Frequently asked questions
Everything about screening, pricing and confidentiality on DealFlow. Can't find it here? Email [email protected].
The basics
- What is DealFlow?
- A marketplace where businesses are sold and capital is raised. Owners and their advisors publish an opportunity; screened buyers and investors find it, message the business directly, and sign an NDA to unlock the confidential detail. How it works walks through the full journey.
- Are you a broker?
- No. We're the venue, not a party to your deal. We don't advise, negotiate, or represent either side, and we take no percentage of what gets agreed.
- Who can join?
- Buyers and investors looking for opportunities, businesses raising capital or selling, and the intermediaries who bring those opportunities to market. Each has its own sign-up and its own screening.
- Which countries do you cover?
- We're live across the EU today. Listings carry their country, and the template library ships localized variants for all 27 member states.
Screening
- What does “screened” mean?
- Every buyer and investor, every intermediary and every listing is reviewed before it becomes active. The check is that people are who they say they are, that a mandate is real, and that a listing is complete and plausible. It is why a conversation here is worth taking.
- How long does screening take?
- One business day, for every review: buyer and investor profiles, intermediaries, and listings.
- What can I do while I wait?
- Create your account and complete your profile straight away. Full access opens once the review is done.
- What if I'm not approved?
- Not everyone gets through, and that's the point. If you aren't screened in, you get one email saying so.
Pricing and billing
- What does it cost?
- Subscriptions start at €39 per month excluding VAT, and vary by what you're here to do. The full breakdown is on pricing.
- Is the first month really free?
- Yes, and no payment details are required to get started. The free month begins the day you sign up.
- What happens when the free month ends?
- Access pauses until you add a payment method. Nothing is deleted: your profile, listings, NDAs and conversations are all there when you come back.
- Do you take a commission on a deal?
- No success fee, ever. What you pay is the subscription; whatever you agree with the other side is yours.
- Can I cancel?
- Any time, from your subscription page. Your access runs to the end of the period you've already paid for.
Advisors
- What is the advisor directory?
- A list of M&A advisors, brokers, lawyers and accountants, on either side of a deal: for businesses selling or raising capital, and for buyers and investors. Firms with an account are screened within one business day of joining, and a firm on a directory plan carries the Screened tag once it has been. Anyone can browse a sample on the advisors page; members see every firm and how to reach it.
- How does a firm get listed?
- Listing is free for every intermediary. A firm is listed as soon as its name and website are on its intermediary profile, and we screen it within one business day. A firm we decline in screening is taken out. The firm can take its entry out of the directory at any time from its profile, and put it back. We also list some firms from public records, for members only and marked Unclaimed, after emailing each one about it.
- What does a paid directory plan add?
- Plus is the Screened tag on your entry, introductions from members and your entry's statistics, for €9 a month. Featured is all of that, a Featured position at the top of the directory and case studies on your entry, for €29 a month. Prices exclude VAT, and paying yearly takes 20% off. Every monthly intermediary package includes Plus. Featured is never part of a package: beside one it costs €19 a month. On their own, Plus and Featured cover the directory only: posting listings and deal rooms come with the monthly packages. See pricing.
- My firm is listed, but we never signed up
- We compiled your entry from public records, and emailed your firm's general address before publishing it. That email has two links. Remove deletes the entry, and we won't list the firm again. Claim is for managing it yourself; we approve each claim. What we hold, and how to object without the email, is in the Privacy Policy.
- How are advisors ordered?
- Featured firms come first and are marked Featured. That position is paid for. Everyone else follows in a random order, drawn again on every visit, and nothing else affects where a firm appears.
- How do I contact an advisor?
- Open the firm's page in the directory and send an introduction. We email it to the firm with your name and email address, and they reply to you directly by email. You can send each firm one introduction a month. Introductions go to screened firms whose plan includes them; for any other firm, its page links to its website.
- Can I see who looked at my firm's entry?
- No. Your intermediary profile shows how often your entry was shown in results, opened, had its website clicked and received introductions, over the last 7 and 30 days. Counts only: we never show anyone who looked, and your own team's visits aren't counted.
- What does the directory show publicly?
- A firm's name and logo, what kind of firm it is, where it is based, its services and the summary it wrote. Its website and phone number are for signed-in members only, and so is every firm we compiled from public records.
Confidentiality
- Who can see my listing?
- Only signed-in, screened members see a listing in full. Logged-out visitors see a teaser (headline, sector, country, size) and never the company name, registration number, address, phone number, forecasts or reason for sale. You can also keep your company name, logo, registration number, address, phone and city from members, and share them only with the buyers and investors who ask and whom you choose.
- How do NDAs work?
- You gate your confidential documents behind a non-disclosure agreement, which the other side signs in the app before anything unlocks. The NDA is a contract between the two of you: we host and timestamp it, we're not a signatory to it.
- Can I see who looked at my documents?
- Inside a deal room, yes. Every view and download is logged against the member who did it.
- What happens to my data?
- We don't sell it. What we collect, why, who processes it and how long we keep it is set out in the privacy policy, and you can ask us to export or delete it at any time.
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