Acquire vs Motion Invest

Both Acquire and Motion Invest 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

marketplace

1,149

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.

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Motion Invest

marketplace

86

live listings right now

The specialist for content sites, especially at entry level. Motion Invest buys and sells niche sites outright, verifies traffic and earnings itself, and prices most inventory between four and low six figures. Its no-auction, first-come model means good listings disappear within hours of the email going out. The cleanest on-ramp for a first content-site acquisition.

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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 Motion Invest 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.