Buyer intelligence for sell-side M&A. Find the buyer nobody else would think of.
Score acquirers across Strategic, Adjacent, and Financial categories — grounded in real signals, not guesswork.
No source, no buyer.
Two ways to build your buyer universe
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Find the buyer universe for a target company from scratch — strategic, adjacent, and financial acquirers, scored and ranked.
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Already have a buyer list? Paste it in and Signum scores each one against live signals — no universe generation needed.
Score a list →Great M&A outcomes don't come from contacting more buyers.
They come from contacting the right buyers — the ones whose strategic incentives make your company worth more than the market can immediately see.
Every buyer is graded against a real evidence framework — not a gut check.
Our AI doesn't search for names; it reconstructs strategic intent. Every potential acquirer is evaluated through a proprietary framework of 20+ independent commercial signals, continuously validated against real-world corporate activity and current transactions.
Then the system tries to prove itself wrong.
Before any recommendation reaches you, the system attempts to disprove its own conclusions, discarding anything that cannot be supported by evidence. What remains is a buyer universe shaped by strategy rather than familiarity, revealing opportunities that traditional deal sourcing routinely overlooks.