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M&A Database Overview

AlphaSense’s powerful platform leverages AI to surface the market intelligence that investment teams rely on for their M&A research. Having the right information in hand is a crucial part of the process. Doing so ensures that teams are well-prepared and have the intelligence they need to confidently pursue opportunities — with greater speed.

Well-rounded, comprehensive research minimizes informational blind spots and helps identify red flags and potential risks, giving investors a competitive advantage and confidence in deploying capital. With AlphaSense’s all-in-one platform, teams can:

• Access premium content covering 85K public companies and 8.6M private companies, as well as detailed financial data on thousands of public and private companies.
• Lean on AI-powered workflow tools like the M&A screener, which allows users to filter through almost 1M transactions and discover new investment opportunities or surface companies that meet a specific set of criteria. Additionally, embedded in the M&A Screener is our Deal Intelligence Agent, which instantly summarizes a deal by pulling context from our premium content library.
• Access our expansive content universe featuring millions of documents on private and public companies, centralizing broker research, financial documents, expert insights, and earnings transcripts to pinpoint quality insights in seconds.
• Leverage generative AI features that distill and surface the insights and data most relevant to their research: with Generative Search and Smart Summaries, you can instantly surface nuanced due diligence insights, with clickable citations and the option to ask follow-up questions.

What’s in AlphaSense’s M&A Data?

To form the backbone of a strong investment thesis, analysts ordinarily sift through countless sources to obtain the insights they need. This includes earnings transcripts, IR presentations, press releases, equity research, niche news coverage, 10Ks, 10Qs, among many others. Obtaining the level of granularity needed to procure comp spreads, revenue streams, potential target profiles, and other key valuation metrics can be a tremendous undertaking.

To make sound and accurate recommendations, researchers rely on these coveted market and company-level insights and financials to drive their investment theses.

AlphaSense’s comprehensive M&A database aggregates all the most difficult to locate, fragmented sources of information in one easy-to-use platform. In an age of information overload, our AI features deliver market intelligence in seconds to streamline and enhance M&A research.

With the power of our industry-leading platform, you can check off all your crucial due diligence boxes:

Company Coverage

With AlphaSense, you can conduct a deep dive on any company, public or private, in no time. AlphaSense provides extensive historical financials, consensus estimates, company KPIs, market data, shareholder and insider transaction data, M&A transactions, public funding rounds, and workforce data. In addition to these quantitative insights, AlphaSense’s exclusive qualitative content features broker research, expert call transcripts, company documents, and news.

Our generative AI is layered on top of all this data, so you can ask natural language questions and get instant verifiable answers about any company. Each answer is grounded in the qualitative and quantitative data found in our platform, and it cites the specific snippet from which it was sourced.

Industry Comps

Additionally, AlphaSense offers all the tools necessary to conduct total addressable market (TAM) analysis, proper market sizing, industry benchmarking, reputational risk management, management analysis, and more.

With our Industry Comps, you get access to pre-built comparable company analyses across more than 115 industries. Industry Comps enable fast and efficient benchmarking of companies by offering industry-specific metrics and key performance indicators that are tailored to each sector.

Additionally, you can use our customizable dashboards to monitor trending activity around a particular sector, and you can set up real-time alerts to be notified of any important updates for any industry or topic.

Rigorous Financial Analysis

The AlphaSense platform equips you with every necessary tool to conduct rigorous financial analysis. Our M&A Screener allows you to perform customizable targeting and screening across equities, M&A transactions, and funding rounds to build lists that meet a set of specific criteria. Our Excel add-ins enable users to dynamically pull AlphaSense Financial Data and financial models into Excel, allowing for seamless integration of data points into their own models and kickstarting financial analysis.

We also offer a library of 4,000+ pre-built customizable financial models, designed to streamline analysis and accelerate decision-making. Additionally, we have Excel add-ins, such as our M&A and LBO drop in analysis templates, which link to the models and enable rapid deployment of standard financial analyses.

AI-Powered Synthesis

Our industry-leading AI technology is layered over all the quantitative and qualitative insights found in the AlphaSense platform, which helps you get from discovery to decision faster.

Our Deal Intelligence Agent, embedded in our M&A screener, is an AI copilot that delivers one-click summaries explaining the who, what, and why of any transaction. It reveals strategic context, provides citations, and supports chat-style follow-up questions.

For broader insights, our Generative Search tool allows you to ask natural language questions pertaining to any company, industry, or market theme and get citable, context-rich answers instantly. It also helps you rapidly surface, summarize, and format financial insights — without building any manual datasets. Get alpha-ready analysis that combines financials, models, expert transcripts, and broker research in one streamlined workflow.

Use Cases for AlphaSense M&A Data

Data-Driven Deal Sourcing and Screening

Use AlphaSense to scan the full universe of public and private companies, funding events, and historical transactions to identify acquisition targets, potential buyers, or companies entering fundraising or exit cycles. You can search through over 1 million M&A transactions, more than 700,000 funding rounds, and equity deals across thousands of companies.

Whether you’re a PE firm, corporate development team, or venture investor, you can rapidly narrow the market to high-potential opportunities that match your strategic or financial criteria.

Enhanced Due Diligence

AlphaSense consolidates both structured financial data — income statements, balance sheets, ratios, time-series performance — and unstructured qualitative content — earnings transcripts, analyst reports, news, expert call transcripts, SEC filings, and more — so you can build a full 360 degree view of a target.

With agentic and AI-driven workflows, teams can quickly surface key risk signals, financial trends, and management commentary without manually combing through volumes of documents.

Deal Valuation and Comparative Analytics

AlphaSense’s time-series financials and comprehensive company coverage enables you to compute valuation multiples, revenue/earnings comps, margin trends, and other KPIs for public firms. Our Industry Comps offering provides access to pre-built comps analyses across over 115 industries. For private companies, our M&A transaction, workforce, and funding data provide details like deal value, deal structure, acquisition method, and other relevant information to help inform data-driven valuation assessments.

Coupled with expert insights and industry-level data, this enables a reliable baseline for modeling possible deal outcomes, pricing negotiations, or comparative valuations across peers or comparable transactions.

Industry-Level and Market Context Analysis

Understanding broader industry dynamics — market size, TAM, growth rates, competitive positioning, emerging trends and regulations — is crucial for a well-informed M&A strategy. With our vast content universe of qualitative and quantitative insights, AlphaSense provides a deep and broad view of not just individual companies, but entire industries and markets — helping you get the complete picture and make smarter investment decisions.

Risk Assessment and Red Flag Detection

By aggregating real-time news, regulatory filings, expert calls, and historical performance data, AlphaSense can surface potential downside risks — such as market headwinds, declining financials, management issues, or negative sentiment — early in your M&A evaluation process. This helps avoid blind spots that might be missed if relying on a narrower set of sources or slower manual research.

And by eliminating the need for multiple platforms and sources of information, the likelihood of making inadvertent errors and potentially compromising a deal significantly lessens, which reduces overall risk.

Efficient Workflow and Collaboration for Deal Teams

AlphaSense streamlines collaboration and drives efficiency within teams through tools like Notebook and commenting features that help teams share and manage insights more effectively. Our integration capabilities also drive more seamless collaboration and improve team productivity by allowing you to securely and easily integrate content at enterprise scale through our Ingestion API or enterprise-grade connectors. Additionally, by centralizing content and applying AI-powered summarization, search, and data-export tools, our unified platform improves consistency, reduces duplication, and speeds up decision cycles.

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