EDMONTON, AB & MIAMI, FL — March 15, 2026 — Napkin Deals, the AI-powered deal marketplace, today announced the launch of its Take-Private Intelligence Platform, a new product that uses artificial intelligence to screen more than 5,000 publicly traded companies for take-private candidacy. The platform is designed for private equity firms, hedge funds, and investment banks seeking to identify undervalued public companies that may be strong candidates for delisting and private ownership.
The Take-Private Intelligence Platform represents a significant expansion of Napkin Deals' product offering beyond its core deal marketplace. While the company's existing infrastructure focuses on matching private business sellers with qualified buyers, the new platform applies the same AI-driven analysis methodology to the public markets — identifying companies where the public market valuation may significantly understate the enterprise's intrinsic value.
Five Scoring Dimensions
The platform evaluates each company across five distinct scoring dimensions, producing a composite take-private candidacy score. The first dimension measures valuation disconnect — the gap between the company's current market capitalization and its estimated private market value based on comparable transactions, revenue multiples, and asset valuations. The second dimension analyzes market capitalization and float characteristics, identifying companies with low trading volumes, concentrated ownership, or market caps that have fallen below institutional investment thresholds.
The third dimension evaluates governance factors, including board composition, shareholder rights provisions, anti-takeover defenses, and management ownership stakes. The fourth dimension assesses sector and operational characteristics, focusing on cash flow stability, margin profiles, capital expenditure requirements, and industry consolidation trends. The fifth dimension tracks private equity interest signals, monitoring fund deployment patterns, sector-specific deal activity, and public statements from PE firms regarding their acquisition criteria.
Targeting Institutional Buyers
The platform is available to qualified institutional clients including private equity firms, hedge funds, family offices, and investment banks. Each client receives customized screening criteria aligned with their investment mandate, sector focus, geographic preferences, and transaction size parameters. The AI engine continuously updates its analysis as new financial data, market conditions, and deal activity become available.
Initial coverage spans publicly traded companies across 15+ countries, with particular depth in North American, European, and Asia-Pacific markets. The platform prioritizes companies with market capitalizations between $50 million and $5 billion — the segment where take-private transactions are most active and where public market coverage by traditional sell-side analysts is often thinnest.
“The public markets are full of companies that would be worth significantly more under private ownership. The problem has never been finding them — it's screening at scale. Our platform evaluates thousands of companies simultaneously across five dimensions that a human analyst team would need months to cover. We're giving PE firms and investment banks a continuously updated pipeline of take-private candidates, scored and ranked by the factors that actually predict successful transactions.”
— Matthew Liberto, Founder & CEO, Napkin Deals
Integration with Existing Platform
The Take-Private Intelligence Platform integrates with Napkin Deals' existing buyer qualification and deal execution infrastructure. When a client identifies a take-private candidate through the screening platform, Napkin Deals' AI workforce can initiate the full deal qualification process — including financial modeling, comparable transaction analysis, regulatory review, and preliminary outreach — through the same pipeline that handles the company's private market transactions.
The platform is available immediately to institutional clients. Interested firms can request access through the Napkin Deals website or by contacting the company's institutional sales team.
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About Napkin Deals
Napkin Deals is an AI-powered deal marketplace headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta with operations in Miami, Florida. The company maintains a live pipeline of 3,600+ qualified deals representing over $4.9B in enterprise value across 15+ countries. Napkin Deals operates with a hybrid workforce of 38 human professionals and 69 AI employees governed by its published AI Hiring Doctrine.
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