Valu8

Valu8 Company Intelligence is a software solution designed to assist in sourcing and analyzing private companies. According to the vendor, this product caters to business analysts, investment bankers, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and mergers and acquisitions professionals. It is intended for use with private companies of various sizes and offers comprehensive company data and advanced analytics to support strategic decision-making and deal execution.

Key Features

Interactive dashboards: Valu8 Company Intelligence provides interactive dashboards that offer a visual overview of entire sectors and geographies, as well as the underlying industry companies. It also includes machine learning-based scatter diagrams that, according to the vendor, provide a 360-degree view of chosen criteria and unique clusters of similar companies.

Matching Algorithm: The vendor claims that Valu8 Company Intelligence utilizes an AI-powered similarity scoring system to uncover new target companies, potentially giving users a competitive advantage in sourcing companies that others may overlook.

Strategy, Origination & Execution: According to the vendor, this feature can be utilized at all stages of the deal lifecycle, from strategy to execution phase. It offers a comprehensive company database and advanced screening capabilities for strategic sector aggregated analysis and target list screening. Users can drill down to individual target companies or create larger shortlists based on various criteria such as net sales, EBITDA, net profit, legal form, and more.

Advanced sector and company analysis: Valu8 Company Intelligence provides advanced sector and peer group functionalities, including traditional sector codes, business descriptions, web-sourced keywords library, and an AI-powered similarity scoring algorithm. The vendor claims that it offers comprehensive private company sector analysis and target or peer group shortlist analysis.

Analytics: According to the vendor, Valu8 Company Intelligence offers user-friendly analytics functions for sector aggregation analysis and comparative detailed company data analysis. Users can analyze and track European GPs, venture capital company portfolio holdings, acquisitions, and divestment transaction activities. It also enables analysis of private equity firms' acquisitions, holdings, ownership duration, and financial performance.

Company valuation: Valu8 Company Intelligence, according to the vendor, allows users to perform valuation analysis of comparable listed companies or M&A transactions.

Follow and share workspaces: Users can track changes to entire sectors or shortlists, including new entrants and company changes. The alerts feature notifies users of changes at macro and micro levels. The vendor claims that it also enables the creation of shared workspaces within teams.

Export, Update and Batch search functionality: Valu8 Company Intelligence offers flexible data output functionalities and an automated MS Office/Excel updates and export function, according to the vendor. Users can easily export data and perform batch searches.

Shortlists: This feature allows users to review existing markets and sectors and identify new ones of interest. Users can track new entrants to the market and significant changes with real-time alerts, according to the vendor.

Newsletter: Valu8 Company Intelligence delivers Private Equity/Venture Capital/M&A newsletters throughout the week, keeping users updated on the latest industry news and trends, according to the vendor.