SellSide DB · Acquisition Intelligence

See what is selling.
Build what is better.

Every SaaS acquisition listing is a market someone already proved exists. SellSide DB shows you the customers, MRR, acquisition channels, growth levers, and reasons for selling behind hundreds of real deals. Study the signal, find the execution gap, and ship the version that wins.

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Acquisition Intelligence

SaaS acquisition listings

Curated listings

522

Avg asking

$434k

Avg multiple

7.8×

Aggregate TTM

$115.9M

Top categories

SaaS Startup11.4×
Marketplace7.7×
Ecommerce5.6×
Mobile5.5×
Agency3.2×

Cheapest multiples

top 4
W

WP Feed Plugin

SaaS · NL

$450k3.7×
A

AI Fundraising SaaS

SaaS · PT

$4.0M6.9×
A

AI Study App

SaaS · US

$1.2M4.0×
C

CRO Agency

Agency · CA

$580k1.0×

Real deals decoded from across the acquisition market

Acquire.comFlippaMicroAcquireEmpire FlippersFE InternationalTinyMotion InvestLatona's

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Curated listings

$0M+

Aggregate TTM revenue

~0.0×

Avg profit multiple

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Countries covered

Updated continuously as new listings are ingested

Acquisition Intelligence

Every listing is a market someone already proved.

Hundreds of curated SaaS acquisition listings — verified financials, AI buyer-side analysis, and semantic search to find the spin-off worth building.

What's On The Market

Average profit multiple by category — the lower the multiple, the cheaper the validated market is to enter or out-build.

SaaS Startup
~11×
Marketplace
~8×
Ecommerce
~6×
Mobile
~6×
Agency
~3×

AI Buyer Thesis

Every listing comes pre-decoded — opportunity signals, red flags, and an attractiveness score.

Semantic Search

Search markets, not keywords. Vector search across every listing's writing and financials.

Deal-Flow Lenses

Cheapest multiples, highest revenue, newest, AI-recommended — angles on what to build next.

500+Curated listings
$100M+Aggregate TTM revenue
~7×Avg profit multiple
50+Countries covered
Browse the listings

AI Buyer-Side Analysis

Generated on every listing — opportunity and risk, side by side

Buyer thesis

High-margin recurring B2B SaaS with a painkiller use case. The clearest value lever is converting a large free pipeline into paid annual subscribers.

— acquire.com listing, AI-analyzed

Red flags

Customer concentration and founder dependency, with a recent churn uptick — the gaps a better-executed competitor walks straight through.

— acquire.com listing, AI-analyzed

Open the research chat

Research Chat

Query hundreds of acquisitions like an analyst.

Filter, search the vibe, benchmark, rank, and deep-dive — all in one chat. Conversations persist. Every answer cites the listings it came from.

Pick a use case

bigideasdb.com/sellside

You

Show me SaaS listings under $500k asking, sub-5x profit multiple, with at least $50k TTM revenue.

SellSide

Under $500kSub-5x profit$50k+ TTM

23 listings match. Top picks ranked by AI attractiveness score:

WordPress feed plugin

SaaS · 3.7x profit · $450k

9/10

Marketing reporter

SaaS · 3.2x profit · $280k

8/10

Invoice automator

SaaS · 4.1x profit · $190k

8/10
Sourced from the full dataset. Persistent thread, exportable.
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Every conversation is backed by

Buy-box filtersVibe searchCross-category benchmarksTheme talliesMarket landscapeDeal-flow rankingsAI buyer thesis

How it works

Three steps from listing to your next product.

Most founders waste months validating an idea. The validation already happened. You just have to read the listings carefully enough to spot it.

01
Step 01

Pick a market that is already paying.

Filter listings by category, MRR band, customer count, and growth pattern. Every result is a niche someone else already monetized, with real numbers attached. That is your shortlist of validated markets.

Hundreds of validated marketsFilter by category, MRR, growth
02
Step 02

Steal the playbook, find the gap.

Study the listing's customers, acquisition channels, key assets, and growth opportunities. Read the AI buyer thesis and the red flags. What is the seller doing well? Where did they stall? The gaps are your opening.

Channels and customers exposedRed flags become your edge
03
Step 03

Ship the better-executed spin-off.

Build the version the original founder did not. Better positioning, sharper pricing, a channel they ignored, a feature they shipped poorly. The market is proven. You just need to outwork the existing operator.

Better marketingModern stackUnderserved channel

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Want to know what a SaaS is actually worth before you build the spin-off? Read our breakdown of SaaS valuation multiples in 2026.

  • SellSide DB is a curated database of hundreds of SaaS acquisition listings, each with verified financials and an AI buyer-side analysis. It's built for builders, not buyers: every listing is a market someone already proved, so you can study the customers, channels, and gaps behind it and ship the better-executed version.

  • Every listing is a real, currently or recently for-sale SaaS business from acquire.com. Asking prices, multiples, TTM revenue/profit, churn and ARPU are taken from the seller's listing. The AI fields — buyer thesis, opportunity signals, red flags, attractiveness score — are model-generated analysis layered on top.

  • Hundreds of curated listings spanning dozens of countries, with over $100M in aggregate TTM revenue and healthy profit multiples. You can filter, sort, and run semantic search across all of them.

  • Yes. The research chat lets you filter by buy box, search the vibe semantically, pull cross-category benchmarks, rank deal flow, and get the full AI buyer thesis on any listing — all in one conversation. Every answer cites the listings it came from, and threads persist.

  • Marketplaces like acquire.com and Flippa list businesses for buyers to purchase. SellSide DB repurposes those listings as market-validation signal for builders: instead of buying, you read the proven niche, find the execution gap the seller left open, and build the spin-off they never shipped — with an AI buyer thesis on every deal.

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Market Validation in Plain Sight

Pick a proven market. Build a better version.

Stop guessing what to build. Browse hundreds of validated SaaS niches, study the customers, channels, and gaps behind each one, then ship the spin-off the original founder did not. The market is already there. Yours just executes better.