Who Would Buy

SaaS acquirers

298 companies that buy software businesses, grouped by how they buy. Each profile lists every deal we can source and when they last bought.

Deals:

Holding companies

Buy software businesses to keep and run, usually for the long term.

Software companies that acquire

Operating companies buying products, teams and customers to add to their own.

Private equity

Funds and buy-and-build platforms; most sell their companies again within several years.

Public serial acquirers

Listed companies that grow mainly by buying software businesses.

Search funds

Searchers and the investors who back them, usually buying one company to run.

Individual buyers

Operators buying software businesses with their own money.