Partnerships · GTM · Venture · M&A · Corporate development

The partner discovery engine

DealBrain understands the business outcome you want, continuously discovers and researches the companies and people that matter, and coordinates AI agents to move opportunities forward.

DealBrain workspace — OpportunitiesDemo data
Companies expanding into Southern Europe that hired a partnerships lead
5 strategies active
CompanySignalFitNext action

AtlasPay

Fintech infrastructure

Hired VP PartnershipsAct now

EU distribution partners

See why it matters

Northlane Capital

Venture capital

Closed a new €120M fundWatch

Investor coverage

Track for timing

Tidepool Studio

Gaming

Soft launch in 3 marketsAct now

Publishing thesis

Open opportunity context

Verado Systems

Enterprise SaaS

Opened a partner programQualified

Channel expansion

Find the decision-maker

Kernpath

AI infrastructure

Repeat founders, pre-fundingEarly window

Early-stage thesis

Review before it's obvious

Illustrative demo data. Companies, people and metrics are fictional.

Built for teams whose growth depends on finding the right companies before everyone else does.

  • Partnerships
  • Go-to-market
  • Business development
  • Investment sourcing
  • M&A
  • Corporate development
  • Market intelligence
  • Publishing

Scouts

Scouts that run on your schedule

Describe the business outcome once. DealBrain turns it into an adaptive strategy, sends specialized Scouts to work and surfaces only what deserves your attention.

Partner opportunity radar

Daily · 08:00

Running

Surface companies that just became relevant to your partnership outcome.

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Buying-window watch

Daily · 09:00

Running

Track funding, senior hires, enterprise moves and compliance work that open a window to sell.

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Investment thesis radar

Mondays · 08:00

Scheduled

Source companies matching your thesis before they reach obvious dealflow.

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Relationship triggers

Continuous

Running

Detect role changes, company moves and reasons a dormant relationship is worth reopening.

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Market signal tracking

Daily

Running

Follow launches, hiring, partnerships and competitive shifts that change who deserves attention.

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Founder and alumni tracking

Weekly

Scheduled

Watch new companies started by operators and alumni in the ecosystems you care about.

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Media and newsletter signals

Daily

Running

Read trade media, newsletters and industry sources for triggers worth acting on.

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M&A and strategic windows

Weekly

Paused

Surface companies and market shifts that create acquisition or strategic openings.

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Scout names, schedules and states shown as illustrative demo content.

Chief of Staff

Every workspace gets an AI Chief of Staff

Your Chief of Staff watches the work of every Scout, agent, strategy and opportunity — and turns it into a daily executive brief.

The Chief of Staff does not replace human decision-making. It coordinates intelligence, prioritizes attention and explains why something matters.

Open daily brief
Daily briefDemo

Good morning. Here's what changed.

  • 17 companies assessed overnight
  • 4 new qualified opportunities
  • 2 relationship triggers worth acting on
  • 1 opportunity that materially changed
  • 3 signals that shifted priority
  • 5 items that deserve your attention

What matters today

  • A target account hired a VP Partnerships from a company you already know — a warm path in exists.
  • Two companies entered your publishing thesis in the last week and are still unrepresented.
  • A Series A company expanded into your priority market, moving it into a buying window.
  • A company you previously passed on now meets your criteria after a product launch.

Discover

Find the companies and people others miss

Describe intent in your own words. DealBrain translates it into a running search across markets, sources and signals — not a static filter.

Find companies from business intentDemo data

We sell security tooling to enterprise SaaS — show me companies entering a buying window: new CISO, fresh funding, enterprise push or compliance work underway.

Find distribution partners in Southern Europe with enterprise relationships but no local presence of their own.

Surface companies matching our investment thesis before they announce institutional funding.

Which acquisition targets in vertical SaaS just showed a reason to talk?

AtlasPay

Fintech infrastructure · Lisbon

People

Marta Reis · CEO

Jonas Falk · Head of Partnerships

Signals
Enterprise partnership announcedHiring in Iberia
Reason matched
Expanding into your market and just staffed partnerships — the window is open now, not next quarter.
Strategy fit
92 · Act now
Relationship
Warm · 2 shared contacts

See why it matters

Tidepool Studio

Gaming · Helsinki

People

Eero Lampi · Co-founder

Sanna Virta · Product

Signals
New title soft-launchedExperienced founding team
Reason matched
Matches your thesis and has no publishing partner yet — timing is the advantage.
Strategy fit
88 · Act now
Relationship
Cold · 1 path via investor

Open opportunity context

Verado Systems

Enterprise SaaS · Berlin

People

Ines Kraus · VP Alliances

Signals
Partner program launchedNew integration marketplace
Reason matched
Explicitly building channel — your criteria are met and a path in already exists.
Strategy fit
76 · Qualified
Relationship
Warm · previous meeting

Find the decision-maker

Illustrative demo data. Companies, people and metrics are fictional.

