Microacquire (Now Acquire.com): The Founder Marketplace Explained

If you typed microacquire into Google in 2026 and landed on a guide that still talks about the old brand, here is what actually happened: the platform rebranded to Acquire.com in January 2023 after founder Andrew Gazdecki bought the premium domain for about $240,000, as reported by Domain Name Wire. Same team. Same marketplace. Bigger ambitions. Today it claims more than $500M in closed deal volume, 2,000+ completed acquisitions, and 500,000+ registered users, per its own home page stats panel.

This guide goes deep on what the platform is in 2026, what changed in the rebrand, how seller and buyer pricing actually breaks down (with the post April 2024 listing fees), the realistic deal sizes and multiples you should expect, who actually closes on the platform, how it stacks up against Empire Flippers and Flippa, and where a marketplace stops making sense and a real sell side advisor takes over.

Microacquire Today: What Acquire.com Actually Is

Acquire.com is a curated online marketplace where founders list profitable internet businesses for sale, and verified buyers (operators, search funders, holding companies, individuals) browse, sign NDAs, request deal rooms, and close transactions through a built in escrow flow. It is closer to Zillow than to a traditional broker. Gazdecki himself uses the Zillow comparison in interviews like the one on OpenView Partners.

The marketplace lists deals across SaaS (still the largest category), ecommerce, agencies, content sites, mobile apps, and increasingly service businesses with a digital component. According to the platform’s biannual multiples report, SaaS holds the median profit multiple at roughly 3.9x, with ecommerce and content sites running lower. Sellers post a public teaser, paid buyers see private financials after signing an NDA, and the parties negotiate inside a deal room with templates for the letter of intent, asset purchase agreement, and bill of sale.

What separates Acquire.com from the freewheeling marketplaces is verification. Every buyer is checked for funds (the platform says more than $2B in verified buyer capital sits behind those accounts), and escrow runs through Escrow.com as the default settlement layer. That single design choice removes a lot of the “is this person real” friction that haunts open listing sites.

The headline stats Acquire.com publishes

• $500M+ in closed deal volume
• 2,000+ completed acquisitions
• 500,000+ registered entrepreneurs
• $2B+ in verified buyer funds
• 4.7 average rating across 500+ user reviews on the home page panel

Those numbers come straight from the Acquire.com home page and are repeated across the help center.

The Microacquire to Acquire.com Rebrand: What Changed

The rebrand was officially announced January 5, 2023 on the company blog, with a post titled We’re No Longer Just for SaaS. Three things drove the change.

First, the word “micro” was capping how buyers and sellers perceived the platform. Andrew Gazdecki founded the original site in 2020 with the explicit goal of helping bootstrapped founders sell sub $1M businesses without paying a 10 percent broker commission. By 2022 the platform was closing seven and eight figure deals, and “Microacquire” felt like a misnomer to buyers writing $5M checks.

Second, the .com upgrade was a brand defensibility move. The domain Microacquire.com was strong but generic. Owning Acquire.com instantly promoted the platform into a single word category leader. The full $240,000 price tag (covering the domain plus the GoDaddy brokerage fee) was confirmed by Domain Name Wire’s followup and the GoDaddy case study.

Third, the rebrand let the platform open up new categories. Ecommerce, agencies, content sites, mobile apps, and service businesses with online operations were all on the roadmap once the brand stopped signaling “tiny SaaS only.” The categories visible on the marketplace today reflect that expansion.

What stayed the same

• The team. Gazdecki remained founder and CEO. Operations leadership did not turn over.
• The buyer verification flow.
• The escrow first settlement layer.
• The 30 to 60 day target close window for clean deals.
• The seller success fee model (though the percentages and a new monthly listing fee were introduced in April 2024).

The Andrew Gazdecki Founder Story Behind the Platform

The platform exists because its founder went through a brutal exit himself. Andrew Gazdecki founded Bizness Apps in 2010 while a senior in college and grew it to one of the largest white label mobile app platforms for small businesses. He sold the company to a private equity firm in 2017. He has described that process publicly as long, complex, and expensive, and the experience pulled him away from running the business for most of a year. He has talked through the details on the OpenView Partners blog and on the Do Good Work podcast.

