Deal sourcing for search funds and independent sponsors
We write to the owners who match your thesis, from infrastructure built for it, and send the ones who want to talk straight to your inbox. One independent sponsor had 184 interested owners reply in 85 days.
Book a CallAcquirers and advisors that source off-market with Visbl
What searchers and sponsors got
“The message is working. I'm having probably three conversations a week. If I was an individual contributor still, I would pay you whatever you want a month to go source me deals.”
Nicholas DolanSpur Ridge Capital“A 20-year owner told me he gets a million of these things. He responded to ours because he saw I was from his area. We talked for a while, and he's going to discuss selling with his wife.”
Ryan AurandSycamore BridgeEvery figure comes from that client's own reply tracker. See all nine campaigns.
The deals worth buying are rarely listed
Brokers show every searcher the same deals
A listed business has already gone to every buyer on the broker's list. The companies that fit a thesis best usually belong to owners who have not decided to sell, and the only way to reach them is to write to them first.
Outreach is the first thing to slip
A searcher is raising capital, running diligence and taking owner calls at once. Sending a few hundred considered emails a week, from domains that still land in the inbox, is a full job that nobody on a search has time to do.
Owners decide in one line whether to reply
Owners in a good market hear from buyers constantly. What earns a reply is relevance: that you understand their industry, their area and their kind of business. Volume without that is noise, and it burns the domain sending it.
From thesis to owner conversations
Your thesis
Industry, size, geography and the kind of owner you want to reach. Every campaign is built around it, and a second thesis runs as its own campaign.
Sending infrastructure
Dedicated domains and inboxes, authenticated and warmed before anything sends. Your own domain is never used. Month one is build and warm-up, with no live sending.
Owner data
Owner contacts sourced and verified for your thesis, not pulled from the same database every other buyer is mailing.
Outreach in your voice
Emails written for your thesis and your background, so they read like one operator writing to another. Outreach goes live in month two, and interested owners reply straight to you.
Search fund deal sourcing FAQ
Three ways: brokers and intermediaries, their own network, and contacting owners directly. Brokers bring deals that every buyer on their list has already seen. Direct outreach reaches owners who match the thesis before they have decided to sell, which is how proprietary deals are found.
Start sourcing owners who are not on the market
Your thesis, the list we would build, and the exact monthly number.
Book a Call- If it doesn't work, you get your campaign fees back
- Refund of campaign fees if there are no qualified owner replies in the first 90 days of live sending.
- How do you know a reply is qualified?
- A person reads every reply. You only see real owners, inside your buy box, who answered with intent, with name, company, estimated size and a note on tone and timing.
- What it costs
- Flat monthly subscription sized to scope. No success fees, no exclusivity, no per-lead charges.
- Will this conflict with our intermediaries?
- No. Dedicated domain, direct to owners. Different lane, same pipeline.