[ SEED · DEALPORT ]

The AI investment platform for American small business.

Proprietary deal flow for lower-middle-market acquisitions.

ROB@DEALPORT.COM TG @RKMASIELLO DEALPORT.COM
Scout — ranked acquisition targets, scored and drafted
Scout ScoutLive sourcing agent
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Market

The businesses that built America are changing hands.

$5T
This decade
~$500B
Changing hands / yr
~100K
Sellable businesses / yr
~50%
Have no succession plan
A generation of owners is retiring. Most have no plan.
American flag on Main Street
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Problem

Buyers can’t find them.

Most never list. Origination runs on brokers, cold lists, and closed networks. One relationship at a time. Months per deal.
And if it’s listed, you’re in an auction you’ll lose.
An anonymous small-business premises — an unmarked industrial unit
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How it works

Dealport is an AI investment platform
for the lower middle market.

Our agentic sourcing technology finds the owners, we run the transaction, and we retain equity in what we source.

01Find
Scout reads 14M+ businesses for succession signals. $0.38 per dossier.
02Reach
Scout drafts and sequences outreach. We approve and place the calls. Every conversation is proprietary.
03Represent & close
Buy side and sell side. We run the transaction to close with our advisory partners.
04Monetize
Subscription on self-serve. Mandate fee on managed search. Commission at close — on both sides, since unclaimed targets route to sell-side.
One dossier serves a buyer looking, a seller exiting, or both.
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Succession Signal Intelligence

We don’t find businesses for sale.
We find owners about to be.

Scout runs 14M+ businesses nightly. Ranks intent. Drafts outreach.

Life triggers
Obituaries, retirement notices, closing announcements, estate filings.
Succession gap
No successor named anywhere in leadership.
Tenure & age
Founder-operator, long ownership, public age records.
Countervailing
Reinvestment, expansion, active marketing — reasons a target isn’t ready.
The fourth signal is why you can trust the first three.
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Proof

This is one night’s work.

Bio-Janitorial, Inc.
Commercial janitorial services · Southeast US
Intent 71
Owner
████████ ██████ · founder-operator, in his 60s  ✓ verified
Contact
██████@bio-janitorial·com  ✓ working email
Identity
Confirmed across 7 independent sources — state registry, licensing, web, trade listings.
Succession
No successor named in the leadership bench — 36 years under one owner.
Signals
life-triggerno-successor36yr-tenureowner-age 60s
Countervailing
One honest negative: recent equipment reinvestment reads as active, not exiting.
Owner name + contact masked for distribution · on file, unredacted in product
Named owner. Working email.Contactable — not just a company record.
Identity confirmed across 7 sources.Cross-checked before it reaches you.
Succession gap in the leadership bench.No named successor in 36 years.
An honest countervailing signal.We surface the reason it might not be ready.
$7.0–9.7M
Revenue
~$2M
EBITDA
150
Employees
36 yrs
Under one owner
60s
Founder age
None
Successor named
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Products

Two products. One production unit.

Scout
$300 / month
600 researched targets a month
Self-serve intelligence
Exclusivity on what you claim
Priced like software. $0.50 a target.
Inven returns 28,000 database rows a year. Scout returns 600 researched targets a month, each with a named owner.
Discovery
$7,000 / 90 days + 4%
Scout runs the full contactable universe — 700–1,000 businesses
Automated sequencing across the universe, human calls on the top signal tier
Owner conversations delivered as they develop
Selective: proof of funds, $2M+ EBITDA.
$0.38 to produce
Cost per dossier
→
~$8M transaction
Bio-Janitorial at 4× EBITDA
→
$160,000 fee
Dealport’s share
Most of the revenue comes at close, not from the subscription.
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Go-to-market

Land at $300. Expand to the transaction.

Scout at $300/month. Priced like software — no procurement, no committee, no sales cycle.

Found through the Succession Index — our quarterly data on American business succession — plus founder-led outreach, searcher and sponsor communities, and the broker network.
Expand the relationship
Scout subscription
Discovery mandate
Closed transaction
Equity position
Next deal
Who we serve
Buy side
Searchers
Independent sponsors
Family offices
Lower-middle-market PE
Sell side
Owners
Business brokers
Intermediaries
Every buy-side target we surface is a sell-side client we haven’t signed yet.
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Traction

Live product. Paying customers. Real production at volume.

