Tentt
Confidential origination memo
Prepared 29 April 2026
Tentt × Verdane
Prepared for
Verdane

Business development program scoped for Verdane.

Inside: a one-paragraph read of your mandate, 8 real companies we'd put in front of you this month, the signals we'd track for you, and how we'd run it.

v.04.29 · Confidential
For David Walker-Dobson, Tentt Founder
4-minute overview · David Walker-Dobson

Why we built this for Verdane, and what running it would look like.

01 What we understand about your mandate
You back European software, tech-enabled services, and decarbonisation businesses, €20-150M equity tickets, founder-led and growth-stage, primarily across the Nordics, DACH, UK, and France. Recent activity includes platforms like Eversports in fitness software, Cropster in vertical SaaS for coffee, and Pflegecampus in healthcare e-learning. You deploy across digitalisation (software, B2C products, B2C services) and decarbonisation (energy transition, resource efficiency).
Verdane website
verdane.com · 29 April 2026
02 Companies we'd put in front of you this month
60 companies in your universe. 8 we'd open conversations with first. ↓ Download all 52 as CSV
Boostlingo
Texas · 10-50M revenue
Vertical SaaS, founder-led, US-Europe bridge
Founder-led interpretation platform, video and phone workflows, healthcare and legal verticals. Direct adjacency to Cropster's vertical SaaS playbook.
Smartling
New York · 10-50M revenue
Translation management, enterprise SaaS
Enterprise translation platform, 15 years in market, founder-CEO still active. Software infrastructure for global content workflows.
Unbabel
California · 100-500M revenue
AI translation, scale boundary stretch
AI-powered translation, 200+ employees, venture-backed with growth capital needs. Upper end of your equity ticket range.
Brany
New York · 0-1M revenue
Early-stage, founder-operated interpreter tech
Founder-led interpreter scheduling software, sub-€1M revenue, pre-scale. Below your typical entry point but strong vertical SaaS angle.
Prometrika
Massachusetts · 10-50M revenue
Clinical trial services, tech-enabled
Tech-enabled clinical trial services, founder-operated, life sciences vertical. Software layer on top of clinical operations.
Smartcat
Massachusetts · 100-500M revenue
Translation platform, venture-scale
AI translation platform, 300+ employees, venture-backed with significant revenue scale. Founder-CEO, enterprise and marketplace model.
Biotrial
Texas · 1-10M revenue
Clinical research, services-heavy
Clinical research organization, Phase I-IV trials, services-led with tech enablement. Outside core software mandate but life sciences vertical.
Lokalise
Delaware · 10-50M revenue
Localization platform, product-led growth
Developer-focused localization platform, product-led growth motion, founder-CEO. Direct adjacency to Norce's commerce infrastructure angle.
03 Signals we'd track for you

Six categories. Forward-looking. Tracked across your universe.

None of these are claims we've already detected anything. They're the patterns we'd watch for, daily, on the universe of companies we'd build for you.

Leadership changes
New senior hires (CEO, CFO, Chair) commonly precede transaction processes by 6 to 12 months.
Watch: Companies House officer history, LinkedIn role changes, press releases.
Hiring pattern changes
Rapid senior team builds and sustained downsizing both correlate with capital events. The shape of the hiring curve is often more predictive than any single hire.
Watch: LinkedIn employee growth, posted job listings, departure patterns.
Capital structure events
Debt refinancings, charges register filings, and equity rounds signal upcoming inflection points and often precede a process by 9 to 14 months.
Watch: Companies House charges register, public funding announcements.
Founder activity signals
Public framing about "next chapter", succession, or sustained retirement language predicts owner-led exits more reliably than any structural signal.
Watch: LinkedIn posting patterns, trade press interviews, third-party adviser engagement.
Capacity and geographic moves
Site expansions, planning applications, and new regional offices commonly precede growth financing or sale processes.
Watch: planning applications, Land Registry filings, press announcements.
Sector activity
Peer transactions reset valuations and unlock founder thinking. Tracking the bracket matters more than tracking any single account.
Watch: trade press deal coverage, sponsor exit announcements, public filings.
04 Sample outreach

Two emails. Real drafts, in your voice, ready to send.

Sent under your name, never as Tentt. Day 0 is the cold open with named-portco proof. Day +4 is the threaded follow-up with market data.

05 How we'd run it

Three concrete ways we'd build pipeline for Verdane.

Playbook 01 · Add-ons
Adjacencies for Eversports

Map fitness software, booking platforms, and wellness tech adjacencies across DACH and broader European markets where Eversports operates. Direct founder outreach to vertical SaaS businesses serving gyms, studios, and activity providers, framed as add-on conversation under your existing platform.

Playbook 02 · Reactivation
Mandate-fit dormant pass

Run your existing CRM against your deployed-shape filter. Surface dormant prospects whose situation has changed: new owner, new financing event, new senior hire. Single wave, founder-direct, framed as a check-in.

Playbook 03 · Sector deep-dive
Founder-led vertical SaaS across Europe

Saturate your strongest sub-sectors (healthcare tech, fitness software, B2B commerce platforms) with founder-direct outreach across the entire deployed-shape universe in Nordics, DACH, UK, and France. Eight to ten weeks of waves, prioritised by the strength of each company's fit signals.

06 What we run for you

Deal origination, run end-to-end, under your brand.

Tentt runs deal origination as a service for private equity, M&A advisors, investment banks, and lenders. We build the target list, write the outreach in your voice, and send cold-email campaigns from authenticated infrastructure in your firm's name. Completely whitelabeled. Recipients see your firm; replies route to your CRM; we never appear in the conversation.

07 Close

The data is yours. The conversation is the next step.

The full list of 52 additional companies is available to download above. When you've had a chance to look through it, book a 30-minute briefing and we'll walk through how we'd run a campaign against the priority cohort.

David Walker-Dobson · david@tentt.com · tentt.com
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