Europe · India · Singapore

Buy-side origination for software acquirers.

We are a team of five M&A professionals who have spent the last fifteen years in one market: software. We have met 12,000 owners in 20 countries, more than 3,000 of them in person, and made hundreds of trips with one goal in mind: to bring deals.

Nine owners in ten take our call. We guarantee it.

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60+acquisitions we originated

Delivered forTSS · Constellation Software · Asseco Poland

60+acquisitions we originated
TSS · Constellation Software · Asseco Polanddelivered for
Why us

Why nine in ten

When your team calls an owner, it is a first call. When we call, we are calling someone we have known for years, some of them for as long as 15 years.

Own data, own tools

Anyone can pull a number from PitchBook, which is exactly why it no longer works. We have our own ways of getting through.

In person when it counts

Phone first. When the target matters, we get on a plane.

The long game

An owner sells once and remembers who kept in touch. "Not now" goes back on the list with a date, and when the time comes, you hear first.

Reach

We already know the owners.

One of the largest founder networks in Europe and India: 25,000 software companies, each one chosen because it is worth acquiring, each owner met, called or written to.

  1. Poland & CEE2,250
  2. India & Singapore2,000
  3. Iberia900
  4. DACH830
  5. France & Benelux670
  6. Italy320
  7. Southeast Europe200+
  8. UK & Ireland150
  9. Nordics70
  10. Baltics60

We also run a community of thousands of founders and CEOs. Hundreds of introductions, deals behind them.

How we work

Your targets or ours

TWO WAYS IN You bring the targets 30, 50 or 200 companies you already want. We bring the targets Your thesis, our shortlist from 25,000, your approval. ORIGINATIO Owner access & qualification Willingness to sell Financials and valuation expectations Decision-makers and timing Next step YOUR DEAL TEAM Qualified conversations Owners ready for a first meeting, with our notes. The deal stays with you. Weekly call, monthly pipeline report.
  1. 01
    TargetsYour list, or our shortlist from 25,000.
  2. 02
    Owner accessWe reach the owner and qualify willingness to sell, financials and timing.
  3. 03
    HandoverOwners ready for a first meeting, with our notes. The deal stays with you.
Targets
Founder-led vertical & B2B software
Revenue
EUR 2–30m
Ownership
Owner-led, no banker yet
Clients
Serial acquirers, PE, strategics
Exclusive
One client per thesis per region
Selected mandates

What a mandate looks like

Selected mandates

What a mandate looks like

Payments · IndiaMarket map + retained

Top-5 global technology company entering Indian payments

Brief
Map Indian payments and find the founder-led targets.
Result
We screened 9,000 fintechs, picked 128 targets and reached 118 founders (92%): 76 qualified conversations, 23 NDAs and one USD 350m+ strategic investment.
Public-sector ERP · Poland & CEERetained · 6 months

Nordic software consolidator building a municipal ERP platform

Brief
Municipal ERP and billing in Poland and CEE: owner-led, EUR 2–10m revenue, 60%+ recurring.
Result
We mapped 160 companies, reached 146 owners (91%) in Polish and Czech, held 33 qualified conversations and made 7 introductions. LOI in month 8.
Focus

Where we work best

Target profile

  • Vertical market software
  • Mission-critical B2B software
  • IT services

Revenue

EUR 2–30m Sweet spot · mandates up to EUR 100m

Ownership

  • Founder-owned
  • No banker yet

Not PE-owned, not in a sale process.

Who we work for

  • Serial acquirers
  • PE platforms and add-ons
  • Strategic acquirers

Exclusivity

One client per thesis per region.

90%of your list reached
  • We agree the list firstYours or ours, in writing.
  • Reached means we spoke with the ownerA "no" counts. An unanswered email does not.
  • Contact, not interestSelling is their call. Reaching them is ours.
  • If we fall short, the retainer goes downIn proportion. Retained mandates of six months or more.
Paweł Florczak, founder of Originatio
Paweł FlorczakFounder
Team

Five originators, a few buyers at a time.

Led by Paweł Florczak: M&A professional, engineer by training; built Asseco Poland's M&A function and TSS's Frontier Market Initiative (Constellation Software). We work in English, Polish, German, Spanish and Hindi.

Angel investor in several dozen startups; founder of Wedapp.pl and Żywy.pl.

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Contact

Thirty minutes to see if we can fill your pipeline.

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