People

Know when the right people make a move

Opportunities usually start with a person, not a company. DealBrain watches the moves that change what is possible.

  • A founder leaves a company you track
  • A decision-maker joins a target account
  • An operator you know starts something new
  • A former colleague becomes an investor
  • A partnership lead changes companies
  • A team quietly begins a new venture
Person · signal detectedDemo data
AK

Anna Keller

Former VP Partnerships · Demo Fintech

Now Co-founder · NewCo

Signal

Started company 19 days ago

Relationship

2 shared contacts · previous email interaction

Action

Research company

YouJonas FalkAnna Keller

Illustrative demo data. Companies, people and metrics are fictional.

Relationship intelligence

Your network is part of the data

DealBrain combines market intelligence with relationship intelligence: know who your team knows, how they know them, what happened before and when a relationship becomes relevant again.

Relationship graphDemo data

People

  • Founders
  • Executives
  • Previous colleagues

Organizations

  • Companies
  • Investors
  • Partners

History

  • Conversations
  • Meetings
  • Emails
  • Documents
  • Introductions
Path found: You → Jonas Falk (Demo Fintech) → Anna Keller (NewCo) · strength: warm

Data sources

  • GmailPlanned
  • Google CalendarPlanned
  • SlackPlanned
  • LinkedInPlanned
  • CRMPlanned
  • Google DrivePlanned
  • NotionPlanned
  • Meeting transcriptsPlanned

Planned integrations are shown as product direction. Only sources labelled “Connected” are live today.

Research

The context you need before you make the move

Every company becomes a living profile: what it sells, who runs it, who funded it, what changed and why it matters to your strategy.

Company profile · AtlasPayDemo data
OverviewPeopleRelationshipsFundingProductsMarketCompetitorsSignalsDocumentsResearchHistory

AtlasPay

Fintech infrastructure · Lisbon · 64 employees · Series A (demo)

What they sell
Embedded payment infrastructure for marketplaces.
Who buys it
Mid-market marketplaces and vertical SaaS platforms.
Revenue model
Transaction fee plus platform subscription.
Founders
Marta Reis and Jonas Falk — worked together previously.
Recent change
Enterprise partnership announced; hiring in Iberia.
Closest competitors
Two regional PSPs and one global provider.

Agent research questions

  • What does this company actually sell?
  • Who buys it?
  • How does it make money?
  • Who are the founders?
  • Did the founders work together before?
  • Who funded them?
  • What changed in the last six months?
  • Which competitors are closest?
  • What partnerships have they announced?
  • What geographic markets are they entering?
  • Why does this company match our strategy?
  • What would make this opportunity unattractive?

Illustrative demo data. Companies, people and metrics are fictional.

Open-source intelligence

Research beyond databases

DealBrain agents work across structured data and open-source intelligence to build a continuously updated picture of every opportunity.

Sources flowing into one companyDemo data
Company websiteApp storesRegulatory filingsPress releasesFunding announcementsLinkedInPodcastsConference listsAccelerator portfoliosNewslettersTrade mediaMagazinesPublic interviewsJob postingsProduct launchesMarket databases
AtlasPay · continuously updated profile
  1. Sources
  2. Evidence
  3. Claims
  4. Confidence
  5. Decision context

Every claim is labelled

  • Verified fact

    Confirmed in a primary or official source

  • First-party claim

    Stated by the company itself

  • Estimate

    Derived from comparable data

  • Inference

    Reasoned from available evidence

  • Unknown

    Not established — flagged, never guessed

Organize

Turn intelligence into a living business workflow

Opportunities move through an adaptive pipeline. Every entity keeps its full historical context — no research disappears when the status changes.

  1. Discovered

    34

  2. Researching

    18

  3. Qualified

    12

  4. Human review

    5

  5. Relationship found

    7

  6. Contact ready

    4

  7. In conversation

    6

  8. Opportunity

    3

  9. Deal / partnership

    2

  10. Monitor

    21

Pipeline stages and counts shown as illustrative demo data.

Act

Move from intelligence to execution

DealBrain coordinates tasks instead of simply displaying records. Agents pick up work, keep it moving and hand decisions back to your team.

External actions — sending messages, updating systems of record, contacting people — require the appropriate permissions and explicit human controls.

Agent task queueDemo data
  • Deep research companyDone
  • Find decision-makerRunning
  • Find warm relationshipQueued
  • Prepare meeting briefNeeds approval
  • Compare with strategyDone
  • Draft outreachRunning
  • Request human approvalQueued
  • Monitor for changesNeeds approval
  • Schedule follow-upDone
  • Update opportunityRunning
  • Generate deal briefQueued

Adaptive strategies

Your strategy is not a filter. It is a living operating system.

