Self-funded vs traditional search: Investor view: ROI and success rate?

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February 26, 2020

by a searcher from University of Waterloo in Toronto, ON, Canada

I'm looking to summarize differences for investors for a self-funded search vs a traditional search. For example, if you're an investor who is going to make commitments for future gap financing, what are the impacts to your risk and ROI?

In particular, success rates and total ROI for self-funded vs traditional.

I read some Stanford papers but the ones I read do not delve into self-funded searches.

Does anyone have formal data or data sources for self-funded searches?

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Reply by a searcher
from Yale University in Juno Beach, FL 33408, USA
Stanford doesn't track the self funded returns because there are not investors. Most business acquisitions would be considered self funded searches.
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Reply by an investor
from INSEAD in Budapest, Magyarország
Hi Simon,
I know it has been two years since your original post. I was wondering whether you got data on this in the end?
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