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Owner-run companies, before everyone else calls them

Profitable small and lower-middle-market businesses, many of them unrepresented, with the first pass of due diligence already done: bank deposits tied to the tax returns, books checked against them, and add-backs tested before you ever sign an LOI.

First-pass diligence, already done

Small-business buyers worry most about earnings that look better in the books than in the bank, and few platforms check for it automatically. DealSwirl does. Sellers here prepare their numbers the way a buyer's accountant would test them: our diligence preview ties each year's bank deposits to the revenue on the tax return, compares the books and balance sheet with the return, tests whether add-backs hold up, and lists the questions worth asking, written from the seller's own numbers. See a sample report.

  • Diligence-ready deals have a complete file behind the report: the last three years of tax returns, the latest income statement and balance sheet, and a full year of bank statements.
  • Weeks back on every deal. Spend your time on the businesses that hold up, and walk into the first call with the right questions.
  • Tax returns are the source of truth. Every other document is checked against them, and the report says plainly what's missing or doesn't tie.

You can filter for diligence-ready deals and ask any seller who has approved you to add the report to their data room.

How it works

  • Create an account and tell us your criteria: sectors, size, geography and the kinds of deals you do.
  • Our team verifies your firm, usually within one business day.
  • Browse anonymous teasers, or let the matchmaker rank them by fit with your criteria and with what similar buyers engage with.
  • Request access, accept the confidentiality terms, and the seller decides. Approved buyers see the company, the data room and the owner's contact details.
  • Get the Dealswirl Digest: new matches in your inbox about twice a month.

Built for

Search funds and searchers, independent sponsors, family offices, holding companies, private equity add-on programs, strategic acquirers and lenders focused on businesses with roughly $250K to $10M of EBITDA.

Buying from outside the US?

Some sellers are open to buyers who plan to move to the US to run the company on an E-2 or EB-5 visa. See how it works.

Cost

Free while DealSwirl is getting started, including the diligence-ready filter and report requests. When paid plans arrive, browsing, the Digest and reading any diligence preview a seller shares stay free; the diligence tools for finding and requesting reports move to the Searcher and Firm plans.