akoloPilot intake open
DACH · 2026
The structured platform for ETA
Akolo gives search funds and ETA teams one platform for market mapping, target sourcing, deal screening and investment decisions.
Built for search funds and ETA teams
01 · The product
Akolo is the structured platform for the search: one workspace to map a market, hold company records with provenance, and carry that evidence into pipeline and diligence. The product direction is a durable company record — not a live feed from every public register today.
Mandate workspace
Search 2026-03 · DACH technical services
Mandate Search 2026-03 · DACH technical services·Thesis Owner-led GmbH, €8–40m revenue, EBIT ≥ 8%, project work not dominant·Exclude PE holdco, franchise, staffing as core·Geography BW / BY / HE, seat ≠ Berlin metro·Legal form GmbH, GmbH & Co. KG; no AG
WZ 2008 segment ledger
Illustrative market map
| WZ 2008 | Submarket | n univ. | n thesis-fit | Revenue class (BA) | Owner ≥55 | HR as-of | Concentration | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33.12 | Repair of machinery | 186 | 41 | €10–50m | 38% | 08.2026 | medium | High succession density |
| 33.20 | Installation of industrial machinery | 94 | 22 | €10–50m | 44% | 08.2026 | fragmented | GF age, no procura |
| 81.21 | General cleaning of buildings | 310 | 9 | €2–10m | 29% | 06.2026 | high | Weak thesis fit |
Review
LOI 28.07.2026 · data room iManage
| Folio | Workstream | Status | Open item | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Commercial | in progress | Top-5 customers 61% of revenue | Management presentation, Q&A 04.08 |
| II | Financial | requested | 2024 accounts missing; HB II vs tax accounts | BA 2023; request F-12 |
| III | Legal | opened | Shareholders’ agreement, change of control | HR list; request L-03 |
| IV | Tax | not opened | — | — |
| V | HR / social | not opened | — | — |
| VI | IT / OT | not opened | — | — |
Review is downstream · 1 mandate in LOI
Build the universe from the sources a searcher would actually use. Identity, ownership and market context stay on the company — then the system goes deeper where the thesis demands it.
Prioritise targets by thesis fit, company profile and timing. Research, relationships and next steps move through one shared pipeline.
Coordinate financial, commercial, legal, tax, operational, technology and people workstreams. Facts, evidence, conflicts, tasks and gate readiness stay connected.
Investment logic, approvals and lessons remain traceable. The team knows why a deal advanced or stopped and carries that knowledge into the next search.
02 · The problem
I
Registers, industry sources, websites, spreadsheets and call notes live in separate places. Analysts copy data instead of evaluating markets and opportunities.
II
Without a shared model, prioritisation depends on individual judgment and spreadsheets. Thesis fit, company quality and timing are difficult to compare.
III
Why a target was advanced, deferred or rejected stays in inboxes and people's heads. The next market analysis starts almost from scratch.
03 · The European ETA opportunity
A generational transfer of business ownership meets a technology stack that can finally research fragmented private markets and carry evidence into due diligence.
Market driver 01 · Demography
Across Europe, ageing owners are approaching succession while many viable companies lack a clear internal handover. The issue is not company quality. It is matching continuity-ready businesses with capable new operators.
Market driver 02 · Technology
Modern data infrastructure, retrieval, document processing and assisted analysis make it possible to investigate many more private companies without reducing the work to shallow lead lists or black-box scores.
The perfect storm
That does not make every business investable. It creates a larger, more time-sensitive search universe and raises the value of a system that can find, resolve, deepen and verify each opportunity before scarce deal resources are committed.
The system response
Akolo starts with the broad market, builds one durable company record and takes it deeper as the opportunity advances. Each step reuses the evidence already gathered instead of restarting research for sourcing, screening and diligence.
Search the sources a serious searcher would use and structure relevant sectors, regions and companies.
Connect identity, legal form, locations, people, ownership and historical changes into one entity.
Add accounts, market position, succession context, web signals, operations and stakeholder intelligence.
Preserve provenance, expose conflicts, distinguish assumptions and require human verification where it matters.
Carry the same record into outreach, screening, due-diligence workstreams, gates and the investment decision.
The advantage is not a longer company list. It is a deeper, reusable record for every market and every decision.
04 · Deal quality
Akolo looks beyond whether a company appears interesting. Market attractiveness, thesis fit, company quality, risk and evidence form one consistent deal view. Every claim remains reviewable; the investment decision stays with the team.
05 · Market intelligence
Akolo is built so a search team can keep identity, accounts, web signals and primary research on one record, with provenance, instead of restarting in spreadsheets. Live registry connectors are the product direction of the platform, not a claim about feeds already running in production.
Akolo owns the company record. Sources will feed it. Depth and quality stay in the system.
06 · Design-partner pilot
In the pilot, we map your actual search process in Akolo. Together, we define the market, target criteria and deal-quality model, then apply the system directly to your active search.
01
We translate your investment thesis, exclusions and priorities into a clear search and assessment model.
02
We structure a relevant market or existing pipeline and configure research, prioritisation and team collaboration.
03
You test Akolo on real targets. Your feedback on data, scoring and workflow goes directly into product development.
The pilot fits if you are a search fund, ETA operator, family office or M&A team actively looking for companies and want to connect market intelligence, sourcing and deal assessment in one durable process.
