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A boutique bank that refuses to do anything but consumer deals just got a lot bigger. Here is how a Boston firm turned brand obsession into a specialty M&A practice - and why Origin Merchant Partners bought in.
Founded by dealmakers who left Morgan Stanley and TPG, Incentrum Group built a merchant bank around a contrarian idea - take fewer clients, own the advice, and put your own money where your counsel is.
It ranks No. 1 in global M&A by deal count and No. 1 in restructuring. One of those businesses thrives in good times, the other in bad. Houlihan Lokey owns both.
ValueMate is a Y Combinator (X25) startup rebuilding the residential real estate appraisal stack around AI. Its smartphone app uses LiDAR to capture a property in a roughly three-to-five minute walkthrough, generating a 3D model, 2D floor plans and a near-final, regulator-ready appraisal report that complies with the new UAD 3.6 and ANSI standards. The company says it makes appraisers about 80% more efficient, cutting turnaround from days or weeks to hours, and also runs its own in-house appraisal firm, VM Appraisals.
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC) is a full-service, independent global valuation and advisory firm that has provided objective, supportable conclusions of value since 1975. With a U.S. team of 300+ professionals across a dozen offices and an international network of nearly 1,500 valuation experts through Valuation Research Group, VRC serves private equity funds, financial sponsors, and acquisitive public and private companies with fairness opinions, solvency opinions, financial-reporting valuations, tax valuations, and the pricing of complex, illiquid securities.