Problem to address: The first step of selling a startup business is to position the business in the current market and see which company or PE investor may be interested in acquiring it based on their short or long term strategies. Talking to potential buyers earlier or at least figuring out who the potential buyers will be can help startup owners understand how the business will be valued and what features and strengths should be focused on.
Our Solution: FMeasure provides a potential buyer list generation service to make this step easy: an affordable service to quickly analyze the market for a given business, find related acquisitions, and generate a list of potential buyers.
Good Coverage
Our system has access to more resources than 99% individual bankers.
Low Cost
Compared to bankers, our price is unbeatable (69.99 USD/Report).
No Worry on Data Leaking
Analysis is done on our secured cluster, and customers can hide their identities.
Sample Reports
After signing up, you will receive an email confirmation immediately, and a report later. Both are via emails. Here are sample reports:
Dear Customer,
We ran FMeasure artificial intelligence based analysis tool to analyze this deal idea.
Among the comparable transactions in 2014-2019, most volume was attributable to Strategic acquirers from the industry of Miscellaneous Business Services, Industrials Business Services, Technology Computer Software: Prepackaged Software.
As for the geographical distribution, the most active acquirers come from UNITED STATES followed by UNITED KINGDOM.
In the attachment file: “Document of Related Deals“, you will see a list of recent related deals.
Our database contains thousands of companies and PE investors who may have business interests related to “online payment”. In order to find out most relevant candidate acquirers, we have considered factors including business relevance, deal experience, financial capabilities, and development strategy etc.
The full list of potential acquirers is in the attached file: “Document of Potential Buyer List“.
FMeasure Team
Report for a business doing ``online payment``
Dear Customer,
We ran FMeasure artificial intelligence based analysis tool to analyze this deal idea.
Among the comparable transactions in 2014-2019, most volume was attributable to Strategic acquirers from the industry of Consumer Non-Durables Beverages (Production/Distribution), Consumer Non-Durables Packaged Foods, Technology Consumer Electronics.
As for the geographical distribution, the most active acquirers come from UNITED STATES followed by CANADA.
In the attachment file: “Document of Related Deals“, you will see a list of recent related deals.
Our database contains thousands of companies and PE investors who may have business interests related to “coffee machine”. In order to find out most relevant candidate acquirers, we have considered factors including business relevance, deal experience, financial capabilities, and development strategy etc.
The full list of potential acquirers is in the attached file: “Document of Potential Buyer List“.
FMeasure Team
Report for a business doing ``coffee machine``
Steps to Sign Up the Buyer List Generation Service
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Click on “Sign Up the Service” to get to the sign up page, and then “Buyer List Generation” to start the sign up process
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Fill in all required fields and make payment. Note: some fields are optional, filling them is not required but may improve the result
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Receive the email confirmation immediately, and another email with the report in 1 business day!
Frequently Asked Questions
"Startups are bought, not sold" is widely held, but the truth is that most startups are sold but not bought. The first step of selling your business is to position your business in the current market and see which company or PE investor may be interested in acquiring it based on their short or long term strategy. As most other founders, you probably think your company is not ready to sell. In fact, when you're ready to sell, it is often too late. Talking to potential buyers earlier or at least figuring out who your potential buyers will be can help you understand how your business will be valued and what features and strengths you should focus on.
Most database searches only search for Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deals that previously happened. Then users (typically bankers) need to use their own knowledge and imagination to figure out what type of business are candidates for this type of deal. After knowing this, users will have to run more database searches to find a list of companies and check if these candidates have funding and intention to close the deal. FMeasure Buyer List Generation service automates this process by using artificial intelligence to reason over information of millions of companies across the world and hundreds of thousands of previous M&A deals. Let's be more specific, to generate a single report, FMeasure system needs to run hundreds of searches internally to generate and score candidates. The final list only contains top candidates ranked by our M&A recommendation model.
It contains two documents: a document on related deals and a document on potential buyers. Customers can find examples in the "sample report" section.
Yes. That is your final cost.
When you sign up the buyer list generation service, the system will ask you 15 simple questions, most of which are optional. The most important question asks you to use short words to describe your business. Try to use a few words (say, 4-5 ) to answer it. Answering the optional questions can improve the result quality, but not required. Some startup owners choose not to answer some of those questions to hide their identities, which is perfectly fine.
This is possible. Sometime we can not find any recent deal related to the given business. Under this condition, the recommendation system can still make recommendations through reasoning over company information and remotely related deals. If the system still cannot find any potential buyer for your business, we will refund your payment.
Sometime, users have some ideas on what companies they are looking for and like to find more companies like them. To satisfy this requirements, we provide "Potential Buyers" input field. Users can put multiple companies (represented as stock tickerss or webpages) in the input field separated by ";". For example, Softbank's stock ticker is jp:9984, CICC's stock ticker is hk: 3908, IBM's website is www.ibm.com and Apple's stock ticker is nasdaq:AAPL. Users can put 9984; 3908; www.ibm.com; AAPL in the "Potential Buyers" field.
At this moment, FMeasure does not provide such a service. There are multiple ways for startup owners to approach potential buyers. You can find some articles on this.
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