iDeals is widely considered the most user-friendly VDR on the market. It is fast, intuitive, and easy to set up. It is the perfect "container" for a mid-market deal. Colabra is the intelligence layer you add to that container. iDeals ensures the documents load instantly; Colabra ensures you understand what is in them.
iDeals wins on speed of setup. It allows sellers to drag-and-drop massive folder structures and have a data room live in 15 minutes. It is optimized for the sell-side admin who needs to get the deal live without technical headaches. It hosts the files, manages permissions, and tracks who clicks what.
Colabra wins on speed of insight. We ingest the data from iDeals to perform the buy-side work: mapping the entities, identifying the gaps, and flagging the risks. iDeals saves you time uploading the files; Colabra saves you time reading them.
iDeals offers a great document viewer. It is smooth and responsive. But it is just a viewer. Colabra's viewer is an audit tool. When you view a file in Colabra, you see the risk flags overlaid on the text, the entity relationships mapped in the sidebar, and the missing schedules highlighted in the index.
iDeals has a powerful "Redaction" feature to help sellers hide sensitive data. Colabra has a "Risk Detection" feature to help buyers find the data that wasn't redacted. We are the counter-balance to the seller's control, finding the slip-ups and "ghost" liabilities they missed.
iDeals is a project-based tool. Once the deal closes, the room is archived. Colabra is a firm-wide workspace. Your diligence data, risk playbooks, and entity maps stay with you, building a permanent library of intelligence across every deal you execute.