AI-native M&A for the sub-$50M market

M&A made smarter with AI.

Acquire matches buyers with the right acquisition targets, automates due diligence and streamlines the entire deal — so you spend time on strategy, not spreadsheets. Purpose-built for searchers, sponsors and corp-dev teams brokers overlook.

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$50M
Sub-cap deal focus
11,400+
Sourced SMB targets
63%
Faster to LOI
0.9%
Cost of a broker fee
Live sourcing
Mandate

“Sub-$50M service businesses, $2–5M EBITDA, owner nearing retirement, US Midwest.”

Cascade Facility Services

Commercial services · $3.1M EBITDA

96
fit

Halden Precision Parts

Light manufacturing · $4.7M EBITDA

91
fit

Brightline HVAC Group

Home services · $2.4M EBITDA

88
fit
Diligence memo

Auto-drafted

Time to LOI

−63%

Trusted by searchers, sponsors & corporate development teams

Meridian Search PartnersNorthbridge CapitalCedar & Vale PEHarborline HoldingsRidgeway Corp DevAnsel EquityFairmount Search FundMeridian Search PartnersNorthbridge CapitalCedar & Vale PEHarborline HoldingsRidgeway Corp DevAnsel EquityFairmount Search Fund
The Acquire platform

Deal-making, reimagined end-to-end

Sourcing, due diligence and deal management are fragmented, manual and expensive — especially below $50M. Acquire brings them into one AI-native workflow that cuts cost and accelerates every timeline.

01

Source the deals brokers skip

In the sub-$50M market there's often no broker and no listing. Acquire's models surface off-market owners by succession risk, sector and financial signals — so you see targets before anyone else.

02

Diligence in an afternoon, not weeks

Connect a data room and Acquire extracts the financials, flags anomalies against benchmarks and drafts your diligence memo — collapsing the most expensive, slowest part of every deal.

03

Run the whole deal in one place

Outreach, stages, valuation, documents and collaborators live in a single command center — so a two-person team operates like a full mid-market shop, at a fraction of the cost.

Features

Everything a lean deal team needs

Six capabilities that replace a stack of point tools — and the gaps Grata, Datasite and SourceScrub leave wide open below $50M.

AI Target Sourcing

Surface off-market, sub-$50M businesses that brokers never list. Our models read financials, ownership signals and succession risk to rank targets by acquire-ability.

  • Owner-age & succession signals
  • Off-market SMB coverage
  • Thesis-based ranking

Buyer ↔ Target Matching

Describe your mandate once. Acquire continuously matches your criteria to new targets and alerts you the moment a fit appears in your lane.

  • Natural-language mandates
  • Continuous re-scoring
  • Fit & risk explanations

Automated Due Diligence

Drop in a data room and Acquire extracts financials, flags anomalies and drafts a diligence memo — turning weeks of associate work into an afternoon.

  • Financial anomaly detection
  • Auto-drafted diligence memo
  • Red-flag & QoE checklist

Deal Pipeline & Workflow

A single command center for outreach, stages, tasks and documents — so a two-person deal team runs like a full mid-market shop.

  • Kanban deal stages
  • Outreach sequencing
  • Document & task tracking

Valuation & Modeling

Generate comparable-based valuation ranges and a first-pass LBO model from the target's numbers in seconds, ready to refine.

  • Comp-driven ranges
  • First-pass LBO model
  • Sensitivity scenarios

Secure Collaboration

Bring advisors, lenders and partners into a permissioned deal space with an audit trail — without emailing sensitive files around.

  • Granular permissions
  • Full activity audit trail
  • Investor-ready exports
Live AI feature

AI Deal-Fit Analyzer

Describe your acquisition mandate and Acquire's AI drafts an investment thesis, an ideal-target profile, key risks and next steps — a taste of the sourcing engine inside the platform.

Your mandate

Your analysis appears here

Fill in your mandate and generate an AI-drafted thesis, target profile, risks and next steps in seconds.

Competitive positioning

Built for the deals others ignore

Grata, Datasite and SourceScrub serve the upper market well. Acquire owns sub-$50M SMB search-fund sourcing — where brokers are absent and buyers are underserved — and covers the full deal, not just one slice.

CapabilityAcquireGrataDatasiteSourceScrub
Sub-$50M SMB / search-fund coverage
AI buyer ↔ target matching
Automated diligence memos
Built-in deal pipeline & workflow
First-pass valuation & LBO model
Mid-tier seat pricing (no success fee)

Comparison reflects Acquire's focus on the sub-$50M segment and is for illustration.

Social proof

Deal teams move faster on Acquire

We closed a $7M distribution business a broker never would have shown us. Acquire's sourcing found the owner three months before he went to market.
DWDana WhitfieldPrincipal, Fairmount Search Fund
The auto-drafted diligence memo saved our team roughly 40 associate hours per deal. It's the first tool that actually fits sub-$50M mandates.
MLMarcus LindqvistVP Corp Dev, Ridgeway
Instead of a 3% success fee we pay a seat. On our last add-on that was the difference between a deal that pencilled and one that didn't.
PRPriya RamanPartner, Cedar & Vale PE

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Pricing

A seat, not a success fee

Brokers charge 1–5% of deal value. Acquire is flat, mid-tier SaaS pricing per seat — so your cost stays the same whether you close a $2M or a $40M business.

Solo Searcher

$899/mo

For independent sponsors & self-funded searchers running one active mandate.

  • 1 deal-team seat
  • AI target sourcing (sub-$50M)
  • Buyer ↔ target matching
  • Automated diligence memos
  • Deal pipeline & workflow
  • Email support
Most popular

Deal Team

$2,499/mo

For PE and corp-dev teams running multiple mandates in parallel.

  • 5 deal-team seats
  • Everything in Solo Searcher
  • Valuation & first-pass LBO models
  • Secure collaboration spaces
  • Priority sourcing refresh
  • Priority support & onboarding

Enterprise

Custom

For platforms and funds with firm-wide sourcing needs.

Talk to sales
  • Unlimited seats
  • Everything in Deal Team
  • Custom sourcing theses
  • SSO & advanced audit controls
  • Dedicated deal strategist
  • Custom integrations

Secure checkout. Cancel anytime. Prices in USD, billed monthly per seat.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Small-to-medium acquirers, independent sponsors and search funds hunting sub-$50M deals, plus private equity and corporate development teams that want a data-driven, lower-cost alternative to traditional brokers.

Those tools are strong for enterprise sourcing or data-room hosting, but they largely ignore the sub-$50M market where brokers are absent and buyers are underserved. Acquire owns that niche end-to-end — sourcing, matching, diligence, valuation and pipeline in one seat-priced platform.

No. Traditional M&A brokers charge 1–5% of deal value. Acquire is a flat mid-tier SaaS subscription per seat, so your cost stays the same whether you close a $2M or a $40M business.

Deals live in permissioned spaces with a full audit trail, and we never expose sensitive information publicly. Only the collaborators you invite can see a given deal.

You connect a data room and Acquire extracts and normalizes the financials, flags anomalies against sector benchmarks, and drafts a diligence memo and red-flag checklist for your team to review — you always stay in control of the decision.

Yes. Join the waitlist for early access, or start a subscription today. Every plan includes onboarding for your first live mandate.

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