Firmex is the "workhorse" of the VDR industry. It is widely respected for its reliability, unlimited-use model, and 24/7 support. It is the go-to choice for high-volume mid-market dealmaking. Colabra is the intelligence layer you add on top. Firmex ensures the documents are accessible; Colabra ensures they are understood.
Firmex is built for volume. Its flat-fee, unlimited-use model makes it perfect for running multiple processes simultaneously. It excels at being a sturdy, secure, no-nonsense repository for thousands of files. It is where you put the data to keep it safe and available.
Colabra is built for insight. We don't just store the volume; we process it. We ingest the massive document dumps that live in Firmex to map the corporate structure, verify the licences, and flag the risks. Firmex handles the quantity; Colabra handles the quality.
Mid-market deals on Firmex often come with less structured data rooms than large-cap deals. You face poorly named PDFs and unorganised folders. Colabra's Auto-Organise lens automatically renames, clusters, and structures this chaos into a clean index, saving your team hours of administrative pain.
In Firmex, you find documents by browsing the folder tree or using keywords. It is a manual retrieval process. In Colabra, we push "Red Flags" directly to your dashboard—alerting you to a change-of-control provision or a missing signature without you having to dig for it.
Firmex is a passive host; it cannot tell you what is missing. Colabra's Reconcile lens maps the Firmex folder structure against your diligence checklist to proactively highlight gaps—like a missing year of board minutes—so you can push back on the seller immediately.