Kelp Deal Identification is a multi-data-source, customisable deal identification and shortlisting tool to support faster, better decision making.
Look Further and Deeper
Kelp DI is a uniquely broad, customisable deal-sourcing solution that lets you efficiently sift and prioritize potential fits. Spread your net wider, reach into previously unseen corners, and dive deeper to find the deals that are right for you.
Combine Structured and Unstructured Data Sources
Kelp DI aggregates and triages paid, public and proprietary data sources, overlays user-specific metrics and surface non-financial data to provide textured insights that drive faster and better decision making. It quickly identifies likely fits and eliminates resource-consuming bad fits to give you better-qualified, shorter shortlists.
Build Relationships and Angles
Armed with new perspectives, novel insights and deeper understanding, you can approach prospects with confidence, build relationships and develop engaging deal proposals quickly and before competitive bidding raises prices.
Discover disruptive/sunrise themes
Scan or deep dive into themes of choice
Identify prospects early
Build relationships and angles sooner
UP AND RUNNING IN WEEKS
Drive Deeper Insights and Better Decisions
Kelp DI can be up and running in 6–12 weeks. Depending on your specification, it can work with or replace your existing tools, taking information from them where required and combining it with open search data.
Phase 1
Uncover companies, market deals and fund managers
Aggregation of financials and transactions data sources
Peer benchmarking
Company one pager
Asset scoring
Phase 2
Shortlist and hotlist criteria
Personalized metrics
Sector-specific one pagers and tear sheets
Phase 3
Sourcing dashboards
External search (outside geos of interest)
Kelp DI’s UI is intuitive and highly configurable, allowing you to customize your searches and compare and score prospects across a wide range of parameters quickly and with minimal training.
Our support team are on-hand to deploy and provide initial support so that your analysts and research teams can very quickly begin using Kelp DI productively. In just weeks, they’ll be using it to generate novel insights and identify qualified leads to support your deal-sourcing requirements.
A private equity firm in India used Kelp DI to conduct a tailored search and surface hundreds of prospective assets in an attractive but underinvested sector using its in-house criteria – leadership, financials and primary investments only.
In a search that took the client less than two weeks from in-depth internal briefing to final outcome, Kelp DI generated a list of 1,300 unique companies, rank ordered by the firm’s own metrics:
A Middle East client in the tech-enabled services sector tasked Kelp DI with validating its pre-existing prospect list of 221 companies. Kelp DI achieved a significant multiplier effect using public data to seek out previously unrecognized companies of interest that would strengthen the client’s technology sector thesis.
The challenge
Hard-to-classify sector participants
Separating product and service-delivery revenue in companies that do both
Multiple languages
No access to paid data sources
Identify companies based on revenue, growth or proxies, Europe presence and B2B business segments
Kelp DI delivered a 3-5x increase in companies of interest, minimizing missed opportunities despite huge data and classification problems and enabling it to redirect the resources of a 10-12-strong full-time team over several months.
