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Name: Value Alpha Buy Business
Brand: Value Alpha
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The full-suite platform to buy a business, for small funds, family offices, search funds, and independent sponsors. 29 valuation methods across 43 industries, 11,000+ comparables, 9,000+ M&A precedents, and an automated PDF memorandum on every deal. One workflow. Every stage. Built in PE shape.

10 min from teaser to rangeAutomated PDF reports

DEAL PIPELINE · SOURCED TO CLOSED · LIVEVA RANGE + VARI ON EVERY CARD

Sourced12

Apex HVAC · TX

$14M REV · $1.8M EBITDA

Cascade Plumbing

$8.2M REV · $1.1M EBITDA

Northeast Auto Group

$22M REV · $2.4M EBITDA

Screened7

Pinnacle Dental · FL

$11M REV · $2.3M EBITDA

$13.4M

$10.8 · $16.2

VARI 843d

SoCal Landscaping

$6.4M REV · $0.9M EBITDA

$4.8M

$3.6 · $6.1

VARI 785d

Modeled4

Midwest Mfg · OH

$28M REV · $4.1M EBITDA

$22.4M

$18.1 · $27.8

DCF · COMPS · PRECEDENT · MC + 11

VARI 888d

GulfState Logistics

$19M REV · $2.7M EBITDA

$16.8M

$13.2 · $20.4

DCF · COMPS · PRECEDENT · MC + 11

VARI 8211d

IC2

Apex Vertical SaaS

$9.4M ARR · 32% NRR

$48.6M

$38.2 · $61.4

29 VALUATION METHODS · IC PDF READY

VARI 91IC TUE

Closed3

Riverbend Accounting

CLOSED · $7.2M

$7.4M VA RANGE

Δ −2.7% vs base

VARI 86Q1 '26

Pacific Food Svc

CLOSED · $14.1M

$13.8M VA RANGE

Δ +2.2% vs base

VARI 89Q4 '25

28live deals29valuation methods per cardAutomatedPDF memorandum

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THE BUYER ADVANTAGE

Screen, value, and close more deals.

Value Alpha runs on a proprietary data layer built for sub-$100M deals, exactly where the institutional platforms thin out. Put a defensible range and a deal grade on every target.

Structuring financial data

FY2025 accounts.pdfManagement accounts.xlsx

EBITDA$895K

How we calculated this

EBITDA = Gross profit − Operating expenses + Add-backs

Gross profit (calculated)¹$1.7M

−Operating expenses (your document)²$920K

+Add-back: owner salary above market (your document)³$115K

EBITDA$895K

Where each figure came from

Select a source to open the document.

FY2025 accounts.pdf · Gross profit, page 4

Northwind Roofing · Profit and loss · FY2025

Services2,801,340.00

Sales98,660.00

Total for Income$2,900,000.00

Cost of Sales

Total for Cost of Sales$1,200,000.00

Gross Profit$1,700,000.00

Highlighted where we read this figure.

1 thing to check

FY2024 gross profit does not tie to revenue less cost of sales, off by $18K. Flagged before it reached the valuation.

From unstructured to structured

Drag in a target's P&Ls, balance sheets, and CIMs in any format. Autonomous extraction turns unstructured documents into clean, structured financials and feeds them straight into the 29 valuation methods.

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PIPELINE FIT

Where Value Alpha lives in your deal flow.

The bottleneck between sourcing and committee is the analyst-week per target. We move the work earlier: an instant, ungated screen against the live VA Index turns top-of-funnel triage from days into minutes. Senior bandwidth shifts to the deals that actually deserve it.

Value Alpha carries the deal, sourcing through financial diligence

Your call: qualitative + close

Sourced

100/quarter

Brokers, teasers, intermediaries, cold inbound.

VA: an indicative VA Range on every one

Screened

30/quarter

VARI 70 and up. The other 70 die at the first screen.

VA: The reliability band decides triage

PDF memos

8/quarter

Full VA Range, sourced comps, normalized earnings.

VA: replaces analyst-week

Due Diligence

3/quarter

Financial · VA

Full model, sourced comps, QoE-ready audit trail.

Qualitative · you

Management, customers, ops, culture. Equally important.

Closed

1/quarter

Defensible range survives counterparty challenge.

VA: server-authoritative output

EFFECTIVE ANALYST CAPACITY · 5–10× AT THE SAME HEADCOUNT~120 ANALYST HOURS SAVED / TARGET

THE PROCESS

Five steps. 10 minutes. One defensible range.

Watch the live product walkthrough: upload, 29 valuation methods in parallel, and a defensible range with a at the end.

