NEW YORK and LONDON — February 12, 2026 — Leads & Copy —ToltIQ, an AI-powered platform for private equity due diligence, and Deal Engine, a market monitoring data engine for private markets, have announced a strategic partnership to connect deal origination with diligence execution for private equity firms, corporate M&A teams, and family offices.
The partnership aims to enable firms to carry market and deal intelligence across the deal lifecycle. According to the press release, deal teams often depend on fragmented tool stacks, leading to loss of context, rework, and delays. By integrating Deal Engine’s sourcing and market intelligence into ToltIQ’s diligence environment, the partnership seeks to address this challenge, allowing firms to maintain continuity from pipeline development to final investment decisions.
Ed Brandman, CEO of ToltIQ, stated that Deal Engine helps users move from idea to data room, while ToltIQ assists from NDA through confirmatory diligence. Brandman added that investment teams need connected tools that allow intelligence gathered during origination to inform the diligence approach and patterns seen in diligence to refine sourcing criteria.
Phil Westcott, CEO of Deal Engine, noted that private market firms need a joined-up data architecture. Westcott believes this partnership connects market deal intelligence and execution insights to support the journey from idea to investment committee decision, helping teams apply what they know earlier and more effectively.
Starting in March 2026, Deal Engine can be deployed alongside the ToltIQ platform, enabling ToltIQ users to leverage live market intelligence and context during diligence and execution. Users can track market context on each target, competitors, suppliers, and customers, enriching formal diligence processes. As companies move under NDA and enter data rooms, teams gain access to market intelligence alongside internal documents, supporting accelerated ramp-up, targeted analysis, and stronger investment committee narratives.
For Deal Engine customers, the ToltIQ integration enables firms to extend their knowledge integration architecture deeper into the deal cycle, benefiting from ToltIQ’s application of AI to streamline the diligence process.
The partnership aims to help firms reduce diligence ramp-up time by starting with market context already gathered during pre-deal execution sourcing and market monitoring, apply lessons learned in diligence back to sourcing criteria without manual data transfer, and maintain consistent competitive intelligence from initial target identification through the confirmatory diligence process.
Rick Kushel, Managing Partner at FINTOP Capital, said that Deal Engine and ToltIQ have built positions in their workflow stages. As a shared investor, Kushel believes this integration creates additional value for firms looking to reduce friction across the deal lifecycle while maintaining strengths at each phase.
ToltIQ provides AI-powered private market due diligence solutions for GPs, LPs, diligence advisory firms, and Family Offices. The company’s platform analyzes and categorizes deal documents to extract insights.
Deal Engine is a dealmaking data engine provider for private markets dealmakers, enabling firms to centralize, enrich, and institutionalize market, proprietary, and public data.
FINTOP Capital is a team of former founders that backs the next generation of builders rewiring finance, with offices in Nashville & New York.
Source: ToltIQ
