DiscoveryDealport Discovery — a committed search, run by our team. Talk to us about your buy-box.

Confidential conversations with funded buyers.

List your business with the team that represents qualified acquirers. No retainers, no fees, no listing.

What to expect

Free for owners. No retainers. No fees on close.

Built and trusted by professionals from

Boston Consulting GroupDeutsche BankMarathon Asset ManagementEYDeloitteRiviera Investment Group

A quiet way to sell.

You talk to us first. We bring vetted, funded buyers to the table — when you're ready, on your timeline, without listing your business publicly.

We work the buy-side, not yours.

Most brokers represent the seller and charge you on close. We work the buy-side — capital partners pay us, not you. The deal stays yours.

  • No retainers
  • No fees on close
  • Capital partners pay us
How we get paid
A founder-operator of a lower-middle-market business

Your name stays in the conversation.

Your financials, your intent, even your curiosity — none of it leaves our team without your permission. We bring you to a buyer only after we've vetted them.

  • Confidential by default
  • Your data, your permission
  • Anonymous intake
Read what we share
A glass conference room flooded with light

Real buyers, vetted.

PE firms, family offices, and independent sponsors actively buying in the lower middle market. Funded, serious, and aligned on price before you hear their name.

  • PE firms
  • Family offices
  • Independent sponsors
Who's buying
A small-town American Main Street of independent storefronts

What you get on every conversation.

Confidential intake

Anonymized profile until you say otherwise.

Counsel-friendly

Your counsel runs the deal; we don't get between you.

Your timeline

Move when you're ready — months or years from now.

Walk-away ready

No retainer, no obligation, no listing.

$10T
Boomer business value in transition over the next decade. Sell once, sell quietly, sell on your terms.

Have a quiet conversation first.

No obligation, no fees, no listing. Just a half-hour call.

What to expect

Three steps. One conversation at a time.

01

Talk to us first.

A confidential call. We get a sense of the business and what you might be open to — no obligation, no listing.

02

We bring you the right buyer.

We surface your business to acquirers whose buy-box matches. With Dealport Discovery, we run that introduction end-to-end — the buyer hears about you only after we've vetted them.

03

Negotiate directly. Keep the deal yours.

Once introduced, the conversation is yours and the buyer's — no broker between. Your counsel, your timeline, your terms. If the buyer needs financing, our capital marketplace handles that on their side.

From owners who've had the conversation.

I'd been approached by three brokers and none of them would tell me who'd actually buy my business. Dealport showed up with a name, a thesis, and a number before I'd even decided I wanted to sell.

FOUNDERSpecialty services, 22 yrs

What I cared about was confidentiality. Half the value of a private business walks out the door the day employees and competitors find out. Dealport kept it quiet the whole way.

OWNER-OPERATORLight industrial, 17 yrs

We weren't ready to sell when we first talked — and they didn't try to make us. Two years later when we were, the same buyer was still on the list.

CO-FOUNDERFamily business, 30+ yrs

Plain answers, no jargon.

The questions buyers and owners ask most often. If yours isn't here, ask us on a call.

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 find and qualify acquisition targets directly, instead of waiting on inbound from bankers. Dealport goes a step further: we score each owner's motivation — not just the company — then our team runs the outreach and brokers warm introductions, so your time goes to owners who are actually ready to talk.

Start with a buy-box — sector, size, and geography — then source businesses that fit, ideally off-market before they list. Dealport finds and qualifies the motivated owners that fit your thesis, runs the outreach, and brokers the conversations — so your time goes to real conversations instead of building lists.

No. We don't sell data, lists, or contacts. A data broker sells the same list to everyone — we do the opposite: the candidates we surface for you are exclusive to you and never cross-pollinated to another client. We use public records and other signals to find and qualify the owners who fit your buy-box, then our team runs the outreach and brokers warm, opted-in introductions onto your calendar. What you're paying for isn't data or market intelligence — it's the outcome: getting in front of the owners you want to talk to about a deal.

You give us a buy-box and our team sources and scores off-market candidates against your thesis. In the app, you pick the candidates you want us to pursue, and we run the outreach — automated email plus live calls — and book opted-in owner conversations on your calendar: five guaranteed warm introductions a month, each reviewed by a human before it's sent. You choose the targets and take the calls; we do the work in between, with progress visible continuously in the app.

Dealport Discovery is a committed, fully managed engagement scoped to your mandate — talk to us and we'll size the search and cadence on a first call. Financing is free to you: capital partners pay us, never the borrower, with no commissions or success fees at close.

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.

A real conversation, when you're ready.

Confidential, no obligation, no fees. We'll walk you through today's market and what serious buyers are looking for — even if you're years away.