The pain point he kept returning to was the disconnect between the resources available for launching and scaling startups versus the near total absence of guidance on selling. There was no Zillow for businesses. There was no place where a SaaS founder doing $200k ARR could quickly see what their company was worth and connect with serious buyers. Brokers existed but most refused to take on deals below $1M because the economics did not work for them. Gazdecki built Microacquire in 2020 to fill that gap.

The growth curve has been fast. From a standing start in 2020, the platform reached $500M in cumulative closed deal volume by 2024 and 2,000+ completed acquisitions by 2025. Gazdecki has built the brand largely through founder forward content on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn, where he posts deal stories, multiples data, and acquisition tactics multiple times a week. That content strategy is a meaningful part of why the platform won the SaaS marketplace category against older incumbents.

The funding history is shorter. Per Bessemer Venture Partners, the company raised seed funding starting in July 2021 (about $2.8M), with follow on extensions through 2022 and 2023. Aggregate seed funding sits in the $10M to $15M range based on disclosed rounds tracked across Crunchbase, PitchBook, and Tracxn. Notably, the company has not raised a publicly disclosed Series A despite operating at meaningful scale, which suggests it is either profitable or close to it.

Who Sells on Acquire.com: Seller Profile and Deal Size Range

Sellers on the platform skew toward solo founders and small teams running profitable, asset light internet businesses. The typical seller has between $50,000 and $5M in trailing twelve month revenue, is profitable on an SDE or EBITDA basis, and wants a clean exit without spending six months hiring a broker or running a banker led process. According to the platform’s own multiples report, the bulk of closed deals fall between $100k and $3M in transaction value.

Common seller archetypes you see on the listings:

• The bootstrapped SaaS operator with $20k to $150k monthly recurring revenue, often a one or two person team, looking for a strategic acquirer who can take the product further.
• The agency owner with $500k to $3M in annual revenue and a stable retainer book, frequently selling because they want to start a new project.
• The ecommerce founder with a Shopify store doing $500k to $5M in annual revenue, often DTC, sometimes Amazon FBA.
• The content site or newsletter operator with display ad and affiliate income, where the buyer is usually a portfolio operator like Onfolio or a private holding company.
• The micro SaaS hobbyist selling a side project doing $2k to $10k MRR, often closed in days.

Founders selling on the platform typically choose it because the alternative (hiring a broker for an under $1M deal) does not make economic sense. A traditional broker charging 10 to 12 percent on a $500,000 deal eats $50,000 to $60,000 of proceeds. The Acquire.com closing fee on the same deal is 7 to 8 percent, plus a small monthly listing fee. For the right seller, that delta is real money.

Who Buys on Acquire.com: Buyer Profile and Search Funder Demographics

The buyer base is more varied than the seller base. The platform’s buyer pricing page sorts buyers into three tiers (Basic, Premium, Platinum), and the demographics roughly map to those tiers.

Solo operators and ETA buyers. Individual searchers (often MBA graduates or former operators) who want to buy and run a single business. Many of these buyers are using SBA 7(a) loans to finance acquisitions in the $500k to $5M range. The ETA model has exploded over the past five years, and Acquire.com is a primary deal flow source.

Portfolio operators and HoldCos. Companies like Onfolio, Tiny, and dozens of smaller holding firms acquire profitable internet businesses as a portfolio strategy. They tend to focus on the $300k to $3M range and are repeat buyers.

Strategic acquirers. Operating SaaS companies buying tuck in products, customer bases, or talent. Strategics often pay the highest multiples because the acquisition has a clear cross sell or product expansion thesis.

Search funds. Traditional search funds (modeled after the Harvard Business School ETA program) historically focus on $5M to $25M EBITDA businesses, which is mostly outside Acquire.com’s sweet spot. But self funded searchers and small fund searchers do buy here, particularly for digital first roll up theses.

First time buyers. A significant slice of the buyer pool are individuals making their first business acquisition, often coming from corporate jobs or wanting to leave them. The platform’s Acquire Academy education content is built largely for this group.

