Deal sourcing platforms like PitchBook and CB Insights are excellent at tracking the venture-backed and growth-equity ecosystem — funded rounds, valuations, investor syndicates, exit activity. For that universe they are genuinely comprehensive.
But the vast majority of attractive acquisition targets — particularly in industrial, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, and niche technology sectors — are private, profitable, self-funded businesses that have never raised a round, never issued a press release, and never appeared in any deal database. They exist in the real economy, not the venture economy.
Fullinfo maps these companies from the open web — structured profiles with industry classification, locations, markets served, customer types, leadership hierarchy, and growth signals — for 100M+ organisations globally. If a business has a website, it is in Fullinfo with a profile no deal database contains.
Fragmented markets are among the most attractive for roll-up strategies — but you need to know the full universe before deciding who to approach first. How many operators are there? What's the size distribution? Who are the natural platform assets and who are the add-ons?
Traditional deal sourcing answers these questions through manual research, broker networks, and trade associations — a process that takes weeks and still misses most of the market. Fullinfo answers them in a single structured search.
Search by industry, location, size, ownership type, keywords, and markets served to produce a complete universe of operators in a fragmented sector. Filter to identify platform candidates from add-on targets. Export the full list for your origination team.
In M&A, understanding a target's corporate structure before you enter a process is a significant advantage. Subsidiaries, parent relationships, cross-border entities — these shape valuation, structure, regulatory exposure, and integration complexity.
Fullinfo maps corporate group structures through a proprietary intelligence layer that identifies entity relationships from signals companies inadvertently disclose across their web presence — without relying on formal legal registry data, which is often incomplete or inaccessible for privately held targets.
This is not a substitute for legal due diligence — but it gives deal teams a structured first view of a target's corporate footprint before engaging advisors, before entering a process, and before committing resources to formal investigation.
Importantly: Fullinfo associates entities through verified cross-domain signals, not name matching. A target that shares a name with an unrelated business will not have that business's profile merged into its own — a genuine problem with AI-powered research tools that scrape the web without entity resolution.
The best M&A conversations happen before a process starts — when a founder is thinking about succession, when a business is scaling faster than its current ownership can support, or when early signs of distress create receptivity to a conversation.
Fullinfo's monthly refresh surfaces observable signals from company websites that can indicate deal readiness: rapid hiring suggesting growth pressure, a CFO role posted suggesting a finance transformation, web traffic declining alongside vacancy reductions suggesting financial difficulty, a founder-led business with a long-tenured leadership team where succession is a natural question.
These are not definitive signals — but they tell you which companies on your watchlist are worth a conversation right now, and which can wait. For a deal team monitoring 50 targets in a fragmented market, that prioritisation is enormously valuable.
PitchBook is the standard for tracking the funded startup and growth equity ecosystem. Fullinfo covers the vast majority of the market PitchBook doesn't — private, unfunded, non-VC-backed businesses across 195+ countries. Most deal teams will use both.
Identifying acquisition targets and platform companies in fragmented sectors — particularly where the best assets are private, profitable, and have never engaged with the M&A market.
Mapping the universe of targets for a buy-side mandate before the shortlist is assembled. Finding companies that brokers don't know to introduce — because they don't appear in any database.
Systematic origination of acquisition targets aligned to strategic priorities — supplier consolidation, geographic expansion, product extension — across markets where manual research doesn't scale.
Sourcing deal flow in non-English markets — DACH, Benelux, LATAM, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe — where systematic origination through traditional channels is difficult or prohibitively expensive.
Building proprietary market intelligence on sectors before pitching mandates. Demonstrating knowledge of the full competitive landscape — not just the companies on a prospectus list.
Systematic identification of add-on targets in a fragmented market — with full coverage of the addressable universe, size distribution, and signals indicating which operators are most likely to transact.
Send us a sector and geography and we'll show you what Fullinfo surfaces — including the targets your current tools can't find. Usually within 24 hours.