Tracking when private companies are nearing a sale, recap, or financing event has always been a guessing game. With thousands of sponsor-backed firms spread across sectors and geographies, most deal teams are forced to react after the market moves.
Investors, bankers, and service providers struggle to know which private companies are gearing up for a transaction or capital raise. Signals are scattered, opaque, and nearly impossible to track across thousands of PE- and VC-backed businesses.
Dakota centralizes those signals (holding periods, funding rounds, platform acquisition dates, ownership changes, and exit timing patterns) into one predictive transaction-readiness tool. Instead of waiting for headlines, users can see which companies are showing the strongest likelihood of pursuing a sale, recapitalization, or new financing before the market knows.
Below is today’s list of five PE- or VC-backed companies that, based on their hold period, financing stage, and last transaction date, appear to be credible candidates for a sale or next-round raise.
Nothing is guaranteed, but these companies fall squarely within the timing windows where sponsors typically look to generate liquidity or secure additional capital.
Sourced from Dakota Sponsor Backed Companies.
1. EvidenceHunt
EvidenceHunt is an AI-powered medical research platform that transforms how professionals find, analyze, and process medical evidence. Founded by David van IJzendoorn, Olivier Magnin, and Philippe Habets, the company is headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands. EvidenceHunt offers a platform that streamlines research by eliminating the need to manually search through PubMed, guidelines, protocols, and other documentation. It enables users to create seamless workflows for drafting content, generating reports, and conducting systematic literature reviews. Trusted by thousands of professionals from leading universities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, EvidenceHunt aims to revolutionize medical research through advanced AI technologies.
- Sector: Information Technology
- Industry: IT Services
- Last known transaction date: Seed, $1.3M announced in February 2025
- Major sponsors/backers: Co-led by Keen Venture Partners, DFF Ventures, and Slimmer AI
- Why timing suggests a near-term transaction: EvidenceHunt’s $1.3M seed round announced in February 2025 places the company approximately 12–18 months removed from its initial financing by mid to late 2026. At this stage, venture-backed research and intelligence platforms often begin preparing for a follow-on funding round, strategic partnerships, or early acquisition discussions, as product validation, user adoption, and commercial use cases become more clearly established.
View all private company data in Dakota Marketplace.
2. Remos Space Systems AB
Remos Space Systems AB is a private company headquartered in Sweden, specializing in software-defined solutions for satellite ground operations. The company is focused on modernizing satellite ground stations through flexible, cloud-enabled, and software-centric architectures that reduce cost, increase scalability, and improve interoperability across satellite networks. Remos Space’s platform is designed to support a wide range of satellite missions, enabling operators to manage ground infrastructure more efficiently while adapting to the growing demands of smallsat constellations and global connectivity.
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Aerospace & Defense
- Last known transaction date: Seed, €1M, announced March 2025
- Major sponsors/backers: Undisclosed (Seed round)
- Why timing suggests a near-term transaction: Remos Space’s €1M seed financing marks an early commercialization phase as the company scales its software-defined ground station offering and expands internationally. As satellite operators continue to deploy smallsat and LEO constellations, demand for flexible, lower-cost ground infrastructure is accelerating. To support broader customer deployments, regional ground station buildouts, and potential government or telecom partnerships, particularly in emerging marketsm, Remos Space is likely to pursue follow-on capital. This timing aligns with typical pre-Series A fundraising or strategic investment activity from satellite operators, telecom providers, defense contractors, or space infrastructure platforms seeking differentiated ground segment capabilities.
View all private company data in Dakota Marketplace.
3. Freed
Freed is a healthcare technology company specializing in AI-driven solutions to streamline medical documentation. Their primary product, an AI medical scribe, listens, transcribes, and generates comprehensive clinical notes in real-time, aiming to enhance efficiency and accuracy in medical documentation. The company has experienced significant growth, with over 20,000 clinicians and more than 1,000 health organizations utilizing their platform. Recent developments include the introduction of one-click note transfer with EHR push, further streamlining the documentation process for healthcare professionals.
