[ SEED · Q2 2026 ]

The credit platform for Main Street businesses.

Scout finds the deal. Ledger underwrites it. Vault finances the business.

ROB@DEALPORT.COM TG @RKMASIELLO DEALPORT.COM

ScoutYour AI deal agent

Private & Confidential · For Business Discussion Purposes Only

[01] The Market

$5T

of Main Street — America’s small and mid-sized businesses — changes hands this decade as a generation of owners retires. The largest ownership handoff in American history.

~$500Bchanging hands / yr

~100Ksellable businesses / yr

~½have no succession plan

Our target buyers: private equity, family offices, and acquisition entrepreneurs.

[02] The Problem

Buying a Main Street business is broken at every step.

Find

Sourcing is the hardest part

Brokers, cold lists, closed networks. Months of manual search.

Buy

Negotiation is artisanal

Every diligence, every owner conversation — handmade, one at a time.

Finance

Every deal needs debt — and more after.

Sourced lender-by-lender, after the fact. The lender who funds it never sees the owner again.

[03] The Solution

Three AI agents form the Dealport credit platform.

We win the owner at the acquisition — the one moment competition is lowest — then finance everything after.

Scout

Finds the deal.

Proprietary, off-market origination.

Ledger

Underwrites it.

Credit decisions in hours, not weeks.

Vault

Funds it.

Partner capital today; our own blockchain-based credit facility next.

[ Now ] · Live · paying customers

[04] The Platform · Agent 1 / Origination

Reaching the right owner is now scalable with Scout.

Searches off-market, daily

Works each buyer’s thesis against 11M+ company records.

Compiles deep research

Owner tenure, no successor, coasting signals.

Opens owner conversations

Automated outreach via email and voice calling.

[ In development ]

[05] The Platform · Agent 2 / Underwriting

Ledger underwrites Main Street in hours, not weeks.

Ledger · Underwriting readout Reading

Northstar HVAC & Plumbing

Houston, TX · ~$3.4M revenue · est. 1998

Documents parsed

Financials — 3-yr P&L✓ parsed

Tax returns — 2022–24✓ parsed

Deal docs — LOI & rent roll✓ parsed

Scored against credit box

DSCR

1.6×

Leverage

72%

Decision

In box

Structure — SBA 7(a) + seller note · lifetime need ~$4.2M Fundable

Learns from every deal

Ledger captures how experienced buyers and underwriters actually size up a business — building a proprietary dataset of Main Street credit judgment.

Turns weeks into hours

That codified expertise compresses underwriting from weeks of manual analysis into a fast, consistent decision.

Prices the whole relationship

Not just the acquisition loan — the owner’s full lifetime credit need.

[06] The Platform · Agent 3 / Vault

Financing for owners as they grow.

[ Now ]

Route to partner lenders

Vault packages each deal into a lender-ready file and runs a live competition across our partners — we earn referrals.

[ Next ]

Lenders bid, owners win

Bank and non-bank partners bid; the owner gets the best terms, fast.

[ Next ]

Dealport warehouse facility

Vault draws from Dealport’s tokenized credit facility — funded by institutional and crypto-native LPs — acquisition debt first, then every capital need after the close.

Live lender & referral partners

[07] The Opportunity

Land a $45B wedge. Bank a $220B relationship.

The wedge$45B /yrThis is how we land the owner. ~15K in-band deals × ~$3M.

The relationship$220B /yr~5× the wedge. The same owner’s equipment, growth, refi & roll-up.

The market$740B /yrTotal lower-middle-market business credit. Acquisition is ~10% of it.

[08] The Compounding Engine

Add value early. Finance for the next decade.

~40%of revenue recurring by Year 5 · illustrative

The SoFi playbook — land the customer with one product, own their financial life.

[09] Go-to-Market

One token to align a fragmented market.

Aligns every side — buyers, sellers, lenders, and capital, around one network.

Rewards the people who build it.

Compounds as the network grows.

$DEAL

The first token built to coordinate the lower-middle-market.

[10] Traction

Live & in market.

Paying customers

Bank & non-bank lending partners

In discussions with 3 chain ecosystems for Vault’s blockchain-based warehouse

Scout · in production today · app.dealport.com

[11] Team

Built across software, credit, and market structure.

Co-founder · CEO

Robert Masiello

Founded Arcade.xyz (~$300M in NFT loans) and Sova (crypto infra; backed by Castle Island, Lemniscap). Engineering & capital formation.

Co-founder · President

Andrew Buehler

10 years family office & PE. Built and exited two F&B businesses. Advises on M&A and GP solutions.

GTM + Marketing

Jonathan Vargas

Agentic marketing systems. Former BCG Project Leader, Marketing & Sales practice.

Underwriting + Compliance

William Kim

Corp dev & M&A. Prior: VP at K2 HealthVentures, Marathon, Deutsche Bank IB.

Head of Sales

Jack Mulvaney

Enterprise sales & CS in fintech & financial services. Prior: Manulife, Reggora.

Advisor

Norman Villarina

Founder/MP, Industry Capital. Co-founder & former GP of Industry Ventures (~$7B AUM).

Built across

[12] Round Overview

$5M Seed

Q2 2026 — round open
From live origination to AI-financed acquisition — and the relationship after

What this unlocks

Scale Scout — origination across more sectors & metros
Ship Ledger — the underwriting agent that makes the long tail fundable
Stand up the first credit facility — Vault’s blockchain-based credit warehouse

Use of capital

Deepen the lender network & institutional distribution
Key hires across product & engineering

AI finds the business.

Vault finances the business.

WhoRobert Masiello · CEO Telegram@rkmasiello Emailrob@dealport.com Webdealport.com

[A1] Appendix · Competition

We own the whole rail: find, underwrite, fund, expand.

Proprietary origination

Passive listings & data

Lenders & credit funds

Underwrite capital, but no scalable proprietary origination.

[ Dealport ]

Proprietary origination (Scout) · AI underwriting (Ledger) · capital + blockchain-based credit warehouse (Vault) · lifetime expansion.

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Help users find companies; no capital workflow or credit product.

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