
Connecting Main Street with its next chapter.
Dealport matches off-market deal flow and financing for operators ready for their next opportunity.
From first target to funded deal.
One platform across the deal lifecycle — source it yourself, have us source it, or finance the deal in hand.
Dealport Search
Source scored, off-market targets and reach owners yourself — on Pay-as-you-go or Professional.
ExploreDealport Discovery
Hand the search to our team. We run sourcing and outreach and broker owner introductions to your calendar.
ExploreDealport Financing
One structured RFQ; capital partners compete to fund your deal. Free to you — they pay us.
ExploreOne platform for everyone
behind the deal.
Dealport connects the people who move a lower-middle-market transaction — the acquirers sourcing, the owners ready to talk, and the capital that funds it — so sourcing and financing run in one place instead of a dozen disconnected tools.
- PE firms
- Family offices
- Independent sponsors
- Search funds
- Capital partners
- Business owners
Nine signals. One score.
We don't hand you a database. Every target is analyzed across nine categories and ranked on fit and owner motivation — so you work the businesses most likely to sell, not the longest list.
Corporate filings
Registrations, ownership, and corporate structure.
Professional licenses
Active licenses that confirm a real operating business.
Debt & UCC liens
Creditor filings that signal leverage and timing.
Headcount proxies
Hiring and payroll signals to size the business.
Property records
Owned real estate and physical footprint.
Owner & succession signals
Tenure, age, and life events that move a sale.
Web & commercial footprint
What the company actually does, read like an analyst.
Industry context
Sector density, comparables, and market dynamics.
Fit & motivation score
Everything above, synthesized into one ranked score.
Agentic origination, built different.
Most platforms hand you a database and a CSV. Dealport's engine reads nine source categories, scores every target on fit and owner motivation, and surfaces the businesses worth a conversation — at a scale only agentic AI makes possible.
- Nine source categories, not one database
- Scored on fit and owner motivation
- Human judgment in the loop on Dealport Discovery
The market Dealport is built for.
- $10T
- Boomer business value in transition
- $1.4T
- Lower-middle-market private credit outstanding
- $180B+
- Annual lower-middle-market deal volume
- 3,700+
- Data sources Dealport scans
There's no perfect list — and in the lower middle market, that's exactly where the opportunity is. Dealport surfaces the information other platforms miss, and comes closer than any database we've used.
I underestimated how much full-time work a real search is. Finding a name on a list is the easy part — qualifying owners, getting in front of them, and learning who's actually open to selling is a job in itself.
Built for your mandate.
Fill the top of the funnel with proprietary targets that fit the thesis — scored on fit and owner motivation, not scraped into a list.
Explore sourcing- Thesis-aligned sourcing across nine signals
- Owner-motivation scoring to prioritize outreach
- Add-on pipelines for platform companies
From the Dealport desk
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Plain answers, no jargon.
The questions buyers and owners ask most often. If yours isn't here, ask us on a call.
Those are databases. They give you filter levers and a CSV. Dealport is a bespoke search — every target is analyzed against your buy-box across nine data categories (corporate filings, professional licenses, UCC liens, payroll proxies, property records, owner social and life signals, and more), scored on fit and motivation, and approached on your behalf. We do the analysis and the outreach. You evaluate real owners, not lists.
Off-market deal sourcing means finding businesses to acquire before they're listed for sale — directly with owners, not through a broker or marketplace. Most quality lower-middle-market companies never list; off-market sourcing reaches those owners first. Dealport scores motivated, off-market targets against your buy-box and helps you reach the owners directly.
A deal origination platform helps acquirers systematically find and qualify acquisition targets — sourcing, scoring, outreach, and pipeline in one place — instead of waiting on inbound from bankers. Dealport layers owner-motivation signals and integrated financing on top of origination, so you can move from a target to a funded offer in one platform.
Start with a buy-box — sector, size, and geography — then source businesses that fit, ideally off-market before they list. Dealport scores targets against your thesis, surfaces owner contact info and motivation signals, and runs the outreach, so your time goes to real conversations instead of building lists.
You define a buy-box and matching companies show up immediately and free — name, location, sector, a revenue estimate, and a surface fit score. From there, each lead moves on your terms: reveal the owner's contact, enrich it for a full fit and priority score, then claim the best ones exclusively. You only spend credits when you act, and reach owners with built-in outreach. Want it hands-off? Dealport Discovery runs sourcing and outreach for you and books opted-in owner conversations — five guaranteed warm introductions a month, each reviewed by a human before it's sent.
Three ways to work: Pay-as-you-go ($14.99 for 5 credits, no subscription), Professional ($299/mo — 250 credits that roll over, plus in-app outreach), or fully managed Dealport Discovery (talk to us). Browsing your matches is always free; credits reveal owners, enrich leads, and claim the best exclusively for 30 days. Financing is free to you — capital partners pay us, never the borrower. No commissions or success fees at close, and five free credits to start.
We pull from public registries, industry data, and our own research to find businesses that fit a specific buyer's buy-box. We're not affiliated with your accountant or broker. Your information stays confidential.
No. We're not a broker-dealer and we don't represent sellers. We work the buyer side. Counsel, QoE, and capital partners handle the close — coordinated by our team, independent of it.
Most owners we talk to aren't ready today. We'll walk you through what your business might be worth and check back when the timing's right — months or years from now. No pressure.
Yes — agentic discovery across nine data categories is what lets us run a bespoke search against your buy-box every week, on twenty markets at once. The engine handles volume; our team handles judgment. Every campaign is reviewed and every introduction is sent by a human. That's the design, not a hedge.
Operators who've built and exited businesses, invested in private credit, and spent years in the lower middle market. M&A, capital formation, and modern software. Meet the team on a first call.
Ready to spend less time sourcing?
Tell us your buy-box. First leads typically land within the week.




