Corporate Development
Find the acquisitions your strategy needs.
Equitle’s agents map every private company in the markets next to yours, measure each one against your business, and run the outreach that opens a conversation with the founder before a banker runs a process.
96
Companies fit
91
Founders identified
84
Verified contacts
22
Open to a deal
Condition monitoring sensors
Ranked by fit with your business
Company
Revenue
Employees
Owner
Contact
Fit
Prairie Sensor Works
Des Moines, IA
$18M
96
Tom Reyes
Age 59
Northfield Instruments
Madison, WI
$26M
140
Ellen Marsh
Age 62
Keystone Vibration Labs
Pittsburgh, PA
$9M
47
Victor Lane
Age 55
Cascade Monitoring
Portland, OR
$34M
180
Jim Okafor
Age 64
Weave Growth
Weave Growth0%
More companies found than private market databases.
Why it finds more
Databases only list companies someone has already catalogued, and they are strongest above $10M in revenue. Equitle searches the live web for your strategy, so founder-owned businesses with a thin online footprint show up too. In an adjacent market, those are often the best fits.
See the comparisonOne system from strategy to first conversation.
Map every adjacency in hours.
The markets next to yours, split into segments, with every private company in each one.
20+ data providers searched at once
ML and AI web search finds companies databases miss
Each market broken into the segments that matter to you
Founder-owned share shown for every segment
Condition monitoring
1,140 companies mapped · 96 fit your strategy
Vibration sensors
38
fit your strategy
72% founder-owned
Thermal imaging
21
fit your strategy
58% founder-owned
Ultrasonic testing
14
fit your strategy
64% founder-owned
Monitoring software
23
fit your strategy
41% founder-owned
See how each target fits your business.
Every company measured against what you already make and sell, not a generic profile.
Product overlap with your own lines
Customers and channel partners you share
A strategic fit score you can open up
Scored against your strategy, not a template
Prairie Sensor Works
Fit with Brightline Industries
Product overlap
82%
Shared customers
14 plants
Shared channel partners
6 of 9
Footprint
Midwest
One pipeline the business units can see.
Every target from first look to site visit, with an owner from the business on each one.
A pipeline for every strategic priority
Business unit leads assigned to each target
Replies and meetings logged automatically
Ready for the investment committee
Acquisition pipeline
Condition monitoring priority
Identified
12Keystone Vibration Labs
Pittsburgh, PA
Cascade Monitoring
Portland, OR
Contacted
7Northfield Instruments
Madison, WI
Ridgeway Sensing
Dayton, OH
In conversation
3Prairie Sensor Works
Des Moines, IA
Lakeshore Diagnostics
Cleveland, OH
Talk to the founder, not a gatekeeper.
Calls placed with the founder’s research on screen and the notes taken for you.
Verified direct numbers for founders
Talking points from research on screen
Notes and outcome logged after every call
Letters, email and LinkedIn in the same sequence
Tom Reyes
Founder · Prairie Sensor Works
Talking points
Lost his largest distributor this spring
27 years in, no successor named
You share 14 plant customers
Call notes
The distributor loss hit the second quarter.
Open to a partnership if his team stays.
Wants to meet at the Des Moines plant.
Plant visit booked
Thu 2:00 PM
What corp dev teams ask us first.
Those are databases: they list companies and leave the rest to your team. Equitle runs the whole origination process for you. It finds the companies, researches each founder, verifies their contact details and runs the outreach in your name, guided by your strategy and your decisions. You get founder conversations, not another platform to log into and pay for.
You describe what you make, who you sell to and where, and Equitle scores every target against that: product overlap, shared customers and channels, size and footprint. Every score opens up to show what went into it.
Yes. Each priority gets its own target list, research and outreach history, so business units each see their own pipeline and nothing mixes.
Yes. Letters carry your team’s signature, emails come from inboxes set up for your company, and calls show your number. You can approve every touch before it goes out, or let it run on its own.
Describe the strategy and Hawk starts returning ranked companies the same day. Founder research and contact details fill in as it works through the list, and the first conversations usually follow within the first few weeks.
Review the list, star or cut companies, and approve the outreach. Most teams spend an hour or two a week on it. Every decision also trains the fit model, so each list is sharper than the last.
Yes. Lists, founder research and contact details export, and Equitle connects to CRMs and other systems through supported APIs and MCP integrations, so your existing pipeline stays part of the workflow.
