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What could 24% more deals reveal about your next investment?
DealForge helps investment teams decide where to invest, what to pay and how to test the investment case using granular private-market evidence.With 24% more deals than DealEdge, including buyout and growth deals, plus deeper analysis of pricing, operating performance, risk and value creation, DealForge gives teams more evidence to select relevant peers, benchmark prospective investments and challenge the assumptions behind a deal.
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Use private-market evidence to challenge the investment case
DealForge gives investment teams the deal-level evidence to go deeper on sector selection, valuation, underwriting and benchmarking.
Analyse pricing, operating performance, leverage, risk, returns and value creation across relevant private-market deals to understand where performance came from, what drove the outcome and how a prospective investment compares. DealForge supports these analyses directly across deal performance, operating KPIs and benchmarking.
Features
Build more relevant deal benchmarks
Move beyond broad market averages and compare prospective investments against peer groups that better reflect the sector, subsector and investment context.
Test the assumptions behind a deal
Put entry multiples alongside growth, leverage, risk, returns and value creation to challenge the assumptions behind valuation and the investment case.
Understand where value was created
Analyse the contribution of operating growth, multiple movement and other value-creation drivers to understand what actually shaped historical deal outcomes.
Go deeper into sector performance
Drill into 492 subsectors to investigate differences in returns, growth, risk and value creation beneath broad sector averages.
Bring harder evidence into underwriting and IC
Use relevant private-market benchmarks to test entry pricing, downside risk and value-creation assumptions before the investment case is challenged in IC. A documented DealForge underwriting use case includes loss rates, entry EBITDA multiples and value-creation levers.
Interrogate the evidence behind the benchmark
DealForge is built on the CEPRES data foundation, described as 93% primary source, including granular deal cash flows and company financial KPIs.
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