SELL-SIDE ORIGINATION

Before it reaches the market.

Startweave helps investment banks and M&A advisors identify and engage privately held businesses that match their advisory focus. Build a more consistent pipeline of potential sellers, future mandates, and strategic conversations.

Build Your Sell-Side Pipeline

Start the conversation earlier

Waiting for business owners to come to you leaves origination dependent on referrals, networks, and timing. Startweave gives advisory teams a more proactive approach.

We identify privately owned companies that fit your sector, geography, size, ownership, and transaction criteria, then research the people behind those businesses and support targeted outreach designed to open relevant conversations.

BENEFITS

Built for relevant opportunities

Focused research, verified intelligence, and outreach designed around the transaction—not a generic database.

A market built around your practice

Build a target universe around the sectors, geographies, revenue ranges, ownership structures, and company profiles relevant to your advisory focus.

Decision-maker intelligence

Research founders, owners, CEOs, shareholders, and other key decision-makers before outreach begins.

Relevant owner conversations

Create outreach based on the business, market, and potential transaction relevance rather than generic solicitation emails.

A repeatable origination system

Turn one-off origination activity into an organized system that can be measured, refined, and expanded over time.

HOW IT WORKS

A structured path from mandate to conversation

Every engagement starts with the objective and builds the research, intelligence, and execution around it.

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Establish the companies and owners that fit your mandate criteria.
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Build the relevant market and identify potential target businesses.
03
Research ownership, executives, company information, and contact details.
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Develop messaging around why a conversation may be relevant.
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Launch targeted campaigns and follow up systematically.
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Review responses and surface relevant opportunities to your team.

MANDATE CRITERIA

Identify businesses that actually belong in your market

We begin with your objective and translate it into a clear, usable research framework.

SectorSub-sectorRevenueEBITDAGeographyOwnershipFounder statusCompany sizeBusiness modelDecision-maker relevanceTransaction profile

BUILT FOR YOUR OBJECTIVE

Where this service creates value

Investment Banks

Boutique M&A Firms

M&A Advisors

Corporate Finance Firms

Business Brokers

Referral Networks

Start the conversation earlier.

A list of thousands of companies does not automatically create an origination pipeline. Startweave focuses on the businesses and owners that actually fit your mandate.