Marketplace Deals

Two founders, tired of big job boards like Upwork and Fiverr, launched a marketplace for pre-vetted freelance talent. They sold it to an SEO agency.

After eight years, this founder felt the time was right to sell the elopement marketplace she’d built with her partner.

Two digital nomads created a platform they needed themselves. Moonlight paired developers with businesses that needed them. When the pandemic hit, they decided to sell.

These entrepreneurs purchased the newsletter marketplace Duuce in 2022. Just 16 months later, they sold it for double the purchase price. Here’s how they did it.

When funding dries up, an acquihire can be a good option. That approach worked for this founder, who sold her marketplace for freelancers to a buyer in her network.

These founders turned their passion for tutoring into a marketplace that eventually brought in more than $80,000 in monthly revenue.

Andrej Ilisin learned SEO in its early days, which set him on the path of buying and selling websites, before he launched a services firm dedicated to founders doing the same thing.