The Post-Mortem Information Advantage

At 18x, we believe that every business investment holds immense, untapped potential. Our purpose is to help you analyze past successes, failures and learnings. And learn from aggregated data to improve your investment outcomes.

We conduct post-exit deal analyses to extract key insights that drive continuous improvement. Our process and reports provide actionable learnings to help you continually improve your outcomes when buying, investing in or selling businesses.

Our post-mortem analysis gives you the edge to build smarter, de-risked, more profitable portfolios by learning not just from your exited deals, but from the lower mid-market ecosystem.

The Post-Mortem Investment Analysis

A post-mortem investment analysis is a rigorous, systematic review of deals you've exited; it examines the financial returns, operational improvements, value creation efforts, risk management, and transaction execution to extract actionable insights on what drove success or underperformance. And it offers an unbiased, data-driven look at investment outcome.

A post-mortem reveals exactly which levers e.g. EBITDA growth, multiple expansion, strategic execution created value, and where critical opportunities were missed. It enables you to spot patterns, break persistent blind spots, show LPs you are constantly improving, and directly outcompete peers by applying lessons from your own and others’ exits through benchmarking within your niche. A post-mortem arms you with the data and insights to double down on what works, avoid costly mistakes, and unlock new ways to drive value with every future investment.

Leverage the power of hindsight to create a repeatable, data-driven value creation playbook. Our analysis helps you make better decisions and improves performance whether it’s multiple or a single acquisition. Through a comprehensive analysis of the financials, the operations, the value creation, the transaction itself, the risks, strengths and weaknesses of the business and the buy-team.

Clear Attribution of Value Drivers

We detail how revenue, profitability, and multiples grew during the holding period, giving you a transparent view of performance.

In-Depth Review of Initiatives

An exhaustive review of value creation initiatives, from process improvements and tech enhancements to financial strategy and sales optimization.

Risk Management Assessment

Understand how critical vulnerabilities were addressed, what challenges remain, and how your risk mitigation strategy performed.

Actionable Opportunity Mapping

Receive a strategic map for your next investment—rooted in real outcomes—that identifies opportunities for even greater value creation.

Investment Return Analysis

A full breakdown of financial performance, including EV growth, IRR, MOIC, multiple expansion, and holding period growth, attributing each to investment success or capital loss.

Transaction Strength Analysis

A detailed review of your deal structure, negotiations, seller rapport and stakeholder management strengths and weaknesses and impact on the investment returns.

Learn From Your Past Investments. Maximize Your Returns.

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