According to Acquire.com’s own materials, more than $2B in verified buyer funds sit across the active buyer pool. That number is the headline data point Gazdecki uses in interviews with outlets like Forbes and TechCrunch.

How Listings Work: The CIM, NDA, and Deal Room

Listing on Acquire.com follows a standardized flow that mirrors what a sell side advisor does for larger deals, except the seller handles most of it directly with platform tooling.

Step 1: Public teaser

The seller creates a public listing visible to all browsers. The teaser shows category, geography, business model, asking price band, and high level metrics (MRR or revenue range, profit margin, team size, age). No proprietary information. No domain. No customer data.

Step 2: NDA gated detail

Paid buyers (Premium or Platinum) can request access. Once they sign the platform’s standard NDA (automated through the deal room), they see detailed metrics, the actual business name and URL, customer count, churn, traffic sources, and the seller’s own narrative on growth potential and risk.

Step 3: Buyer to seller chat

Inside the deal room, buyers and sellers chat directly. This is where the bulk of negotiation happens. Most deal rooms see three to ten serious buyer conversations before an offer.

Step 4: LOI and asset purchase agreement

The platform provides templates for the letter of intent and the asset purchase agreement. Either side can use the templates as starting points or upload custom documents. Sellers serious about getting a clean exit should still review templates with an attorney before signing.

Step 5: Escrow and close

Once the APA is signed, the deal moves to Escrow.com. The buyer wires funds, the seller transfers assets (domain, code repo, customer list, contracts), and once both sides confirm transfer in the escrow flow, the funds release. The platform’s standard close window from LOI signed to funds released is 30 to 60 days for clean deals, though deals with seller financing or earnouts can stretch longer.

Acquire.com Pricing: Subscription Tiers, Closing Fees, and What Buyers vs Sellers Pay

Pricing changed materially in April 2024. The platform moved from a pure success fee model to a hybrid of monthly listing fees plus closing fees. Here is the current 2026 breakdown, verified against the seller pricing page.

Seller pricing (2026)

Sellers get a free valuation, listing optimization, advertising campaigns to verified buyers, automated NDAs, document templates, escrow setup, and a customer success manager across all tiers. There is no upfront retainer.

Buyer pricing (2026)

Per the buyer pricing page:

• Basic (free): View public listings. Cannot view private details or chat with founders.
• Premium ($390 per year): Access to listings up to $250k TTM revenue. Chat with founders, view private financials. Suited for first time acquirers.
• Platinum ($780 per year): Access to listings of all sizes including Acquire.com managed deals, priority support, AI assisted diligence tools, startup recommendations.

What sellers actually pay on a closed deal

Run the math on a $750,000 deal that takes three months to sell. The seller pays $50 per month for three months ($150) plus a 7 percent closing fee at exit ($52,500). Total platform cost: $52,650, or about 7.02 percent of deal value. A traditional broker on the same deal charging 10 percent would cost $75,000. The marketplace saves about $22,000 on a deal of this size, though the seller does most of the negotiation themselves.

Named Acquisitions Closed Through the Platform

Acquire.com publishes case studies and testimonials at acquire.com/testimonials and runs the Startup Acquisition Stories podcast where founders walk through their actual deals. A few that are publicly documented:

• AIHumanize.com. Founder Abdulla Abdurazzoqov built and sold this AI content rewriter in under twelve months, documented on the Acquire blog as part of the Built. Sold. Free. case study series.
• PostFlow. An early stage social media scheduling tool that listed on the platform and sold based on product fit rather than mature revenue metrics, profiled on the Startup Acquisition Stories podcast.
• Intelistyle. Co founder Michael Michelis discussed his platform’s exit publicly on episode 49 of the podcast.

Most acquisitions on the platform stay confidential, with closed deal stats reported only in aggregate. That is normal for marketplaces. A buyer of a $400,000 SaaS rarely wants to publicize the multiple they paid, and sellers often have non disclosure terms post close. The “Secrets Behind 2024’s Biggest Exits” webinar recap walks through anonymized but specific deal structures for the largest transactions of that year.

