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]

There is a number in one of our client stories I love more than any other. Zero.

That is how many days a $15M+ EBITDA cold chain logistics company spent on the open market before our client had it under LOI.

Here is how that happens. For years we have asked sell-side investment bankers for the same thing. Show us your deals before they hit the market. In exchange, we make a promise. We will only bring a buyer who is genuinely interested and capable of an offer strong enough to keep the deal from ever going to auction. We do not window shop. We do not waste a banker's first look on a maybe.

We had a private equity client running a platform search in cold chain logistics, minimum $15M of EBITDA. A banker brought a company to us before listing it. The fit was excellent. Our client moved fast, and their LOI was strong enough that the deal never reached another buyer.

No auction. No bidding war. No process.

Just a promise we had kept enough times that a banker trusted it one more time.

Reputation is not a marketing asset. It is an operating asset. Every time you honor your word, you are buying access you cannot get any other way. The first look never goes to the loudest firm. It goes to the one that kept its last promise.