

Fill Your Deal Sourcing Pipeline with the Right Targets
The private market is vast, opaque, and dispersed. Grata gives you verified visibility into the entire landscape, surfacing high-growth, founder-led businesses and niche verticals other platforms miss.

At Grata, we built something different
Search with Contextual AI
Grata reads company websites like analysts — interpreting structure, language, and business signals to understand what a company actually does.
Surface Similar Companies
Discover high-potential companies that resemble your top targets, powered by proprietary private-market intelligence and AI specifically trained for M&A workflows.
Leverage Purpose-Built Filters for Precise Results
Filter by revenue, hiring growth, funding history, and business model. These aren’t generic tags — they’re validated, investment-grade insights.
Engage the Right Executives
Access verified contact information for founders, CEOs, and owners. Prioritize warm introductions via CRM sync and make every outreach count.

See the full picture of your market
Trusted by over 1,000 global customers, 35 of the top 40 firms, and 9 of the top 10 management consulting firms

DEAL SOURCING
See the whole market.
Source with confidence.
Define any thesis, surface the companies that fit, and understand where the next deal is likely to come from.

Define
Grata translates your thesis into precise, discoverable segments

Discover
Reveal businesses hidden to traditional and legacy tools

Analyze
Profiles enriched with proprietary data, CRM context, and verified contact details

Target
Prioritize with Similar Search, identify warm paths, and engage decision-makers with confidence

WHY CUSTOMERS LOVE GRATA
Customer Testimonials
“From a sourcing perspective, it was as comprehensive and accurate as it can get, and the user interface was really nice. In terms of what has intrigued us the most, it's definitely sourcing for new deals. As we were testing Grata, I felt it was the easiest and quickest way. In the past, we were really just Googling, which was terrible, so Grata brought more efficiency.”


Frequently Asked Questions
Deal sourcing is the process of finding, researching, and qualifying potential acquisition targets or investment opportunities across private companies.
Most private companies lack public data, making it hard to evaluate business models, validate whether a company fits a thesis, gain a complete understanding of a market, and connect with decisionmakers efficiently.
Teams use thematic research, outbound founder outreach, industry mapping, and private-company data platforms to surface opportunities before competitors.
Grata combines contextual AI with investment-grade private-market intelligence to help teams surface more relevant companies with greater confidence.
Grata’s contextual search identifies companies based on business attributes - letting teams discover niche operators beyond standard industry codes or databases.
Grata’s powerful proprietary AI uncovers founder-led, bootstrapped, and non-sponsored companies, giving teams faster, more accurate visibility into niche markets with less competition and more outbound potential.
Analysts use Grata for pipeline checks, market mapping, list refreshes, and outbound prep — reducing manual research and improving coverage.
Yes. Users can map sectors, save dynamic lists, track signals, and leverage Agentic Search to keep sourcing theses updated as markets evolve.
Grata helps dealmakers qualify targets faster by combining contextual search with validated private-market intelligence, reducing the manual work required to understand fit, ownership, and market relevance.
Instead of spending precious time and cognitive load formulating the exact right keywords, filters, and single queries to arrive at an answer, dealmakers can interact with Grata’s Agentic Search the way they would interact with an analyst.
Grata helps teams collaborate through shared lists, notes, labels, CRM sync, and pipeline workflows so sourcing efforts stay aligned across associates, VPs, and partners.
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What Is Deal Sourcing for Private Equity Firms, Corporate Development Teams, and Investment Banks?

What Is Proprietary Deal Sourcing?