Acquire.com vs Empire Flippers vs Flippa: The Three Way Comparison

These three platforms cover roughly the same market (online business acquisitions under $10M) but with different curation models, fee structures, and buyer pools.

Where Acquire.com wins

For SaaS specifically, Acquire.com has the deepest buyer pool and the cleanest deal room flow. The platform was built SaaS first and that DNA shows up in the standard metrics surfaced (MRR, churn, LTV, CAC) and the buyer expectations (recurring revenue businesses are the default).

Where Empire Flippers wins

For content sites and Amazon FBA brands above $200k, Empire Flippers runs a more managed sell side process. Their vetting team verifies financials before listing, which compresses buyer diligence time and helps achieve list prices closer to ask (the platform reports 88 percent of list achieved on closed deals).

Where Flippa wins

Pure volume and category breadth. Flippa has more weekly buyer traffic than the other two combined, but the trade off is that listings span from $500 domain flips to $5M SaaS deals, so quality is uneven. For sellers under $50k or for niche categories (mobile apps, domains, starter sites) it remains the largest marketplace by far.

SaaS, Ecommerce, Service Business Multiples on the Platform (2026)

Acquire.com publishes a biannual Acquisition Multiples Report that compiles closed deal data across the platform. The most recent edition (January 2026) is published on the company blog. Here are the headline numbers from the 2025 calendar year data set.

SaaS profit multiples

• Median: 3.9x annual profit (SDE basis for under $1M, EBITDA for above)
• Top quartile: 5x to 7x
• Bottom quartile: 2x to 2.5x

SaaS continues to command the highest multiples on the platform, driven by recurring revenue, gross margin profile (often 80 percent plus), and the absence of inventory.

Ecommerce profit multiples

• Median: 2.5x to 3x annual profit
• DTC brands trend higher than Amazon FBA on the multiple, though FBA closes faster

Agency profit multiples

• Median: 1.5x to 2.5x annual profit
• Agencies with productized offerings or recurring retainers approach SaaS multiples; pure project shops sell at the low end

Content site profit multiples

• Median: 30 to 40 months of trailing twelve month profit (so 2.5x to 3.3x annual)
• Niche site multiples have been compressed by AI overviews on Google search

Cross check these against the IBBA Market Pulse Q4 2025 report, which puts the median SDE multiple for Main Street businesses under $2M at 2.86x, with lower mid market deals ($2M to $50M) at 4.8x median EBITDA. The IBBA data set is broader (all business types, not just digital) so SaaS specific multiples on Acquire.com run higher than the IBBA blended median, which is expected.

For founders pricing their own business, the pricing a business for sale and how investment bankers value a business guides walk through SDE, EBITDA, and multiple selection in more detail.

SBA 7(a) Financing for Micro Acquisitions on Acquire.com

A large share of deals in the $300k to $5M band on Acquire.com close with SBA 7(a) loan financing. The SBA program guarantees a portion of the loan, which lets banks lend to buyers acquiring businesses they would not finance with conventional credit. Key parameters:

• Maximum loan size: $5M
• Down payment: 10 percent minimum, with the seller often required to hold a standby note for an additional 5 percent
• Term: Up to 10 years on a business acquisition without real estate; up to 25 years if real estate is included
• Rate: Variable, tied to prime plus a spread (typically prime plus 2.25 to 2.75 percent)
• Guarantee: SBA guarantees up to 75 percent of the loan amount, reducing lender risk

The advantage of SBA financing on a micro acquisition is the long amortization. A $1M SaaS deal at 4x profit ($250k SDE) financed over 10 years with $100k down has annual debt service around $130k to $145k depending on rate, leaving the buyer with positive cash flow on day one. That math is why ETA buyers swarm clean SaaS listings on Acquire.com.

Practical considerations:

• SBA lenders are picky about the business. Online businesses without real estate or hard assets used to be hard to finance; that has loosened, but underwriting still demands at least two years of clean tax returns and audited financials.
• The buyer needs to be operating the business full time post close. Passive investors do not qualify.
• Closing timelines extend with SBA in the mix, often 60 to 120 days from LOI vs 30 to 60 for an all cash deal.
• Some Acquire.com sellers explicitly note in their listings whether they will entertain SBA buyers, since SBA financing often comes with a longer close and a small seller note requirement.

