Deal sourcing

Proprietary deal flow starts with a direct line to owners

Databases tell you which companies fit the thesis. Naviira opens the conversation: 1,000+ direct owner touches per month, researched by AI, approved by your team.

Engineered for: 1,000+ owner conversations per profile, monthly
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1,000+ owner DMs / monthPE · VC · M&AUnlimited team seatsFull audit trail
Definition

What is deal sourcing?

Deal sourcing is how investment firms find and win opportunities: identifying companies that fit the thesis, reaching their owners, and starting the conversation before anyone else does. Most firms split it between intermediated deal flow, from bankers and brokers who show the same deal to twenty funds, and proprietary deal flow, sourced through direct relationships. Proprietary is where returns live, and it has one bottleneck: reaching enough owners, personally, at scale.

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owner DMs / profile / month
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funds see every banked deal
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fund sees a proprietary one
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profiles cover a full thesis
The proprietary problem

Databases find companies. They don't open conversations.

Deal sourcing platforms tell you who exists. Getting a founder to answer is the part that actually sources the deal.

Intermediated flow
Banked processes mean auctions, and auctions mean paying full price against twenty other term sheets
Database subscriptions
Company-data tools surface targets but leave the hardest step, the first conversation, entirely to you
Associate cold email
Founders ignore generic outreach from a gmail-adjacent domain. Their LinkedIn inbox is where they actually look
How it works

A direct line to 1,000+ owners a month

Load your target thesis as a Sales Navigator search: industry, headcount, geography, ownership signals. Naviira reaches founders and owner-operators directly through InMail and open-profile messages, with AI research on each company baked into every first touch. Replies route to your team's unified inbox.

  • Works for PE platform and add-on searches, VC theses and M&A mandates
  • AI references the company's actual business, not a mail-merge template
  • Every conversation logged, exportable, and attributable to the analyst who ran it
~300 InMails (6 seats × 50 credits)  +  ~800 open-profile messages  =  1,000+ DMs per profile, per month
Exact capacity depends on how many of your prospects have open profiles. We tell you that number on the demo call.
What comes back

Owner replies, straight to the deal team

Replies land in a shared inbox, classified by intent. Associates work the threads with AI-drafted responses held for approval; partners see everything. When a conversation turns real, it moves to your CRM through the API with its full history.

  • Interested owners surface to the top automatically
  • "Not now" gets a scheduled, polite follow-up next quarter
  • Full thread history exports with one click for IC memos
AI draft · your voice
Why LinkedIn for deal origination

Owners answer where their identity lives

The people who can sell you a company read their LinkedIn inbox. Most have no gatekeeper on it.

Founders are reachable
Owner-operators manage their own profiles. A specific, respectful InMail gets read by the decision maker, not an EA
Volume compounds
1,000+ owner conversations per profile per month. A two-seat setup covers a full mid-market thesis each quarter
Team-ready
Unlimited teammates on every plan. Associates run sequences, partners see every thread, nothing lives in personal inboxes
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We moved twelve client accounts off a per-seat tool. Same lists, same copy, and reply volume roughly tripled in the first month.
Rae VasquezFounder · Atlaslane
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Our team stopped fighting LinkedIn limits and started working replies. 26 meetings a month from two connected profiles.
Jonas MehtaSales Director · Corvex
HHarsh, founder of Naviira
Every claim on this page has the math behind it, published on our pricing page. If we cannot explain a number mechanically, we do not print it.
Harsh · Founder, Naviira
Questions

Straight answers

Databases answer 'which companies exist that fit our thesis.' Naviira answers 'how do we get their owners talking to us.' Most teams use both: export the target list from your database of choice, load it into Naviira, and turn names into conversations at 1,000+ owner touches per profile per month.
It is arguably the best use case. Add-on searches are high-volume, thesis-driven and geography-bound, exactly what Sales Navigator targeting plus direct owner outreach handles well. Platform companies run their own profiles on it too.
Yes. Approval mode holds every AI-drafted message for review, senior team members see all threads in the shared inbox, and pacing caps are enforced by the engine, so no one can spray the market even by accident.
Each connected profile supports 1,000+ direct messages per month, roughly 300 InMails plus 800 open-profile sends depending on your targets. Two or three profiles typically cover a full active thesis with follow-ups.
20 minutes · No pitch deck

Put your thesis in front of a thousand owners.

Bring a target list or a thesis. We will show you the live platform against it and tell you the exact monthly reach your team would get.

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