Power private-market deal sourcing and buyer lists with a company feed
Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates.
- Free API key
- No credit card
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A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other teams on Forager
Uses POST /person_role_search/ · People search API reference
What it costs: 15 credits per mobile found · 5 credits per email found. A mobile or email lookup that returns nothing costs 0 credits. Enrichment and search are charged per request: credit pricing.
- Company data feed
- People data feed
- People search
- Work emails
- Mobile numbers
- Data feed
- Feed licensee
- Financial services & fintech
How the data flows
POST /person_role_search/ - name
- Alex Sample
- title
- Founder & CEO
- mobile
- +1 (212) 555-0199
- work email
- alex@samplestartup.example
- company
- Sample Startup
Steps
- Screen private companies in
company_feed(industry, employees, location, founded date) - Attach owners and leadership from
people_feed - Reveal
work_emailand mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints - For sell-side, find strategic acquirers with similar profiles and their corp-dev leads via
POST /person_role_search/
import json, os, requests BASE = "https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage" HEADERS = {"X-API-KEY": os.environ["FORAGER_KEY"]} body = json.load(open("request.json")) # request fields: see the API reference # 1. Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, # location, founded date) # 2. Attach owners and leadership from people_feed # 3. Reveal work_email and mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints # 4. For sell-side, find strategic acquirers with similar profiles and their # corp-dev leads via POST /person_role_search/ r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_role_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)
# 1. POST /person_role_search/ curl -X POST \ https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_role_search/ \ -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d @request.json
Run it yourself: People search API reference
- Free API key
- No credit card
- Run your sample
Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| screening criteria | target long-list |
| mandate profile | owner/leadership contacts |
acquirer list | |
corp-dev contacts |
Questions about this recipe
How do M&A advisors build target lists of private companies?
Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date). Reveal work_email and mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints.
What does it cost to power private-market deal sourcing and buyer lists with a company feed?
People search: people search 1 credit per request and people search: role details 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Work emails: 5 credits per work email found, and a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Company data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 550 mobiles, 1,650 emails or 8,250 search requests, or a mix. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?
You send mandate profile and screening criteria. You get back acquirer list, corp-dev contacts, owner/leadership contacts and target long-list, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
Where can I license private company data for deal sourcing?
This recipe uses Forager Company data feed, People data feed, People search, Work emails and Mobile numbers. Company data feed: A licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule. Let dealmakers build private-company target lists, attach owners and leadership, and find best-fit buyers for sell-side mandates.
Can teams running this workflow see a sample of the company data feed before licensing it?
Yes. Request a sample extract of the company data feed on a 30-minute call and check the fields against your own records before you license it.
When should I run this workflow?
An M&A advisor or PE associate starts a buy-side screen or a sell-side mandate. Dealmakers build target long lists in minutes instead of weeks and run broader buyer outreach.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
Company data feed, people data feed, people search, work emails and mobile numbers. Company data feed: a licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule. People data feed: a licensed file of 800M+ professional profiles, refreshed on a schedule and delivered to Snowflake or S3.
How do I know the data is right?
Forager ranked #1 of 10 in Clay's 2026 test of mobile data providers, by quality score: Clay's measure of how likely a dialled number reaches the right person. The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.
How do I find owners of private companies contact?
Screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date). Attach owners and leadership from people_feed.
Which tools can run this workflow?
Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo, delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3 and called through the API from Google BigQuery, your own code, Make and n8n. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.
How many steps is this workflow?
4 steps: screen private companies in company_feed (industry, employees, location, founded date), attach owners and leadership from people_feed, reveal work_email and mobile for outreach targets via contact endpoints and for sell-side, find strategic acquirers with similar profiles and their corp-dev leads via POST /person_role_search/.
Do I need a subscription?
Not to test: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using Forager, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.
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