Specialized SBA lenders like Live Oak Bank and Wells Fargo run dedicated online business acquisition desks now, and many Acquire.com Platinum buyers come pre approved.

Walkthrough: A Realistic Acquire.com Deal Timeline

The cleanest way to understand the platform is to walk through what actually happens on a representative deal. Picture a SaaS founder who has built a project management tool for general contractors, doing $35,000 MRR ($420k ARR) with 92 percent gross margin and a team of two. The founder wants to exit at a 4x annual revenue multiple, so a $1.68M asking price.

Week 1. Founder writes the listing teaser, runs the platform’s free valuation, connects Stripe so MRR data syncs into the listing, and selects the $50 per month tier (since the asking price falls in the $250k to $1M closing fee band for a portion of probable outcomes, though above $1M the fee drops to 6 percent). The listing goes live within 48 hours after a light Acquire.com review.

Weeks 2 to 4. Public teaser circulates. Roughly 40 to 80 paid buyers request NDA access. The deal room fills with introductory chats. The founder spends two to four hours per day responding to questions, sharing additional data, and getting on calls with the most serious five to ten buyers.

Weeks 4 to 6. Three to four buyers indicate they want to submit offers. Indications of interest start to come in at $1.4M to $1.7M range. One strategic buyer (a larger construction tech platform) goes higher because of cross sell potential.

Weeks 6 to 8. The seller selects the strategic buyer at $1.75M, signs an LOI through the platform template, and enters exclusive diligence for 30 days. Diligence covers financials, customer churn, code repository review, IP assignment, key person interviews, and customer contract assignability.

Weeks 8 to 12. Asset purchase agreement negotiated. Working capital peg set. A 90 day transition consulting agreement signed (founder stays on at $15k per month). Buyer wires funds to Escrow.com. Domain, code, customer list, and Stripe account transferred. Escrow releases funds.

Final math. Deal closes at $1.75M after about 90 days. Seller pays roughly $150 in listing fees plus a 6 percent closing fee ($105,000), for total platform cost of $105,150 or about 6 percent of deal value. A traditional broker on the same deal at 10 percent commission would have charged $175,000. The marketplace saved the seller roughly $70,000 and compressed the timeline by two to four months.

That walkthrough is the platform working at its best. Not every deal goes this way, but enough do that the model has been validated at scale.

The Hidden Risks of Buying Through a Marketplace

The Acquire.com flow is good. The escrow protection is real. But marketplace acquisitions carry risks that a traditional broker mediated process catches earlier.

Risk 1: Seller verification is lighter than buyer verification

The platform verifies buyer funds. It does not audit seller financials in the same way Empire Flippers does. The metrics displayed in a listing come from the seller’s own connected accounts (Stripe, Google Analytics, QuickBooks where available), but data can still be presented favorably. The buyer’s diligence work is real and not optional.

Risk 2: The standard APA template is generic

Acquire.com provides good document templates, but a $1M acquisition deserves a custom drafted asset purchase agreement. Reps and warranties, indemnification caps, escrow holdback, working capital adjustments, and earnout language all need to be tailored. Plenty of small deals close on stock templates that bite both sides post close. Use the post close due diligence checklist to see what often gets missed.

Risk 3: Customer concentration and key person risk

Many micro SaaS deals on the platform have severe customer concentration (top customer is 30 to 60 percent of revenue) or key person risk (the founder is the only one with engineering knowledge). These risks are visible if you read the deal room carefully, but inexperienced buyers miss them.

Risk 4: Transferability of platform dependencies

A SaaS built on a Stripe account, a Shopify app, a Google Workspace tenant, and a personal AWS account is harder to transfer than the listing implies. Transfer of ownership for App Store accounts, Stripe Connect platforms, and certain payment processors can fail at the last minute and unwind a deal.

Risk 5: Post close founder transition

Most Acquire.com sellers commit to 30 to 90 days of post close support. Some commit to longer transitions for an additional payment. Buyers who skip the transition agreement often spend their first six months figuring out what the seller could have shown them in two weeks.

