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Challenges and Solutions

We Know What Keeps You Up at Night

Synthesizing complex operational data
Merging financial, legal, and commercial reports into a cohesive narrative often creates bottlenecks in your deal flow. Your team spends days manually bridging the gap between raw data room files and the strategic insights needed for IC review.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave instantly correlates insights across thousands of documents, allowing your team to generate comprehensive investment analysis in hours. Receive granular citations that link every commercial assumption directly back to the source material.

Screening deal volume efficiently
With hundreds of CIMs entering your pipeline annually, balancing thorough initial review with speed is a constant friction point. Valuable consumer and retail opportunities risk being overlooked when your team is buried in manual document processing.
How Brightwave Helps:

Process 15 deals in the time it usually takes to review one by automating the initial CIM extraction and analysis. Brightwave enables your investment professionals to surface key risks and value drivers instantly, ensuring you prioritize the right assets.

Mitigating late-stage diligence risks
Late-discovered findings in the data room often force rapid, stressful memo restructuring right before Investment Committee deadlines. These last-minute scrambles compromise the depth of analysis and delay critical decision-making.
How Brightwave Helps:

Brightwave acts as an always-on analyst, flagging contradictions and key data points across 2000+ pages of diligence materials immediately. You can generate IC-ready memos that adapt in real-time, preventing 11th-hour surprises from derailing your process.

Validating value creation levers
Developing a concrete transformation thesis requires connecting disparate operational metrics hidden deep within dataroom folders. Manual extraction slows down your ability to build conviction around buy-and-build strategies or operational improvements.
How Brightwave Helps:

Accelerate your operational due diligence by instantly extracting and synthesizing performance data from unstructured documents. Brightwave empowers your team to validate value creation levers faster, giving you a competitive edge in bidding.

Case Studies

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Brightwave Deal Impact

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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
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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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