From sourced teaser to closed deal, in one terminal.
The full-suite buy-side platform for lower-middle-market PE, family offices, search funds, and independent sponsors. 15+ valuation engines, 33,500+ public comps refreshed daily, 19,500+ M&A precedents, and an automated IC-ready PDF on every deal. One workflow. Every stage. Built in PE shape.
The comp set CapitalIQ and PitchBook do not cleanly carry.
Institutional data vendors were built for public markets and large-cap M&A. Coverage thins fast below $100M enterprise value. Exactly where lower-middle-market and middle-market deal teams actually transact. We rebuilt the comp layer for those deal sizes.
Public comparables
Refreshed daily. Screened by NAICS, geography, size, growth. Outlier trimming and EV-to-equity bridging built in.
M&A reference deals
7,500+ closed transactions. 1,300+ institutional-quality. Control premium and time-decay corrections applied.
NAICS industry groups
1,600+ benchmark rows · 41 verticals · size-discount, illiquidity, marketability adjustments calibrated to private-market realities.
Server-authoritative engines
DCF, Comparable Co, Precedent M&A, Asset, Scenario, Monte Carlo, Cap Earnings, Risk-Adjusted, NAICS, WC-Adjusted, QoE-Adjusted.
Where Value Alpha lives in your deal flow.
The bottleneck between sourcing and committee is the analyst-week per target. We move the work earlier: a free, ungated screen against the live VA Index turns top-of-funnel triage from days into minutes. Senior bandwidth shifts to the deals that actually deserve it.
Five steps. Five minutes. One defensible range.
Watch the live product walkthrough, or skip the form entirely — forward the CIM to valuation@inbox.valuealpha.ai and we email back a structured VA Range with VARI score in 10 minutes.
Value a business in 5 minutes.
Open the terminal, drop in the deal, watch fifteen-plus engines run in parallel. End with a defensible VA Range and a VARI reliability score — the same workflow your IC will see.
Start free · see pricing →Forward a CIM. Get a valuation back.
Send any teaser or CIM to valuation@inbox.valuealpha.ai. We parse the financials, run fifteen-plus engines, and email back a structured VA Range with VARI score and the full methodology trail — as an IC-ready PDF, in 10 minutes.
Built for the deal sizes the institutional vendors ignore.
CapitalIQ and PitchBook were built for public markets and large-cap M&A. Brokered platforms are paid on close, not on accuracy. Excel models live in one analyst's head. None of them produce a triangulated, IC-ready valuation on every sourced target. We do.
| Spreadsheet | PitchBook / CIQ | Brokered platforms | VALUE ALPHA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audience | One analyst | PE / IB institutions | Sell-side owners | Buy-side deal teams |
| Deal size sweet spot | Any | $100M+ EV | $5M–$100M revenue | $3M–$250M revenue |
| Triangulated valuation output | Single-method DCF | Data only, no output | Black-box AI estimate | 15+ server-authoritative engines |
| Published multiples layer | No | Database, not publication | No | Monthly VA Index, immutable |
| Reliability score per output | No | No | No | VARI 0–100 / A–F |
| Free top-of-funnel screen | N/A | Subscription only | Gated to mandate | 5 min · email valuation also available |
| Methodology audit trail | Whoever opened the file | N/A | No | Full ledger per output |
Fifteen+ engines. Every range VARI-scored.
Every Value Alpha output runs through fifteen-plus institutional methods in parallel, with sector-tailored variants on top (rNPV for biotech, SOTP for diversified holdcos, Bottom-Up for marketplace SaaS, and others). Disagreement between engines is surfaced in the VARI score, decomposed into five components, so an IC member knows where the weakness is before they ask.
Fifteen institutional methods, plus sector-tailored variants. Run in parallel.
Triangulated server-authoritative output. No black box. Every method ships with its inputs, sources, and the adjustments applied. Sector-specialized variants are layered on top of the core engines per industry.
The reliability score that defends the range at IC.
Per-valuation 0–100 score, A–F grade. Decomposed into five components so methodology disagreement is surfaced before it's challenged.
Every role that has to defend a number.
Four buy-side audiences. One terminal. One methodology. One sector-multiples publication.
ETA searchers & search funds
Win deals against PE. Price targets faster than the seller can re-price. Cohort-friendly multi-seat economics.
Independent sponsors & PE
Screen 5–10× more targets at the same headcount. IC-ready VA Ranges in hours, not analyst-weeks.
M&A advisors & boutique banks
White-label option for advisory practices. Compete on rigor against larger firms without adding headcount.
Family offices & QoE firms
Anchor every QoE engagement with a defensible VA Range. Benchmark portfolio marks against the VA Index monthly.
Three tiers. Built for how deal teams actually buy.
Dollar amounts live on the pricing page. The structural overview below shows what each tier is built for.
Commissioned
Per-report, one-time, instant. For one-off decisions, fairness checks, and pre-LOI snapshots. VARI grade always visible.
VA Terminal
Subscription. Cmd+K command line, unlimited valuations, AI chat, market intel, deal book. For individual searchers, advisors, analysts.
Institutional
For PE, search funds, advisory teams. Multi-seat (5-seat minimum), shared deal book, audit trail, annual billing, methodology lock, white-label option.
The questions deal teams open with.
What is the Deal Pipeline?+
What is the Email Valuation service?+
What is the VA Index?+
How is Value Alpha different from CapitalIQ or PitchBook?+
How does VARI work?+
Can VA Range outputs survive PE-grade diligence?+
What does multi-seat institutional pricing include?+
The bottleneck between sourcing and committee. Removed.
One terminal. Full suite. 15+ engines, daily-refreshed comps, automated IC-ready PDFs, and a PE-shape Deal Pipeline across every stage.