About us

We're making the enterprise market visible.

Closedata was built to help investors, M&A teams, and corporations identify opportunities before they become obvious.

For decades, finding the right companies to acquire, invest in, or analyze depended on networking, luck, and manual research. We believe strategic decisions should be guided by intelligence, not by chance.

Joaquim Costa — Co-Founder & CEO

Joaquim Costa

Co-Founder & CEO

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João Santos — Co-Founder & Growth

João Santos

Co-Founder & Growth

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Sérgio Catarino — Co-Founder & CTO

Sérgio Catarino

Co-Founder & CTO

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Why we built Closedata

The private market represents the majority of the economy.

Yet it remains difficult to map and understand, a problem also identified by modern market intelligence platforms.

Investment teams spend weeks:

  • Searching for companies manually
  • Validating scattered information
  • Trying to understand who might actually sell

Closedata was born to solve this friction. Not by creating just another database, but an intelligence layer capable of interpreting enterprise signals.

Our approach

Data + Context + Signals

Not just information, probability of opportunity. We transform enterprise data into strategic decisions.

  • Structured enterprise data

    Validated against official registries, not estimates.

  • Contextual artificial intelligence

    Reads companies the way a senior analyst would.

  • Behavioral and financial analysis

    Ownership, succession, governance and growth signals, in one view.

  • Predictive signals

    Anticipates events before they happen — the next generation of M&A.

Manifesto

Why we built Closedata.

The thesis, the conviction, and the reason this project exists, in our own words.

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