[N]
Dossiers produced
[N]
Businesses researched
[N]
Sectors covered
Paid engagements across [N] mandates. Qualified owner conversations delivered.
Figures pending final cumulative production count.
A small distribution warehouse mid-operation
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Moat

We find out which signals actually predicted a sale.

Every dossier predicts whether an owner is ready to sell, and every outreach tells us whether we were right. A data vendor never finds out.

The dataset
Which signals predicted a sale, and which didn’t. Grows with every conversation. Can’t be purchased.
The Index
Quarterly data on American business succession, built from our own production. No one else publishes it.
Exclusivity
What we surface stays the client’s. Claim it and it’s off the board.
Dossier
Outreach
Outcome recorded
Signals improve
Better dossier
Compounds every night
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Team

We’ve lived both sides of this market.

Robert Masiello
Co-founder · CEO
Robert Masiello
Grew up around his family’s construction business. Sold Riverblock to Industry Capital in 2019, then joined the investing side. Later founded Arcade.xyz, which facilitated ~$300M in onchain loans. Built across software, private markets, and capital formation.
Andrew Buehler
Co-founder · President
Andrew Buehler
Grew up around his family’s Chicago meat-packing business. Spent 10 years across family offices and private equity, built and exited two F&B companies, and advised families on M&A and GP solutions.
Jonathan Vargas
GTM + Marketing
Jonathan Vargas
Agentic marketing systems. Former BCG Project Leader, Marketing & Sales practice.
William Kim
Underwriting + Compliance
William Kim
Corp dev & M&A. Prior: VP at K2 HealthVentures, Marathon, Deutsche Bank IB.
Jack Mulvaney
Head of Sales
Jack Mulvaney
Enterprise sales & CS in fintech & financial services. Prior: Manulife, Reggora.
Norman Villarina
Advisor
Norman Villarina
Founder/MP, Industry Capital. Co-founder & former GP of Industry Ventures (~$7B AUM).
Backed by Castle Island Ventures and Lemniscap.
Built across
Arcade
Marathon Asset Management
BCG
Deloitte
EY
Riveria Investment Group
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The model

We take equity in the businesses our clients buy.

Advisory firm
Fee → close → start over
Linear
Capacity-bound
Dealport
Fee → close → keep 5%
Compounding
Balance sheet grows
Positions held · ten transactions → ten positions
Already shipping: 1.5% cash + 5% equity, client’s option.
Businesses we sourced, bought at 4× EBITDA.
No fund. No outside capital. Side letters.
The fee business funds operations. The positions are what accumulate.
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The token

$DEAL

The network layer for Dealport deal flow.

01
Access
Stake $DEAL for Scout capacity. The underlying is finite — there are only so many American businesses with a real succession signal. And it’s the incentive layer of the deal network — powering participation today, and the investment products that follow.
02
Onchain credit
Acquisition financing on the deals we originate. We see the transaction before it needs debt.
03
Tokenized equity
Positions from the equity option, opened to accredited investors once they carry marks.
Each phase follows transaction volume as it scales.
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The raise

$4M to run forty searches a year and close them.

Origination at scale
A full-time sourcing and outreach team — from a dozen managed searches a year to forty.
Proven transaction economics
First closes on the new fee structure. Establishes close rate, fee realization, and cycle time.
The position book
First equity stakes on the balance sheet. The ownership thesis, on paper.
Use of capital
45%
Team & delivery
30%
Product & engineering
15%
GTM & distribution
10%
Ops & compliance
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Join us in building the investment platform for American small business.
Dealport
WhoRobert Masiello · CEO Telegram@rkmasiello Emailrob@dealport.com Webdealport.com
A craftsman at work in his workshop — a lifetime business
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Appendix · DPD1

DPD1 is the planned tokenized fund interest. $DEAL is not the fund token.

DPD1 would represent rights defined by final fund documents and the authoritative ownership register. $DEAL is a separate planned network incentive.

