Partners
Sponsor | North America
Match
Fund
$1.2B (2023)
Est. dry powder
$450M
Typical check
$20–75M
Gryphon Investors
Sponsor | North America
Match
Validate: 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.
Atlas Manufacturing Co
Strategic
Atlas Manufacturing Co
is
Tier 1
Score
90
Writing Rationale...
Add-on mandate
For a sponsor’s platform or a strategic client: the capability-matched targets a code search misses, each tagged gap-fill or bolster, with the written rationale that survives the partner meeting.
The add-on a capability search returns
Immunization and clinical-rotation compliance tracker for nursing schools, hospitals and their students
Founded 1998. Serves universities and hospitals, not employers. Filed nowhere near the platform.
Public transaction, announced February 2025. The platform launched a healthcare technology division on the acquisition. Read through Vequity’s capability map.
Two degrees
from the platform’s industry code to the target’s
New division
launched on the day the deal was announced
Zero
chance a code or keyword search returns this target
The add-on pitch, in three steps
1
Map
The client’s platform and the capabilities it wants to add
2
Pitch
The ranked target list, with the reason each name is on it
3
Win
The buy-side mandate, or the relationship that becomes the sell-side one
Firm rules
Your firm’s judgment, codified.
Cross-border first
Prioritize acquirers with a stated international mandate before domestic consolidators.
Exclude acquirers mid-integration
Drop any strategic with an announced acquisition closed in the last six months.
Weight prior bid behavior
Rank acquirers that have bid on comparable assets above those that have only expressed interest.
Rules are set once by your senior team and applied to every mandate and every analyst. The list an analyst produces on day one follows the same judgment as the one your MD would build, and every mandate makes the next one sharper.
Between mandates
What changes for your firm.
A sponsor’s hold
year 0 to year 4+
Deal closes
Add-on targets
Market activity brief
Premium-buyer map
Exit positioning
Mandate awarded
Today the banker calls twice. With Vequity, every quarter, with a reason the sponsor takes the call.
3 to 5 new, cited names per client, every quarter
Win the mandate before the bake-off.
More premium bidders in every process
Competitive tension lifts the multiple and the fee accelerator.
Under 10 hours to an exhaustive universe
Senior time goes to advising, positioning and negotiating.
The data
The one dataset PitchBook cannot search and ChatGPT cannot scrape.
1,900+
firms and portfolio companies told us their proprietary acquisition criteria
Buyer intent behind every name on your list, not an industry tag.
2.3M
companies mapped by what they do, across 10k unique capabilities
Why the adjacent strategic appears on your list and nobody else’s.
170,000
deals over 26 years of bid behavior
Who actually shows up, what they pay for, and why.
Every live deal asks matched buyers to confirm their criteria. The data improves as your team uses it.
Driving a premium outcome: aerospace NDT
Deal context
The banker had already launched a standard process to 94 PE firms.
Vequity
Added 78 new strategic buyers and family offices with an NDT focus.
Outcome
5 strategics engaged. The winner, an adjacent publicly-traded strategic unknown to the deal team, paid 1.0x EBITDA more than the best existing bid. Closed in 60 days.
Banker impact
Premium valuation uplift. Closing accelerated by 30+ days. Credibility and a new referral pipeline.
Hardest deal in 5 years, solved blind
Deal context
600 buyers contacted by i-bank over 12 months across 4 process relaunches, for 5 executed LOIs. 300+ analyst hours.
Vequity
Blind, from the redacted teaser only: 285 matching buyers, <3 analyst hours.
Outcome
All 5 actual LOIs captured on the first pass, including 2 the i-bank missed in its first 3 processes.
Banker impact
The bank’s own team scored the list against its process records. The buyers who mattered were identifiable on day one.
60-day pilot
Proof on your deals, before any commitment.
Sixty days, on your deals, with your team scoring the results. Four workstreams and one onboarding session.
Blind backtest
Your hardest closed deal. Send a redacted CIM or teaser; we return the buyer list blind, and your team compares it to actual contacts, IOIs and LOIs.
Buyer lists on live mandates
Buyer universes on active sell-side mandates, strategics and sponsors, each name with its written rationale, delivered before launch.
Add-on recommendations for clients
Capability-matched add-on targets for two sponsor platforms or strategic clients, tagged gap-fill or bolster, ready for the next client meeting.
Acquisition intelligence between mandates
Buyer intelligence across your coverage: declared criteria, recent activity and premium-exit briefs, ideally on a stuck 2020 to 2021 asset.
Written rationale for every buyer and target
More than 15% net-new qualified entities
Two client briefs worth an MD’s meeting
Deal data stays siloed and under NDA. Firm-wide programs are scoped during the pilot.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The questions MDs ask before the first mandate.