We build proprietary deal flow for people who buy companies
Skyely is a global origination desk. We work with clients worldwide, define your thesis, research owners one by one, and put you in direct conversation with the people who own the companies you want — long before a banker gets involved.
From €2,500 / month · 3-month minimum term
- 300–1,200+
- Owners researched per month
- 8–12
- Live owner conversations in 60 days
- 1–3
- Acquisition theses per engagement
- Email · LinkedIn · CRM
- Outreach channels we run
The deals worth buying are rarely the deals on offer
The auction is priced against you
A banked process exists to manufacture competitive tension, and you are the tension. Every additional bidder in the room is another turn of the multiple you end up paying.
The inventory is already picked over
By the time a teaser reaches your inbox it has circulated for weeks. What is still available on the open market is what nobody with an earlier look wanted.
Outreach is a full-time job you did not sign up for
Lists, domains, deliverability, sequencing, follow-up, CRM hygiene. Months of infrastructure work that produces exactly zero owner conversations while you are building it.
Not a list. A conversation with the owner.
What you are not buying
- A CSV of scraped companies you still have to qualify yourself
- A database seat resold to every other buyer in your niche
- An SDR reading a script off a page they do not understand
- Generic “business owners” with no relationship to your thesis
- Activity metrics that never turn into a pipeline
What lands in your calendar
- A named owner of a company that fits the thesis you defined
- A research dossier in your inbox before the call starts
- The exact words they replied with, and why they replied
- A slot booked in your calendar — not a lead to go chase
- Full ownership of every contact, dossier and reply we produce
Every owner arrives with a file, not a row
Sample theses
Illustrative structure only. Identifying details redacted; these are not real companies.
- Legal entity
- ████████ GmbH
- Sub-vertical
- Commercial HVAC service & maintenance
- Region
- Bavaria, DE
- Revenue band
- €6–9M (proxy)
- Headcount
- 41 · +12% over 3y
- Ownership
- Sole shareholder, 100%
- Owner tenure
- 22 years · age band 60–65
- Succession signal
- No family successor on file
- Last filing
- Mar 2025 · current
- Prior process
- None recorded
- Contactability
- Direct line + verified email
- Thesis fit
- High
Why this one
Second-generation owner, no internal successor, has declined two broker approaches in the last 18 months.
Five steps between your thesis and an owner on the phone
Thesis definition
We turn “a services business in DACH” into a machine-readable definition: sub-verticals, revenue bands, geography, ownership profile, and the deal-breakers that disqualify a company instantly.
90 minutes of your timeUniverse build
We assemble the full population of companies that match the definition — from registries, filings and industry sources. Not a marketplace, not a list somebody else already bought.
None of your timeOwner-level research
Every company is researched down to the person who can actually sign: who holds the shares, for how long, what the succession picture looks like, and how they can be reached.
None of your timeOutreach in their language
Owner-level outreach on the channels they actually read, sent from infrastructure we own and warm ourselves. Your domain and your name are never exposed to deliverability risk.
None of your timeQualification & handoff
We screen every reply for intent and thesis fit, then hand you a booked call with the dossier attached. You arrive as the buyer in the room, not the person doing the selling.
You take the callThree desks, priced on the size of the search
Core
Solo searcher
€2,500/ month
€750 one-off setup€3,250 first payment
- Theses covered
- 1
- Owners researched / month
- 300
- Channels
- Minimum term
- 3 months
8–12 live owner conversations in the first 60 days.
Premium
Independent sponsor with committed capital
€4,000/ month
€1,000 one-off setup€5,000 first payment
- Theses covered
- 2
- Owners researched / month
- 600
- Channels
- Email + LinkedIn
- Minimum term
- 3 months
A first LOI-ready conversation inside 90 days.
Origination Desk
PE fund, family office, add-on platform
€6,000–8,000/ month
€2,000 one-off setup€8,000 first payment
- Theses covered
- 3
- Owners researched / month
- 1,200+
- Channels
- Email + LinkedIn + your CRM
- Minimum term
- 3 months
Replaces a $100k+/yr sourcing analyst, with none of the hiring risk.
All prices exclude VAT. One buyer per thesis per market — we do not run the same search for two competing acquirers.
One deal pays for a decade of origination
The retainer is not the number that matters. The number that matters is what a second year of not being in the conversation costs you.
- Core engagement, three-month minimum
- €9,750
- Target business, illustrative EBITDA
- €1.5M
- Entry multiple, illustrative
- 4.0×
- Enterprise value acquired
- €6.0M
Origination cost as a share of the deal
0.16%
Illustrative arithmetic, not a projection. No transaction outcome is promised or implied.
We take one buyer per thesis. It should be the right one.
This works if
- You have a thesis, or you are ready to build one in a working session with us
- Capital is committed, or you have a credible, named path to it
- You can take owner calls yourself within a week of them being booked
- You are the principal — buying for your own account or your fund’s
- You measure origination in quarters, not in weekly reply rates
This does not work if
- You want a success fee only, with no retainer and no commitment
- You expect us to negotiate, run diligence, or close the deal for you
- You have no thesis and want us to tell you what industry to buy
- You need a signed LOI inside the first month
- You intend to resell our research as your own origination service
The things buyers actually ask on the first call
Cold email is a channel. Origination is the work that happens before the channel. The difference is the research layer: a few hundred owners qualified against your thesis and contacted about their specific business, in their language — rather than a few thousand addresses scraped out of a directory and blasted with the same paragraph.
Tell us the thesis. We will tell you if we can cover it.
- 01
You send the application. It takes about two minutes and the thesis field is the only one that matters.
- 02
We reply within one business day — either with times, or with an honest no and the reason.
- 03
A 30-minute fit call: your thesis, our coverage of it, and whether this is the right desk for the search you are running.
Prefer email? sales@skyely.media · sorin.contact.md@gmail.com