What ProxDeal does

ProxDeal GmbH is a Munich-based AI software company that builds an AI-agent-powered research and deal origination platform for the M&A market in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Its core product, branded KI-Analysten, uses parallelized AI agents to autonomously research live across more than 12 million websites, trade registers, annual reports, and special registries, generating context-specific M&A longlists from scratch rather than retrieving from pre-built databases. The platform covers 7M+ companies and 992M+ data signals refreshed every 12 hours, and includes dedicated modules for Buy-Side target research, Sell-Side buyer and financial-investor identification, succession case detection in the German Mittelstand, an M&A transaction search across European deal history, and a proprietary multi-model insolvency risk scoring engine (Altman Z'-Score, Ohlson O-Score, Zmijewski Model). Additional surface area includes an Outreach Automation module that generates personalized AI-written emails and serial letters, a German Company Datafinder, a real-time Insolvency Procedure Search, and a REST API delivering 100+ data points per company for CRM enrichment.

The company is privately held and founder-led by Managing Directors Simon Seibold and Stefan Rummer, both M&A and AI experts from the Technical University of Munich, with the company incubated at TUM Venture Labs and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and the City of Munich. ProxDeal makes money through enterprise SaaS subscriptions sold on a quote-based, demo-request model, plus a pay-per-field REST API product targeting technical buyers and CRM enrichment workflows; integration partners Simon&Co and AISBACH Data Solutions serve as certified implementation partners for enterprise rollouts. Target buyers span M&A advisors and investment banks, private equity and search funds, corporate development teams, succession-focused Mittelstand advisors, and adjacent verticals such as private debt and insurance. All data is processed in EU-hosted data centers in Frankfurt under GDPR-compliant protocols, with TÜV-certified data protection oversight.

Name

ProxDeal

Legal name

ProxDeal GmbH

Website

https://proxdeal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ProxDeal GmbH is a Munich-based AI software company that uses autonomous AI agents to generate M&A longlists and DACH company intelligence for advisors, private equity, and corporate development teams via SaaS and a REST API.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: ProxDeal operates as a SaaS platform with subscription-based access to the AI-powered M&A longlist generation terminal, data terminal, and outreach automation features. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, indicating enterprise-tier annual or multi-year contracts. The platform also offers API access as a separate commercial product.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ProxDeal is an AI-powered M&A research and deal origination platform that generates context-specific buy-side, sell-side, and succession-case longlists within minutes by running AI agents across 12M+ websites, trade registers, and annual reports. The platform covers 7M+ German-speaking capital companies with 992M+ data signals, refreshed every 12 hours, and offers a REST API with 100+ data points per company plus integrated insolvency risk scoring (Altman Z'-Score, Ohlson O-Score, Zmijewski) and automated personalized outreach.

Product overview

ProxDeal is an AI-powered M&A research and deal origination platform for the DACH market, comprising a core longlist generation engine (KI-Analysten) with three primary search modules (Buy-Side, Sell-Side, and Succession), a REST API for German company data (API & Data Services), an Outreach Automation module for generating personalized emails and letters from longlists, a Financial Investor Search, a German Company Datafinder, an M&A Transaction Search, an Insolvency Search, and an Insolvency Risk Analysis scoring tool. The platform covers 7M+ companies with 992M+ data signals and uses AI agents to autonomously research live from 12M websites and registers, updating twice daily. The API and outreach modules are add-on capabilities that integrate with CRM, Clay, N8N, Zapier, Hunter.io, Tally, Pipedrive, and Brevo.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ProxDeal Longlist Research (KI-Analysten) AI-powered M&A longlist generation platform that autonomously researches 12M+ websites and registers to generate Buy-Side, Sell-Side, and succession case longlists within minutes, with financial, location, and keyword filters plus Excel/CSV export.
• Buy-Side Longlist Module Identifies potential acquisition targets and succession candidates for investors and strategic buyers, accepting prompt descriptions and up to three reference website URLs as comparison benchmarks, with financial, location, and keyword filters and match scoring.
• Sell-Side Longlist Module (Mandatsakquise) Identifies strategic buyers and financial investors (PE, Family Offices) for companies being sold through AI semantic matching of company website and description to investor investment theses, including a dedicated Finanzinvestoren (DACH) tab with investment thesis matching.
• Succession Case Identification (Nachfolgefälle) Identifies SMEs in the German Mittelstand with genuine succession need using demographic, shareholder structure, and financial signals such as sole shareholder age over 55, lack of family succession, financial performance, and employee count.
• ProxDeal API (German Company Data Services) REST API covering the entire DACH region and providing register data, shareholders, financials, and management insights with 100+ data points per company, refreshed every 12 hours, supporting CRM enrichment and pay-per-field pricing.
• ProxDeal Outreach Automation Generates and delivers personalized mass emails (EML) and serial letters (PDF) directly from generated longlists, supporting AI-generated subject lines, body text, company logos, digital or hard-copy signatures, GDPR-compliant footer, and Hunter.io contact enrichment.
• Financial Investor Search (Finanzinvestoren) Searches and profiles Private Equity, Family Offices, and Search Funds across DACH with filters by investor type, transaction motive, investment scope, and HQ country, displaying investment theses, portfolio services, and Buy-&-Build strategies.
• German Company Search (Datafinder) Searchable database of all German companies with published annual accounts, enabling direct company lookup by name or extended keyword search, returning register data, financial metrics, shareholder structures, managing directors, representative persons, and historical annual reports.
• M&A Transaction Search Pan-European AI-powered semantic analysis of completed M&A transactions to identify potential buyers for specific targets by matching target descriptions against historical deal data and investor involvement.
• Insolvency Search (Insolvenzverfahren) Real-time search of current and completed insolvency proceedings in Germany covering debtors as natural or legal persons, including administrators, relevant deadlines, filters by date range, proceeding type, court, and financial metrics, with profile and table views and CSV export.
• Insolvency Risk Analysis Proprietary multi-model insolvency probability scoring for DACH private companies combining Altman Z'-Score, Ohlson O-Score, and Zmijewski models, classifying companies into Financially Healthy (0–15%), Slight Anomalies (15–40%), Significant Stress (40–70%), and Critical (70–100%) zones, with ML-based EBIT estimation for DACH financials.
• Hunter.io Contact Enrichment API-based integration that enriches shareholder and managing director email addresses directly within generated longlists, using the customer's own Hunter.io API key for contact data retrieval.

