For acquirers
Most funded startups make their first two or three acquisitions before they hire a corporate development team. Parachute is that team, operating inside your own workspace.
Buy-side mandate
A retained mandate means we are watching the category continuously: who raised at a valuation they cannot grow into, who is quietly flat, whose investors need liquidity. When a target becomes actionable, the relationship already exists.
Example mandate
What you are buying and why, written down in a form your board can challenge.
A ranked, researched list with ARR estimates, funding history and live signals.
You approve who we approach. We flag runway pressure, leadership changes and stale valuations.
Founder-level conversations opened by a Managing Director, not a cold sequence.
Prepared agendas, attendance and written read-outs after every call.
Financial, commercial, technical and legal workstreams coordinated in one workspace.
Structure, price and conditions modelled against your own cost of capital.
Consents, signing and the transition plan for the team you just acquired.