ECI Partners rolls out its AI M&A tool, Amplifind 360™, to its portfolio companies
ECI Partners, the leading mid-market private equity company, has rolled out its unique Amplifind™360 origination platform to portfolio companies to help them to drive efficiency, visibility and collaboration across their M&A pipeline.
The new tool follows the success of Amplifind™, ECI’s AI tool that was developed in 2020, using proprietary data to help its Origination Team to source, prioritise and assess leads.
M&A is a major value driver for ECI’s portfolio and Amplifind™360 enables its portfolio teams to track global targets, with clear, digestible proprietary AI-powered firmographic data. Beyond data, Amplifind™360 is designed for collaboration, enabling real-time engagement between portfolio teams and the ECI team, allowing for more effective pipeline management.
Amplifind™360 is unique in the private equity market being owned by ECI Partners and having been built from the ground up, using its extensive network of data and technology professionals, both within the PE industry and beyond. ECI’s Growth Specialists helped shape the strategy behind the platform, and the company is also working with the Applied AI team at Manchester University, exploring how advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) can help score companies more effectively. The platform is modular by design, making it flexible and adaptable as data, AI, and business priorities evolve.
Suzanne Pike, partner and head of origination at ECI commented: “Amplifind™360 makes M&A more efficient, giving our portfolio companies the tools they need to move faster, work smarter, and stay ahead of the market. One of the biggest advantages is that it’s completely free for our portfolio companies to use, and teams can now access live, dynamic data from anywhere.”
Pike continues: “We decided to develop our own platform, rather than going for an off-the-shelf solution, because we didn’t want to have to adjust our approach to fit the technology. Instead, we created a system that supports how we already work. This is what has enabled our Amplifind™ tool to evolve since 2020 into the data and AI engine that powers origination activity today.”
ECI will continue to invest in its Amplifind™360, with the next priority the launch of the Amplifind KnowledgeBot, a Gen AI-powered tool designed to surface insights faster and more effectively. By leveraging the company’s rich proprietary Salesforce data alongside third-party sources in the Amplifind databases, the KnowledgeBot will help extract valuable information in real time, making it even easier to identify and assess opportunities.