TECH & IA24 août 2026· 16 min
Private Equity: Automated Acquisition Target Scoring — The Quantitative Edge
How leading PE firms are deploying machine learning pipelines to score thousands of acquisition targets in hours rather than months. A full methodology, benchmark data, and actionable playbook for deal teams ready to industrialize sourcing.
SOURCES
[1]Bain & Company — Global Private Equity Report 2024: Analytics and Deal Sourcing Benchmarks
[2]PitchBook — 2023 Annual PE Activity Report: Deal Conversion Rates and Sourcing Analysis
[3]Oliver Wyman — PE Technology Survey 2024: Machine Learning Model Performance Benchmarking
[4]Accenture — Private Equity Analytics Benchmark Study 2024: Score Drift and Transaction Readiness Correlation
[5]McKinsey & Company — 2023 Private Equity Analytics Survey: Feature Importance and Predictive Model Validation
[6]U.S. Census Bureau — 2023 Statistics of U.S. Businesses: Private Company Universe by Revenue Band
[7]Lightcast (formerly Burning Glass Technologies) — Labor Market Intelligence API Documentation and Use Cases in Financial Services