Easily find academic sources for your essay. Sold on the Microns marketplace for $4,000 on $2,000 annual revenue.
Priced against revenue rather than profit, Essay Source Finding Tool sold at 2.0× annual revenue, in line with the 2.3× median across the 249 deals with a disclosed revenue multiple. Revenue multiples run higher than profit multiples because they ignore the cost of running the business, so they are only comparable between businesses with similar margins.
The $4,000 sale price puts it in the bottom quarter of the 570 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000. Most indie acquisitions cluster well under the headline numbers founders read about, which is exactly why a real distribution is more useful than an average.
This database tracks 333 SaaS exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $18,000. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
See how this compares across the market on our market stats page, or browse more SaaS exits.