Structure
Planned Delaware LP; formation in process.
Investors
Proposed counsel-structured private offering; final exemptions and eligibility tests TBD.
Token & registry
Permissioned transfer controls planned; token standard, provider, and authoritative registry TBD.
Collateral
Senior secured 1st-lien participations; proposed hard cap ≤10% of NAV per position.
Credit box
DSCR ≥1.25–1.50× · LTV 40–65%.
Economics
Target 8–10% net, illustrative · proposed 1.75% / 15% over 7%.
Liquidity
Quarterly redemption requests after one year; subject to cash, gates, and queue.
NAV
Proposed quarterly Level 3 process; independent administrator engagement pending.
Planning assumptions only; subject to fund formation, provider engagement, counsel, and final offering documents. Not an offer or solicitation.
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Dealport
Seed · Dealport

The AI investment platform for American small business.

Proprietary deal flow for lower-middle-market acquisitions.

Scout — ranked acquisition targets
ScoutScoutLive sourcing agent
ROB@DEALPORT.COMTG @RKMASIELLODEALPORT.COM
Market

The businesses that built America are changing hands.

American flag on Main Street
$5TThis decade
~$500BChanging hands / year
~100KSellable businesses / year
~50%Have no succession plan
A generation of owners is retiring. Most have no plan.
Problem

Buyers can’t find them.

An anonymous industrial unit

Most never list.

Origination runs on brokers, cold lists, and closed networks. One relationship at a time. Months per deal.
And if it’s listed, you’re in an auction you’ll lose.
How it works

Dealport is an AI investment platform for the lower middle market.

Our agentic sourcing technology finds the owners, we run the transaction, and we retain equity in what we source.

01 · Find
Scout reads 14M+ businesses for succession signals. $0.38 per dossier.
02 · Reach
Scout drafts and sequences outreach. We approve and place the calls. Every conversation is proprietary.
03 · Represent & close
Buy side and sell side. We run the transaction to close with our advisory partners.
04 · Monetize
Subscription on self-serve. Mandate fee on managed search. Commission at close — on both sides, since unclaimed targets route to sell-side.
One dossier serves a buyer looking, a seller exiting, or both.
Succession Signal Intelligence

We don’t find businesses for sale. We find owners about to be.

Scout runs 14M+ businesses nightly. Ranks intent. Drafts outreach.

Life triggers
Obituaries, retirement notices, closing announcements, estate filings.
Succession gap
No successor named anywhere in leadership.
Tenure & age
Founder-operator, long ownership, public age records.
Countervailing
Reinvestment, expansion, active marketing — reasons a target isn’t ready.
The fourth signal is why you can trust the first three.
Proof

This is one night’s work.

Bio-Janitorial, Inc. · Commercial janitorial · Southeast US · Intent 71

Named owner. Working email.
Founder-operator, in his 60s. Contactable — not just a company record.
Identity confirmed · 7 sources
Cross-checked across registry, licensing, web, and trade listings.
Succession gap
No successor named in 36 years under one owner.
Honest countervailing signal
Recent equipment reinvestment — the reason it might not be ready.
$7–9.7MRevenue
~$2MEBITDA
150Employees
36 yrsOne owner · no successor
Products

Two products. One production unit.

Scout · $300 / month
600 researched targets a month · self-serve intelligence · exclusivity on what you claim. $0.50 a target — Inven returns 28,000 database rows a year; Scout returns 600 researched targets a month, each with a named owner.
Discovery · $7,000 / 90 days + 4%
Scout runs the full contactable universe — 700–1,000 businesses. Automated sequencing, human calls on the top signal tier. Owner conversations delivered as they develop. Selective: proof of funds, $2M+ EBITDA.
$0.38To produce
~$8MTransaction
$160KDealport’s share
3Revenue lines
Most of the revenue comes at close, not from the subscription.
Go-to-market

Land at $300. Expand to the transaction.

Scout at $300/month. Priced like software — no procurement, no committee, no sales cycle.

Found through the Succession Index — our quarterly data on American business succession — plus founder-led outreach, searcher & sponsor communities, and the broker network.

