ECDB gives investors and finance teams an independent read on market size, growth and competitive position. Use the same figures in diligence and in ongoing portfolio monitoring after close.
Your View of the Market Stops at the Management Deck
Market size, growth and position come from the seller's own slides. The seller's assumptions end up in the price.
Our SolutionOne Independent Read on Every Target's Market
Every market, category and store runs through the same model, built independently of any target.
Example Use CasesAnswers You Can Put in the Investment Committee Memo
Four worked examples from the investor side. Each one tests a different part of the case.
Success StoriesDeal Teams Already Check Their Cases Against It
How deal teams and portfolio managers work once market data comes from one external source.
Management provides the market sizing, the growth story and the competitive positioning in the same deck as the numbers being diligenced. An external check is not optional when the deal depends on the market being as claimed.
The number the whole model rests on comes from the company itself.
The number is tested against an external, consistent market estimate.
A slowing category shows up in the numbers a year after it should have.
A slowing category shows up in monthly data.
Every company is tracked with a different source. Results don't compare.
Every company is measured with the same source and results compare.
Because the data comes from outside the target company, the same figures used in diligence keep working after close, as an ongoing check on the plan the deal was built on.
The diligence baseline becomes the monitoring baseline, no re-basing when the deal moves.
Every portfolio company's market is measured the same way, so results are comparable across the fund.
Modeled from the market side, not sourced from the company being assessed, so it survives being checked.
These are the questions investment and finance teams most often ask. Each one is a worked example on a real market and category, and each one combines two of the four datasets above.
Portugal Apparel"Management's deck says this category grows 15% a year. Before we sign, we need to know whether the market really supports that."
Online Apparel Growth, Portugal
Year-on-Year (YOY)
Monthly Year-on-Year Growth Provides a Real-Time Picture
in %
Source: ECDB, modeled data. Online market revenue growth for Apparel, Portugal, year on year, 2023 to 2026. 2026 is a forecast and subject to change. Monthly growth compares each month to the same month a year earlier. Monthly figures are revised as new inputs become available. Management deck figure for illustration.
Three investment teams describing what changed once market and competitive checks came from outside the target.
We stopped taking the management deck's market slide at face value. Now it's the first thing we check.
Portfolio reviews used to be four different spreadsheets. Now it's one dashboard on one method.
Independent competitive positioning gave us leverage in a price negotiation we didn't expect to have.
Tell us which market and category sit behind the deal you're assessing. We'll build the views for that case live in the meeting, so you leave with a market check you can put straight into your investment memo.
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