Acquire vs Investors Club
Both Acquire and Investors Club sell online businesses, and a buyer comparing them is usually choosing between two kinds of process, not two catalogues. Here is each on its own terms — what it is, how it sells, and how much it has live right now. Acquisiteur tracks both, so in practice you do not have to choose: you watch them in one feed.
Acquire
marketplace1,149
live listings right now
The default marketplace for startup acquisitions. Acquire (formerly MicroAcquire) specializes in SaaS and app businesses sold founder-to-founder, with standardized metrics, a slick data room and a buyer pool that moves quickly. Listings skew toward products with real MRR but modest scale. Good deals go under offer in days, so saved searches and fast alerts matter more here than anywhere.
Browse Acquire listings →Investors Club
marketplace53
live listings right now
A membership-based marketplace for content and affiliate sites with due diligence done in-house before listing. Investors Club publishes deep data on each deal (traffic, backlinks, earnings verification) to members, and charges no buyer-side success fee. Inventory is smaller but pre-filtered. Suits buyers who want marketplace convenience with diligence closer to a broker.
Browse Investors Club listings →How to choose
- Marketplace vs broker is the real fork: a marketplace is self-serve and moves fast, a broker runs a hands-on process with an NDA and calls. Acquire and Investors Club may sit on different sides of that line — the descriptions above say which.
- Inventory: Acquire has more live listings today, which means more to choose from, but the right deal is the one that fits your thesis, not the biggest pile.
- Verification differs by platform — how earnings are proven is the single thing worth checking on either, since a declared number and a source-connected one are not the same evidence.
Watch Acquire, Investors Club and every other marketplace in one feed — with a saved search and a morning digest.