AI BDR for Private Equity Firms — Autonomous Deal Sourcing
Strides Agent helps PE firms and growth equity investors source new deal opportunities. Autonomous outreach to founders, CEOs, and business owners — built for deal sourcing.
Proprietary deal flow is the competitive advantage in PE. Strides monitors the financial signals, growth patterns, and ownership indicators that identify companies approaching a liquidity event — and reaches the right principals before the banker does.
By the Numbers
- 8× — More proprietary deal conversations opened
- 0 — Analyst headcount for outreach
- 48h — From financial signal to founder outreach
- 24/7 — Deal flow monitoring and outreach
Built for Proprietary Deal Sourcing.
Financial signal monitoring, founder and CEO targeting, and autonomous outreach for PE firms building proprietary deal flow.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Proprietary Deal Sourcing at Scale — Without a Large Analyst Team
Private equity deal sourcing has traditionally been banker-intermediated or relationship-dependent. The firms that consistently source the best deals have the best networks — investment bankers, operating executives, and previous portfolio company founders who refer opportunities. But proprietary deal sourcing — directly reaching company founders and business owners before they run a formal process — is increasingly a competitive differentiator.
Strides monitors financial and operational signals that indicate a company may be approaching a liquidity event or ready for a growth partner: revenue milestones visible in public indicators, management buyout signals, founder succession planning announcements, acquisition interest signals, EBITDA expansion events, and ownership concentration visible in corporate filings.
Outreach to founders and business owners requires a fundamentally different approach than B2B sales outreach. The message needs to lead with the value of a partnership conversation, not a sales pitch. Strides' PE configurations generate outreach that positions the conversation as an introduction from a thoughtful investor who has done the homework on the business, not a speculative inquiry.
PE firms that deploy Strides see the most impact in proprietary deal flow for middle-market targets — companies with $5M–$50M EBITDA that are often overlooked by banker-intermediated processes and are more likely to engage directly with an investor who demonstrates genuine interest and knowledge of their business.
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
What financial signals does Strides monitor for PE deal sourcing?
Revenue milestone indicators, succession planning announcements, strategic review disclosures, acquisition of competitors (indicating platform building), management changes at founder-led businesses, and industry-specific financial performance signals.
Can Strides reach founders, CEOs, and business owners directly?
Yes. Strides identifies and contacts founders, owner-operators, CEOs, and Presidents at companies matching your investment thesis — with outreach that is professional, knowledgeable, and specific to their business context.
How does Strides handle the sensitive nature of PE deal sourcing outreach?
Strides generates outreach that leads with partnership and growth framing rather than acquisition language. The tone is relationship-oriented and knowledge-demonstrating, not transactional — appropriate for initial contact with founders who may be exploring options.
Does Strides work for both buyout and growth equity firms?
Yes. Buyout firms target profitable, owner-led businesses approaching liquidity. Growth equity firms target high-growth companies seeking a capital partner. The signals and messaging differ significantly; Strides configures each appropriately.
Can Strides support sector-specific PE deal sourcing?
Yes. Sector-focused PE firms configure Strides with their specific investment verticals — healthcare services, industrial manufacturing, software, business services — and Strides monitors industry-specific signals and generates sector-appropriate outreach.