Virtual data room podcasts and videos

Why restructuring data rooms differ, and why AI should stay inside them

With Julien Tessier, Mathieu Meffre

Julien Tessier, CEO of Euronext Corporate Solutions, which owns Admincontrol, explains how data rooms work in court-supervised restructurings: urgent deadlines, an administrator in charge, and equal information that must be auditable. Worth watching for his argument that AI belongs inside the data room, so bidders never take documents out to public tools.

Cisco and Accenture on using diligence AI to plan integration before close

With Angela DeSanctis, Greg Schlimm, Massimo Malizia and others

Corporate development leaders from Cisco and Accenture and the Transaction Advisors Institute's research lead discuss survey data on AI in due diligence. Worth watching for Cisco's Massimo Malizia on using AI contract review and data room documents to plan integration before close, and for the sell-side worry that shared data cannot be recalled.

How a small corp dev team uses AI, from blind teasers to document review

With Alex Abbott, Matthew Golden

Alex Abbott and Matthew Golden run M&A in-house at Sellers Dorsey, a PE-backed healthcare firm with no dedicated M&A counsel. They explain where AI already saves them hundreds of hours, where it stops, and how patient data and legal privilege limit what they let it touch.

How Vertex plans integration during diligence, and where AI helps

With Dan Furman, DealRoom moderator

Dan Furman, integration program manager at the Vertex Companies, explains how his team frames due diligence around an integration plan agreed with the seller before close, and where AI fits: target research, tighter request lists, discrepancy checks and contract review. Worth watching for his plain rules on keeping judgement human.

Drooms CEO on longer deals, data sovereignty and running AI in-house

Drooms CEO and co-founder Alexandre Grellier on why M&A deals now take over a year to close, why digital sovereignty (where data lives and who owns it) has become a defining issue under GDPR, and why Drooms runs its own large language model in-house rather than sending customer data to public AI tools.

Startup fundraising: what investors check and what goes in the data room

With Keith Ippel, David Steinley, Trieste Reading

A New Ventures BC seminar where Keith Ippel of Spring treats a pre-seed raise as a sales process and fractional CFO David Steinley covers due diligence and data rooms. Worth it for Steinley's walk through a $10 million Series A diligence timeline and his folder-by-folder case for a short, curated data room.

Datasite's CEO on what deal data shows and where AI agents fit in M&A

With Rusty Wiley, Asit Sharma

The Motley Fool's Asit Sharma interviews Datasite CEO Rusty Wiley about what the company sees in its deal data and how AI agents fit into buy-side and sell-side work. Worth watching for his read of deal trends and his case for keeping AI inside permissioned data rooms. The platform claims are his own.

Venture Summits: Daniel Havet Hansen, former CMO of Admincontrol

A fireside chat with Daniel Havet Hansen, the former CMO of Admincontrol and now Chief Commercial Officer at Verdane Elevate. He recounts building Admincontrol's marketing function from nothing, winning over a skeptical CEO, and the go-to-market lessons learned scaling Nordic SaaS companies.

Cross-border diligence: why deals fall on clearances, not interest

With Sameer Sah, EY partner, Khaitan & Co partner and others

Khaitan & Co partner Sameer Sah moderates two fellow Khaitan partners and an EY strategy and transactions partner on cross-border due diligence into and out of India. Worth watching for the war stories: approvals found too late, an asbestos roof that ended a deal, and how they share data when privacy laws block the data room.

What operational due diligence checks that financial and legal DD miss

With Jackie Kitching, Alistair Maxwell

Jackie Kitching, head of corporate finance, and Alistair Maxwell, chief operating officer, both of RSM South Africa, explain what operational due diligence adds to commercial, financial and legal work. Worth watching for Maxwell's case that a synergy needs a risk and implementation check before it goes into the investment thesis.

Ansarada's CFO on growth, diversification and a $100M ARR target

Ansarada CFO James Drake explains how the ASX-listed company grew revenue and recurring revenue despite a 30% drop in global M&A volume, diversifying beyond the data room into governance, procurement and sustainability, on the way to a $100 million ARR target.

