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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Scaling your buy-and-build diligence
Your aggressive expansion strategy requires analyzing hundreds of potential add-ons annually. The sheer volume of CIMs and data rooms creates bottlenecks that slow down your ability to execute on high-volume deal flow.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave Private Markets processes 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one. You can screen add-on targets instantly, allowing your team to evaluate more software opportunities without adding headcount.

Reducing your IC memo cycle time
Preparing IC memos currently consumes 5-7 days due to manual synthesis and multiple review cycles. This latency in synthesizing financial and legal data puts you at risk of losing exclusivity in competitive auctions.
How Brightwave Helps:

Generate IC-ready investment memos in hours directly from your data rooms. Your team receives comprehensive drafts with sentence-level citations, drastically reducing the time required for review and refinement.

Synthesizing complex software data
Combining technical due diligence with financial and commercial reports across global markets is increasingly complex. Late-discovered findings often force last-minute memo restructuring close to your committee deadlines.
How Brightwave Helps:

Our platform handles multi-document synthesis across diverse reporting standards instantly. You get granular citations linking every insight back to source materials, ensuring no critical data point is missed during synthesis.

Focusing on operational value creation
Your analysts spend excessive time on low-value data extraction rather than strategic analysis. This limits the bandwidth available for planning the operational transformations and portfolio improvements that drive your returns.
How Brightwave Helps:

By automating the heavy lifting of document processing, you free up your investment professionals to focus on thesis validation. Your team can shift immediately to planning operational value creation rather than summarizing PDFs.

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Brightwave Deal Impact

Click on any activity to see detailed time savings and how Brightwave accelerates your deal process.
Critical Impact (Significant Time Savings)
High Impact (Moderate Time Savings)
01
Phase duration:
Weeks 1-4
Sourcing & Initial Review
CRITICAL IMPACT
CIM Analysis
Associates, Analysts
HIGH IMPACT
Market Research
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
Management Presentation Prep
Associates, VPs
02
Phase duration:
Weeks 7-14
Due Diligence
CRITICAL IMPACT
Data Room Review
Associates, Analysts
CRITICAL IMPACT
Customer/Vendor Contract Analysis
Associates, Legal Team
HIGH IMPACT
Reference Call Summaries
Associates, Senior Associates
HIGH IMPACT
DD Report Synthesis
VPs, Senior Associates
03
Phase duration:
Weeks 10-16
Financing & Documentation
HIGH IMPACT
Lender Presentation Materials
Associates, VPs
CRITICAL IMPACT
IC Memo Drafting
VPs, Principal
CRITICAL IMPACT
Legal Document Review
VPs, Legal Team
04
Phase duration:
Days 1-100
Post-Closing
HIGH IMPACT
Post-Closing Integration Planning
Operating Partners, VP
05
Phase duration:
Years 1-5
Ongoing Ownership
HIGH IMPACT
Board Materials Review
Partners, Portfolio Item

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