Introducing Grata's Private Market Index

What if you could see market momentum before anyone else?  

Understanding market conditions is critical for investing in hot industries first, knowing when the best time to exit is, or getting clients into processes with favorable terms.  

But insights like current deal activity, industry saturation, buyer appetite, and market momentum are difficult to find. To get updates for just a single vertical relies on piecing together lagging public signals, closed deal activity, banker conversations, press coverage, expert network calls, and fragmented market intelligence tools. It’s a time-intensive process that still keeps you a few steps behind the market.

But what if the next time you propose a new thesis to your IC, approach a founder, or recommend that a client sells you could defend that decision with data on what’s happening in the space right now?

That’s exactly what Grata's Private Market Index enables.  

A first of its kind tool, Private Market Index (PMI) is Grata’s newest proprietary data offering, giving you an earlier view into active M&A activity so you can prioritize sectors, validate investment theses, and act before those signals become broadly visible.

Exclusive Deal & Buyer Activity

Track current and historical deal volume, buyer volume, and buyer engagements across your industries of interest. PMI allows you to identify new trends by sector, then compare against adjacent industries or historical data to uncover when, and how, to act.  

For example, over the last 3 months there's been decreasing deal volume in the healthcare industry, but the volume of buyers and their overall engagement with active deals are both on the rise. Those scores together might indicate now is the perfect time to exit your home care services portfolio company to take advantage of a competitive market.  

Or, maybe you've identified that buyer interest and engagement is surging simultaneously across the entire farm-to-table chain, but deal supply by volume in Agriculture, the upstream link, is relatively low. Since food service depends directly on agricultural inputs, you might hypothesize a sustained spike in buyer appetite downstream will pull buyers upstream next. That could mean prioritizing calls with businesses in the Agricultural sector weeks before your peers, to build relationships before the industry blows up.

Market Insights

Every industry is accompanied by AI-generated market insights that narrate the PMI data and pull relevant public news to help contextualize the trends in the market, with source citations.  

PMI also provides cross-market analyses when analyzing multiple sectors, to paint a clearer picture of what is happening across several industries at a time.

Market Insights are helpful both for general context or to quickly translate PMI findings into internal deliverables.

Insight to Action

Trends spotted in PMI hand off directly into easy next steps within Grata. Once you’ve uncovered interesting signal:  

• Use Search to map the market and find attractive proprietary targets

• Filter with Seller Intent, another of Grata’s proprietary data offerings, to identify firms actively in the early stages of sale preparation, months before their deals come to market

• Leverage Buyer Search to identify sponsors and strategics who have been active in the market and what their portfolios look like

• Browse Active Mandates to find and connect with bankers working active and pre-market deals in the sector

• Use Transactions to analyze what similar deals have gone for  

• Move to Excel and use our Excel Add-In to build out a full comps analysis

Exclusive, Early Intelligence Is Your Competitive Edge

The most valuable data for dealmakers today is signal that helps not only find the right opportunity, but gets you there early enough to reap the benefits.  

Contact your Grata representative or get started to learn more about how PMI’s new proprietary signal crafts your competitive advantage.