WATCH · PLATFORM WALKTHROUGHLIVE PRODUCT

Value Alpha buy business platform walkthrough

Value a business in 10 minutes.

Open the platform, drop in the deal, watch the 29 valuation methods run in parallel. End with a defensible VA Range and a. The same workflow your IC will see.

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HOW WE COMPARE

Built for the deal sizes the institutional vendors ignore.

CapitalIQ and PitchBook were built for public markets and large-cap M&A. Brokered platforms are paid on close, not on accuracy. Excel models live in one analyst's head. None of them produce a triangulated, valuation on every sourced target. We do.

	Spreadsheet	PitchBook / CIQ	Brokered platforms	VALUE ALPHA
Audience	One analyst	PE / IB institutions	Sell-side owners	Buy-side deal teams
Deal size sweet spot	Any	$100M+ EV	$5M–$100M revenue	$1M–$250M revenue
Triangulated valuation output	Single-method DCF	Data only, no output	Black-box AI estimate	29 valuation methods across 43 industries
Published multiples layer	No	Database, not publication	No	Monthly VA Index, immutable
Reliability score per output	No	No	No	VARI 0–100, three bands
Free top-of-funnel screen	N/A	Subscription only	Gated to mandate	10 min · email valuation also available
Methodology audit trail	Whoever opened the file	N/A	No	Full ledger per output
Deal pipeline / deal book	No	No	Their pipeline, not yours	Sourced to closed, VA Range on every card
Portfolio tracking after close	No	No	No	Re-valued on the same models
Data room	No	No	Per mandate	Built in, with a controlled share link
Sector-specific model	No	No	Generic multiple	43 industries supported, switched on by NAICS

METHODOLOGY

Twenty-nine valuation methods. Every range VARI-scored.

Every Value Alpha output runs through 29 valuation methods in parallel, with sector-tailored variants on top (rNPV for biotech, SOTP for diversified holdcos, Bottom-Up for marketplace SaaS, and others). Disagreement between engines is surfaced in the VARI score, decomposed into five components, so an IC member knows where the weakness is before they ask.

What the future cash flow is worth today, discounted for risk. A full three-statement build, with the cost of capital and terminal value each stress-tested two independent ways so the result holds up under scrutiny.

Sources: risk-free and beta data, industry cost of capital, normalized filings

What public companies in the same industry are worth right now, scaled to this size. Screened by NAICS, geography, size and growth, normalized for the differences, then converted to an equity value.

Sources: 11,000+ comparable companies, NAICS multiples set

What buyers actually paid for similar businesses. Drawn from 9,000+ completed transactions, filtered to the subject profile by sector and size, with control premium and time-decay corrections. Built for deals the public comps cannot price.

Sources: 9,000+ completed transactions, sector and size filters

The lowest number the business should trade at, based on what it owns. Adjusted book value with hard-asset revaluation, setting the downside anchor for the range when earnings power is in question.

Sources: balance-sheet detail, hard-asset revaluation

Bear, base, and bull trajectories with explicit, named assumption changes. These set the three anchor points inside the VA Range.

Sources: assumption deltas, sector growth and margin norms

The business run 10,000+ times across good and bad conditions to see where the value actually lands and how likely each outcome is. The resulting probability distribution sets the 80% confidence band.

Sources: full assumption space, 10,000+ simulated paths

A forward build of revenue, margins, and cash under an explicit bull case and bear case, so the range reflects how the business does if growth holds and if it stalls.

Sources: historical trend, management plan, sector growth norms

How long the business can operate on current cash and cash flow before it needs capital, and what that means for value under stress. The same solvency check a lender runs.

Sources: cash position, burn rate, debt schedule

Value built from the unit up: customers, contracts, locations, or seats times their economics. The check on whether the headline multiple is actually earned.

Sources: unit economics, customer and contract data

Value framed from the market down: total addressable market, the share this business holds, and what that position is worth. The sanity check on growth claims.

Sources: market size data, share and penetration estimates

The price a PE buyer or searcher can pay and still clear their return hurdle. A target-IRR model with a full debt schedule, cash sweep, and sponsor equity returns.

Sources: debt terms, target IRR, sponsor equity assumptions

Segment-level valuation for multi-business holdings and diversified operators. Each unit valued on its own best method, then aggregated into one whole-company range.

Sources: segment financials, per-unit method selection

Pipeline NPV per program with phase-transition probabilities applied. The standard for pre-revenue life sciences and biotech, where a single multiple is meaningless.

Sources: phase success rates, program economics, discount rate

Growth plus profit blended with NRR, CAC payback, and magic-number adjustments. How software buyers actually price recurring revenue.

