Investment Sourcing Expert with $1B+ TEV Proprietarily Sourced and Closed in LMM
Dan Herr is the Founder and CEO of Acqwired, helping investors and acquisitive platform companies identify and build high-quality relationships with top prospects to deploy their capital. Previously, Dan was a Vice President at Serent Capital at a Principle at Castle Crow & Company. Over his career, Dan has been involved in sourcing more than $1B of TEV in platform and add-on investments.
Areas of Expertise
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Acquisition Business Development Skills Training
Dan can help private equity firms, investment banks and corporate development departments train employees responsible for sourcing investments on sourcing strategy, sourcing tactics and best practices for directly sourcing and catalyzing transactions with high-quality private companies in the Lower Middle Market proprietarily.
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Data-driven Sourcing and Data Enrichment
Dan can help companies build data-driven sourcing, thematic investing, sourcing scorecards, multi-criteria decision analysis and advanced sourcing process automation helping firms identify, prioritize and track their best and most interesting prospects. Acqwired’s data marketplace allows user to quickly ingest and leverage alternative data to elevate their sourcing capabilities and deploy more capital.
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AI-powered Engagement Automation
Through Acqwired’s AI-powered Playbook platform, investors can quickly move from “I found an interesting business” to “I engaged them” in one click. Acqwired’s workflow automations allow users to generate hyper-contextualized, data-enriched, relevant and proven messaging in one click so that investors can break into and build relationships with every prospect in their database
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Prospect Engagement & Nurturing Training
Dan can help companies build deep enriched Executive Dossiers on prospects, and develop gameplans to break through to top prospects and nurture relationships with well-tested engagement tactics, so that they can cut through the noise and close more of the right deals with hard to reach prospects.