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Private Market Index gives dealmakers an earlier view into active M&A activity so they can prioritize sectors, validate theses, and act before their competitors.

Private market intelligence is now available directly within Perplexity Computer, enabling investment-grade research and dealmaking workflows powered by verified proprietary data.

Platform surpasses 23 million companies and 1 million transaction events following successful Valu8 integration

Learn how combining Grata's Excel Add-In with the Grata MCP makes M&A workflows more efficient and allows dealmakers to leave behind legacy tools.

Discover how Grata's new Excel Add-In solves the pain points of legacy integrations and supports the M&A dealmaking process.

Grata's MCP Server connects private market intelligence to your LLM. Find more deals, map more markets, and eliminate blind spots in your pipeline.

Discover how Grata's industry-leading AI and game-changing data science produce the deep, accurate data that private market dealmakers need to win in their industry.

See how agentic AI is transforming the market research process in M&A, from mapping markets, to enriching company data, to analyzing structure, to testing deal theses.

Agentic AI is set to transform the M&A world. Learn about how the revolutionary tech is changing each step of the dealmaking process in this article from Grata.

Private market dealmaking doesn't stop at discovery. When your team is ready to move from opportunity identification to secure diligence, you need a purpose-built M&A data room to help manage confidential information, buyer engagement, Q&A, and transaction workflows with confidence.

See how AI connects private market intelligence, deal sourcing, diligence preparation, and secure data room execution through Grata, Blueflame AI, and Datasite Diligence.

Learn how to build an AI-native deal sourcing engine by combining tools like Claude with Grata's private market intelligence and MCP connectivity.

Learn how to turn a complete market map into a prioritized private market target list using strategic fit, relationship strength, and intent data.

Proprietary deal flow is getting harder as generalist AI closes the access gap. See how verified private-market data and Seller Intent help dealmakers source before the competition does.

Discover the trends driving growth in the global sports betting sector, from expanding legalization to key media partnerships to mobile usage.

Discover all of the trends that private market dealmakers need to know about the global sports services industry, from how the industry is fragmented to high-growth sectors to geographical opportunities.

Grata data reveals five U.S. industries crowded with dealmakers but short on willing sellers—and why early deal intelligence matters more than ever.

From real estate to retail to finance & insurance, see which 10 industries are seeing increases in seller intent and what's driving the changes.

Discover why sprinkler maintenance is the fastest-growing and highest-earning sector of the fire safety industry.

Climate change, data centers, and new battery storage tech are posing unprecedented fire risks and reshaping fire safety M&A. Learn about the fire safety industry's fragmentation, growth trends, recent acquisitions, and more.

Learn about the undiscovered IT infrastructure opportunities in the Grata platform. Explore trends in ownership, market segments, and emerging M&A opportunities.

Learn about the latest milestone for Datasite, Grata, and Blueflame AI's integrated dealmaking platform: winning the Stevie Award for Technology Excellence.

Effective communication with institutional investors, sending the right message in the right channel, can help your debut fund stand out from the crowd.

Deal sourcing experts from Momenta, Bertram Capital, and Ara Partners shared how they find and attract hidden middle market opportunities with Grata.

Grata and Alumni Ventures hosted a webinar discussing the tools a modern corp dev team uses or should be using, particularly for top of funnel deal sourcing.

Mangold Fondkommission AB, a Stockholm-based investment bank serving small and medium-sized businesses, turned to Grata as its M&A practice expanded beyond the Nordics and needed a more efficient way to identify European acquisition targets. By replacing time-intensive manual research with broader geographic coverage and more streamlined company discovery, Mangold has expanded its cross-border sourcing, engaged more potential targets, and built stronger relationships with business owners.

A global leader in chemicals and ingredients distribution, Brenntag's operation in a highly fragmented market makes the company relient on M&A as a key growth lever. Before Grata, Brenntag’s team struggled with rigid industry-code searches that made broad target screening difficult and often surfaced irrelevant companies, costing valuable time and resources.

Quarza Inversiones needed faster, more reliable screening across Europe. Valu8 by Grata centralized precise company data and filtering, cutting screening time by more than 80%.

Ridgefield Partners, a middle-market M&A firm specializing in sell-side engagements for companies in the $1–25M EBITDA range, turned to Grata to scale a sourcing process that manual tools couldn't sustain. By automating company discovery and contact enrichment through Grata's MCP, Ridgefield grew its contact database from 4,000 to over 127,000 in a matter of months, making data quality and automated sourcing the foundation of its expansion into new sectors like healthcare.

Sancovia Corporate Finance, a pan-European M&A boutique specializing in buy-and-build services for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, turned to Grata to build proprietary deal flow at scale across multiple geographies. By replacing weeks-long list-building with AI-powered search and continuous market monitoring, Sancovia has cut its target list creation from three weeks to as little as 30 minutes, sourcing 95% of over 600 new company targets directly through Grata.

TAE Europa, a boutique M&A firm based in Barcelona specializing in agri-food transactions across Europe, turned to Valu8 by Grata to modernize a deal process built on fragmented data sources. By replacing manual research across SABI, Google, LinkedIn, and press coverage with Valu8's Similarity Search and ownership data, Managing Partner Alvaro Raventos Rodenas and his team cut buyer list-building time by 75% and slashed corporate group verification from 30 minutes to just 2 — freeing analysts to focus on closing deals rather than chasing data.

Wickdale Capital, a traditional search fund focused on acquiring one exceptional B2B business for the long term, turned to Grata to cut through an opaque private market. By replacing manual research with targeted, data-driven outreach, founder Kunal Pasrija identified, approached, and closed the right acquisition — finding his deal not through volume, but through precision.

Discover key M&A trends in the fire safety industry, from high-growth segments and industry fragmentation to emerging geographic markets and acquisition activity.

Discover key M&A trends in pet care - from high-growth segments and industry fragmentation to emerging geographic markets and acquisition activity.

Discover all of the trends that private market dealmakers need to know about investing in the real estate services industry.

Learn what’s shaping cannabis infrastructure investments, from fragmentation to recent M&A and new targets worth tracking.

Discover the need-to-know investment trends for private middle market dealmakers looking to make moves in the landscaping and property maintenance industry.

Dive deep into the top trends that private market dealmakers need to know about the clean power infrastructure industry. Identify high-growth sectors, understand market fragmentation, and see a sample of live deals in the Grata Deal Network.

Discover the top dealmaking trends that private market investors need to know about the software development industry. Identify high-growth areas, understand industry fragmentation, and assess segments with leadership opportunities.

Grata's new Dynamo CRM integration, a survey of 1,000 dealmakers on AI adoption, and a guide to building complete market maps beyond generic AI lists.

Grata's new Excel Add-In, how agentic AI moves deal teams through full workflows, and a case study on sourcing an acquisition entirely through Grata.

Building an AI-native deal sourcing engine with Claude, the difference between MCPs and APIs, and a live oil & gas services deal in the Grata network.

A new guide to MCP servers for dealmakers, Grata's food processing PE Playbook, and a preview of the M&A AI Summit featuring Grata's Nevin Raj.

Introducing the Grata MCP Server for AI-powered deal sourcing and market mapping, plus a guide to building a stronger deal sourcing engine.

How Grata cultivates investment-grade private market data, an Equiteq case study on precision sourcing, and why AI model annotation matters for M&A.

Grata's new Hidden Gems Report on overlooked acquisition targets, the Valu8 Company Intelligence acquisition, and top Chrome extensions for dealmakers.