Inven

Inven is an AI platform that helps private equity firms, investment banks, corporate development teams, and consultants find and analyze companies in private markets. It indexes more than 28 million companies across over 160 markets, along with 3 million transaction records and over 430 million verified professional contacts, and uses AI to surface acquisition targets, competitors, and investors that would be difficult to find through manual research. Core use cases include deal sourcing, where the platform identifies off-market companies matching specific criteria, and market mapping, where it produces a competitive landscape for a given sector in minutes rather than days. Inven also offers agentic workflows that automate repeatable research tasks and generate materials like market maps, company profiles, and decks, and it is available inside Claude through the Model Context Protocol. Founded in 2022 by Ekku Jokinen, Niilo Pirttijarvi, and Tommi Kupiainen, former McKinsey and BCG analysts, the company reports working with more than 700 firms across the Americas and Europe. The site cites 4-5x faster target identification and 10x faster market research, though these figures come from user-reported outcomes rather than independent benchmarks. Specific pricing is not published.