Off-market deal sourcing for serious acquirers.
The best lower-middle-market businesses never list. We find the owners first — scored against your buy-box and ranked on motivation — and help you reach them directly.
Reach owners before the deal lists.
The best lower-middle-market businesses are off-market and founder-owned — we surface them, score them, and get you to the owner.
Define your buy-box
Sector, size, and geography — the thesis we search against.
Browse scored matches free
Matching companies appear instantly and free — ranked against your buy-box and scored on owner-motivation signals.
Reveal, enrich, reach out
Spend credits to reveal the owner and deep-enrich the fit, then reach out directly — no broker, no marketplace.
Why acquirers source with Dealport.
Scored, not just listed
Targets ranked on fit against your buy-box — not a CSV of every company.
Motivation, not just data
We surface owners showing succession and timing signals worth a call.
Claim it exclusively
Lock any lead to your account — a 30-day hold you renew while you work it, releasable anytime.
- 12M+
- US businesses
- 180
- Data points per target
- 9
- Signal categories
- 30-day
- Lead exclusivity
There's no perfect list — and in the lower middle market, that's exactly where the opportunity is. Dealport surfaces the information other platforms miss, and comes closer than any database we've used.
I underestimated how much full-time work a real search is. Finding a name on a list is the easy part — qualifying owners, getting in front of them, and learning who's actually open to selling is a job in itself.
Frequently asked questions
Finding businesses to acquire before they're listed — directly with owners, not through a broker or marketplace. Most quality lower-middle-market companies never list, so off-market sourcing reaches those owners first.
We build the universe of companies that fit your buy-box from public records and operating signals across nine data categories, then score each on fit and owner motivation. Browsing those matches is free; you spend credits only to reveal an owner, enrich a lead, or claim it exclusively.
We score owner-motivation signals — tenure, age, succession indicators, and more — so you start with the owners most likely to engage, not a cold list.
Insights
All insights
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Ready to spend less time sourcing?
Tell us your buy-box. First leads typically land within the week.