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Identify targets to advise clients on M&A strategy
Identify targets to advise clients on M&A strategy

Investment banking | Advising | M&A

Muiread Heffernan avatar
Written by Muiread Heffernan
Updated over a year ago

Cyndx makes finding M&A targets for your client easy by providing two ways of searching and a landscape of potential targets at you fingertips within seconds.

The two ways of searching:

Identifying Targets - Finder Video Tutorial:

Searching by a company

If you have the name of an ideal target in mind, entering the name of company is the fastest way to search for similar acquisition targets 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 your ideal target describes itself operationally based on 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

  1. In the search bar, enter company(s) or concept(s)

  2. Filters can be applied as you run your Finder search
    See related article: Using Pre-filters

    1. Your search can be narrowed to return companies located in a particular geographic region.

    2. 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

  3. In the filtering column to the right of your screen, locate company details. For company type, click 'Private'.

  4. 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.

Related Articles

Using Pre-filters
​Filter for non sponsor-backed companies

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