sponsored by DealGen Partners: 

A quick intro, for anyone new here.

I'm Joe Zanca, and I run DealGen Partners. We outsource business development for private equity firms, family offices, and qualified buyers. We work as a partner, not as a vendor. In plain terms, we become your deal origination engine.

The work speaks for itself. On average, our clients are under LOI within the first 90 to 120 days. And we stand behind it: we'll bring you 10 qualified deals within the first four months, or we work for free until we hit that number.

So if you're looking for a new platform company to buy, or one of your existing platforms is looking to grow through acquisition, let's talk. We'll get into the industry, do a little market mapping, and start putting together a qualified list of targets.

Reach out to me directly at [email protected]

I started my first company in a dorm room at Babson.

Nobody teaches you what the first real payroll feels like. Or the first long-term lease with your name on it. Or the night you realize the whole thing depends on you figuring it out by morning.

You only learn that by doing it.

That's why, when I built the DealGen team, I hired entrepreneurs first. Seven out of nine of us have owned companies and sold companies.

It shows up on every call with an owner.

When a business owner tells us he's worried about his people, we don't nod politely. We've been the one worried about our people. When he talks about the lease, the bank, the customer who makes up too much of his revenue, we've sat in that chair.

Owners can tell the difference between someone who studied their situation and someone who lived it. They can usually tell in the first five minutes.

We speak fluent business owner. That trust gets our clients into conversations other firms never get invited to. Credentials open doors in a boardroom. Lived experience opens them at the kitchen table.