Epropel was a bootstrapped SEO agency serving local businesses, e-commerce brands, and regulated industries such as CBD and cannabis, later expanding into optimization for AI search tools like ChatGPT Search and Perplexity. Founder Newton Zheng sold it via Acquire.com in 2026 after receiving three offers.
This database tracks 50 Agency exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $155,000. 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.
From founding to sale took 5.0 years. The deal closed through Acquire.com, one of 158 exits in this database that went the same route. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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