Intelligence
The Open Equity platform reads every company in five technology segments, understands each one with AI, and knows who has a reason to do a deal before they have told anyone. This is how we engineer exits.
301,034companies mapped
5segments
4,354buyers identified
1,173businesses sold in 24 months
The Open Equity platform
The Register
301,034
companies
Every active UK private company in five technology segments from Companies House. Three years of filed accounts read for 253,806 of them. Refreshed monthly.
The Companies
40,658
websites read so far
Our AI reads each company’s own website and describes it in plain words. A second model scores every founder-owned business against a written mandate and gives it a route: ready now, value gap, prospect or pass - with the reason in one sentence.
The Buyer Map
4,354
buyers identified
Every owner of a company on the register, 45,121 of them, walked up its ownership chain to the group at the top: 2,697 trade buyers, 875 overseas groups, 311 private equity houses, and 471 founder-owned groups that have bought more than one business - the buyer class no database lists.
The Engine
3 min
to find out
Puts a business against every founder-owned peer of its size in its segment and shows the value band, the buyers active, and what is holding the number back. The founder enters his own figures; nothing is shown that he did not put in.
The Radar
1 at a time
introductions, founder first
The buyer’s view: the shelf, filtered to a thesis, anonymised until the founder agrees to an introduction.
The five segments
AI infrastructure
6,559
Electrical, mechanical, cooling, fibre, fit-out. Founder-owned, ten or more staff. 389 sold in the last two years, about four a week.
Cyber security
279
Founder-owned, ten or more staff. 53 sold in the last two years, about two a month.
IT services
2,372
Founder-owned, ten or more staff. 279 sold in the last two years, about three a week.
Software
1,145
Founder-owned, ten or more staff. 149 sold in the last two years, about one a week.
Tech-enabled services
7,150
Founder-owned, ten or more staff. 497 sold in the last two years, about five a week.
For founders
Businesses like yours are being bought every month, often by buyers who already own two or three. Almost none of the owners knew where they stood. The platform shows you your place among every founder-owned peer of your size, the value band buyers are paying, who they are, and what is holding your number back. Three minutes, nothing to pay, nothing of yours goes in unless you put it there.
See where you sit →
For buyers
Every founder-owned business in your segment, mapped from the register, with our reading of which are ready now and which are being built to sell. We write to a hundred of those owners a week, and they tell us their horizon. Send your thesis and Radar shows you how many fit, where they cluster, and which are already thinking about it. Introductions one at a time, founder first, nothing to pay for looking.
Send your thesis →
Why Open Equity
Banks, brokers, databases
Open Equity
Market coverage
Deals that have happened and buyers already known. Or the sellers who walked in.
Every founder-owned business in five segments, sold or not. 301,034 companies, read monthly.
Buyers
A contact book, or a list of announced acquirers.
4,354 buyers mapped up the ownership chain, including 471 founder-owned groups that have bought more than one business.
What is known per company
One layer: filings, or a classification, or a deal record.
Filings, size, owner, owner age, description, route and intent, on one row.
Reading the market
Analysts, sampling, twenty years of memory.
AI reads, describes, scores and routes every company. A person reads every ranked list.
Reaching the founder
Waits for the call.
Proactive outreach with tailored insight.
When the work starts
When the founder decides to sell.
Years before, on the value gap the reading found.
Intelligence is what lets us engineer the exit years before anyone else would take the call.