Sources: ARR, NRR, growth and margin profile

Banks run on P/TBV, REITs on cap rate, biotech on rNPV and sum-of-the-parts, MedTech on a market and product forecast. The right one switches on for the target's NAICS code. New models are added at no extra cost on Pro.

VARI · RELIABILITY LAYER

The reliability score that defends the range at IC.

A 0 to 100 score on every VA Range, decomposed into five components, so methodology disagreement is surfaced before it is challenged.

Methodology research

VARI is currently in beta, with the scoring methodology tested and refined in collaboration with Columbia University research.

Agreement

Sample

Data

Time

Method

VARI · COMPOSITE87Tight consensus

8770 and above

Tight consensus

The independent methods land together. Defensible at IC.

6440 to 69

Typical range

A normal spread. Read the assumptions before you lean on it.

31below 40

Wide divergence

The methods disagree materially. Treat as directional.

–coverage under 40%

Insufficient data

Too little corroborating evidence. VARI is withheld rather than guessed.

BUILT FOR

Every role that has to defend a number.

Four buyer audiences. One platform. One methodology. One sector-multiples publication.

Audience · 01

ETA searchers & search funds

Win deals against PE. Price targets faster than the seller can re-price. Cohort-friendly multi-seat economics.

Audience · 02

Independent sponsors & PE

Screen 5–10× more targets at the same headcount. VA Ranges in hours, not analyst-weeks.

Audience · 03

M&A advisors & boutique banks

White-label option for advisory practices. Compete on rigor against larger firms without adding headcount.

Audience · 04

Family offices & QoE firms

Anchor every QoE engagement with a defensible VA Range. Benchmark portfolio marks against the VA Index monthly.

TEAM ECONOMICS

Three tiers. Built for how deal teams actually buy.

Dollar amounts live on the pricing page. The structural overview below shows what each tier is built for.

Tier · 01

One Report

Per-report, one-time, instant. For one-off decisions, fairness checks, and pre-LOI snapshots.

Tier · 02 · most popular

Pro

Subscription. Cmd+K command line, unlimited valuations, AI chat, market intel, deal book. For individual searchers, advisors, analysts.

Tier · 03

Team

For PE, search funds, advisory teams. Multi-seat (5-seat minimum), shared deal book, audit trail, annual billing, methodology lock, white-label option.

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COMMON QUESTIONS

The questions deal teams open with.

What is the Deal Pipeline?+

The Deal Pipeline takes every sourced target through Screened, Modeled, IC, and Closed. Each card carries a live VA Range (bear, base, bull) and a VARI reliability score. Time from teaser to a defensible range: under 10 minutes. Every output ships with a full methodology trail and an automated PDF memorandum.

What is the Email Valuation service?+

Forward us the financials or CIM at [email protected] and we email back a structured VA Range with VARI score in 10 minutes. Useful when you're triaging a stack of teasers between meetings and don't want to open the platform for each one.

What is the VA Index?+

VA Index is the monthly publication of sector multiples for private markets. Twelve hand-curated comparables per sector, monthly cadence, published first Tuesday at 09:00 ET, immutable snapshots. Reports EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, and P/E at five percentile points (P10/P25/P50/P75/P90). Currently 24+ sectors.

How is Value Alpha different from CapitalIQ or PitchBook?+

CapitalIQ and PitchBook are databases priced for institutions and built around public-market and large-cap M&A data. They do not produce a triangulated valuation output, the comp depth thins below $100M EV, and they do not publish monthly private-market multiples. Value Alpha is purpose-built for deal sizes at $1M–$250M revenue and produces an VA Ranges with a VARI reliability score in a single session.

How does VARI work?+

VARI is a per-valuation reliability score on every VA Range. 0–100 scale, banded at 40 and 70 into wide divergence, typical range and tight consensus. Decomposed into five components: Engine Agreement (do the methods converge), Comp Sample (depth and quality), Data Quality (completeness of inputs), Time (freshness of underlying data), and Methodology (appropriateness of engine mix). Surfaces methodology disagreement before an IC asks.

Can VA Range outputs survive PE-grade diligence?+

Yes. Every VA Range ships with a valuation_audit_ledger, calculation_details, and methodology citations for every engine. The audit trail survives QoE, IC review, and counterparty challenge.

What does multi-seat Team pricing include?+

The Team tier (5-seat minimum) includes shared workspace, shared comps library, shared deal book, portfolio tracker, multi-user audit trails, methodology lock across the team, white-label option for advisory practices, and annual billing. For larger teams contact sales.

For buy-side deal teams

Price a target the day you source it, not the week before committee.

29 valuation methods across 43 industries, a PDF memorandum on every run, and a deal pipeline that carries the range and its reliability score from sourced to closed.

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