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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Acquire.com, Inc.

Acquire.com is a founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace that lets entrepreneurs buy and sell profitable online businesses with vetted listings, integrated deal tools, and expert support.

Tools Due Diligence

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses AI to help financial professionals extract insights from 10,000+ public and private sources.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Axial is the largest online marketplace for buying, selling, and financing private companies in the lower middle market, connecting 4,500+ buyers and investors with 10,000+ deals every year.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Backwell Tech Corp. Europe (Backwell Tech Corp. Europe GmbH)

Backwell Tech is a Berlin-based software company building Al systems that help businesses make more profitable decisions, faster, and with greater confidence.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Bankers Deals is a cloud and mobile M&A deal discovery platform using data-driven matching to connect middle and lower‑mid market buyers and sellers, giving advisors and investors a broader, more transparent origination channel.

Tools Due Diligence

Black Duck is an application security company whose open source audits and software composition analysis are a standard component of tech/code due diligence in M&A.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Blueflame (by Datasite)

Blue Flame is an LLM-agnostic agentic AI platform for investment firms, orchestrating workflows across sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and investor relations.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Boopos is a marketplace and financing platform for buying and selling profitable SaaS and online businesses, combining vetted listings, valuations and non‑dilutive acquisition loans so entrepreneurs can execute smaller M&A transactions without traditional bank or equity funding.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Caena is a fundraising automation and dealflow platform where founders can quickly create financial models and investment materials while investors use filtering and matching tools to discover relevant early‑stage deals across emerging and developed markets.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Circle Square is a corporate finance recruitment and executive search firm focused on M&A and related front‑office roles rather than a software platform.

Tools Due Diligence

Claira is an agentic deal management platform for private markets, automating deal capture, document extraction, and analysis for investment teams.

Tools Due Diligence

CodeDD is an AI-native code auditing platform that provides deal teams with deep, explainable insights into software assets, reducing time and risk in technical due diligence.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

conclusia turns market theses and existing documents into qualified longlists of acquisition targets, add-ons and buyers – combining customizable AI search, live data enrichment and personal case support.

Tools Due Diligence

Concord is an end-to-end contract lifecycle management platform offering unlimited documents and e-signatures on every plan, built for rapid deployment.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

CFI is an online training and certification platform that helps finance professionals and teams build practical skills in corporate finance, M&A, valuation, FP&A and analytics through structured programs and hands‑on case studies.

Tools Cross-cutting Platforms, Talent & Financing

Cyndx is a purpose-built AI platform for dealmakers, combining deal sourcing, investor discovery, valuation and AI-generated research so M&A and capital-raising teams can uncover and analyze opportunities faster.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

DEALCIRCLE is a technology-based M&A service that uses a proprietary buyer database and intelligent matching algorithms to connect sell-side advisors with suitable buyers for lower-mid-market transactions.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Deale is a digital marketplace that helps SMEs, investors, and advisors find, evaluate, and close SME M&A deals more efficiently.

Tools Due Diligence

DealSage is a deal intelligence platform that structures CIM data, benchmarks deals against historical repositories, and generates investment memos.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

DealStream is a global deal sourcing marketplace connecting 620,000+ members across 200 countries with business-for-sale, real estate, and financial asset listings.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Dealsuite is a closed market network of vetted advisors, investors and strategic buyers, built around live mid-market mandates and combining algorithmic matching with AI-powered search across a large, active community in 60+ countries, with particularly strong coverage in Europe.

Tools Due Diligence

Diligent (goDiligent.ai)

Diligent provides AI agents that automate manual KYC and AML workflows—risk reviews, screening and document checks—so compliance teams can process more customers faster while improving consistency and auditability.

Tools Due Diligence

DocuSign is the global leader in electronic signatures and Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM), automating the agreement lifecycle from preparation through AI-powered analysis.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

DUB – Deutsche Unternehmerbörse

DUB.de is Europe‘s leading platform for company succession that combines listings, expert content and advisory networks to help SMEs find successors, buyers and franchise opportunities.

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