When Acquire.com Beats Hiring a Sell Side Advisor (And When It Doesn’t)

Acquire.com makes economic sense in a specific range. Outside that range, hiring an advisor or banker is the better move.

Use Acquire.com when

• The business is profitable and asset light (SaaS, agency, ecommerce, content)
• The asking price is between $50k and $3M
• The seller is comfortable handling buyer conversations directly
• The seller wants a fast process (under 90 days)
• Customer base, financials, and operations are clean and well documented
• The seller does not need help with deal structure (asset vs stock, earnouts, working capital pegs)

Skip the marketplace and hire an advisor when

• The business is above $3M to $5M in transaction value and the seller wants competitive bids
• The business has complex structure (multiple entities, real estate, regulatory licenses)
• The seller is in a regulated industry (healthcare, financial services, professional services with state licensing)
• The seller wants confidentiality (no public listing visible to competitors)
• The deal structure needs to be tax optimized (1202 QSBS, F reorg, installment sales, opportunity zones)
• The business has employees and a structured organization that needs careful retention planning
• The seller has never sold a business and wants someone in their corner

For deals above $5M, a proper M&A advisor or boutique investment bank typically pays for itself. The advisor runs a competitive process, drives up the headline price, structures the deal for tax efficiency, and negotiates reps and warranties hard. The fee (typically 1 to 5 percent for lower middle market) is offset by the additional value delivered. Selecting an M&A advisor covers what to look for.

How CT Acquisitions Helps Acquire.com Sellers Transition to Sell Side Advisory

CT Acquisitions sees a steady stream of inbound from founders who started on Acquire.com, got offers, and then realized the deal was bigger or more complex than the marketplace was built for. A few common scenarios.

The seller got offers above the platform sweet spot. A SaaS listed at $1.2M attracts a strategic buyer who wants to acquire the team and roll the product into a larger platform. The deal is now $4M with an earnout, employment agreements for the founders, and an equity rollover. That deal needs an advisor. CT Acquisitions has run dozens of these conversions, taking the seller off the marketplace and running a tighter competitive process with the buyers already in conversation.

The seller wants to maximize the multiple. Acquire.com is efficient. Efficient does not always mean optimal. A SaaS with $800k ARR, 95 percent retention, and 70 percent gross margin should be selling at 6x to 8x on a competitive process, not the 4x median on the marketplace. CT works with these sellers to position properly, run a curated buyer outreach, and capture the premium.

The seller hit an issue mid deal. Working capital disputes, earnout disagreements, IP assignment problems, customer concentration callouts during diligence. These break deals more often than people realize. CT mediates and structures alternatives so the deal can still close, sometimes with the original buyer, sometimes by repositioning to a stronger candidate.

The pattern is the same in every case. The marketplace did its job (it surfaced interest, created urgency, validated the asset is sellable). What comes next needs sell side advisory expertise. Business brokerage services walks through where brokers and advisors add value beyond what a marketplace can.

If you started on Acquire.com and you want to know whether your deal would benefit from a different process, the right move is a short conversation with an advisor before you sign the LOI. Once an LOI is signed, your bargaining power drops sharply.

Microacquire: Frequently Asked Questions

Is Microacquire still a real platform in 2026?

No. Microacquire rebranded to Acquire.com in January 2023. The Microacquire.com URL redirects to Acquire.com. Same team, same marketplace, same founder. The name change reflected the platform expanding beyond sub $1M SaaS into the full range of profitable online businesses, including ecommerce, agencies, content sites, and increasingly service businesses with digital operations.

Who founded Microacquire and Acquire.com?

Andrew Gazdecki founded the platform in 2020. He previously founded and sold Bizness Apps to private equity in 2017, and that experience (which he describes as long and painful) led him to build a marketplace that bypasses the friction of traditional brokers. He has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and the New York Times.

How much does it cost to sell on Acquire.com?

