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You're not looking for a business.
You're looking for YOUR business.

You've built a career or a company, and a life around it. You don't have time to dig through thousands of listings.

We are acquisition matchmakers for first-time buyers. Our team does the searching, brings you the few that fit, and stays beside you until the keys are yours.

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A first-time buyer standing in the doorway of her new business at sunrise, keys in hand
◆STOP SCROLLING. START MATCHING. BUY THE ONE.◆82 LOIs IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS◆CLIENTS CLOSE AT 20X THE INDUSTRY AVERAGE◆100% OF CLIENTS HAVE SUBMITTED AT LEAST ONE LOI◆200+ SOURCES WATCHED AROUND THE CLOCK ◆STOP SCROLLING. START MATCHING. BUY THE ONE.◆82 LOIs IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS◆CLIENTS CLOSE AT 20X THE INDUSTRY AVERAGE◆100% OF CLIENTS HAVE SUBMITTED AT LEAST ONE LOI◆200+ SOURCES WATCHED AROUND THE CLOCK

Meet AcquiMatch in under 2 minutes.

A tired professional searching listings late at night

You didn't build a great career to spend your nights scrolling listing sites.

Another Tuesday night. Another forty open tabs of listings you've already seen twice.
An NDA that took a week to come back, for a business making half what the listing promised.
A spreadsheet named SEARCH_FINAL_v4 that even you don't trust anymore.
A seller who accepted another offer before you'd ever seen his face.
And everyone at work still thinks you're happy there.

You've scrolled past a thousand businesses.
One of them might have been The One.

You just couldn't see it yet. That's not a deal flow problem. It's a filtering problem.

Two ways to run the same search

A desk split in two: chaos of printouts on one side, one clean laptop and folder on the other
The old way

On your own

  • Scroll every listing site, every night
  • Judge businesses by their listings, and miss the gems hiding behind bad broker marketing
  • Spend weekends on numbers you can't verify
  • Get passed over while brokers hand the good deals to buyers they trust
  • Run your search from a spreadsheet
  • Finally find one, and freeze, because nobody told you what happens next
The AcquiMatch way

Matched

  • Our team goes through thousands of businesses a month so you don't have to
  • You see a small handful of vetted businesses every month, each with why it fits YOU
  • We handle the paperwork and the first analysis before a business ever reaches you
  • You show up as the buyer brokers and sellers choose
  • We work the numbers and the offer with you, so you know what it's worth and what to offer
  • A team beside you from first look to the closing table

The One is out there right now.
You're just not seeing it.AcquiMatch is how you find it, and how you win it.

What your search feels like when it's working.

Tuesday night is yours again. Our team did the digging while you were at dinner.
A vetted business lands in front of you, with a clear reason it fits.
Your time goes to the brokers and owners of businesses that fit you. Nothing else.
A broker calls YOU back, because you read like a buyer worth choosing.
When it's time to make an offer, you're not guessing and you're not alone.
And one morning, you're standing in the doorway holding the keys.
A buyer and a retiring owner shaking hands across a workshop table
Athena Simpson, Founder and CEO of AcquiMatch
From our founder
Athena Simpson
Founder & CEO, AcquiMatch. A searcher herself.

The best owner doesn't win.
The best buyer does.

0125+ years as an entrepreneur, advisor, and educator. Built five companies
02Advised startups, the Fortune 500, FTSE 100 companies, and government entities
03Taught entrepreneurship at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business
04Raised $3 million in 5 days to pursue her own acquisition

Her own search taught her the rule the industry doesn't say out loud: businesses don't go to the person best suited to run them. They go to the buyer best prepared to win them. AcquiMatch makes you both.

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A whole team behind your search

The matching runs around the clock, and real people stand behind every piece of it. Our deal team has sourced thousands of opportunities, vetted hundreds of millions of dollars in deals, and walked hundreds of buyers through their search. Meet the team

82

Letters of intent out the door in the last 12 months

20x

Our clients close at 20 times the industry average

100%

Of clients have submitted at least one LOI

Buyers who sat where you're sitting

From overwhelmed to under contract

From scrolling alone to closing his first deal

3x'd his buying power through deal structuring

"The broker I'm working with on a deal loves my buyer profile, and said he loves AcquiMatch. That they've yet to work with such an educated buyer."

Gil, AcquiMatch Client

"For a first-time buyer, he's much better prepared than 90%+ of the first-time buyers I work with."

Jake, Business Broker

"For the first time, I felt like I was in control, taking the reins and deciding what to pursue based on who we actually are."

Lisa, AcquiMatch Client

"It really feels like there's a well-structured machine of people and process working behind me."

Brandon, AcquiMatch Client

"The broker I'm working with on a deal loves my buyer profile, and said he loves AcquiMatch. That they've yet to work with such an educated buyer."

Gil, AcquiMatch Client

"For a first-time buyer, he's much better prepared than 90%+ of the first-time buyers I work with."

Jake, Business Broker

"For the first time, I felt like I was in control, taking the reins and deciding what to pursue based on who we actually are."

Lisa, AcquiMatch Client

"It really feels like there's a well-structured machine of people and process working behind me."

Brandon, AcquiMatch Client

"Compared to searching on our own, working with AcquiMatch has been night and day."

LJ, AcquiMatch Client

"Hands down better than any other buyers he's dealt with before."

Brent, on his broker's reaction

"They saved me a ton of time vetting opportunities. I felt supported from search start through LOI."

Michael, AcquiMatch Client

"This is the thing that signals to brokers: this is somebody who's serious."

Gregory, AcquiMatch Client

"Compared to searching on our own, working with AcquiMatch has been night and day."

LJ, AcquiMatch Client

"Hands down better than any other buyers he's dealt with before."

Brent, on his broker's reaction

"They saved me a ton of time vetting opportunities. I felt supported from search start through LOI."

Michael, AcquiMatch Client

"This is the thing that signals to brokers: this is somebody who's serious."

Gregory, AcquiMatch Client
See If You Qualify

Is this you?

This is for you if

Yes

  • This is your first business acquisition
  • You plan to lead the business you buy. Leading it, not necessarily being on the tools
  • You have the funds for both a search and an acquisition
  • Your credit is in good shape and an SBA loan is on the table, or you can finance without one
  • You've built a real career or a company of your own
  • Your time is tight and you want a team doing the heavy lifting with you
  • You're coachable. You'll put in the work, follow our process, and move fast when the right business shows up
  • You invest in yourself, and you're ready to invest in your search
  • You're done just thinking about it and want to move
This is not for you if

No

  • You've bought a business before, or you're a fund buying at volume. This is built for first-timers
  • You came here looking for no money down
  • You want to own something you never have to touch
  • You're still deciding whether ownership is the right path at all
  • You want to rule businesses out on paper before you'll have a single conversation
  • You'd rather do it your own way than follow a proven process
  • You're looking for the cheapest way to search
  • You can't give your search a few hours every week

Stop scrolling.
Start matching.
Buy The One.

We take on a limited number of new searches each month. Tell us about you and your search. We'll show you the right next step.

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