Corporate Development & Investors

Company and market context for strategic and investment decisions.

Combine market structure with company, product, technology, ownership and relationship context. Polaris7 complements financial and transaction databases when the question is how a digital business fits into the ecosystem around it.

Corporate Development & M&A

Build the target universe before the formal process begins.

Structure a digital market, identify less visible players and assess strategic fit through products, capabilities, ownership, partnerships and ecosystem adjacency. Polaris7 supports the work before and alongside formal diligence.

Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, Ventures and Business Unit Strategy teams

Media groups · Software and data platforms · Agency holdings · Strategic buyers with a Digital or TMT agenda

When this becomes useful

  1. New M&A thesis
  2. Market scan
  3. Longlist
  4. Add-on search
  5. Build/Buy/Partner decision
  6. Portfolio monitoring

Typical outputs

  • Target universe
  • Ranked shortlist
  • Ownership map
  • Strategic-fit assessment
  • Synergy matrix
  • Monitoring briefing

Workflow

  1. Define thesis
  2. map market
  3. screen targets
  4. assess fit and relationships
  5. monitor candidates
  6. prepare pre-diligence context

Broader target coverage and faster, better-founded pre-diligence and portfolio decisions.

Private Equity & Investment Banking

Add operating context to investment and deal research.

Combine market structure with company, product, technology, ownership and relationship context. Polaris7 complements financial and transaction databases when the question is how a digital business fits into the ecosystem around it.

PE and Growth investment teams, Investment Banks and M&A boutiques

When this becomes useful

  1. Investment thesis
  2. Buy-side screen
  3. Sell-side pitch
  4. Buyer universe
  5. CDD preparation
  6. Portfolio review

Typical outputs

  • Target shortlist
  • Buyer map
  • Investment memo input
  • M&A one-pager
  • Synergy matrix
  • Portfolio briefing

For investors

Thesis-driven screening · Add-on discovery · Commercial and technology context · Portfolio monitoring

For banks and M&A advisors

Buyer universes · Target screens · Market maps · Strategic rationales · Origination monitoring

More relevant screens, faster investment preparation and more analyst capacity for judgment and transaction storyline.

Start with a company. Build the market context around it.

Start with Explorer, the free Polaris7 plan, to open additional company detail, create your first Watchlist and activate focused monitoring.