StrategyBridgeAI at M&A Summit 2026 in Berlin: meet us on site

On October 15, 2026, StrategyBridgeAI will be at M&A Summit 2026, hosted by the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions (BMA) at EY, Friedrichstraße 140, in Berlin.

The summit is built for decision makers in corporate M&A, strategy, and corporate development, plus a select group of private equity representatives. That is exactly the audience that deals daily with the problems StrategyBridgeAI was built to solve: faster target search, defensible valuations, and solid market analysis under time pressure.

In this article you'll learn:

• When and where M&A Summit 2026 takes place and who attends
• Which topics are on the 2026 agenda
• How these topics map to the daily challenges corporate M&A teams face
• How StrategyBridgeAI supports target search, valuation, and carve-out preparation in practice
• How much time companies save with AI-driven M&A workflows
• How to meet StrategyBridgeAI at the summit or book a demo

StrategyBridgeAI at M&A Summit 2026 in Berlin: meet us on site

On October 15, 2026, StrategyBridgeAI will be at M&A Summit 2026, hosted by the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions (BMA) at EY, Friedrichstraße 140, in Berlin.

The summit is built for decision makers in corporate M&A, strategy departments, and corporate development, plus a select group of private equity representatives. Attendance is curated and largely by personal invitation, aimed at genuine peer exchange rather than a typical conference crowd.

If you're attending, come say hello.

Why this summit matters for corporate M&A

The BMA positions itself as the central hub for the corporate M&A community in the German-speaking region. The M&A Summit complements the association's more execution-focused M&A Excellence Days with a strategic lens: less deal mechanics, more of the bigger trends shaping M&A decisions in 2026.

The format combines a keynote on geopolitical conditions, parallel workshops on practical deal execution, and a closing strategic discussion with networking. In the evening, the M&A Award is presented across ten categories, bookable as a separate ticket.

The 2026 topic areas at a glance

Six themes shape the 2026 agenda:

For corporate M&A teams, these topics mean one thing above all: more complexity per transaction, with the same or a smaller team. This is exactly where StrategyBridgeAI comes in.

How StrategyBridgeAI supports corporate M&A teams

StrategyBridgeAI helps corporate M&A and strategy teams cut down on manual research and analysis work in transaction processes. The platform is built for professionals in corporate M&A, M&A advisory, private equity, audit, consulting, and banking, and runs as one continuous workflow, with no tool switching and no media breaks between steps.

With the summit's topics in mind, StrategyBridgeAI will be showcasing in particular:

• Longlist for systematic target and buyer search: AI- and logic-based search that isn't tied to rigid industry codes, so it also surfaces niche players and SMEs that don't show up in classic databases. Relevant for industrial transformation and searching for strategic buyers or financial investors.
• Hawk Eye for outside-in company analysis: competitive comparison, benchmarking, SWOT, valuation, and risk heatmap, delivered as a board-ready PowerPoint in your own corporate design. Relevant for valuation pressure on software and SaaS assets, and for carve-out preparation.
• Eagle Scope for up-to-date market and industry reports: history, trends, value chain, entry barriers, opportunities, and risks for nearly any niche and region. Relevant for digital infrastructure, data centers, and sovereign cloud.
• Datenbank with access to around 50 million companies in more than 100 countries: qualitative company data, financial data and KPIs, transaction data, corporate structures, and contact data as the shared data foundation for all modules.

Time savings in practice

The total effort for a typical M&A analysis runs 20 to 120 hours the classic way. With StrategyBridgeAI, that drops on average to under 5 hours, an average time saving of 80%.

Here's what that looks like in practice, in the words of Nikolai Üstündag, Senior Manager M&A at WTS Advisory:

"We used to spend two or three weeks on longlists. Now we get it done in two to three afternoons. On multiple valuations, we're seeing 85 to 90 percent time savings, that's a real efficiency gain."

The effect shows up on the corporate side too: a Head of M&A at an international audit and certification group saves roughly 0.5 FTE per year using StrategyBridgeAI, in the context of 25 to 30 board presentations annually.

StrategyBridgeAI is also recommended by the Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer (IDW), Germany's Institute of Public Auditors, and holds a 97% annual customer renewal rate, well above the B2B SaaS median of 91% (SaaS Capital, 2026).

Meet us at M&A Summit

If you're attending M&A Summit 2026 at EY in Berlin on October 15, come find us for a conversation. We're glad to talk through the current agenda topics, especially valuation pressure on software and SaaS assets and carve-out and separation readiness questions, and to show how corporate M&A teams use StrategyBridgeAI day to day.

Can't make it in person?

Book a personal demo of StrategyBridgeAI and see how AI can speed up target search, valuation, and market analysis for your team.