Originated, By DealGen Partners
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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]
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." — Sun Tzu
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A few months ago I was working with a fund on a deal. Good group. Smart people. The seller was motivated, the business was clean, and the fit was obvious.
The fund took four days to respond to the LOI markup.
Not because they were thinking hard about the terms. Because no one made it a priority. Four days of emails sitting in inboxes while the seller started wondering if these guys actually wanted the deal.
If people are open to reviewing some of the recent deals we've found, or search thesis' we've put together, lets schedule a call today.
They lost it. Another buyer had called the seller twice that week, turned around comments in 24 hours, and offered to fly in for a meeting. Same price. Slightly worse terms. Didn't matter.
I've watched this play out more times than I can count. The buyer with the best thesis loses to the buyer who moved faster. Not marginally faster. Visibly, unmistakably faster. The kind of fast that makes a seller feel like they're the most important conversation happening that week.
The top funds I work with treat urgency as a discipline. They adjust their calendars. They get on planes. They answer on weekends when it matters. Not because they're desperate. Because they understand what moving fast actually signals.
It tells the other side: I take this seriously, and I take you seriously. In deal-making, that signal is worth more than most people realize. Speed isn't just a style. It's a competitive advantage that almost nobody talks about.
When did you last lose something, not because you weren't good enough, but because someone else simply moved faster?
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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