Which data rooms does Datasite own?

Datasite and Firmex both announced that Datasite acquired Firmex in 2021. Firmex still sells under its own name. Datasite has also bought Sherpany, a board reporting company, and Grata, a market intelligence company. Neither Datasite's nor Ansarada's pages say who owns Ansarada, so this page doesn't say.

SS&C Technologies acquired Intralinks in 2018, according to SS&C's own timeline. Intralinks' pages describe it as part of SS&C Technologies. Its corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts. It sells two deal products: VDRPro, a virtual data room, and DealCentre AI, a platform for the whole deal.

Do virtual data room providers publish their prices?

Some do. Of the nine providers here, Ansarada and CapLinked publish prices. Ansarada's price sheets start at US$99 a month, and CapLinked's Team plan is $399 a month. The others give prices by quote. Ask for a written quote that covers the whole deal.

Which virtual data room provider is the most popular?

We know of no independent, public market-share figures for virtual data rooms. Some popularity rankings online are published by providers themselves. Intralinks publishes one, and DiligensHub publishes this page. Choose by your deal instead: who needs access, what each party should see, and how documents get reviewed.

How do I choose a virtual data room provider?

Start with the deal. List who needs access and what each party should see. Then shortlist rooms that set access per party, log every view and run Q&A. Compare how each one is priced. Test each one with a real folder before you choose.

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Virtual Data Room Providers

This page profiles nine virtual data room providers, A to Z, from their own public pages. Some belong to larger companies. Datasite acquired Firmex in 2021, and SS&C Technologies acquired Intralinks in 2018. Venue belongs to DFIN. No provider is ranked. DiligensHub publishes this page and is one of the providers listed.

Who Owns Which

Firmex, Intralinks and Venue belong to larger companies. CapVest Partners is Datasite's controlling shareholder. The others' own pages name no parent company.

Provider	Owner	Founded	Comparison
Ansarada	Not stated publicly	2005DiligensHub vs. Ansarada	DiligensHub vs. Ansarada
CapLinked	Not stated publicly	Not stated publicly
Datasite	CapVest Partners, its controlling shareholder	1968, as Merrill CorporationDiligensHub vs. Datasite	DiligensHub vs. Datasite
DealRoom	Not stated publicly	2012DiligensHub vs. DealRoom	DiligensHub vs. DealRoom
DiligensHub (publisher)	DiligensHub LLC	Not stated publicly
Firmex	Datasite, since 2021	2006DiligensHub vs. Firmex	DiligensHub vs. Firmex
Ideals	Not stated publicly	2008DiligensHub vs. Ideals	DiligensHub vs. Ideals
Intralinks	SS&C Technologies, since 2018	Its pages differDiligensHub vs. Intralinks	DiligensHub vs. Intralinks
Venue	Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)	Not stated publicly

Each cell comes from that company's own public pages, checked November 4, 2026. "Not stated publicly" means those pages don't say.

Provider Profiles, A to Z

Each profile gives what the provider says it is, its published features, its pricing and who it serves.

Ansarada

Ansarada calls itself an AI data room for deals. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Sydney.

Features: AI-Sort organizes uploads, and AI-Redact scans them for personal information. Q&A has routing and approver roles. Protected files can be revoked after download.
Pricing: Published. Its price sheets start at US$99 a month for Essentials, with 50 MB on a monthly term.
Who it serves: M&A, capital raising, restructures, audits, tenders and procurement.

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CapLinked

CapLinked is a virtual data room for due diligence, fundraising and other deals. It's based in El Segundo, California.

Features: Custom watermarks, digital rights management and an EZ Q&A tool. SAML single sign-on on the Enterprise plan. SOC 2 Type II.
Pricing: Published. The Team plan is $399 a month. Enterprise starts at $550 a month, or $5,500 a year. A 14-day free trial is offered.
Who it serves: Investment banking, private equity, legal and real estate teams. Its Team plan also covers one-off projects.

Datasite

Datasite calls itself an M&A technology company. It was founded in 1968 as Merrill Corporation.

Features: Enhanced Review compares information across documents. Redaction AI scans documents before they go live. The Blueflame AI assistant cites its sources.
Pricing: Not published. Pricing is customized for each transaction.
Who it serves: Investment banks, corporate development teams, private equity firms and law firms.