Expand the relationship
Scout subscription → Discovery mandate → closed transaction → equity position → next deal.
Who we serve
Buy side — searchers, independent sponsors, family offices, lower-middle-market PE. Sell side — owners, business brokers, intermediaries.
Every buy-side target we surface is a sell-side client we haven’t signed yet.
Traction

Live product. Paying customers. Real production at volume.

A small warehouse mid-operation
[N]Dossiers produced
[N]Businesses researched
[N]Sectors covered
[N]Paid mandates
Qualified owner conversations delivered.

Figures pending final cumulative production count.

Moat

We find out which signals actually predicted a sale.

Every dossier predicts whether an owner is ready to sell, and every outreach tells us whether we were right. A data vendor never finds out.

The dataset
Which signals predicted a sale, and which didn’t. Grows with every conversation. Can’t be purchased.
The Index
Quarterly data on American business succession, built from our own production. No one else publishes it.
Exclusivity
What we surface stays the client’s. Claim it and it’s off the board.
A data vendor can never have the second half.
Team

We’ve lived both sides of this market.

Robert Masiello
Co-founder · CEO
Robert Masiello
Family construction business. Sold Riverblock to Industry Capital, then joined the investing side. Founded Arcade.xyz (~$300M in onchain loans). Software, private markets, and capital formation.
Andrew Buehler
Co-founder · President
Andrew Buehler
Family meat-packing business. 10 years across family offices and PE. Built and exited two F&B companies; advised families on M&A and GP solutions.
Jonathan Vargas
GTM + Marketing
Jonathan Vargas
Former BCG Project Leader.
William Kim
Underwriting + Compliance
William Kim
K2 HealthVentures, Marathon, Deutsche Bank.
Jack Mulvaney
Sales
Jack Mulvaney
Manulife, Reggora.
Norman Villarina
Advisor
Norman Villarina
Industry Capital; Industry Ventures.
Backed by Castle Island Ventures and Lemniscap.
The model

We take equity in the businesses our clients buy.

Advisory firm
Fee → close → start over. Linear. Capacity-bound.
Dealport
Fee → close → keep 5%
Compounding. Balance sheet grows. Ten transactions → ten positions.
Already shipping: 1.5% cash + 5% equity, client’s option. Businesses we sourced, bought at 4× EBITDA.

The fee business funds operations. The positions are what accumulate.

The token

$DEAL — the network layer for Dealport deal flow.

Access
Stake $DEAL for Scout capacity. The underlying is finite — only so many American businesses have a real succession signal. And it’s the incentive layer of the deal network — powering participation today, and the investment products that follow.
Onchain credit
Acquisition financing on the deals we originate. We see the transaction before it needs debt.
Tokenized equity
Positions from the equity option, opened to accredited investors once they carry marks.
Each phase follows transaction volume as it scales.
The raise

$4M to run forty searches a year and close them.

Origination at scale
A full-time sourcing and outreach team — from a dozen managed searches a year to forty.
Proven transaction economics
First closes on the new fee structure — close rate, fee realization, cycle time.
The position book
First equity stakes on the balance sheet. The ownership thesis, on paper.
$4M · 45% team & delivery · 30% product · 15% GTM · 10% ops + compliance.
A craftsman at work in his workshop
Join us in building the investment platform for American small business.
WhoRobert Masiello · CEO Telegram@rkmasiello Emailrob@dealport.com Webdealport.com
Dealport
Appendix · DPD1

DPD1 is the planned tokenized fund interest. $DEAL is not the fund token.

DPD1 would represent rights defined by final fund documents and the ownership register.

Structure
Planned Delaware LP; formation in process.
Assets
Senior secured 1st-lien participations; proposed ≤10% of NAV per position.
Credit box
DSCR ≥1.25–1.50× · LTV 40–65%.
Economics
Target 8–10% net, illustrative · proposed 1.75% / 15% over 7%.
Readiness
No formed vehicle, committed LPs, contracted providers, or assets held.
Liquidity + NAV
Quarterly requests after one year, subject to gates; proposed quarterly Level 3 NAV.

Planning assumptions only. Not an offer or solicitation.

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