EMIS Launches EMIS Next for M&A & Investment: an AI-powered research platform for smart investment in the world fastest growing markets.
London, March 2025 — EMIS, the global leader in emerging markets intelligence, is proud to introduce EMIS Next for M&A & Investment, a solution designed to help professionals make faster, more confident investment decisions in the world’s fastest-growing markets.
Leveraging the latest in AI-driven technology and based on customer feedback, EMIS Next for M&A & Investment supports each stage of the deal origination process. The platform provides specialised features and tools to help investment teams discover new targets and support astute investment.
Covering 197 markets and over 370 industries, the platform delivers deep company, industry, country, and M&A intelligence, empowering professionals with the insights they need to navigate often opaque markets with confidence.
A Smarter Approach to M&A & Investment
EMIS Next for M&A & Investment delivers comprehensive and in-depth insights across a wide range of industry sectors, enabling users to quickly assess key factors that may impact potential clients. It provides detailed company profiles and financial information on over 12 million private companies, along with 100,000 daily news updates to help screen companies, analyse their performance, and benchmark them against industry peers.
Additionally, EMIS’s proprietary M&A research team offers an extensive emerging markets M&A deals database, supporting valuations with in-depth M&A and ECM research, deal news, valuations, and league tables. Our sophisticated screening tools ensure complete coverage of emerging markets deal activity, including all transactions exceeding $1 million.
All insights are facilitated by industry tools that enable you to easily identify key players, market size, and market shares, ensuring a well-rounded and data-driven approach to M&A and investment decisions.
Custom data integration is possible through the EMIS Add-in for Excel, which helps users combine proprietary and EMIS data for analysis, as well as through API and Data Feeds solutions that enable the integration of EMIS datasets into clients' systems.
Client feedback on the new platform has been overwhelmingly positive, and the industry has already recognized EMIS Next as the Best Data-Driven M&A Solution at the India M&A Conclave Awards 2025, the winner of the 2024 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Business Information/Data Delivery Solution, and the 2024 IMD & IRD Award for Best Research Provider.
“The future of EMIS looks very promising with all these new features, such as dashboard and alerts. EMIS Next is an essential tool to expand one’s business perspectives. Compared to previous version, there is a clear improvement in user experience and navigation. EMIS has just become an even more powerful and convenient platform” said Andrezj Kopka, Equity Capital Markets Director at Mback.
“With EMIS Next for M&A & Investment, we’ve built a platform that empowers dealmakers with AI-driven insights, seamless navigation, and a wealth of private company data to uncover opportunities in the world’s most dynamic markets. Our goal is to give M&A and investment teams the clarity, confidence, and competitive edge they need to make informed investment decisions faster than ever before.”— Diego Obere, EMIS Managing Director said.
Key Features of EMIS Next for M&A & Investment:
- Unmatched Industry Intelligence: Access a best-in-class catalog of industry research and smarter sector profiles with insights across 370+ industries.
- Comprehensive Company Data & Screening: Leverage deep company intelligence, news, and advanced screening tools to identify investment opportunities, monitor risks, and assess competition.
- AI-Powered Market Insights: Use AI-driven news analytics to spot market trends & signals, and track company topics.
- Rich Private Company Profiles: Access in-depth company profiles with hard-to-get data, including financials, corporate linkages, and M&A insights.
- Powerful Benchmarking & Market Analysis: Identify top players, assess market size, and analyse market share with intuitive discovery and monitoring tools.
- Comprehensive M&A Coverage: Stay ahead with detailed insights into mergers, acquisitions, and deal activity across industries.
- Data integration: The solutions offers Excel Add-in to manage company data and financials directly into customer spreadsheets, and API and Data Feeds to enable integration of custom datasets into clients' systems.
With EMIS Next for M&A & Investment, investment professionals gain unparalleled access to the intelligence they need to navigate emerging markets with speed and confidence.
For more information or to request a personalised demo of EMIS Next for M&A & Investment, please contact us at marketing@isimarkets.com
About EMIS
EMIS is a leading curator of multi-sector, multi-country research for the world’s fastest-growing markets. We provide a unique combination of research from globally renowned information providers, local and niche specialist sources, our own proprietary analysis, and powerful monitoring and productivity tools. EMIS delivers trustworthy intelligence covering more than 370 industry sectors and 12 million companies across 197 markets – providing everything you need in one place as actionable insights are facilitated by leading technology. EMIS is part of ISI Markets.
About ISI Markets
ISI Markets is the most comprehensive source of trusted data and actionable insight on emerging and developed markets. We provide the intelligence and insights to act with confidence in the world’s highest potential and fastest growing markets. ISI Markets is comprised of four brands (CEIC, EPFR, EMIS and REDD) that share a common purpose to illuminate the opportunity in emerging and developed markets where information can be hard to obtain and even harder to rely upon. We leverage deep local knowledge, well established networks and leading edge software and advanced analytics to deliver intelligence that informs our clients’ investment, strategic and risk decisions.