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

Empire Flippers

Empire Flippers is a leading curated marketplace and M&A advisory for online businesses, combining strict vetting, deep digital expertise and full-service migrations for buyers and sellers globally.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

ENTRX is a successor-focused matching platform for German SME business succession.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

EquiMatch is an AI-native, success-fee-only origination partner that uses AI-driven research and personalised outreach to surface and contact off-market targets that match a buyer’s thesis.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

FactSet delivers comprehensive market, company, and transaction data with deep Excel and API integration for investment and M&A professionals. FactSet’s Marketplace is a curated hub of proprietary and third‑party datasets for investment, analytics and research teams, rather than an M&A software workflow tool.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

Private market intelligence platform delivering investment-grade data on private companies, investors and deals for dealmakers.

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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

AI-led deal sourcing platform that surfaces validated, off-market acquisition targets for corporate development teams.

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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

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.

Tools Market Intelligence & Data

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

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

MADiscover is an AI-powered M&A screening solution that translates strategic rationales into dynamic landscapes for data-driven searches of strategic partners and M&A targets, supporting corporate development teams.

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 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 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 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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

The best DACH company data worldwide and the most precise longlisting on the market. ProxDeal is the new generation of company database: 7M+ companies with 100+ parameters each, financials even for non-disclosing companies, shareholder trees down to UBOs, succession signals, and AI longlists in under 5 minutes, accessible via platform, API, and MCP.

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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

SourceCo is a US buy-side deal sourcing firm that uses AI to surface off-market, founder-led acquisition targets and connect them with vetted buyers.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Sourcescrub is a sources-first, AI-powered deal sourcing platform that connects millions of private companies to 290k+ proprietary sources, enabling investors and deal teams to systematically discover, score and engage high-fit targets.

Tools Strategy & Deal Sourcing

Stabwechsel is a specialised succession platform that reverses the traditional marketplace model by presenting vetting successors instead of companies for sale, supported by a network of M&A coaches.

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