Quantifiable outcome

• M&A longlists generated in 5 minutes (vs. weeks of manual research)
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability9 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Simon&Co (Simon Lechner eU, München)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSimon&Co is a certified Clay partner and GTM systems integrator with over 10 years of experience building scalable go-to-market systems. As a certified integration partner, they develop scalable, fully automated data pipelines for ProxDeal customers — from initial concept through to enterprise-wide rollout — including certified data security and targeted staff training.
• AISBACH Data Solutions (HRB 285120, München)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAISBACH Data Solutions is a Munich-based venture studio focused on executing data engineering-heavy software projects. As a ProxDeal integration partner, they develop scalable, fully automated data pipelines for enterprise customers, from first concept through to company-wide rollout.
• German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)coreOthersProxDeal is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), one of Germany's principal government bodies supporting innovation and digital transformation in the Mittelstand. This support signals public institutional recognition of ProxDeal's contribution to the German M&A and SME succession market.
• TUM Venture Labs (Technical University of Munich)coreOthersProxDeal was developed by M&A and AI experts from TU München (Technical University of Munich) and is supported by TUM Venture Labs, the university's venture incubator and startup ecosystem. The founding team draws on academic expertise in AI and M&A from one of Germany's leading technical universities.
• Munich (City of Munich / Munich Startup Ecosystem)minorOthersProxDeal is supported by the City of Munich and is part of the Munich innovation ecosystem. The company is listed alongside other Munich-based startups and innovators, indicating local government and ecosystem recognition.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DealRoom: DealRoom is an M&A lifecycle management platform that includes deal sourcing, diligence, and integration tools. Comparable to ProxDeal on the deal origination/sourcing workflow targeting M&A professionals and PE.
• Inven: Inven is an AI-native company search engine for M&A and investment professionals, offering semantic search over private companies to generate prospect lists. Directly comparable to ProxDeal on core longlist generation workflow and target buyer (M&A advisors, PE).
• PrivSource: PrivSource is a private company intelligence platform built for sourcing and due diligence in M&A. Comparable to ProxDeal in serving M&A advisors and PE with private company data and longlist workflows.
• Grata: Grata is an AI-powered company intelligence and deal origination platform focused on sourcing private companies for M&A. Highly comparable to ProxDeal in product category (AI-driven longlist generation), target customer (M&A advisors and PE), and workflow (semantic search over private company data).

Broad incumbents

• S&P Capital IQ Pro: S&P Capital IQ Pro is an enterprise financial intelligence platform providing company data, financials, and M&A analytics. Comparable as a source of company intelligence for M&A professionals, but operates at global scale with a static database model rather than AI-researched longlists.
• Mergermarket (Acuris): Mergermarket is a global M&A intelligence platform providing deal data, target/buyer intelligence, and league tables. Directly comparable in target customer (M&A advisors, PE) and deal-origination use case, but operates at much larger global scale with a different data acquisition model.
• Pitchbook: Pitchbook is a leading global financial data platform covering private capital markets, including M&A and PE. Overlaps with ProxDeal in serving PE dealmakers and advisors, but Pitchbook is a broad incumbent with much wider global coverage and a pre-built database model.
• Datasite: Datasite is a global M&A technology platform offering deal management, virtual data rooms, and (post-Grata acquisition) deal sourcing capabilities. Comparable in serving M&A advisors end-to-end, though primarily focused on diligence/execution rather than origination.
• Crunchbase: Crunchbase is a public-company/private-company intelligence platform widely used by dealmakers and BD teams. Comparable as a company intelligence source for M&A targeting, though Crunchbase is more general-purpose, US-centric, and database-driven rather than AI-researched.

Emerging players

• Affinity: Affinity is a relationship intelligence and deal pipeline platform for VCs, PE, and M&A advisors, automatically capturing relationship data to surface warm deal paths. Adjacent to ProxDeal in serving M&A/PE dealmakers with sourcing intelligence, though differentiated by relationship-graph vs. company-data approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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