Tools & Solutions

Every tool in the 2026 handbook, A to Z. Filter by chapter to narrow it down.

All Market Intelligence & Data 28 Virtual Data Rooms & Transaction Security 39 Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI 12 Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing 27

Strategy & Deal Sourcing 26 Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline 22 Due Diligence 37 Post-Merger Integration 13

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

4Degrees is an AI-powered relationship-intelligence CRM for private-markets and M&A teams, combining automated data capture, relationship scoring, and deal-flow management to source, track, and close more deals.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

A business intelligence portal that makes global customs and shipment data searchable for market, sourcing and competitive analysis.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Acquire.com, Inc.

Acquire.com is a founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace that lets entrepreneurs buy and sell profitable online businesses with vetted listings, integrated deal tools, and expert support.

Tools Virtual Data Rooms & Transaction Security

Admincontrol delivers secure, easy-to-use virtual data rooms and board portals that help decision-makers manage M&A due diligence and corporate governance with confidence.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Affinity is a relationship-intelligence CRM for private capital and M&A teams that centralizes relationship data, automates data capture, and uses AI to surface the best paths to deals.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Airtable is an AI-native low-code platform that combines a relational database with spreadsheet usability, used by 500,000+ organizations including 80% of the Fortune 100.

Tools Post-Merger Integration

Akamai provides an intelligent edge and security platform that simplifies post-merger IT integration by unifying access controls and accelerating applications across combined networks.

Tools Due Diligence

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses AI to help financial professionals extract insights from 10,000+ public and private sources.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

AnalyzeMarkets provides AI-driven global deal intelligence, investor and company databases, and predictive “deals in the making” signals so M&A professionals can source transactions, identify counterparties, and contact decision makers across asset classes from one integrated platform.

Tools Virtual Data Rooms & Transaction Security

Ansarada is an AI-first virtual data room and deal management platform that combines advanced security, predictive deal intelligence and workflow automation so M&A, capital markets and infrastructure teams can prepare, market, execute and integrate complex transactions with greater speed and confidence.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

ARC Intelligence

ARC Intelligence is the AI-native Finance OS for mid-market groups and Private Equity funds: live financial and operational data from every entity and every ERP in one platform, built for performance monitoring, value creation and M&A readiness.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Arx is an M&A-focused deal workspace that unites a proprietary deals and investor database, a purpose-built M&A CRM and a transactional network, helping bankers, investors and corporate M&A teams digitize how they source, track and close transactions.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Asana is a work management platform that helps organizations coordinate projects, workflows, goals, and cross-functional teams in one connected system, with AI-powered features that support planning, automation, reporting, and execution.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Atlassian provides an integrated suite of collaboration, project management, software development, and knowledge-sharing tools that help teams plan work, connect strategy to execution, and deliver projects from idea through completion.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Axial is the largest online marketplace for buying, selling, and financing private companies in the lower middle market, connecting 4,500+ buyers and investors with 10,000+ deals every year.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Backwell Tech Corp. Europe (Backwell Tech Corp. Europe GmbH)

Backwell Tech is a Berlin-based software company building Al systems that help businesses make more profitable decisions, faster, and with greater confidence.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Bankers Deals is a cloud and mobile M&A deal discovery platform using data-driven matching to connect middle and lower‑mid market buyers and sellers, giving advisors and investors a broader, more transparent origination channel.

Tools Post-Merger Integration

BeesWall provides a digital knowledge library and navigation layer that helps M&A and corporate teams manage and find critical information across existing content systems during due diligence and integration.

Tools Due Diligence

Black Duck is an application security company whose open source audits and software composition analysis are a standard component of tech/code due diligence in M&A.

Tools Virtual Data Rooms & Transaction Security

Blackroom is an AI-native data room and deal intelligence platform where assistants, intelligent VDR workflows and bulk AI redaction help M&A teams, corporates and advisors run complex due diligence and transaction processes faster and more securely than with legacy data rooms.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

The market-standard financial data and analytics terminal that supplies deal, market and company intelligence across the M&A lifecycle.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Blueflame (by Datasite)

Blue Flame is an LLM-agnostic agentic AI platform for investment firms, orchestrating workflows across sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and investor relations.

Tools Post-Merger Integration

Boomi is a cloud-native integration platform (iPaaS) connecting applications, data, and AI agents, named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for 12 consecutive years.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Boopos is a marketplace and financing platform for buying and selling profitable SaaS and online businesses, combining vetted listings, valuations and non‑dilutive acquisition loans so entrepreneurs can execute smaller M&A transactions without traditional bank or equity funding.

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