I built this to buy a Swiss company.

If you're trying to buy a company in Switzerland, the hard part isn't the deal. It's finding the right business in the first place. The country publishes no accounts for private companies, so a register full of names tells you almost nothing: not which are genuinely worth buying, and not whether their owners would ever sell.

I ran into that wall myself. After private equity and years building and running my own companies, I set out to buy a Swiss business through a search fund, and found the market was effectively invisible. The targeting had to be solved before any deal was possible.

So I built a system around the two questions that actually decide a search: which companies are genuinely buyable, once you strip out the micro-entities, the shells, the subsidiaries and the businesses run from a private flat; and which owners are likely to sell, those approaching retirement and the quieter patterns that signal a business is getting ready to change hands. Every Swiss source I could find, scored the way a buyer thinks, not a data vendor.

For the first time the whole market was visible at once. Today the platform can name over 5,000 companies that fit a precise search-fund profile, and pinpoint the handful worth approaching now, the shortlist most buyers spend months assembling by hand.

When the targeting is right, everything downstream gets easier. Outreach stops feeling like cold mail: the companies are the right size, the revenue ranges are accurate, and the timing makes sense, so owners actually welcome the conversation.

In my own search, over 33% of the owners I contacted replied; 15% turned into meetings.

Those aren't normal numbers for Swiss deal origination, and they didn't come from a better email. They came from depth: knowing more about each company before the first contact than most buyers know after weeks of research. That depth is now the product.

What started as one buyer's edge is now open to anyone sourcing Swiss companies. ValIndex is that same engine: a living record of every Swiss SA and Sàrl, refreshed every day from primary Swiss sources, with succession scoring, pre-deal signals and government-revenue intelligence layered on top.

The platform isn't a snapshot. Every morning it rebuilds the whole picture, pulling in far more than the commercial register: ownership changes, board departures, debt-enforcement filings, new formations and pre-deal signals, then re-scores every company automatically. It runs as infrastructure, not as a person checking a list.

And what matters most isn't the volume of data, it's the judgment encoded in it, and the timing. What surfaces each morning is what moved: an owner who appointed a transition CEO, a board that lost a member, a shareholding that changed hands. Timing, not the list, is the edge. Those signals are there because the platform was built by a buyer, not a software vendor, and because it's still used to source real deals in Switzerland, which is why it keeps getting deeper.

A generation of Swiss founders is reaching retirement with no successor in place. When a sound business can't find a buyer, it is too often broken up or quietly wound down, taking jobs and decades of craft with it. The reason is rarely the company. It is visibility: owners can't find the right buyer, and buyers can't find them, because the market has never been mapped.

A good Swiss business rarely closes because it failed. It closes because no one could see it was there to be bought.

That gap is deep and urgent, and nothing was built to close it. The same visibility that surfaces a target makes the whole market legible, for every serious buyer and every owner looking for a future for what they built. If it helps more of these companies pass on intact instead of disappearing, that is the part of this work I treat as a responsibility, not just a product.

ValIndex is for people doing what I set out to do: individual searchers and acquirers, PE firms running Swiss buy-and-build, M&A advisers, and corporates mapping Swiss markets. If finding the right Swiss company is your bottleneck, this was built for you.