- Sector: Health Care
- Industry: Health Care Providers & Services
- Last known funding round: Series A, $30M, announced in March 2025
- Major sponsors/backers: Led bySequoia Capital with participation from Scale Venture Partners
- Why timing suggests a near-term transaction: Freed’s $30M Series A announced in March 2025 places the company roughly 12–18 months removed from its most recent financing by mid to late 2026. At this stage, venture-backed healthcare technology platforms often begin evaluating follow-on growth capital, strategic partnerships, or acquisition interest, as product adoption scales and clinical and enterprise use cases become more clearly established.
View all private company data in Dakota Marketplace.
4. Arlo Health
Arlo Health is a New York-based company founded in 2022 that offers affordable health benefits tailored for small and medium-sized businesses. Their mission is to provide health insurance solutions that prioritize both employees and their healthcare providers, ensuring coverage that is both comprehensive and user-friendly.
- Sector: Financials
- Industry: InsurTech
- Last known funding round: Seed, $4M, announced March 2025
- Major sponsors/backers: Upfront Ventures (lead); 8VC; General Catalyst
- Why timing suggests a near-term transaction: Arlo’s $4M seed round supports early commercial validation of its AI-driven underwriting platform for self-funded health insurance tailored to small businesses. Within its first year, the company has already written mid–eight figures in premiums and secured partnerships with major reinsurers, including Nationwide, signaling early traction in a historically difficult market segment. As Arlo scales policy volume, expands broker distribution, and deepens reinsurance capacity, the company is likely to require follow-on capital to support balance sheet growth, regulatory expansion, and technology development. This timing aligns with a typical Seed-to-Series A progression or potential strategic investment interest from insurers, reinsurers, benefits platforms, or payroll and HR technology providers seeking differentiated underwriting capabilities for the SMB segment.
View all private company data in Dakota Marketplace.
5. Sympera AI
Sympera AI is a New York-based company specializing in agentic AI solutions tailored for the banking sector. Founded in 2024, the company focuses on enhancing relationship banking by providing AI-powered financial intelligence and sales enablement tools to relationship managers. Their platform leverages domain-specific language models to interpret behavioral patterns, predict client needs, and assist in market intelligence, pipeline management, and generating tailored sales strategies. Sympera AI's mission is to scale relationship banking by enabling bankers to engage in meaningful conversations with clients, offer tailored solutions, and capture a larger share of the wallet.
- Sector: Financials
- Industry: FinTech
- Last known funding round: Seed, $10M, announced March 2025
- Major sponsors/backers: Nyca Partners; Viola Ventures (co-leads)
- Why timing suggests a near-term transaction: Sympera AI’s $10M seed round positions the company to scale its agentic AI platform designed to modernize relationship banking for the SMB segment, a $150B annual revenue opportunity that remains structurally underserved. As banks face margin pressure, branch consolidation, and rising client acquisition costs, AI-enabled tools that increase RM productivity and improve client prioritization are becoming strategic priorities. With early institutional backing from fintech-focused investors and a clear go-to-market aligned with mid-tier and regional banks, Sympera AI is likely to pursue follow-on capital to expand deployments, deepen core banking integrations, and broaden product functionality. This timing aligns with a typical Seed-to-Series A progression, as well as potential strategic investment interest from banks, core banking providers, or financial infrastructure platforms seeking differentiated AI capabilities for SMB relationship management.
View all private company data in Dakota Marketplace.
Use Dakota’s Sponsor Backed Company Intelligence to Spot Likely Exits Before the Market Does
Dakota’s private company data gives you a real-time view into thousands of sponsor-backed companies, including platform acquisition dates, funding rounds, parent sponsors, add-on activity, and sector categorization.
Instead of guessing where companies are in their lifecycle, you can instantly identify which ones are approaching the typical timing windows for a sale or recap.
Fully integrated into Dakota Marketplace, this dataset enables deal sourcers, investor relations teams, and allocators to anticipate transactions, build targeted outreach lists, and stay ahead of market announcements, every single day.
To explore more companies likely to transact, book a demo of Dakota Marketplace!
