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 Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

Planful provides the FP&A operating system for many acquisitive and PE-backed companies, with its Predict suite using AI/ML to improve data quality and forecasting, which supports M&A integration and portfolio planning.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Qmarkets (Q-Scout)

Q-scout by Qmarkets is an innovation and deal-scouting platform that applies AI to startup databases and helps corporate M&A and venturing teams build intelligent deal-flow pipelines.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

QuikIRR is an Excel-first deal intelligence platform that automates financial model infrastructure, data cleaning, and investment-grade analysis from raw data room files.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

RIA Catalyst is an AI-powered M&A intelligence platform purpose-built for RIA acquisitions, providing 15,000+ firm profiles and AI acquisition scoring.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Sc0red is an AI-powered M&A target sourcing platform letting deal professionals digitize their investment thesis and apply it at scale across 68M+ companies.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Scend is an agentic financial search platform providing ground-truth intelligence on companies, people, and deals across private markets.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Tiger Team M&A builds M&AOP, the AI operating platform for M&A. Corporate development and private equity teams use it to build strategy and optimize outcomes across the M&A lifecycle.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

One-time-purchase desktop software for standards-compliant small business valuation using asset, income and market approaches.

Tools Valuation & Financial Analytics / BI

Valutico is an AI-enabled valuation suite that combines a large M&A and trading-multiples database with smart, semi-automated workflows so practitioners can deliver defensible valuations far faster than with spreadsheets.

Tools Deal Management, CRM & Pipeline

Wrike is a collaborative work management platform serving 20,000+ organizations across 140 countries, offering AI-powered automation and 400+ integrations.

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