Investment screening

Make the logic visible.

Five qualification gates stop obvious mismatches. Qualified companies are ranked on eight explicit dimensions, with every score tied to a structured input.

Universe20Synthetic organisations

Qualified16All gates passed

High priority6Score of 8.0 or above

Median score7.8Qualified universe

Disqualified4Stopped before ranking

Selected company screen

Larkspur Analytics

Commercial analytics · Dublin, Ireland

6.56.5Attractive

Advance after resolving the two weakest dimensions.

Open intelligence profile Send to outreach

Qualification gates

5 / 5 passed

Primarily B2B

Revenue is primarily generated from business customers.

€1m–€20m EBITDA

Illustrative EBITDA is €10.2m.

Privately held

Founder-owned and not publicly listed.

European presence

Dublin, Ireland.

No recent change of control

No recent change of control is recorded.

Score ledger

Source fields

Revenue quality0.5 / 2.0

43% recurring revenue leaves material exposure to transactional or services revenue.

Source field: recurringRevenuePct

Scale1.5 / 1.5

€10.2m EBITDA sits inside the illustrative platform range.

Source field: ebitdaEurM

Growth0.8 / 1.5

8% revenue growth is healthy but requires a specific acceleration thesis.

Source field: revenueGrowthPct

Profitability0.8 / 1.5

16% EBITDA margin is credible with room for further leverage.

Source field: ebitdaEurM / revenueEurM

Market focus1.00 / 1.25

The commercial analytics focus is clear, with some adjacent exposure.

Source field: marketFocus + subSector

Product depth0.6 / 1.0

Services or platform dependencies may limit defensibility.

Source field: productDepth

International0.75 / 0.75

67% international revenue demonstrates a repeatable cross-border proposition.

Source field: internationalRevenuePct

Dealability0.5 / 0.5

Founder-owned status could support flexible bilateral engagement.

Source field: ownership

20 screening resultsIllustrative rubric v1.0