Find off-market acquisition targets.
Steliqo builds thesis-specific target maps for lean teams sourcing private companies across CEE's fragmented private markets.
CEE deal activity is rising. Target visibility is not.
Record activity
1,568 CEE M&A deals in 2025, up 22.4% year-on-year.
Cross-border pressure
60.8% of CEE deals by volume involved cross-border buyers
Private target universe
Europe has 34m SMEs. The right targets are hidden in fragmented local company data.
Steliqo turns fragmented CEE company data into a ranked target universe with rationale, ownership context, and actionable memos.
A target map, not a database export.
One acquisition profile becomes a ranked universe, explainable scores, priority dossiers, and a short buy-side memo.
Owner-led HVAC installer with recurring technical revenue, strong EBITDA density, and clear regional add-on logic.
Concentrated private ownership creates a clean decision-maker path and a credible founder-succession outreach angle.
Confirm customer concentration, second-line management depth, and normalized EBITDA before first contact.
Financial filings, registry ownership, website evidence, local market signals, and analyst review notes.
Screened universe separates into priority founder-succession targets, add-on candidates, and margin outliers requiring manual validation.
Highest-conviction names combine clean private ownership, recurring service revenue, above-peer EBITDA density, and thesis-relevant geography.
Recommended next step: approach the top 10 with owner-specific messaging and keep a diligence queue for high-margin outliers.
Every target is scored against acquisition logic.
Steliqo combines public filings, ownership context, financial indicators, web signals, and review notes into a ranked target universe.
Fit
Sector, size band, geography, service mix, buyer relevance, and exclusion rules.
Quality
Financial data, margin profile, growth signals, and balance-sheet indicators.
Ownership
Founder-led signals, shareholder structure, group complexity, and registry people context.
Timing
Tenure, succession indicators, recent changes, and market-level triggers where available.
Reachability
Likely owner or operator contact paths, company context, and outreach readiness.
Confidence
Source freshness, data gaps, contradictory records, and manual review notes.
From acquisition brief to ranked target map.
Start with the market
Share the sector, geography, size band, and buyer profile. We assess coverage and fit before sensitive thesis detail is needed.
Define the pilot map
We agree the market boundaries, scoring logic, output format, timeline, and confidentiality terms.
Map and score the universe
Steliqo screens relevant companies across registry, financial, ownership, web, and market signals.
Deliver the target map
You receive a ranked target universe, priority dossiers, source confidence, ownership context, and a buy-side memo.
Built from acquisition research and data systems.
Damian Kalupa built Steliqo, combining M&A, private-market research, data science, and enterprise data architecture work across financial-services and corporate environments.
The product started from a practical problem: acquisition teams do not need another raw database. They need a faster way to turn fragmented CEE company data into a ranked target universe.
Start with a mandate diagnostic.
Start with the CEE market you want to understand. We will outline available signals, likely coverage, and pilot scope before proprietary thesis detail is shared.
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