DealFox is a newcomer to the LHoFT. CEO Laurent Marliere tells us more about the company.
Can you pitch your startup in a few words?
DealFox is the only global deal origination platform for regulated professionals. It provides a unique and confidential way for trusted advisors to source investment opportunities from around the globe. While also enabling professionals active on the sell side to distribute investment opportunities to more than 45,000 investors.
Why did you decide to create this company?
After 30 years of working in consultancy, it became clear that many lawyers and accountants and other M&A professionals had various tools at their disposal, but no platform for deal origination. Using the latest in AI tech we wanted to create a way that investment opportunities could be matched to our database of our existing network of 45,000 investors.
What are your product(s)/service(s) and your business model?
A subscription to our platform enables only regulated professionals matchmaking between their assets and capital raising goals to those of our network of investors. The platform also enables trusted advisers to identify and source opportunities. In broad terms we estimate that professionals active in deal making can benefit from a multiple of 10 in their deal flow.
How is your offering different from your competitors and other market players?
The new AI engine will change the way professionals conduct “deal origination”, by creating the “Spotify of the Deal”. Investors and their clients implement their exact criteria to fill their pipeline with off-market, pre-qualified opportunities.
Why did you decide to join the LHoFT?
Basing our headquarters in the LHoFT was a key part of our strategy of focusing on the Luxembourg financial sector. We knew that this would be an excellent place to identify our initial partners and clients for the platform. We are delighted to be alongside so many other inspirational startups and scale ups, as well as benefiting from the super positivity from the LHoFT team themselves!
What’s next?
We are searching for pre-launch partners in several key jurisdictions within Europe. As soon as this is achieved, we will be focusing on building business in the USA and Asia.
