Cyndx makes finding your acquisition targets easy by providing you with two ways of searching and a landscape of potential targets at your fingertips within seconds.
The two ways of searching:
Searching by a company
Entering a company name is the fastest way to search for an acquisition target in Finder. If you do not immediately see the company name in the search typeahead, try entering the company website URL.
From your results, you can select the most relevant target(s) to run a new Finder search. You will see a menu to the right: click the menu located next to the carat and select the option to "See similar companies".
Searching by a concept
You can enter any concept to search by industry or a technical term. Our concept database has over 300k concepts to choose from, including many 2- and 3-word concepts.
Our Finder search runs on NLP technology, so it's best to think of the way a company describes its products / services and what it does. The companies that most use the terms you provide will display most prominently in your results.
For more on best practices for your finder search, see our Get started using Cyndx Finder article.
Identifying your acquisition targets
In the search bar, enter company(s) or concept(s)
Filters can be applied as you run your Finder search
See related article: Using Pre-filtersYour search can be narrowed to return companies located in a particular geographic region.
In order to search for non sponsor-backed companies, change the 'Funding stage' filter to None - Angel/Seed.
See related article: Filter for non sponsor-backed companies
In the filtering column to the right of your screen, locate company details. For company type, click 'Private'.
Results displayed then filter out acquired / private equity-backed companies
Helpful Hints
The 'Funding stage' can be adjusted to Angel/Seed prior to running your search - one of our pre-filters for a Cyndx Finder search.
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