SaaS

Just three years after it was founded by two brothers, Kyiv-based AXDRAFT, attracted an interested buyer, then sold for high 7 figures.

Dmitry Dragilev didn’t want to sell his SEO SaaS TopicRanker just to cash out. Getting acquired was a way to scale up and still stay at the helm.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage now, but founders like FriendlyData’s Michael Rumiantsau have been quietly building and scaling AI-driven companies for years.

Peter Valley started reselling books for profit after a failed dumpster dive. Years later, he turned the gig into Zen Arbitrage, a software for book resellers that he later sold.

Air HR co-founder Nick Holzherr had long used Upwork to build teams. So when it was time to sell his business, he hired on the freelance platform for M&A support, too.

This family-run software company was approached by several potential buyers, but held out for one they felt they could trust.

Software company WaudWare launched in 1989. When two interested buyers approached 30+ years later, the founder brokered a deal — without prior experience or an advisor.

These founders grew their SEO content-building software Contentpace through intense, strategic focus on customers and sold for 2.5x revenue