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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 Strategy & Deal Sourcing

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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