Deal Sourcery Building the Goldman Sachs for Small Businesses with Ori Eldarov
Feb 20, 2025
Ori Eldarov, the Founder and CEO of OffDeal, is transforming small business sales with AI-driven solutions that maximize value and simplify processes. He shares insights from Wall Street to entrepreneurship, highlighting how AI addresses the challenges of deal sourcing in private equity. Discover the scarcity of sellable businesses in the U.S. and the inefficiencies of traditional methods. Eldarov explains how OffDeal automates investment banking tasks, revolutionizing M&A and making transactions more accessible for small businesses.
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Ori's First Business Acquisition Attempt
- Ori Eldarov started his journey looking to buy a cooking oil collection business leveraging insights from renewable energy tax incentives.
- He explored multiple businesses and submitted offers but faced challenges, including COVID impacting his plans.
Sell-Side Advisory Gap
- Most small business sales happen without professional sell-side advisors, who are fragmented and resource-limited.
- This leaves owners facing a poor user experience with prolonged, single-buyer deals that often fail.
Limits of SMB Marketplaces
- Marketplaces for SMB sales face liquidity and heterogeneity issues unlike more uniform markets like micro SaaS or real estate.
- OffDeal opts for direct outreach to potential buyers rather than a traditional listing marketplace.