Deal sourcing for Belgian M&A boutiques

What Prospexi does for a Belgian M&A boutique

• Ranks companies by succession-readiness

  We cross-reference director ages from KBO/Staatsblad, tenure, and shareholder-structure movement. Companies with founders 55+ and no succession plan surface at the top.

• Financial-momentum scoring from NBB

  Three-year revenue and EBITDA trends per company. Stable or declining margins in fragmented sectors are the classic M&A trigger; we surface them ranked.

• Carve-out signals

  When a subsidiary's financials significantly diverge from the parent group, that's a carve-out flag. Prospexi surfaces these across the Belgian corporate tree.

• Sector-fragmentation view

  Filter for sectors with 200+ small independents and no dominant player (classic roll-up territory). We pre-classify NACE codes by fragmentation index.

What Prospexi doesn't do

• The intro

  We surface the company and the owner contact. The warm intro, the pitch and the trust-building stay with you.

• Valuation

  We're not a valuation platform. NBB financials are surfaced for scoring, not for building a DCF.

• The mandate letter

  Structuring the mandate, negotiating fees and running the process is your work; we replaced only the sourcing time.

Frequently asked

• How is this different from a database like Companyweb or Graydon for M&A sourcing?

  Companyweb and Graydon are credit-first databases. Great for due diligence, weak for origination. Prospexi ranks by deal-readiness signals (succession, momentum, carve-out) — the origination side of the M&A workflow.

• Can I filter by owner age + no successor?

  Yes. Owner age from KBO/Staatsblad, cross-referenced with published director appointments in the same company over the last 5 years, gives a proxy for succession-planning gap. It's not perfect but it's dramatically better than random targeting.

• Do you support multi-sector ICPs (e.g. accounting + legal + notaries)?

  Yes. Growth and Enterprise plans support 1 and 5 ICPs respectively. Each ICP scores the whole market independently, so you can run parallel sourcing across sectors from one account.

• Is the data source-referenced?

  Every score dimension links back to the source: KBO for company data, NBB for financials, Staatsblad for directors, the Flemish subsidy register for subsidies. You see which signals moved the score and where they came from.

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