15 acquisitions in the Marketplace space
Marketplace where designers and developers discover premium icons for their apps.
A part-time talent marketplace/job board where founders apply for roles, built with Airtable, Softr and SmartJobBoard by Alex Friedman; reached $5,000 MRR and was acquired for a five-figure sum.
A marketplace listing 1,000+ small, profitable online businesses, built solo and bootstrapped by founder Simon; acquired by Acquire.com on June 3, 2025.
Self-funded platform connecting brands with creators for performance-based marketing campaigns; launched February 2025, hit a six-figure run rate within weeks and was acqui-hired by Whop the same year.
Trade Backlinks is a profitable SEO marketplace for buying and selling backlinks transparently. Founder JJ Englert sold it on Acquire.com in 2025.
A curated marketplace for buying and selling email newsletters. It was acquired by The Wisdom Group, the second acquisition in the products history.
Acquirer renegotiations are common at the finish line. Co-founded by Jake Singer & Jake Schonberger (launched 2021). At $25K MRR / $300K ARR with 4 employees; beehiiv adjusted the original offer downw
Online marketplace for college student artists and makers built while the founder was still an undergraduate at Colby College. Sold to an outside buyer via Acquire.com.
Database-marketplace of 200+ newsletters open for sponsorships, built by Dan Kulkov and Sveta Bay; sold via Acquire.com in 2023 in a five-figure deal completed in about a week.
A marketplace and monthly event letting no-code makers sell unused builds; acquired in November 2023 by Microns founder Ilya Novohatskyi to expand his acquisition community.
A micro-marketplace for buying and selling digital products; sold by serial no-code maker Lee in 2023 as one of four exits.
Lifetime deal marketplace for SaaS products
A marketplace for booking stays in nature such as glamping tents and cabins (an "Airbnb for nature"); acquired by European market leader Campspace in 2022.
A remote job board focused on roles suitable for Latin American workers; 30k+ subscribers when acquired via MicroAcquire in 2022.
Free marketplace for posting Product Hunt products for sale, built at a 2019 hackathon by Mubashar Iqbal and sold to MicroAcquire in May 2020 for the price of a new laptop.