Acquirer User Guide

Welcome to Acquirer, a powerful tool from Cyndx that helps you discover potential acquisition targets tailored to a company’s past investment and acquisition history.

What is Acquirer?

Acquirer uses AI to analyze a company’s previous acquisitions and industry trends, then recommends businesses that could be a good strategic fit for future M&A.

Unlike Finder (Cyndx’s AI based general search tool), Acquirer focuses specifically on acquisition recommendations based on real-world deal patterns.

View a guided tour of Acquirer with step-by-step instructions to get started.

Introduction to Acquirer - Acquirer Video Tutorial

Find your next acquisition

Before searching, keep in mind that only certain companies qualify for recommendations:

🔍 For Searching Companies (Acquirers):

✔ Must have at least 2 prior acquisitions
✔ Acquisitions must be mapped and strategic

🏢 For Recommended Target Companies:

✔ Must be in the Cyndx database
✔ Must be active (not closed or acquired)
✔ Must have lower revenue than the searching company
✔ Must include a company description

Getting Started

1. Sign in at app.cyndx.com

2. Click on the Acquirer tab in the navigation menu
Note: If you do not have access to this tab, reach out to [email protected] or [email protected].

How to Search

You can refine your search in four ways:

Basic Acquirer Search – Just enter the name of the acquiring company.
Note: if the name of the acquiring company does not appear in the typeahead, see more detail above on requirements.
Acquirer + Concept – Add an industry/keyword to focus results in a particular space.
Acquirer + Comparable Company – Compare against another competing business.
Acquirer + Concept + Comparable Company – Combine both types of input influencers.

Refine Search Results:

You can refine the results by selecting specific preferences such as location, headcount, and financial information, company age etc. The Projected to Raise filter can also be helpful to identify companies in need of capital that may be willing to engage in a conversation to sell.

A. Refining by Location 📍

(1) Geographic Location - Click on one category from the tabs shown—global region, country, or state—and a dropdown will appear. You can start typing to narrow down the list. Click on the checkbox to add one or more options within that category. This means that if you choose to filter by country, for example, you can select one or multiple countries, but not from other categories like state, global region, or exact location.

(2) Exact Location - Begin typing in the address tab and select the exact or closest match from the suggestions that appear below. The default maximum distance is 250 miles, but you can adjust this to your preference, including switching from miles to kilometers. Once you're satisfied with your selection, click outside the box to apply it as a filter. If you already have an existing location filter, the new one will override it.

Refining by Filters

Click on filters by ticking all the desired filters under Company Info, Financials , Employee Count, Company age, Funding Stage and do not forget to click Done

5.You can adjust the Result limit by 100, 500, or 1000.

6. Click the arrow button to trigger the search run.

Understanding your Acquirer results

Acquirer identifies potential acquisition targets that best match your search criteria based on their compatibility with company's acquisition history, and additional inputs such as concepts or comparables. Click on the separate tabs- Company and their latest related news—to filter the type of acquisition targets you're looking for, and view up to 1000 potential matches. You’ll see an Acquisition Score, showing how likely the input company is to acquire the suggested target.

A. Save an Entire List of Acquisition target Company from Refined Search Results

To save an entire Acquisition target company list from your refined search results, tick the Select all checkbox and click on the Selected Companies on the right side of the top row. A dropdown will appear, allowing you to select Add To List in order to add the selected company to an existing list or create a new one.

B. Save a specific Acquisition company to Your List

To save a specific company for future reference, click on the add to list icon

in right side of that company’s row. A pop-up will appear, allowing you to Add Selected Companies to List, which will add the chosen company to an existing list or you can create a new one.

C. See Similar Companies

If any of the companies is an interesting target and you'd like to see more like it, just hit the button to "See Similar Companies" to kick off a Finder search and find others like it.

Example: Similar Companies of Himalaya Food Intl

View Acquisitions

Click on the arrow head icon

of a specific row to see that results most similar deals to your Acquisition goal. To see their full portfolio, click View All Acquisitions Most similar deals will appear at the top.

View Contact Information

To access contact information of a specific company, click on the view contacts icon within the company row. A pop out box will appear showing you the list of contacts of that company.

Repeat a Previous Search

In the left sidebar, click on the expand icon to view your top recent searches. To view your entire search history, click See All.

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