Transact · Software & IT services

Selling your software company? Run a real process.

We help owners of software, SaaS, and IT services companies prepare, find the right buyers, and run a confidential process. The decisions stay yours.

The problem

Most software companies your size get sold badly.

The advisers who cover software at scale will not return your call below a certain size. So founders end up with a generalist business broker, a marketplace listing, or a real estate agent who also does business sales. Right now there are software platforms listed for sale by residential realtors. That is not a market verdict on those companies. It is a process verdict.

The result: the wrong buyers, one interested party instead of several, and a price set by whoever showed up first.

A real process, built around the right buyers.

Who the serious buyers are, what they pay for, and how they decide, worked out before anyone is approached.

Before you run a process

A sale is one part of corporate development.

If the sale is a year or more away, the highest-value work usually is not the process itself. It is exit preparation: reviewing your company the way a buyer's diligence team would, ranking what would kill the deal or cut the multiple, and fixing it while there is still time.

Some owners arrive here and end up buying a competitor instead, or raising strategic capital, or spending a year making the company worth materially more before going to market. All of that sits in the same practice. See the Transact practice.

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Curious who would want your company?

A confidential conversation costs nothing. You will leave it knowing more about your options than you do today.

Confidential · Response within one business day