Axial

Axial is an online platform used in the lower middle market to raise growth capital, source acquisitions, and exit successfully, from Axial Networks. It is a private deal network serving professionals who own, advise, and invest in North American lower middle market companies. Axial’s deal-sourcing and deal marketing tools are used to facilitate the discovery and execution of transactions that meet the following criteria:

• Geography: US & Canada based businesses
• Revenue: Up to $250M
• EBITDA: Up to $25M
• Transaction Types: M&A, Debt, Minority Equity, & Co-Investments
• Industry Verticals: Healthcare, TMT (Tech, Media & Telecom), Industrials, Consumer, Business Services, Food & Beverage, Transportation & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy, Education

Unlike public deal listing sites, Axial sell-side members retain total control and confidentiality over whom, how, and when they approach the market. Further,

• The buy-side granularly describes their criteria and interests.
• The sell-side inputs details of the company they’re working with or transaction they’re bringing to market [through a confidential, private research tool].
• Axial’s algorithms analyze each buy-side member’s deal criteria, and privately recommends matching parties for the sell-side to approach, ordered by relevance.
• The sell-side reviews each buy-side profile, selects who to engage, and can tailor each message and attachment. All sending on Axial is done directly – there are no public listing (or deal searching) capabilities through Axial’s platform.
• Buy-side recipients receive the deal opportunity to their email and Axial account, knowing it’s a fit for their preferences and sent from a qualified sell-side party.

To the sell-side, Axial helps discover and prioritize the right buy-side targets for any deal. To the buy-side, Axial maximizes coverage of relevant deal opportunities coming from lower middle market CEOs and 3,500+ boutique M&A advisory firms.