Axial M&A Advisor Directory Scraper
Axial M&A Advisor Directory Scraper
Scrape Axial's public lower-middle-market M&A advisor directory. Extract every advisory firm listed across all 7+ category pages — business brokers, investment banks, PE firms, family offices, independent sponsors, holding companies, and M&A advisory firms — with firm name, category, profile URL, and recent-M&A-activity flag.
What it scrapes
Axial is the leading lower-middle-market deal network. Its public company directory lists thousands of deal-maker firms organized by type, each with tombstone cards showing recent transaction activity. This actor crawls every category page and paginates through all results.
Extracted fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
firm_id |
Stable slug identifier derived from the profile URL |
firm_name |
Advisory firm name |
category |
Normalised category (e.g. business_broker, investment_bank, pe_firm) |
profile_url |
Full URL to the firm's Axial profile |
recent_ma_activity |
Whether the firm displays recent M&A tombstones on its public card |
advisor_type_flags |
Category label as displayed on the directory card |
industry_focus |
Industry focus (not available in public listing) |
location |
Location (not available in public listing) |
Use cases
- Lead generation for vendors — build prospect lists of M&A advisors, brokers, and intermediaries active in the lower-middle market
- Competitive intelligence — map the advisor landscape by type and activity level
- Research — census of deal-makers by category across Axial's network
Input
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
maxItems |
integer | Maximum number of advisor records to scrape |
Output
Each record represents one advisory firm card from Axial's directory. With maxItems: 100, the actor fetches across all category pages until the cap is reached.
Notes
- Location and industry focus are not publicly visible on Axial directory cards — member login required for detail pages.
- All 7 main category slugs are crawled:
business-brokers,investment-banks,private-equity-funds,family-offices,holding-companys,independent-sponsors,m-a-advisory-firms. - Pagination follows the Next Page link automatically through all pages in each category.