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URL Monitor

SaaSSubscription

SEO tool that pushed web pages into Google's index. Ian Nuttall scaled it to $8,000 MRR fairly quickly before it was acquired for $250,000.

Financial Data

Asking Price
Undisclosed
Sale Price
$250,000 USD
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
$8.0K/mo
Annual Revenue (ARR)
$96,000/yr
Monthly Profit
N/A
Profit Multiple
N/A
Revenue Multiple
2.6×

Exit Analysis

Priced against revenue rather than profit, URL Monitor sold at 2.6× annual revenue, in line with the 2.3× median across the 263 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 $250,000 sale price puts it in the top quarter of the 608 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 353 SaaS exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $19,000. 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.

Exit Timeline

Founder

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Ian Nuttall
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Other