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 Market Intelligence & Data

Grasp is an AI Analyst platform that automates end-to-end financial research tasks for deal teams, from scanning millions of sources to building longlists and slides.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Inex One is an expert network and survey marketplace that lets deal and strategy teams run all their expert calls and surveys in one AI‑enabled platform, reducing cost and admin while improving insight capture.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Search-driven private company intelligence engine for sourcing and screening millions of US SMEs.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Lawtech Group is a digital provider of scientifically based, automated investment systems in litigation funding, enabling cost-efficient, transparent access to justice through process cost investments.

Germany with offices the US and the UK

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Leverest is the Private Capital Markets OS connecting PE investors, lenders, advisors, and corporates globally to manage leveraged buyouts, co-invest syndications, infrastructure financings, and refinancings end-to-end - from lender matching and term negotiation through documentation and portfolio monitoring.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

LoopNet is the #1 commercial real estate digital marketplace with 12M+ unique monthly visitors, a CoStar Group subsidiary since 2012.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

M&A Accelerator

IBM M&A Accelerator is an IBM Consulting offering that gives corporate development and integration teams a single, real-time view across the full M&A deal lifecycle, from pipeline through divestiture.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

M&A Deal Platform

M&A Deal Platform is UK-based software that gives accountants and advisory practices AI-assisted valuation, document drafting, and marketplace tools to deliver M&A and exit-planning services to SME clients.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Mergermarket (ION Group)

Mergermarket, part of ION Analytics, blends expert journalism, machine learning and decades of Dealogic data to deliver early signals of potential M&A opportunities, deals, threats and challenges.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Mergr is a human-researched, daily-updated database connecting private equity firms, corporate acquirers, M&A transactions, and the advisors who work on them.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Michael Page (PageGroup) is a global recruitment group whose Page Executive division provides executive search and leadership talent for PE-backed and M&A-active organizations.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Midaxo is a purpose-built M&A platform that gives strategy, pipeline, diligence and integration teams a shared system of record, workflow and intelligence for repeatable, value-focused execution.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

MODELYZR is an AI-powered market and M&A intelligence platform that enables data-driven target screening, commercial due diligence, market potential assessment and revenue synergy analysis within minutes instead of months.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Navima is an M&A execution and playbook platform that connects pipeline, projects, VDR, reporting and best-practice workflows so teams can increase deal flow, consistency and data-driven decision-making.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Ontra automates critical private market workflows for 9 of the top 10 PEI-ranked firms.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Orbis (Moody's / formerly Bureau van Dijk)

Orbis, now part of Moody‘s, is a global database of 635M+ companies with standardized financials, ownership structures, M&A data and risk indicators, used to find, analyze and compare companies worldwide.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Palturai’s BusinessGraph is an AI-ready relationship and risk intelligence graph that helps financial and corporate users identify sales opportunities, predict company sales events and detect fraud networks in their ecosystems.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

PitchBook is a leading private markets intelligence platform that underpins deal sourcing, diligence and portfolio analysis across VC, PE and corporate development teams.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Preqin is a leading data and intelligence platform for alternative assets, acquired by BlackRock in March 2025 for $3.2B.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Private Equity List

Private Equity List is a lightweight investor directory that complements heavier data platforms by giving founders and smaller dealmakers accessible visibility into the PE/VC landscape.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

PrivSource is a lower middle market M&A deal sourcing platform. Buyers receive live deals matched to their investment mandate; sell-side advisors see exactly which vetted buyers are looking for their deal before they share it. No success fees.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Rogo is a finance-native AI platform helping bankers and investors automate research, due diligence, and document production through end-to-end agentic workflows.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

S&P Global Market Intelligence

S&P Global Market Intelligence provides the data backbone and analytics for many M&A and investment workflows, primarily via its Capital IQ Pro platform, covering deal screening, valuation and risk analysis.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Savantiq combines deep expertise in private finance and advanced technologies into an end-to-end deal management platform purpose-built for M&A and private equity.

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