What a pre-seed fund needs in your data room before it wires the money

With Elizabeth Yin, Visible host

Elizabeth Yin, general partner at pre-seed fund Hustle Fund, answers founders' questions about data rooms in a webinar hosted by Visible. Worth watching for an investor's plain view of what a fund's auditors need, when to share the room, and how to handle demanding investors and requests for customer references.

Why seller preparation, not financing, now sets the pace of M&A

With Todd Pruzan, Alex Clemente, Mike Beregovsky and others

An HBR Analytic Services panel, sponsored by Datasite, with Allied Universal's chief M&A officer Mike Beregovsky and BNP Paribas sell-side head Lukasz Dziarnowski. Worth it for the practical detail: why seller prep now sets deal pace, how to handle ERP data in an auction, and how to keep a consortium deal alive under foreign investment review.

Why an organised data room protects the price in a fundraise or sale

With Henry Fairpo, Firmex interviewer

Henry Fairpo, a UK accountant and former finance partner who advises growth-stage tech companies, talks to data room vendor Firmex about getting ready for due diligence. Worth watching for his plain account of how fundraising and M&A diligence differ, and why a disorganised data room costs a seller time and money.

Intralinks' Deal Flow Predictor: forecasting M&A from the due diligence pipeline

SS&C Intralinks co-head Bob Petrocchi explains the company's Deal Flow Predictor on the DealCast podcast: a six-month forward view of global M&A built from the 20,000+ pre-announced deals that pass through Intralinks' due diligence platform each year, with a region-by-region read for Q3 2022.

Datasite's CHRO on women as dealmakers and the future of work

Deb LaMere, Datasite's Chief Human Resources Officer, discusses the company's survey of more than 240 US dealmakers on the pressures facing women in M&A, the shift from work-life balance to a work-life blend, and the recharge days Datasite introduced to protect its people.

What a senior lender checks before it funds a private equity deal

With Bobby Kingsbury, Kelly Lamirand

Bobby Kingsbury of MCM Capital Partners asks KeyBank regional credit executive Kelly Lamirand what a senior lender needs to see before it finances a middle market acquisition. Worth watching for the plain numbers: the debt limits, the covenant ranges, how far she discounts a buyer's plan, and what a covenant trip really means.

Why industrial M&A froze in the 2020 lockdown, from a turnaround buyer

With Siobhan Sweeney-Cordova, Datasite host

Siobhan Sweeney-Cordova, head of global M&A at turnaround buyer American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, talks to Datasite in May 2020 about industrials in the first lockdown. Worth watching for her first-hand account of why deals froze, including on-site diligence becoming impossible, and the cash questions she says a distressed company should ask.

Early-stage due diligence: the legal documents investors should check

With Amit Bhatti

Amit Bhatti, US corporate counsel at 500 Startups (now 500 Global), walks angels and new fund managers through early-stage due diligence, with audience Q&A. Worth watching for the legal checklist 500 runs on its accelerator companies and the problems it keeps finding, from missed 83(b) filings to unsigned documents.

Due diligence on a roll-up: lessons from a luxury optical deal

With John Poerink, Wharton MBA students

In a Wharton guest lecture, John Poerink of Linley Capital walks MBA students through how his firm diligenced a roll-up of luxury optical stores. Worth watching for the practical detail: why diligence fees can hit 10% of deal value, what lenders actually read, and the supplier terms that made and threatened the deal.

How LPs use fund-level data rooms for VC due diligence

How limited partners use fund-level data rooms to streamline due diligence before committing capital to venture funds.

Ansarada targets the South African deal market amid global volatility

Justin Smith, Managing Director of Ansarada, discusses the company's focus on the South African deal market and due diligence amid global market volatility.

Perspectives from the SS&C Intralinks AI Bootcamp

Torben Rankine, Director of Corporate Sales at SS&C Intralinks, reflects on the company's second annual AI Bootcamp and how corporate development teams are putting AI to work.

Immobiléros: Drooms CEO Alexandre Grellier on the proptech hype cycle

In a German-language interview, Drooms CEO Alexandre Grellier reflects on the proptech wave, arguing that many large real estate companies treated their small proptech investments as fashion accessories, and on what it really takes to turn a good idea into a working business.

