Institutional valuation, for everyone who has to defend a number.
Owners, searchers, sponsors, lenders, and advisors all need the same thing: a defensible view of what a private business is worth. Value Alpha brings the institutional toolkit to every side of the deal.
About 10 minutes. No retainer, no six-week wait.
For the people who have to defend the number.
Whether you are selling your company or buying someone else’s, you get the same workup and the same evidence behind it. A range that holds up under diligence, not an opening guess and not the other side’s number taken on faith.
Selling, raising, or planning your exit
- Know what your business is worth before you take a buyer's call
- Walk into a sale or a raise with a defensible range, not a broker's opening guess
- Hold your price through diligence with sourced, methodology-backed evidence
- Skip the typical $5k to $50k advisory engagement and the multi-week wait for a first draft
Pricing targets and competing with PE
- Price a target in minutes, before the seller re-prices the deal
- Screen every inbound teaser without burning an analyst-week per target
- Table a credible number before the fund does, at the speed of a funded deal team without one
- Show up with institutional-grade backup, so a seller takes your offer as seriously as the fund's
Three steps from financials to a defensible range.
No spreadsheet, no analyst-week per target, no six-week appraisal. Upload the numbers, let the engines run, and walk into the meeting with a range you can hold across the table.
Upload whatever you have
Three years of P&L and balance sheet, or just a one-page teaser, as CSV, Excel, QuickBooks, or PDF. The parser reads every format, standardizes the line items, and flags what is missing.
Every engine runs in parallel
Every method a buyer, lender, or broker would run, all at once and tuned to your exact industry classification. Running them together means no single method can swing the number, and every output traces back to the source it used.
Get a report buyers take seriously
A defensible VA Range with the engine-weight breakdown, the comparable deals behind it, and a full audit trail. Open it in the dashboard, share it from the Deal Book, or export the IC-ready PDF.
Watch a real valuation run.
Two minutes from a financial upload to a finished VA Range, with every engine and every source on screen as it computes.
Ten core models. A model built for every sector.
Ten core models run on every business, from DCF and comparable companies to bottom-up unit economics, top-down market sizing, forecasting, and runway. On top of those, a model built for the target’s exact sector switches on by NAICS code, 40 in all, so a niche business is priced on its own economics, not a generic average. Everything is weighted by fit and blended into one range, and every engine shows the sources it used.
New pricing methods in active research with Columbia Business School
Discounted Cash Flow
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.
Comparable Companies
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.
Precedent Transactions
What buyers actually paid for similar businesses. Drawn from 20,000+ M&A reference deals, filtered to the subject profile by sector and size, with control premium and time-decay corrections. Built for deals the public comps cannot price.
Asset-Based Floor
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.
Scenario Analysis
Bear, base, and bull trajectories with explicit, named assumption changes. These set the three anchor points inside the VA Range.
Monte Carlo Simulation
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.
Forecasting, bull and bear
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.
Runway
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.
Bottom-Up
Value built from the unit up: customers, contracts, locations, or seats times their economics. The check on whether the headline multiple is actually earned.
Top-Down
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.
40 sector models, live now
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.
A valuation is a range, not a number.
The VA Range is the signature output: a confidence-scored, timestamp-sealed band showing bear, base, and bull in one glance, with every input traceable to the source it came from.
Calibrated against 20,000+ M&A reference deals and 12,700+ public comparables, so the range reflects what buyers actually pay in the sector, not where a seller wishes they traded.
Adjust growth, margins, or risk and the range re-renders instantly. Strip out the seller's hockey-stick, run your lender's downside, and re-price the deal in real time. Nothing is hard-coded behind a curtain.
Every number traces back to its source, the engine that produced it, and when. When an advisor or a credit committee questions the price, you show exactly where it came from instead of arguing.
The VA Range gives you the defensible enterprise value to anchor your entry multiple and your offer, the number your lender and your IC will both underwrite against.
An example of a report we generate
Every report includes an executive summary, methodology breakdown, scenario analysis, and full data appendix. The figures below are an illustrative example for a fictional company.
The questions buyers and owners ask first.
What do you need from me?
Three years of P&L and balance sheet in any common format, or just a one-page teaser to start. We standardize the line items for you and flag anything missing.
Will a lender or an investment committee accept it?
The report carries a full audit trail, sourced comparables, and the engine-weight breakdown, the same evidence a credit committee or IC expects. Every number traces back to the engine and source that produced it.
Is my specific industry covered?
The engines calibrate to your exact NAICS code across 1,000+ industries and 40 sector models, including specialized models for banks, REITs, biotech, and MedTech. Niche industries are priced on real comparables for that sector, not a generic average.
How is my data handled?
Your financials are private to your account and used only to produce your valuation. Nothing you upload is shared or sold.
How does pricing work?
Reports are self-serve. A single report is a one-time $199. Pro and Team plans add Excel export and unlimited reports for people who value businesses every week.
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