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Hamburg-based startup DealCircle has received a 7-figure revenue-based financing by Round2 Capital, an investment firm with offices in London and Vienna. The funding will enable further growth of the business and investments in additional tech enhancements through AI for an M&A software.

© DealCircle GmbH/Deutscher Gründerpreis: the founders Graig Gröbli and Kai Hesselmann
© DealCircle GmbH/Deutscher Gründerpreis: the founders Graig Gröbli and Kai Hesselmann

Deal Circle digitizes M&A projects

DealCircle offers a Mergers & Acquisitions deal match-making solution for M&A advisors for the buyer-identification process and for the market approach. The company simplifies the process of finding suitable buyers by using intelligent search algorithms for the final selection of the most suitable buyers, enabling M&A advisors to get instant access to the company’s investor database. DealCircle has placed around 1,200 M&A projects in 2023 and will market more than 1,500 projects this year.   

The funding from Round2 is intended to further accelerate the company’s growth and to facilitate investments into the company’s tech stack and in-house AI tools for product enhancements and increased value creation, starting with an automated, AI-generated buyer shortlist Therefore DealCircle aims to expand its tech team with additional Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. The revenue-based finance investment and its flexible refinancing profile align well with the company’s success-based business model. The two founders Kai Hesselmann and Graig Gröbli, who built up the company without external equity investors, thus retain full control over DealCircle.

“With Round2's investment, we not only want to pre-finance the operational growth of over 1,500 M&A deals that will be marketed via DealCircle this year. We also want to significantly advance our tech investments, because the AI-supported creation of shortlists is just the beginning at DealCircle. For us, AI is much more than just a buzzword that will significantly change our business in the short term. The seven-figure financing from Round2 will therefore ensure that AI does not disrupt our business model, but that we use the technology to further accelerate our growth.”
Kai Hesselmann, co-founder and Managing Director of DealCircle

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