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 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 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 Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

Datarails FinanceOS is the governed, Excel-native AI Finance Operating System that consolidates financial data into one source of truth, encodes each company‘s own business logic, and gives every forecast, report, and AI output a trusted, audit-ready foundation.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

EKNOW provides a modular, enterprise-grade M&A execution platform that replaces spreadsheets and point tools with integrated pipeline, diligence, integration and data room capabilities backed by decades of M&A playbooks and best practices. EKNOW M&A Tools is the operating system for the M&A Ecosystem.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

Full Stack Modeller

Full Stack Modeller is a specialist Excel and financial modelling training community that equips finance and M&A teams with consistent modelling standards, hands-on practice and accredited learning paths.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Intapp DealCloud

Intapp DealCloud is an AI-powered deal and relationship intelligence platform that centralizes deal flow, relationship data, and firm intelligence in a compliance-aware environment for financial and professional services firms. It provides a single hub to coordinate pipelines, client and intermediary relationships, and cross-firm workflows, helping teams originate smarter, execute deals more efficiently, and grow faster.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

loyos is a SaaS provider specialising in business intelligence and reporting solutions for private equity and SMEs, helping companies make their data visible and actionable for data-driven decisions.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

LucaNet provides a CFO platform that consolidates financial data, planning and consolidation workflows, with AI agents and use cases that support M&A due diligence, scenario planning and post-merger reporting.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

mar:lean is a German technology-intelligence platform that combines technology analytics with market valuation to support IP-driven licensing, M&A and investment decisions.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

MergerWare is an end-to-end M&A execution platform that helps organizations manage deals, due diligence, integrations, synergies, and divestitures in one place.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 provides an agentic CRM and ERP foundation that many corporate development and PE portfolio teams already use to track relationships, deals and post-close performance in a Microsoft-centric stack.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

Model ML is an AI-powered research and workflow automation platform for investment banking and PE, automating pitch decks, memos, and diligence packages.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

monday.com gives deal and integration teams a flexible, highly configurable hub for tracking pipelines, workstreams and integrations when they do not require a dedicated M&A platform.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

MoneySoft is a long-established US provider of business valuation and M&A deal-analysis software for brokers, advisors, CPAs and buyers.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Mosaia is an AI-native deal sourcing and intelligence platform deploying autonomous AI agents for industry mapping, target screening, and lead generation.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Navatar is an AI-native private markets CRM and deal operating system on Salesforce that captures firm knowledge, market intelligence and third-party data into a living intelligence layer powering origination, execution and fundraising.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Outreach is an agentic AI sales execution platform that automates and analyzes multi-channel engagement, pipeline and forecasting — also applied to M&A deal origination outreach.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

PATEV provides IP-centric M&A intelligence, valuation and innovation analytics that help buyers and sellers understand technology leadership, IP value and related risks in transactions.

Estonia / Global

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Pipedrive provides a flexible, low-friction CRM and pipeline tool that some M&A and corporate development teams repurpose for deal tracking and outreach when they do not yet need full M&A-specific platforms.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Pipeline CRM is a US sales CRM (formerly PipelineDeals) offering pipeline management, automation and reporting for small and mid-sized teams.

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