Setting up the virtual data room for a sell-side deal

How a well-structured virtual data room supports a smooth, competitive sell-side M&A process, aimed at Canadian mid-market business owners.

Expo Real 2025: Alexandre Grellier on 22 years of digitising due diligence

A short commentary from Drooms co-founder Alexandre Grellier at Expo Real, on how the company has spent more than 20 years professionalising and digitising the due diligence process, especially in real estate.

AI and data rooms: an update with Heiko Engel of SS&C Intralinks

In a German-language episode, Heiko Engel of SS&C Intralinks discusses how AI is changing the way teams handle data in M&A, and what AI-based tools mean for due diligence inside the virtual data room.

Product Therapy: inside Datasite's transformation from Merrill Corporation

Christian, with Doug Cullen and CPO Thomas Fredell, recounts how a 50-year-old company, Merrill Corporation, was transformed into Datasite, a modern product-led organisation, including the strategies, challenges and stakeholder dynamics involved.

Inside the M&A virtual data room: secure, smart and AI-driven

Richard Anstey, Head of Customer Experience and Automation at SS&C Intralinks, explains how enterprise AI is becoming central to the modern M&A virtual data room.

Explaining due diligence data rooms

With Laura DiFrancesco

Laura DiFrancesco explains why confidential deal information needs to live somewhere secure and controlled by a reputable administrator, and how due diligence data rooms make that possible.

The role of virtual data rooms and AI in due diligence

With Noah Waisberg, Prakash Kanchinadam

The Dealist explores how virtual data rooms and AI are reshaping due diligence in M&A, from secure document exchange to AI-assisted review.

Artificial intelligence in the M&A process, with Heiko Engel of SS&C Intralinks

A German-language conversation with Heiko Engel of SS&C Intralinks on the promise of AI in M&A: self-assembling data rooms and more automated due diligence, and how close that future really is.

Choosing a virtual data room when selling your tech company

A Dutch-language episode on choosing a good virtual data room when selling a tech company, and how its structure signals the quality of the business.

Due diligence with AI, ML and data extraction

Alex Goldovsky of ProTitle USA on using AI, machine learning and data extraction to speed up due diligence for real estate and note investing.

Let's Talk Business #573: a smart, secure platform for decision-makers (New Business Radio)

A Dutch business-radio interview with Admincontrol's Senior Sales Manager Dennis Scheerman and Country Manager Paolo Gambirasi. They explain how listed, private, and state-owned companies use Admincontrol to digitise and secure board work and due diligence, and how the platform serves decision-makers across sectors.

UK Investor Magazine: Datasite's Merlin Piscitelli on London as an IPO destination

Datasite's Merlin Piscitelli joins the UK Investor Magazine to assess London as a listing venue versus New York, Europe and Asia, why companies are staying private longer, and the FCA's proposals to make London more attractive.

Extend Women in Tech: Kristina Devochko, Microsoft MVP and Software Architect at Admincontrol

A conversation with Kristina Devochko, a Software Architect at Admincontrol and a Microsoft Azure MVP, on cloud-native development, cybersecurity, and DevOps. It is a window into the engineering and security culture behind the Admincontrol platform.

The MongoDB Podcast: how Datasite engineers scale its M&A platform

Datasite engineers Heather Lutz (Senior Software Engineer) and Michael Myrland (Director of Technology Enablement) discuss the scale at which Datasite operates, why they chose MongoDB, and how they handle sharding, performance, and plans to apply AI across the platform.

Due diligence 101: a VDR overview with Estelle Black

Estelle Black of MedWorld Advisors shares tips and tactics for managing a virtual data room, drawing on her experience running the VDR in live M&A processes.

How Success Happens: Ansarada CEO Sam Riley on mastering the fundamentals

Ansarada CEO Sam Riley talks with Robert Tuchman about getting his start in business, the lessons from Ansarada's early days, converting the risk-averse, and tackling obstacles head-on.

Do I need a virtual data room?

