Deale is a digital marketplace that helps SMEs, investors, and advisors find, evaluate, and close SME M&A deals more efficiently.
Founded in Barcelona, Deale positions itself as the first SME-focused digital M&A marketplace in Europe. It combines a curated deal marketplace, workflows, and advisory support to make SME transactions more accessible to both local and international buyers.
Key Features
Online marketplace listing thousands of SMEs across sectors, with filters by size, sector, and location.
Tools for investors to manage pipelines and track deals, reducing time to close and transaction costs compared to traditional M&A.
Advisor workflows to generate mandates and manage multiple deals simultaneously.
Support and content for first-time sellers unfamiliar with M&A processes.
Focus on lower-mid-market transactions with guided workflows to complete deals in under 120 days.
AI Capabilities
Deale publicly emphasizes the use of technology and AI to accelerate processes and act as a “translator” of M&A language for entrepreneurs and investors, using data and algorithms to surface relevant opportunities and compress time-to-close.
Integrations
Primarily a stand-alone marketplace that exports data and reports; used alongside advisors’ own CRMs, VDRs, and communication tools rather than via deep native integrations.
More Information
Founded in Barcelona, Deale positions itself as the first SME-focused digital M&A marketplace in Europe. It combines a curated deal marketplace, workflows, and advisory support to make SME transactions more accessible to both local and international buyers.
What sets it apart
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Gives SME owners a path to exit that is faster and more transparent.
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Provides investors a curated funnel of SME deals.
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Allows advisors to scale beyond their immediate local networks.
Key Facts
- Category
- Deal Marketplaces
- Founded
- 2021
- Pricing
- Mixed model - subscription fees paid by companies, investors and advisors to access Deale, plus a success fee charged on completed transactions with monthly payments offset against the final success fee.
- Deal Stage
- Strategy
- Target Market
- Corporate M&A, End client (sell side), M&A Advisory, Private Equity, Venture Capital
