Sift through millions of
off-market businesses.
SIFT analyzes millions of off-market businesses to help acquisition entrepreneurs identify and signal local businesses worth investigating — and shows the evidence behind every conclusion.
A searchfunder doesn’t need more companies.
You may review thousands of businesses before completing one transaction. The scale of the private market is not the advantage — it’s the problem. The real question is disciplined and unglamorous: which companies deserve your attention?
Company information is scattered across disconnected databases, spreadsheets, and stale directories.
You left a career and raised capital against a defined search period. Every hour on the wrong company is gone.
Databases return lists. They don’t tell you what changed, what’s estimated, or what to investigate next.
Start with the market, not a list.
Define your thesis and watch the universe narrow. Every stage reduces noise and raises confidence — until what remains is a short list of companies genuinely worth your time.
Three surfaces. One continuous investigation.
Make 822,220 companies navigable.
Search by industry, geography, or a plain-language thesis. Every filter shows its impact, and every company explains why it appears — before you spend a minute researching it.
Explore the universe| Company | Est. Rev | SIFT |
|---|---|---|
Meridian Fire & Compliance Vancouver, BC | $4.2–6.8M | 84 |
Pacific Fire Protection Nanaimo, BC | $3.8–5.9M | 82 |
Parkland Pest Control Saskatoon, SK | $4.3–6.6M | 80 |
Strong acquisition fit based on operating history, employee scale, and evidence of recurring commercial customers. Ownership structure remains unclear and should be investigated before outreach.
An institutional file on a private company.
Score, thesis match, confidence, and signal are four separate concepts — never merged into one mystery number. The analytical view tells you why, and what still needs verifying.
Open a company fileIs this a market worth searching?
Understand fragmentation, company-size distribution, and geographic density before committing a thesis. SIFT interprets the market — it doesn’t just draw charts.
Review a marketKnow what is fact, and what is not.
Private-company data is imperfect. SIFT never hides it. Every value is classified, every estimate is inspectable, and every material unknown becomes a research question.
Directly identified from a source — a location, a listed employee, a corporate registration.
Calculated from observed data and benchmarks — estimated revenue, operating scale.
An analytical conclusion from available evidence — likely recurring revenue, apparent low capital intensity.
Insufficient evidence — customer concentration, exact EBITDA, owner willingness. Not hidden. Turned into a question.
Does any customer represent more than 20% of company revenue?
The acquisition entrepreneur.
Running a disciplined search against a finite runway and a defined thesis.
Building proprietary pipeline and comparing markets before raising deal capital.
Evaluating fragmented lower-middle-market sectors for direct acquisition.
Tracking company change and structuring evidence-led diligence.
Private company data is imperfect. The interface should not pretend otherwise.
SIFT distinguishes what is observed from what is estimated and inferred, explains how confidence is assigned, and surfaces conflicting sources rather than quietly averaging them.
Read the MethodologyStop searching. Start sifting.
822,220 companies. One acquisition thesis. Know what deserves investigation next.