Dealwise helps startups with $1M-$10M in annual revenues get acquired. We run a confidential process to get you offers from strategic & financial buyers in half the time of traditional M&A advisors and without locking you into multi-year exclusivity contracts.
Hey Product Hunt! We're Ayan and Jason, the cofounders of Dealwise. We're excited to launch Dealwise, the AI-powered M&A advisor for startups 🚀
We built Dealwise to tackle a problem we saw one of our YC batchmates experience: there just isn't a good way for founders of software startups with $1m to $10m in revenue to find an exit. Investment banks won't work with businesses under $10m in revenue. Marketplaces like Flippa and Acquire are great for selling businesses under $1m, but not so great for maximizing your exit. Strategic buyers aren't sitting on a marketplace all day.
Dealwise helps you sell your business from start to finish -- identifying and reaching out to financial and strategic buyers, negotiation, loan pre-qualification, and escrow. We use AI to identify more relevant buyers than typical M&A advisors, making sure we leave no stone unturned. In just three months, we have one deal closed and two more under offer.
Happy to answer any questions in the comments.
@ayan_bandyopadhyay
Hey, Ayan! My team and I really could've used something like this back when we were in YC...
What kinds of multiples are you guys seeing for SaaS right now?
Hi @mkrupprecht , that's the golden question!
For "lifestyle" SaaS aka one that's generating cash flow and growing 0-50% per year, financial buyers are paying 1-5x on ARR or 2-7x on EBITDA. It tends to cluster on the low to medium end of the ranges, we rarely see multiples on the high end.
I know those ranges are still broad but it's difficult to be more specific without knowing the financial and operational details of a company. Something as innocuous as where its employees live can add or subtract a turn from the multiple.
For growth SaaS, it varies wildly as strategics are often the only viable type of buyer and they generally don't price based on multiples.
@ayan_bandyopadhyay
> Marketplaces like Flippa and Acquire are great for selling businesses under $1m, but not so great for maximizing your exit.
How are you actually different from Flippa and Acquire?
Wow Jason! It's amazing. M&A can be really hard for makers who only love/enjoy to make. You're helping on a key stage for all of those. Hats off my friend. Keep doing on that way!
Hi @anatasia_evans good question, so far we've seen a mix of financial and strategic buyers. Given we target companies with $1m-$10m in revenue, we see a lot of searcher funds and self-funded searchers, as well as a number of software holding companies.
On the strategic side, it's largely founders at series B+ companies, but some larger ones. In fact the first deal closed through our marketplace was a strategic buyer from a Series D company.
Thanks @anatasia_evans!
The buyers on our platform typically fall into one of three categories: search funds, private equity firms, and strategic buyers.
Search funds are individuals backed by private capital, looking to acquire one business and grow it. Private equity firms and holding companies buy multiple businesses, usually in the same category. Strategic buyers are companies with competing or adjacent products that could get value from your company’s team, product, or customer acquisition channels.
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