Buyer for SaaS marketplaces in Europe

• Revenue: < 7M EUR
• Investment: 1 to 5M Euro
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a buyer that grows various SaaS marketplaces enterprises. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB100

The buyer for SaaS marketplaces is looking to buy companies in order to grow its operations. The buyer is backed by large funds coming from strong investors and entrepreneurs with proven expertise in various fields such as building, financing and scaling a business. The management team is continuously reinforced with various top managers and experienced specialists. The buyer is focused on rapid growing marketplaces and helps them by investing growth capital, attracting the right people and scaling the company to the point it becomes a market leader.

This European buyer is looking to invest in software marketplaces for any type of product or service. Target companies should be established in Western Europe and should be scalable and able to grow quickly with further funds, knowledge and contacts of the investor. The buyer can help to roll out the market place on a European level. The marketplace can be of any nature. Marketplaces need scale and this is where the investor can help. In this way your market place can grow quicker and become a leader in its field. The buyer has invested in up to 10 successful SaaS and Marketplaces for the financial services, food and leisure companies, etc. The buyer grew a company that has developed a platform containing an online catalogue and auction house for collectors, on this platform people that have valuable objects such as watches, jewelleries, stamps, coins, classic cars, antiques, etc. can post their assets and special online auctions will be organized so that collectors can be provided with what they are looking for. In the same manner, a supply chain platform will ease the interaction and connection between suppliers and buyers of various merchandises

One example of a project is a marketplace for people with art skills, professional designers can meet the consumers and sell various services and products such as handmade and digital crafts, fonts, graphics, designs and diverse forms of content. Using some specific tools, the users are allowed to manage, store and edit data and content. With an adequate pricing package, consumers are able to choose the right design and fonts from a variety of offers belonging to the designers from the platform. Another strong example that shows what the company is interested in, the buyer likes to grow to another level a market place for financing, through this platform SMEs can obtain for their invoices financing that comes from all kinds of investors that can be professionals or institutions. Companies that are in need of cash for their development can apply for a loan or a factoring product and in no time the application would be analysed and in 24 hours, if the response is positive, the SME will be able to receive the money. This platform is not a bank, but it puts face to face the investors and the credit applicants.

The buyer is looking to acquire various companies that develop all kinds of SaaS marketplaces.

• The buyer is looking to expand its business in Europe by acquiring various SaaS marketplaces
• Target companies should have high potential for growing
• The buyer can help companies to grow very quickly so that they can become market leaders in their field
• The buyer is backed by large funds coming from strong investors and entrepreneurs with proven expertise in various fields