An accessible primer on why a virtual data room has become essential for M&A, where most deals now happen online, and how a VDR helps teams collaborate on and control confidential documents.

Rocketship.fm: digital transformation, with Datasite as the case study

A mini-season on digital transformation in legacy organisations, featuring product leader Christian Idiodi, that uses Datasite as a worked example of modernising an established company.

AvePoint's CEO on Confide, a secure virtual data room

AvePoint co-founder and CEO TJ Jiang introduces Confide, the company's virtual data room for highly secure collaboration, built on its Microsoft 365 expertise.

Due diligence in M&A for data protection and GDPR

Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox discuss data privacy, data protection and GDPR in the context of M&A due diligence.

Morgans Conversations: Sam Riley, co-founder and CEO of Ansarada

Adviser Chris Titley interviews Sam Riley, co-founder and CEO of ASX-listed Ansarada, on the cloud-based SaaS information governance company and its stock-exchange listing following the merger.

Fintech Chatter: Stuart Clout, co-founder and CRO of Ansarada

Ansarada Group co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Stuart Clout on the merger of theDocyard with Ansarada and the year that followed.

Tech Zone: Datasite CPO Thomas Fredell on M&A innovation

A wide-ranging tech episode in which Datasite's Chief Product Officer, Thomas Fredell, shares how the company is bringing innovation to the M&A industry. Datasite features in one segment of the show.

The co-heads of SS&C Intralinks on the business and its data room

A conversation with Ken Bisconti and Bob Petrocchi, who co-lead Intralinks, an SS&C Technologies company best known for its virtual data room, on the CEORater podcast.

The European SPACs boom and the Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor

A DealCast episode pairing the European SPACs boom with the SS&C Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor, the company's six-month forward read on global and regional M&A activity.

Protect the Hustle: Ansarada's Sam Riley on building an intentional culture

On the SaaS-focused Protect the Hustle podcast, Ansarada co-founder Sam Riley discusses understanding the root of customer wants, building an intentional culture, the leapfrog differentiator, and having uncomfortable conversations.

Morgans Financial: Ansarada (ASX:AND) quarterly update with CEO Sam Riley

Ansarada co-founder and CEO Sam Riley provides an update on the ASX-listed company's performance for the quarter ending 31 December 2020, including growth in active customers and revenue, plus recent customer wins.

What The HR!: Deb LaMere on building a remote culture at Datasite

Deb LaMere, VP of HR at Datasite, discusses how the company sustained a strong culture with remote employees through the pandemic.

Becker Business Minute: Thomas Fredell, Chief Product Officer at Datasite

A short profile of Datasite's Chief Product Officer, Thomas Fredell, on his points of pride in the company and his responsibilities leading product.

iDeals Solutions: inside the VDR company and its move to remote-first

Olga Yakovina (People Performance Lead) and Tatyana Laduba (VP of Brand Marketing) of iDeals Solutions introduce the company, a B2B virtual data room founded in 2008 and used by the Big Four, banks and companies running IPOs and M&A, and describe how it moved its whole team to remote-first work in a single day.

The Morgo Podcast: Sam Riley, CEO and co-founder of Ansarada

Ansarada CEO and co-founder Sam Riley on building the company, an AI-powered virtual data room and material information platform used for M&A, fundraising, tenders and IPOs.

Inside Intralinks sales operations, with Katyusca Barth

Katyusca Barth, Sales Operations Manager at Intralinks, on building a career and succeeding in a sales operations role, on the Revenue Insights Podcast.

Glass Ceiling: Oksana Goncharova, MD of Ansarada's Material Information Platform

Oksana Goncharova, Managing Director of the Material Information Platform at Ansarada, on her path from Russia and Berlin to Australia, building The Iconic with Rocket Internet, and leading product at Ansarada.

The operations mandate: Chris Lafond, CFO of Intralinks

Intralinks CFO Chris Lafond on the operational discipline behind the business, on the CFO Thought Leader podcast.

When stopping is the test: Chris Lafond, CFO of Intralinks

Intralinks CFO Chris Lafond on why leadership sometimes means parting with old practices rather than adding new ones, on the CFO Thought Leader podcast.