Strategies tell Scouts what to look for, why it matters, what to reject, which signals change relevance and how to qualify an opportunity. As the market changes, strategies can be updated without rebuilding the workflow.

Strategy object · AI Publishing StrategyDemo data
Mission
Find independent studios whose games fit our publishing model.
Ideal opportunities
Small teams, one live title, proven retention, no publisher.
Product criteria
Mobile-first, casual or hybrid-casual, D1 above 40%.
Exclusions
Work-for-hire studios, gambling, already-signed titles.
Business model
Revenue share with UA support and soft-launch funding.
Signals to monitor
Soft launches, store ranking moves, studio formation, founder moves.
Qualification rules
Verified ownership, contactable founder, genre fit, evidence of traction.
Current market thesis
Hybrid-casual puzzle demand is expanding in Tier-2 markets.
Learnings
Studios rejected for scale often re-qualify after a second title.

European Fintech Partner Strategy

  • Mission: build distribution through licensed local partners.
  • Signals: licences, geographic expansion, enterprise wins, partner hires.
  • Exclusions: direct competitors, consumer-only wallets.

Early-Stage AI Investment Strategy

  • Mission: reach repeat founders before institutional rounds.
  • Signals: stealth registrations, executive departures, accelerator alumni.
  • Exclusions: post-Series A, thin-wrapper products.

Strategy content shown as illustrative demo configuration.

Business outcomes

Start with the outcome

DealBrain begins with what your business is trying to achieve — not with a list of software features.

  1. 01Business outcome
  2. 02Adaptive strategy
  3. 03Signals
  4. 04Scouts
  5. 05Discovery
  6. 06Research
  7. 07Qualification
  8. 08Relationships
  9. 09Agent workflows
  10. 10Human decision
  11. 11Outcome

Example outcomes

  • Find 20 strategic partners for European expansion
  • Build a recurring Series A investment pipeline
  • Find independent games suitable for publishing
  • Map acquisition targets in vertical SaaS
  • Identify channel partners entering the GCC

Connected knowledge

Your knowledge runs on your schedule

DealBrain continuously processes internal and external information, and converts it into structured intelligence your team can act on.

Internal

  • CRM
  • Email
  • Calendar
  • Slack
  • Drive
  • Notion
  • Meeting notes
  • Documents

External

  • Web
  • Company sites
  • Market databases
  • Media
  • Social profiles
  • Industry sources
  • Public registries

Becomes

  • Signals
  • Companies
  • People
  • Relationships
  • Research
  • Tasks
  • Opportunities
  • Strategy updates

Use cases

One engine, many markets

The same discovery, research and execution loop applies wherever finding the right companies and people decides the outcome.

Venture

Find accelerator alumni or former employees of high-performing companies starting new businesses.

  • Y Combinator alumni
  • Antler alumni
  • Gaming accelerator alumni
  • Former founders
  • Repeat founders
  • Recent executive departures

Fintech

Monitor the regulatory and commercial signals that change partner relevance.

  • Licences
  • Geographic expansion
  • Partnership announcements
  • New enterprise customers
  • Product launches
  • Leadership hires
  • Funding
  • Regulatory developments

Gaming

One example vertical among many — track studios and titles as they emerge.

  • New mobile releases
  • Soft launches
  • Studio formation
  • Publisher relationships
  • Founder movements
  • App-store signals
  • Funding
  • New mechanics

Enterprise SaaS

Watch category and go-to-market movements across the software landscape.

  • New product categories
  • Pricing changes
  • Hiring
  • Integrations
  • Fundraising
  • Customer announcements
  • Market expansion

Illustrative examples

What working with DealBrain looks like

The quotes below are illustrative examples written to describe intended outcomes. They are not verified customer statements.

DealBrain surfaced six of the partnerships we ultimately prioritized this quarter — before they reached our inbound pipeline.
Head of Partnerships · B2B FintechIllustrative example — not a customer testimonial
We used to spend several days building a market map. Now our team starts Monday with a qualified shortlist and the research already attached.
Partner · Early-stage VCIllustrative example — not a customer testimonial
The value isn't just finding companies. DealBrain remembers why we cared, who we know there and what changed since the last review.
Corporate Development LeadIllustrative example — not a customer testimonial

Agent-ready

Intelligence wherever your work happens

DealBrain is designed around connected data and agent workflows, so intelligence reaches the tools your team already uses. Labels below show what is live today versus product direction.

  • GmailPlanned
  • Google CalendarPlanned
  • SlackPlanned
  • LinkedInPlanned
  • CRMPlanned
  • Google DrivePlanned
  • NotionPlanned
  • Meeting transcriptsPlanned
  • Web & AI researchConnected
  • Agent access (MCP)Connected
  • Market databasesAvailable
  • APIsAvailable

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