Originated, By DealGen Partners
Issue No. 16
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]
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
— Zig Ziglar
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The best deal source we found was somebody's college roommate.
We were on the phone with one of our referral partners. These are trusted advisors across industries who send us opportunities because they know we honor our word and bring them into real deals. The call was about an introduction he might make for one of our active searches.
Then we did something simple. We walked him through our other mandates.
We were running searches across multiple client funds at once, and the search we called about was in a completely different industry from the rest. But as we ran down the list, he stopped us. His college roommate owned a company in one of the other verticals we were hunting in.
One phone call. About a different search entirely. And an off-market target surfaced that no list, no database, and no cold outreach campaign would ever have found. Zero cold outreach. One relationship.
We call it the DealGen tentacles. Our network does not just work the vertical in front of us. It works every mandate we carry, all the time, even when we are not asking.
If you are open to reviewing some of the recent deals we've found, or search thesis' we've put together, lets schedule a call today.
Databases find companies. Relationships find deals. A database only answers the question you ask it. A relationship answers questions you did not know to ask. That is why we will always bet on people over software.
Who in your network knows about an opportunity you have never thought to ask them about?
This is the part of the newsletter where we open up the board.
Every idea you'll find here is a search we'd happily run with the right partner. An idea earns its spot one of two ways. Either it's a space where we're seeing strong deal flow right now and we're looking for a buyer to chase it with us — or it's a market we've watched fragment, where we see a real opportunity to build something through consolidation.
Feel free to click around and browse our idea database. If one of them fits what you're after, reach out and let's run it together.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to compare notes. schedule a call
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In case you missed it:
Issue No. 13 — He thought selling meant selling everything
Issue No. 14 — Story Time: the client who told us to stop
Issue No. 15 — The seven ways good exits die