For Buyers & Acquirers
You don't need more deal flow
Register your acquisition criteria and receive opportunities selected against them, not a feed, not a blast, not another database to filter. Every introduction comes with the reason we made it.
The cost of a bad fit is paid in hours
If you acquire businesses professionally, your constraint is not access to opportunities. It is the time it takes to establish that an opportunity is not for you.
Broad distribution is the reason. A deal that goes to two thousand inboxes reaches you not because it fits your thesis but because you are on a list. The teaser is engineered for volume, the exclusions you have stated are ignored, and the work of filtering has been quietly transferred to you.
Vareth inverts that. We ask what you buy in enough detail to act on it, then send you the small number of opportunities that answer the description.
How Vareth is different
| Broad marketplaces | Vareth | |
|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Every opportunity to every member | Shortlist selected per opportunity |
| Selection | Keyword and filter overlap | Reviewed by a person, with stated rationale |
| What you see first | A listing you found | A match we chose, and why |
| Seller identity | Often exposed early or inferable | Anonymous until introduction, by design |
| Financial figures | Frequently presented as verified | Labelled seller-reported, with review status stated |
| Your criteria | A search filter | The basis of what we send you |
Your mandate, in enough detail to be useful
Vague criteria produce vague matches. We ask for:
Industry: sectors you pursue, sectors you exclude, and how far into adjacencies you will go
Size: revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value ranges
Geography: target states, regions or countries, and whether you require a local operating presence
Acquisition type: platform, add-on, roll-up, capability or geographic expansion, owner-operator
Control: majority, minority, full buyout, or flexible
Capital: typical equity cheque, funding source, and financing assumptions where relevant
Business quality: thresholds on margin, recurring revenue, customer concentration, growth, management depth
Timing: actively acquiring, opportunistic, or a mandate for later
Decision process: who evaluates, who approves, and your realistic response time
Every match is explainable
Matching at Vareth is done by people, working from a structured scorecard rather than intuition. We assess industry fit, size fit, geography, strategic rationale, capital capability, structure alignment and timing, and rank the result.
We are deliberate about not calling this AI. It is careful human curation against a repeatable standard, and we would rather describe it accurately than dress it up.
The test we apply before sending you anything: can we state in one sentence why this buyer, specifically, should care? Sector and revenue overlap alone is not a reason. If we cannot articulate the rationale, you do not receive the opportunity.
What you can see, and when
You will not be asked to seek seller permission to look at an anonymous profile. That would be friction with no purpose. Seller approval applies where it matters: at identity disclosure and direct contact.
| Stage | What you get | What it requires |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Anonymous preview | Industry, broad geography, revenue and EBITDA ranges, growth, employee count, ownership situation, reason for sale, verification status | A completed buyer profile |
| 2. Detailed brief | Fuller operating detail, non-identifying financial history, customer profile, investment highlights | Acceptance of buyer and confidentiality terms |
| 3. Introduction request | You submit your rationale and confirm fit | An available introduction credit or membership allocation |
| 4. Introduction | Company identity, direct contact, and documents authorized for release | Seller or advisor approval |
| 5. Transaction | Everything the seller side chooses to share, direct or via data room | Your own process |
How we present numbers, and why it is worded carefully
Financial figures on Vareth are seller-reported unless explicitly stated otherwise. That means revenue, EBITDA and growth were supplied by the seller or their authorized representative, and reviewed by us for basic consistency against supporting documentation.
It does not mean audited. It does not mean we recalculated EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA depends on classification and add-back judgments that reasonable professionals dispute, and a tax return can support parts of a financial picture without proving a normalized figure.
So we label rather than certify. You are responsible for your own financial, legal, tax and commercial due diligence, and you should price that work into every opportunity you pursue. We would rather you find our labels conservative than discover our claims were generous.
When something is wrong
We review before distribution, but no review catches everything. Our policy is straightforward:
If a discrepancy surfaces before introduction, we pause the opportunity and no credit is consumed.
If we transmitted incorrect information, we correct it, tell you, and refund or fully credit you. The error was ours.
If a seller materially misrepresented something, we suspend the participant, notify affected parties, and consider a refund or replacement credit under your agreement.
If your diligence produces a lower normalized EBITDA than the seller expected, that is an ordinary diligence outcome, not misconduct. It is not grounds for a refund where we labelled the figures accurately and delivered the introduction.
How access works
Browsing and reviewing opportunities never consumes a credit.
A credit is reserved when you request an introduction, and consumed only when that introduction is approved and completed.
If the seller declines, your credit is returned.
If we judge the request a poor fit and decline it, your credit is returned.
Once a valid introduction is made, the credit is consumed even if you subsequently decide not to pursue it.
Material Vareth error or proven seller misconduct may trigger a replacement credit or refund.
Buyer access
Creating a buyer profile is free, and a complete profile is what makes matching possible. Direct introductions require a paid arrangement.
We work with different buyer types differently. A search fund acquiring once and a private equity firm with a continuous mandate are not buying the same thing. Rather than publish a menu, we talk to you about your volume, your mandate and how you prefer to buy, and propose terms accordingly.
Tell us what you buy
You will not receive anything until we have an opportunity that matches what you told us.