Reach PE, VC, and the owners they want to buy.
99K+ verified VC and PE principals for vendors selling into the deal world - and a direct line to the 24M companies PE firms and search funds are trying to buy. Ken works both directions: reach the fund, or reach the owner. Get early access or book a call to run it on your real leads.
Example searches
- Managing Directors at growth equity firms with $500M+ AUM focused on healthcare
- General Partners at search funds with $50M-$500M in committed capital focused on industrials
- Owners of profitable, family-run HVAC or specialty manufacturing companies with 20-150 employees
- Founder-led manufacturing or services companies with 20-150 employees and no institutional investors
Trusted by 1,000+ B2B companies
- SaaSRise
99K+ investors. 24M companies to buy from them - or sell into.
This page works two directions, because Ken's customers here do too. Software and service vendors use it to reach the 99K+ general partners, managing directors, and principals across venture and private equity - a small, well-mapped universe that gets over-emailed fast. PE firms and search funds use the same engine to reach the other side: the 24M companies they're trying to buy, where owner data is thin and a wrong-toned email can end a relationship before it starts. Both sides are compliance-sensitive in different ways - general solicitation rules around fund communications on one, confidentiality and tone on the other - and Ken's targeting and personalization are built to respect both.
- VC and PE principals
- 99K+
- general partners, managing directors, and principals across the deal ecosystem
- private companies to source from
- 24M
- Ken's full company database, filterable by size, industry, and location
- verification rounds per email
- 3x
- 65% of risky or invalid addresses filtered before you send
- free credits to start
- 1,000
- no card; about 690 finished leads
Signals Ken can actually act on.
Whichever direction you're reaching, Ken acts on real engagement and scores real fit - not a guess.
Multi-click intent on thesis pages and portfolio case studies
A GP or principal who clicks your deck or teaser link more than once is showing real interest. Ken flags it and can fire the next touch automatically or route the reply straight to you.
Re-engage quiet PE and search operators
An owner or fund contact who engaged and then went quiet gets picked back up. Ken watches for clicks that stop and re-approaches with a different angle before the thread goes cold.
Qualified for succession readiness
Describe it in plain language - 'family-run HVAC company, 20-150 employees, no institutional backing, run by the same owner for years.' Ken's AI reads each company's site and LinkedIn and scores it against exactly that.
Qualified to fund criteria
'Growth equity firm with $500M+ AUM focused on healthcare' isn't a dropdown filter anywhere else. Ken's AI reads each firm's site and scores it against your exact mandate.
Built for sourcing deals, not just sending email.
Search 24M companies most tools can't see.
Search funds and PE firms need owners of profitable, often bootstrapped businesses with minimal digital footprint - exactly the companies generic databases undercount. Ken's database of 24M companies covers the long tail, filterable by size, industry, and location.
Filter for succession readiness, not just firmographics.
“Profitable HVAC company, 20-150 employees, family-owned with no institutional backing” or “growth equity firm with $500M+ AUM focused on healthcare.” Ken's AI reads each company's site and LinkedIn and scores it against your exact criteria, subjective language included.
Write like a respectful conversation, not an acquisition pitch.
Owners are wary of anything that reads as a hostile approach, and generic “we want to buy you” copy ends the relationship before it starts. Ken writes from the owner's company history, industry, and background inside human-written, legacy-and-respect frameworks - the same personalization approach that lifted engagement 127% in our 500k-email study.
From ICP to booked conversations.
Three steps. Nothing sends until you approve.
Describe your target
Paste your website and Ken drafts your ICP and offer - or describe it yourself: fund criteria or acquisition thesis, industry, size, ownership signal, role. Edit and confirm in under a minute.
Review your campaign
Ken sources leads - fund contacts or business owners - qualifies each against your criteria, segments them, and drafts personalized multichannel sequences in your voice. Nothing sends until you approve it in your queue.
Send and take the meetings
Approve and launch from your own inboxes, or from Ken inboxes on Ken AI. Replies get sentiment-tagged, positives reach you instantly, and meetings land on your calendar.
Frequently Asked Questions
What teams ask before running outbound for Private Equity & Search Funds with Ken.
Ken Search covers 99K+ VC and PE principals - general partners, managing directors, and principals - plus private companies you can search for deal sourcing, all inside Ken's database of 250M people and 24M companies. Slice fund contacts by AUM, focus, and firm size, or slice companies by size, industry, and AI-qualified fit.
Deal-sourcing emails to business owners are standard B2B outreach and follow the same CAN-SPAM and GDPR hygiene as any Ken campaign. The line to watch is capital raising: outreach to limited partners about a fund itself can trigger SEC Reg D general solicitation rules, so that messaging needs your securities counsel's review before it goes out. Ken handles sourcing, verification, and sending either way.
A database export is step one of nine, and it's especially thin for this audience - many business owners worth buying have almost no digital footprint. Ken sources from 10+ platforms, verifies each email three times, qualifies against your ICP with AI, segments, writes and personalizes the copy, and sends on managed infrastructure with warm IPs. You approve the campaign; Ken runs the rest.
It works when the message respects the relationship instead of opening with a transaction. Ken personalizes every email from the owner's actual company history, industry, and background using legacy-and-respect framing, not acquisition language - the same personalization approach that produced 127% higher engagement in our 500k-email study.
Start free with 1,000 credits. No card. Ken AI is $200/mo ($160/mo billed annually) with 200,000 sends and 5,000 credits a month. 5,000 credits cover about 1,000 finished leads, 10 Ken inboxes, and one LinkedIn account a month. Domains for Ken inboxes come on top, about $13 each the first year, then $16 a year, unless you bring your own. Or have our team run it for you and pay per held meeting.
The universe is 24M companies deep.
Build a campaign on your exact fund or acquisition criteria. Get early access or book a call. Campaigns are sourced, verified, qualified, and written. Send when you like what you see.