Sellers pay a monthly listing fee ($25, $50, or $100 depending on asking price band) plus a closing fee at exit (8 percent for under $250k, 7 percent for $250k to $1M, 6 percent for above $1M). There is no upfront retainer. The full pricing detail lives on the seller pricing page.

How much does it cost to buy on Acquire.com?

The Basic plan is free and lets you see public listings. Premium is $390 per year and gives access to listings up to $250k TTM revenue plus the ability to chat with founders. Platinum is $780 per year and opens up all listings regardless of size, plus priority support and AI assisted diligence tools.

What is the average deal size on the platform?

Most closed deals on Acquire.com sit between $100,000 and $1,000,000. The platform regularly closes deals above $1M, and a smaller number above $5M, but the bulk of volume runs through the sub $1M tier. The platform reports more than $500M in cumulative closed deal volume across 2,000+ acquisitions.

How fast can a deal close on Acquire.com?

Clean all cash deals typically close in 30 to 60 days from listing to funds released. Deals with SBA financing extend to 60 to 120 days. Deals with earnouts, seller notes, or complex IP transfers can take longer. Micro deals under $50k sometimes close in days.

Are Acquire.com listings verified?

Buyers are verified for funds. Sellers self report financials, though the platform connects to Stripe, Google Analytics, and other data sources to validate the headline metrics. Buyer side diligence remains essential. Unlike Empire Flippers, Acquire.com does not run a full pre listing financial audit on every seller.

Can I use an SBA loan to buy a business on Acquire.com?

Yes. SBA 7(a) loans are commonly used for acquisitions in the $300k to $5M range. The buyer needs to qualify (full time operator post close, two years of clean tax returns from the seller, lender approval), and the closing timeline extends. Many Platinum tier buyers come to the platform with SBA pre approval letters in hand.

What is the rebrand history of the platform?

Microacquire launched in 2020. In late 2022, the company purchased the Acquire.com domain for about $240,000 via GoDaddy’s domain brokerage. The rebrand was announced January 5, 2023 on the company blog. Microacquire.com still points users to the new domain.

How does Acquire.com compare to Empire Flippers and Flippa?

Acquire.com is the best fit for SaaS sellers and buyers and for ETA buyers using SBA financing. Empire Flippers runs a more managed sell side process and vets sellers harder, which suits premium content and ecommerce sellers. Flippa is the broadest open marketplace with the most listings across all categories and price points. Most sellers above $200k who want a curated process list on either Acquire.com or Empire Flippers (sometimes both). Sellers below $50k usually default to Flippa.

What kinds of businesses sell on Acquire.com?

SaaS (still the largest category), ecommerce (DTC and Amazon FBA), agencies (productized and full service), content sites (display ads and affiliate), newsletters, mobile apps, and an expanding range of service businesses with online operations. The unifying thread is profitability and a digital first operating model.

Is there a Microacquire alternative for businesses above $5M?

Above $5M, most sellers move to a sell side M&A advisor or boutique investment bank rather than a marketplace. Marketplaces are efficient for standardized transactions; mid market deals need custom positioning, competitive auction processes, and tax structuring. Read business acquisition meaning explained for context on how transaction structures change at different deal sizes.

Did Acquire.com raise venture funding?

Yes. According to public sources including Bessemer Venture Partners, the company raised seed funding starting in July 2021, with subsequent extensions. The funding has been classified as seed rounds rather than a formal Series A in public filings on Crunchbase and PitchBook.

How does the escrow process work?

Acquire.com uses Escrow.com as its default settlement layer. The buyer wires funds into escrow, the seller transfers assets, both sides confirm transfer through the deal room, and Escrow.com releases funds. The escrow fee is paid by one or both parties depending on the negotiated terms in the asset purchase agreement.

The bottom line: if you searched microacquire and you are trying to figure out whether to list a business, buy a business, or evaluate the platform against the alternatives, the right answer depends on where your deal sits in the size and complexity spectrum. For sub $3M digital businesses with clean financials, Acquire.com is one of the strongest marketplaces in the world. For deals that are larger, more complex, or in regulated industries, the marketplace is the wrong tool. Use it for what it does well, and hire an advisor when the deal grows beyond what a marketplace can support.