Datasite acquires Valu8 to expand Grata's proprietary European company data
Datasite announced on 8 May 2026 that it has acquired Valu8, a Swedish private market intelligence platform covering 70 million European companies and serving 600+ customers, and will fold it into Grata, lifting Grata's global coverage from over 20 million companies.
Where the rake sits
From Valu8's seat this is the cleanest sell: the company, its 70m-record European substrate, its product and its 600 customers all pass to Datasite in a single transaction for undisclosed cash. Valu8 keeps nothing downstream; Datasite now owns the enrichment work Valu8's team had done and will capture the rake going forward through Grata.
What happened
- Announced 8 May 2026 from Minneapolis; terms not disclosed.
- Valu8 brings data on 70 million European companies; Grata previously covered over 20 million companies globally.
- Valu8 has 600+ customers (PE, investment banks, corporate M&A), with strong adoption across the Nordics and growth in UK, DACH, Iberia, Benelux.
- Follows Datasite/Grata's July 2025 expansion into UK, France, Germany, Australia and August 2025 acquisition of Sourcescrub.
- Datasite was advised by BofA and Jefferies (financial), Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Schjødt (legal); Valu8 by DNB Carnegie, DLA Piper and PwC.
- Transaction follows Datasite's recent announcement of its MCP server connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Blueflame AI to VDR content.
Who is involved
Datasite provides the infrastructure that enables information flow for private market transactions.
Valu8 is a leading European platform for finding and analyzing private companies.
The reading
The enrichment work - aggregating and harmonising financials, ownership and corporate data on roughly 70 million European companies - was done by Valu8 before the transaction; post-close, Datasite's Grata team takes over that work and integrates the dataset into its existing coverage of over 20 million companies globally.
The substrate - proprietary private-company financials and ownership structures across Europe - feeds the paying party's decision of which private target to approach next, i.e. which company a PE firm, investment bank or corporate M&A team puts into a sourcing shortlist or diligence workstream.
What crossed is the whole company: the Valu8 data assets, platform and team moved to Datasite under an acquisition announced 2026-05-08 with terms not disclosed; nothing was withheld on Valu8's side because the entity itself was bought.
Not determinable - the transaction price was not disclosed, so there is no public basis to judge whether Valu8 captured the full value of its 70-million-company dataset relative to what Grata will earn from it.
Why it matters
Datasite is buying its way to a European footprint it could not build in time: Grata covered 20 million companies globally and Valu8 alone holds 70 million European ones, so the acquired substrate is more than triple the acquirer's prior reach. The 600 Nordic, UK and DACH customers are the real prize, following July 2025's organic European push and the August 2025 Sourcescrub deal. Three acquisitions in ten months is a position bought, not earned.
The argument this deal tests: Data monetisation: three routes to value creation
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Sources
- grata.com — primary
- datasite.com — corroborating
- tracxn.com — party background
- valu8group.com — party background
- crunchbase.com — party background
Announced 2026-05-08