Deal Sources.
Buyside deal sourcing origination deal sources for M&A corporate development transactions, deal intelligence, M&A deal price multiples, deal sourcing, deal research, and deal support services.
- ACG, the Association for Corporate Growth: Mergers&Acquisitions' DealmakerPortal.com / The online directory, and deal network for the middle market
- AM&AA Middle Market Alliance Advisors / The Association for M&A professionals
- BizComps and BVRDataworld DealStats (private) / Business valuation resources
- CapitalIQ (subsidiary S&P Global Inc) / Market intelligence
- CapTarget LLC / Deal origination and M&A research
- CBInsights / Machine intelligence platform
- CrunchBase / Discover innovative companies and the people behind them
- DealStats from BVR / Business valuation resources
- Mergr / Global database of M&A firms
- PEHub /A community for PE professionals
- Pitchbook Data (Subsidiary Morningstar Inc) / Capital & M&A Database
- Tagnifi (private) / A modern financial data platform
- Thomson Reuters DMI M&A / M&A deal coverage and financials
- SBIA – Small Business Investor Alliance / Directory & advocacy for American Small business
- Tracxn (multiple investors, $13.5m) / Startup deal discovery platform
Company Data Intelligence Sources.
- Apollo.io ($9m) | Data first sales platform
- Datafox ($11.8m) | AI based company data acquired by Oracle
- Dataynze ($2m) | Sales Intelligence platform acquired by ZoomInfo
- DiscoverOrg (private, acquired Rainking and merged with ZoomInfo (Great Hill Partners) | B2B database for Marketing and sales intelligence
- Glassdoor (Recruit Holdings) | Job search: Find the job that fits your life
- HG Data Company ($18.3m) | Competitive intelligence for the tech industry
- InfoGroup (CCMP Capital Advisors) aka ReferenceUSA | Business and consumer databases for multichannel marketing solutions
- InsideView ($76m) | Sales intelligence software solutions
- LinkedIn (Microsoft) | Professional networking
- Mattermark (Full Contact acquired Mattermark, $54m) | Identity & Data Solutions
- Privco (private) | The best private company database
- Owler ($19.3m) | Community based competitive insights
- Udu (venture) | AI powered deal sourcing for private equity
Additional list of B2B contact data sources available from SalesHacker.
Benchmarking Sources.
- ProfitCents by SageWorks / Industry Benchmarking data product "ProfitCents"
- BizMiner / Industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends
- BizStats / Statistics and financial ratios for broad industry categories
- Business Expenses / Periodic national estimates from the US Census on operating expenses for merchant wholesale, retail trade, and selected service industries
- Valuation Resources.com / A comprehensive resource guide for business appraisers for valuation
- The RMA – Risk Management Association / Comparative industry benchmark data that comes directly from the financial statements of small and medium-size business clients of RMA’s member institutions
- Capital IQ / Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys contain a section titled Key Industry Ratios and Statistics
- Cost of Capital/ published annually by Duff & Phelps, provides detailed ratios and statistics for more than 300 industries (an international edition)
- Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios and Annual Statement Studies / Financial ratios
- Bloomberg / an extensive list of ratios using the Relative Value (RV) function
- ProBenchmark (ISG) / Benchmarking and market price intelligence
- Service Leadership Inc. (acquired by ConnectWise) / Total Profit Solutions for IT Companies
- Baremetrics / Metrics, forecasting, and engagement tools
- KPISense / Modern SaaS financial KPIs and services
- Profitwell / SaaS Metrics for Smarter Growth
Additional list of industry sources available upon request.
- Compliance & Corporate Services
- FinTech, Backoffice Administration, & Accounting
- Human Capital Management and HRTech
- Micro Business B2B
- Sales BPO, Marketing Agencies, and MarTech