Industry codes are too broad
Specialized providers disappear inside generic categories and are not identified cleanly.
For M&A teams
Find 30 potential targets that traditional databases often miss.
Get a custom longlist with 30 potential targets for your search field, including niche providers, SMEs and companies that are often invisible through industry codes alone.
2,000+ users50M companies>100 countries>80% time savingsRecommended by the Institute of Public Auditors in GermanyMade in Germany
"Longlisting is the greatest value driver for us. Today we work systematically rather than subjectively, and significantly faster."
Dr. Dirk Pramann
Mition Mittelstandsbeteiligungen
Trusted by leading M&A, audit, banking and advisory teams
The best targets are rarely filed neatly under the right industry code.
Many M&A teams still search through rigid industry filters. That works for clearly defined industries, but often fails for niches, new business models, specialized SMEs or companies that cannot be found through classic classifications.
Manual research is slow
Web research, database filters, Excel lists and plausibility checks take hours or days.
Relevant targets are missed
Especially in niche markets, the search logic determines whether a company is found at all.
Niche providers, SMEs, private companies
What you receive: 30 potential targets for your search field
We create an initial target list based on your search logic. Not just by industry, but by business model, service focus, market segment, region, company size and other relevant criteria.
The 30 targets are your entry point into the platform: from target search to screening and benchmarking, through valuation, market intelligence and decision materials.
30 potential targets
Companies that match your search field and are often not visible through traditional industry filters.
Initial view for each company
Short profile, business model, location, relevant activity and an initial relevance rationale.
Available data points
Where available: financials, ownership structure, company size and further contextual information.
Next step
Joint validation of the list and expansion into screening, benchmarking, valuation or decision-ready materials.
Request your longlist
Describe your search field. We will follow up with the next step.
"What comes out as an initial volume is definitely satisfying, and there were many companies in there that we had never heard of before."
M&A / Corporate Development
International services group
From target idea to decision-ready materials.
StrategyBridgeAI helps M&A teams answer early deal questions faster: Which targets are relevant? How is the company positioned in the market? Which peers are comparable? Which risks and value drivers are visible? And is the next step worth taking?
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Enter a search field or target
Start with a market, business model, target name or investment thesis.
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Identify targets and market participants
Find target lists, buyer lists, competitors and niche providers.
3
Analyze companies
First-view analysis, financials, ownership structure, market environment and initial risk indicators.
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Go deeper
Due diligence & benchmarking, valuation, industry analysis and forecasting.
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Prepare the decision case
Export as PowerPoint or Excel for pitches, IC, gate-1 or board materials.
From manual research to consistent M&A analyses in significantly less time.
"For longlists, we used to spend two or three weeks on the work. Today we can do it in two to three afternoons. For multiple-based valuations, we are seeing 85 to 90 percent time savings."
Nikolai Üstündag
WTS Advisory
One platform for M&A sourcing, screening and decision preparation.
StrategyBridgeAI starts with target search, but does not stop at the target list. The platform connects company data, ownership structures, transactions, market analysis, benchmarking, valuation, forecasting and export-ready reports in one workflow.
Company database
Access to around 50M private and public companies, financial data, qualitative company data, transactions, shareholder structures and contact data.
Target, buyer and competitor search
AI-supported search by business model, market logic, region, size and ownership structure, independent of rigid industry codes.
First-view company analysis
Compact assessment for early deal phases: business model, financials, industry context, SWOT, risk indicators and sources.
Due diligence & benchmarking
Outside-in analyses for peers, benchmarking, valuation, industry analysis and forecasting. Ideal for go/no-go, red-flag DD and decision documents.
Industry reports & market intelligence
In-depth market and industry analyses: trends, entry barriers, value chains, opportunities, risks and market structure, including niche markets.
Exports & templates
Analysis outputs as PowerPoint and Excel, optionally in your own corporate design. Built for pitches, IC materials, gate-1 documents and board decks.
"You get access to huge amounts of data that would otherwise only be accessible through very time-consuming manual work. We are significantly faster."
Dr. Volker Riedel
Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner
Why M&A teams use StrategyBridgeAI
More relevant targets
A broader and higher-quality deal pipeline, including niche markets and private companies.
Faster go/no-go decisions
Well-founded first-view analyses in hours instead of days.
Fewer tool switches
Database, target search, benchmarking, market analysis, valuation and reporting in one workflow.
Earlier risk and upside detection
Assess market position, peers, trends, financials and red flags faster.
Better decision materials
Consistent, traceable and export-ready outputs for internal committees.
More time for the deal
Less manual research, less copy-paste, more focus on valuation, thesis and decision-making.
"When it came to comparisons with other companies in the market, we used other service providers, but they did not offer the same portfolio and could not respond with the speed of StrategyBridgeAI."
Dr. Tobias Moog
MOOG Partnergesellschaft mbB
What clients say about StrategyBridgeAI
"With the longlist from StrategyBridge, I can get from the result list to a finished shortlist in 2-3 days. Previously, that took me 6 weeks. The main factor is time."
Holger Danowsky
Group Builders Hamburg
"Previously it was hard to plan. Analysts and interns spent days gathering information. Now we have an analysis that is consistent from A to Z. One source, no media breaks."
Dr. Willem Keijzer
CNX Transactions
"For longlisting, I now work with a logic that allows me to use selected comparable companies to identify potential buyers based on size criteria, with a time investment that is marginal compared with what we spent before."
Julian Coley
Coley Corporate Finance
"We use it for company valuations to assess market, industry and competitive situations and to get initial multiples as an orientation. Especially in financing advisory, my colleague was impressed by how quickly we received information on companies and industries."
Tobias Nellinger
dhmp
"We use longlisting for peer group compositions, investor search and deal sourcing for new targets. It gives us an external basis for argumentation. For me, it has the character of an objective second opinion that we could not produce ourselves in that depth and breadth."
Jens M. Wellbrock
Renneberg
"Benchmarking is something we always look at, and it always delivers some kind of insight. There is hardly a case where it does not produce something interesting that we can feed directly into our work."
Thomas Ettenberger
Walther Transaction
Next step
Request 30 potential targets for your search field.
Start with a concrete target list. In the next step, we will show you how StrategyBridgeAI supports the entire M&A process, from target search and first-view analysis through due diligence & benchmarking, valuation and market intelligence to decision-ready materials.
Ideal for M&A search, market screening, first-view analyses, commercial pre-DD, benchmarking, valuation and decision materials.