Discover and prioritize potential acquirers with AI. Build comprehensive buyer lists spanning strategic, financial, and non-obvious buyers—ranked by fit and acquisition likelihood.
Sell-side advisors need to identify every credible acquirer quickly and accurately, but traditional approaches leave value on the table.
Bankers rely on existing relationships and obvious strategic buyers, missing non-traditional acquirers from adjacent industries, international markets, and emerging platforms that could drive premium valuations.
SIC codes and industry tags miss buyers with adjacent strategic interests. A buyer's true acquisition rationale often spans multiple verticals, capabilities, and growth strategies that simple classification can't capture.
Ranking dozens of potential buyers by likelihood and fit is subjective and time-consuming. Without data-driven scoring, teams waste effort on low-probability buyers while overlooking high-potential acquirers.
CorpDev.Ai uses advanced AI to identify, profile, and rank potential acquirers across every relevant category—delivering comprehensive buyer lists faster than any manual process.
AI identifies buyers across strategic, financial, and non-obvious categories
Our AI analyzes acquisition histories, strategic priorities, financial capacity, and market positioning to identify every credible buyer for your client. Go beyond the usual suspects and uncover acquirers that traditional screening would never surface.
Strategic Buyer Identification
AI maps corporate strategies, product roadmaps, and growth plans to identify strategic buyers with clear acquisition rationale
Financial Sponsor Screening
Identify PE firms, family offices, and other financial buyers with relevant sector experience, fund capacity, and portfolio fit
Cross-Industry Discovery
Surface non-obvious buyers from adjacent industries pursuing platform expansion, vertical integration, or capability acquisition
Acquisition History Analysis
AI analyzes historical M&A activity to identify serial acquirers and companies with proven appetite for deals like yours
Define Target Profile
Input the company's industry, capabilities, financials, and unique value proposition. AI identifies the key attributes that drive buyer interest.
AI Buyer Scan
AI scans thousands of companies, PE firms, and investment groups to identify every entity with strategic or financial motivation to acquire.
Rationale Mapping
For each potential buyer, AI articulates the specific acquisition rationale—synergies, strategic gaps, and value creation thesis.
Prioritized Buyer List
AI delivers a ranked, categorized buyer list with detailed profiles, fit scores, and recommended outreach strategies.
Strategic Fit Scoring
Multi-dimensional scoring across product overlap, customer synergies, geographic expansion, and technology complementarity
Financial Capacity Assessment
AI evaluates balance sheet strength, cash reserves, debt capacity, and recent fundraising to assess ability to close at target valuation
Cultural Alignment Analysis
Assess organizational culture compatibility, integration approach history, and retention track record to predict post-close success
Likelihood-to-Close Ranking
Composite scoring that combines strategic urgency, financial readiness, competitive dynamics, and deal timeline to rank buyer probability
Data-driven ranking of buyer fit and acquisition likelihood
Not all buyers are created equal. CorpDev.Ai goes beyond identification to score and rank every potential acquirer on strategic fit, financial capacity, cultural alignment, and likelihood to close—so your team focuses outreach where it matters most.
Strategic Fit Scoring
AI evaluates how well each buyer's strategy, product gaps, and growth objectives align with the target's value proposition
Financial Capacity Assessment
Analyze buyer financial strength, available capital, leverage capacity, and willingness to pay competitive valuations
Cultural Alignment Analysis
Evaluate management philosophy, integration approach, and operational culture to predict partnership compatibility
Likelihood-to-Close Ranking
Composite scoring that factors in deal urgency, competitive tension, and historical close rates by buyer type
From discovery to outreach—all AI-powered
AI identifies corporate acquirers with clear strategic rationale—product adjacencies, customer overlap, geographic expansion, and technology gaps that make the target a natural fit.
Screen private equity firms, growth equity funds, and family offices by sector focus, fund vintage, check size, and portfolio composition. Find sponsors with the right thesis and dry powder.
Generate detailed buyer profiles covering acquisition history, strategic priorities, financial capacity, organizational culture, and preferred deal structures—everything you need for targeted outreach.
Multi-factor scoring engine evaluates each buyer across strategic alignment, financial capacity, cultural fit, and deal likelihood. Transparent scoring lets you understand exactly why each buyer ranks where it does.
AI generates buyer-specific talking points, value propositions, and synergy narratives tailored to each acquirer's strategic priorities—helping you craft compelling initial outreach.
Export polished, presentation-ready buyer lists with profiles, scores, and rationale summaries. Formatted for client presentations, internal reviews, and CRM import.
Build comprehensive, data-driven buyer lists in minutes. Join sell-side advisors who've replaced weeks of manual screening with AI-powered buyer identification.