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The go-to source for strategic intelligence in technology

The intelligence platform built for technology investment decisions: primary research, proprietary data, and a human expert layer, all in one place.

Built for teams driving strategic and investment decisions

FOR Private Equity
From origination to deal execution & value creation
Identify themes and targets with 500+ market primers and 50k+ company profiles. Validate with proprietary intelligence and practitioner insights.
FOR Corporate Strategy
Intelligence for strategic moves
Understand adjacent markets, evaluate acquisition targets, monitor competitive dynamics, and capture customer insights, all through primary research.
For M&A Advisors
Sector depth that wins mandates
Build depth and expertise across 500+ technology sub-markets to win mandates and accelerate deal execution.

Dedale Intelligence provides investors, corporates, and M&A advisors with on-demand access to the world's deepest proprietary technology intelligence, built through primary research, AI-powered data gathering and direct insights from a curated community of practitioners and industry veterans, all in one place.

Tailored to your needs

Core features

Inside Dedale Intelligence

  • Thematic Portals

    Market primers on 500+ technology segments.

    In-depth market reports covering the full landscape of a technology market: competitive dynamics, key players, and AI disruption signals. Built from primary research and analyst work, each primer gives your team the granular depth to ramp up fast and move with conviction.

    • Competitive landscape, tier-by-tier vendor positioning
    • Market leaders profiles and emerging player tracking
    • M&A comparables and valuation benchmarks
    • AI impact and disruption assessment per segment
    • Customer surveys and end-user sentiment data
    • Market sizing and growth projections
  • origination hub

    Proprietary company intelligence on thousands of technology vendors.

    Access in-depth company profiles on thousands of technology vendors, built from primary research. Combine smart filters (quantitative and qualitative) to surface the right origination targets, and dive into profiles enriched with operational data, competitive benchmarking, and direct quotes from practitioners and customers.

    • Smart filters by sector, geography, revenue stage, deal activity
    • Operational data: headcount, cost structure, expansion signals
    • Competitive positioning and M&A comparables
    • Direct quotes from practitioners and end customers
    • Offer positioning and real deployment use cases
  • Deals

    Strategic deals and M&A intelligence across Technology markets.

    Continuous tracking of technology transactions in North America and Europe. Deal rationale, valuation multiples, buyer profiles, and comparable data, contextualised with Dedale's market research, and linked to investor portfolio activity.

  • Perspectives

    Primary research from practitioners who ran these markets.

    Perspectives are editorialized insights from practitioners and industry veterans with direct, hands-on experience in the markets they cover. Each contribution is backed by a verified background and defined coverage area, so you always know the profile behind the analysis. Every topic is backed by a dedicated Thematic Leader from our internal team, available to connect with anytime. All content is compliance-ready and produced within a rigorous editorial framework.

  • My Intelligence

    Your private space for bespoke research and custom requests.

    Commission bespoke research, track your specific coverage universe, and access custom deliverables, all in a private hub connected to the full Dedale intelligence base and the analysts behind it.

    • Thematic Sourcing
    • Target Triage
    • Early dive Phase 0 / PreDD
    • Commercial Due Diligence
    • Portfolio Support
  • AI Integration

    Access and question the full intelligence base.

    Query Dedale's proprietary intelligence through the platform interface or by connecting it to the AI tools your team already uses via MCP integration.

    Explore market dynamics, benchmark vendors, track deals, and extract targeted insights, all running on the same certified intelligence base, expert-validated, analyst-produced, and entirely sourced from Dedale's primary research. Your AI workflows, powered by data you can trust.

our intelligence In numbers

Thematics
500+
Segment primers and thematic reports regularly updated
Companies
50K+
Company profiles with deep proprietary intelligence.
Experts
20K+
Expert interviews powering Dedale Intelligence.
deals
15K+
Strategic Deals on the radar

TWO WAYS TO WORK WITH DEDALE

Platform intelligence. Bespoke expertise.

Get the intelligence you need, and the expertise to act on it, built to work together.

PLATFORM ACCESS

Dedale Intelligence

TEAM subscription

Full access to the platform and on-demand advisory.

  • Unlimited access to Dedale reports across 500+ tech thematics
  • Company Profiles with expert-sourced proprietary data
  • Dedale Origination, target screening and shortlisting
  • Expert Perspectives, deal flow, news, and market signals
  • Dedale AI Agent + MCP integration for workflow automation
  • New content published and updated daily
  • Internal deep expertise team that you can connect with anytime

On-demand advisory

Dedale Advisory

Bespoke engagements

Project-based mandates delivered by our research team.

  • Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) full or phase 0
  • Bespoke market mapping and segmentation studies
  • Custom Voice of Customer and KPC studies
  • Origination advisory, thesis-driven target identification
  • Full platform access for the duration of the engagement
  • All deliverables on My Intelligence workspace on the platform
  • Direct access to our in-house specialists
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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

A trusted human approach, powered by AI and deep expertise.

We fully harness the power of AI, but human-in-the-loop and proprietary data are at the center of our DNA. We groom technology experts, engage with thousands of industry veterans, and build a proprietary intelligence layer that no public source can replicate.

Thematic Leaders
In-house analysts, domain experts on a specific technology market.
Our Thematic Leaders own a coverage area end-to-end, they conduct the expert interviews, produce the research, and validate every piece of content published on their segment.
Industry Veterans
Former operator, executive, or buyer in technology markets.
Former CEOs, VPs, and decision-makers at technology vendors and enterprise buyers, contributing primary research through structured interviews and validating market assessments from the inside.
Quality & Validation Layers
Intelligence proofing and validation by dedicated teams.
Every piece of intelligence is sanity checked by dedicated teams of Editors and Data Specialists internally, as well as externally through direct outreach to companies and market participants, to firm up our views and datapoints.

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INVESTORS & CORPORATES
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ACTIVE MANDATES
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Common questions

From strategic intelligence to full CDD mandates, Dedale is built to support every stage of your decision process.

How is Dedale different from Pitchbook, Gartner, or expert networks?

Pitchbook aggregates open-source financial data; Gartner covers enterprise IT buyers; expert networks provide access to practitioners without structured synthesis. Dedale sits at the intersection of all three: proprietary company intelligence, expert-validated market research, and direct practitioner access, structured for investors, corporates, and M&A advisors running technology mandates.

What technology verticals does Dedale cover?

Dedale covers 500+ technology thematics, spanning verticals and horizontals: from ERP and Cybersecurity to HR Tech, GRC, Construction, Legal Tech, and Supply Chain, across the UK, DACH, France, Benelux, and the US. Coverage includes segments, sub-segments and niches to ensure depth and granularity. New thematics are added regularly; custom coverage is available through Advisory mandates.

How does the Dedale AI integration work?

You can access Dedale's intelligence base in three ways: through the platform directly, via the Dedale AI Agent (for automated research workflows), or through the Claude MCP integration. All three modes are complementary and draw from the same proprietary, human-validated data.

What is the difference between Dedale Intelligence and Dedale Advisory?

Dedale Intelligence is a platform subscription with full access to our intelligence base and on-demand support from our internal expert team. Dedale Advisory is a project-based engagement where our team operates as an extension of yours, producing bespoke research and CDD deliverables for specific mandates. Both are designed to work together: the platform for ongoing intelligence, Advisory for deal-critical moments.

Can I speak directly to the experts behind the research?

Yes. Through your platform subscription, you have direct access to our Thematic Leaders, the in-house specialists who own each technology thematic. For deeper engagements, Dedale Advisory gives you the same team operating as an extension of yours on a specific mandate. It's a capability no other intelligence platform offers at this depth.