- Strategy & Deal Sourcing
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Inven is an AI-native research and company analysis platform that gives PE, banking and corporate M&A teams faster, more complete visibility into private markets, helping them complete company research and analysis 10x faster.
Inven is an AI-native analyst platform for private markets that helps finance professionals research companies, markets and deals faster than manual workflows allow, using global private company data and advanced AI to replace manual research. It is scanning 28M+ companies across 160+ countries using NLP over 4M+ sources to build private company profiles, market maps, and deal intelligence.
Key Features
AI analyst workflows – Natural-language prompts like „B2B SaaS companies in the UK“ combined with filters for revenue, growth and ownership signals, answering research questions in seconds.
Deep data coverage – 28M+ companies, 3M+ transactions, 430M+ contacts across 160+ countries.
Multi-source data ingestion – AI and NLP analysing millions of data points from diverse sources into unified company profiles.
Company, buyer & investor analysis – Tools to profile companies and identify relevant financial and strategic players active in specific niches.
Chrome extension – Browser extension and exports that let users pull Inven intelligence directly into their workflows.
AI Capabilities
Inven uses AI algorithms and NLP to analyse millions of global data points, build company and transaction data, and answer finance teams‘ research and analysis questions through natural-language interaction.
Integrations
Chrome browser extension and CSV exports into CRM/analytics tools; Salesforce, HubSpot, DealCloud, Chrome Extension, API; Integrates via exports and potential APIs into clients‘ deal stacks.
More Information
Founded in 2022 by Finnish entrepreneurs, Inven aims to transform M&A by simplifying tedious data gathering and analysis through cutting-edge AI and NLP technology. Inven positions itself as the first AI‑native platform purpose‑built for private‑market deal sourcing, with testimonials from PE firms, investment banks, brokers and consultants highlighting major productivity gains versus manual mapping and legacy databases.
What sets it apart
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Transformer-based NLP in 47 languages with unmatched lower-middle-market coverage.
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Proprietary private-company dataset
analysis runs on Inven‘s own data, not just licensed public-market feeds.
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Natural language and example-based search
describe what you want, get matched companies and analysis.
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Proprietary signals (e.g. intent-to-sell) surface company developments 6–12 months before they become public.
Key Facts
- Category
- Deal Sourcing / Matching / Origination & AI
- Founded
- 2022
- Pricing
- Subscription – list price ~USD 10,000/user/year with annual contracts. Aggressively discounted in negotiations (up to 70% reported), making actual pricing highly variable.
- Deal Stage
- Strategy
- Target Market
- Corporate M&A, M&A Advisory, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Business Brokers, Search Funds