DiligensHub vs. Datasite

DealRoom

DealRoom calls itself an AI-powered operating system for M&A, with a data room in each project. It began in Chicago in 2012.

Features: Four access levels per folder or file. AI review of each upload, as an add-on in Beta. Pipeline and synergy tracking.
Pricing: Not published. Priced by deal volume, with every seat included.
Who it serves: Buyers who want one system from pipeline to integration.

DiligensHub vs. DealRoom

DiligensHub (Publisher of This Page)

DiligensHub is a virtual data room for M&A due diligence. DiligensHub LLC, of Temecula, California, publishes it and this page.

Features: Eleven AI checks on each document as it's uploaded. Signals compares findings across the deal. Six viewing levels per folder.
Pricing: Not published. Competitive pricing, quoted by team and number of deals.
Who it serves: Private equity, investment banks, corporate development and law firms, across seven deal types.

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Firmex

Firmex is a virtual data room founded in Toronto in 2006. Datasite announced in 2021 that it had acquired Firmex.

Features: Permissions from the whole site down to one document. DRM, with access removed remotely. Built-in Q&A and checklist import.
Pricing: Not published. A single project or an annual subscription, priced by storage.
Who it serves: Smaller and mid-market deals, in its own description.

DiligensHub vs. Firmex

Ideals

Ideals, also written iDeals, is a virtual data room for M&A, fundraising, life sciences and real estate. It was founded in 2008.

Features: Eight permission levels, set per group. Watermarks on by default. AI chat links answers to the pages of one document.
Pricing: Not published. Priced by storage, with a cost estimate for each project.
Who it serves: Small to medium deals on its Core plan, up to high-volume pipelines on Enterprise.

DiligensHub vs. Ideals

Intralinks

Intralinks sells VDRPro, a virtual data room, and DealCentre AI, a platform for the whole deal. It's part of SS&C Technologies, with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Features: IRM revokes downloaded PDF and Office copies. Secure Viewer blocks copying and printing. Ask Link answers with clickable page references.
Pricing: Not published. Pricing comes from its sales team.
Who it serves: M&A, capital raising and investor reporting.

DiligensHub vs. Intralinks

Venue (DFIN)

Venue is the virtual data room of Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), a company listed on the NYSE.

Features: AI document summaries and translation. An MCP connector for approved AI assistants, including Microsoft Copilot. Multi-group permissions and data redaction.
Pricing: Not published. Quotes on request.
Who it serves: Investment banks on IPOs and M&A, private equity firms, and corporations.

How to Choose a Provider

Start with your deal, not the provider. List who needs access and what each party should see.

Then compare rooms row by row in Compare Virtual Data Rooms. For the full method, see How Do You Choose a Data Room? For a room compared with file sharing, see Virtual Data Room vs. Google Drive, Dropbox and SharePoint.

Questions

Which data rooms does Datasite own?: Datasite and Firmex both announced that Datasite acquired Firmex in 2021. Firmex still sells under its own name. Datasite has also bought Sherpany, a board reporting company, and Grata, a market intelligence company. Neither Datasite's nor Ansarada's pages say who owns Ansarada, so this page doesn't say.
Who owns Intralinks?: SS&C Technologies acquired Intralinks in 2018, according to SS&C's own timeline. Intralinks' pages describe it as part of SS&C Technologies. Its corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts. It sells two deal products: VDRPro, a virtual data room, and DealCentre AI, a platform for the whole deal.
Do virtual data room providers publish their prices?: Some do. Of the nine providers here, Ansarada and CapLinked publish prices. Ansarada's price sheets start at US$99 a month, and CapLinked's Team plan is $399 a month. The others give prices by quote. Ask for a written quote that covers the whole deal.
Which virtual data room provider is the most popular?: We know of no independent, public market-share figures for virtual data rooms. Some popularity rankings online are published by providers themselves. Intralinks publishes one, and DiligensHub publishes this page. Choose by your deal instead: who needs access, what each party should see, and how documents get reviewed.
How do I choose a virtual data room provider?: Start with the deal. List who needs access and what each party should see. Then shortlist rooms that set access per party, log every view and run Q&A. Compare how each one is priced. Test each one with a real folder before you choose.

Based on public information as of November 4, 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners. DiligensHub publishes this page.

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