Acquire Scraper

This actor is designed to scrape detailed business listings from Acquire.com, the leading startup acquisition marketplace. Simply select business types you're interested in, and get back comprehensive, structured data including financials, company metrics, growth opportunities, and acquisition details—all ready for analysis.

Important ❗ This actor will scrape only startups that are publicly listed on Acquire.com. Scraping all startups is only possible with a profile - which this actor does not provide.

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🚀 Key Features

• ✅ Extracts complete business listings with financial performance metrics
• ✅ Retrieves customer metrics including ARR, churn rate, and growth data
• ✅ Captures company overview with tech stack, team size, and business model
• ✅ Includes acquisition details with selling reasoning and financing information
• ✅ Supports multiple business types in a single run (SaaS, AI, Mobile Apps, etc.)
• ✅ Full proxy support for stable scraping

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👤 Who Is This Actor For?

This actor is perfect for:

• 💼 Business acquirers searching for acquisition opportunities
• 📊 Market researchers analyzing business valuations and market trends
• 💰 Investors identifying profitable businesses for sale
• 🔍 Business brokers aggregating marketplace listings
• 📈 Analysts tracking startup valuations and financial metrics
• 🤖 Data scientists collecting business intelligence for modeling

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Tech Notes

• It is recommended to set the actor memory to at least 4GB to avoid performance issues.

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Input Schema

Here's an example input you can pass to the actor:

{
  "businessTypes": ["ai", "saas", "mobile"],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Input Parameters

• businessTypes (required): An array of business types to scrape. Available options:

  • saas - SaaS Companies for Sale
  • shopify - Shopify Apps for Sale
  • mobile - Mobile Apps for Sale
  • marketplace - Marketplaces for Sale
  • ecommerce - Ecommerce Businesses for Sale
  • agency - Digital Marketing Agency for Sale
  • content - Content Websites for Sale
  • ai - AI for Sale
  • newsletter - Newsletters for Sale

• proxyConfiguration (optional): Proxy settings for the scraper. Useful for avoiding rate limits and geo-restrictions.

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Output Schema

{
  "title": "Acquire, the #1 Startup Acquisition Marketplace",
  "url": "https://app.acquire.com/startup/bYrUk25uCEMOJLHuyNlxKmEoa1D2/mhVKOREkgGxQscyJBMW0?source=webCategories",
  "header": "AI startup",
  "country": "United States",
  "price": "$895k",
  "priceReasoning": "Valuation-Backed: Anchored at $895,000, with room to negotiate...",
  "performance": [
    {
      "title": "TTM revenue",
      "description": "Trailing twelve month (TTM) gross revenue",
      "value": "$450k"
    },
    {
      "title": "TTM profit",
      "description": "Trailing twelve month (TTM) net profit",
      "value": "$225k"
    }
  ],
  "customerMetrics": [
    {
      "title": "Customers",
      "description": "Total unique customers who have made a purchase.",
      "value": "< 10"
    },
    {
      "title": "Annual recurring revenue",
      "description": "The total recurring revenue over the last full month, annualized (MRR × 12).",
      "value": "$0"
    }
  ],
  "companyOverview": [
    {
      "title": "Date founded",
      "value": "Apr 2021"
    },
    {
      "title": "Business model",
      "bulletList": ["Business-to-business (B2B)", "Licensing"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Tech stack",
      "bulletList": ["Wix", "Google Cloud"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Growth opportunities",
      "bulletList": ["Hire a sales team", "Improve conversion rates"]
    }
  ],
  "acquisitionDetails": [
    {
      "title": "SELLING REASONING",
      "bulletList": [
        "Financial gain",
        "Starting a new venture",
        "Lifestyle change"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Financing",
      "bulletList": ["Bootstrapped", "Loans"]
    }
  ]
}

Output Fields

• title: The page title
• url: The direct URL to the business listing
• header: Business category/type header
• country: Country where the business is located
• price: Asking price for the business
• priceReasoning: Detailed explanation of the asking price justification
• performance: Array of financial performance metrics (TTM revenue, TTM profit, monthly revenue/profit)
• customerMetrics: Array of customer-related metrics (customers count, ARR, growth rate, churn rate)
• companyOverview: Array of company details (date founded, team size, business model, tech stack, competitors, growth opportunities, key assets)
• acquisitionDetails: Array of acquisition information (selling reasoning, financing type)

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💡 Use Cases

1. Business Acquisition Research

Identify and evaluate potential acquisition targets by analyzing financial metrics, growth rates, and asking prices across different business categories.

2. Market Valuation Analysis

Track pricing trends, revenue multiples, and valuation patterns across SaaS, AI, mobile apps, and other business categories to inform investment decisions.

3. Competitive Intelligence

Monitor what types of businesses are being sold, their tech stacks, revenue models, and growth opportunities to understand market dynamics.

4. Investment Deal Sourcing

Automatically aggregate and filter business listings based on financial criteria, team size, and business model to identify investment opportunities.

5. Market Research & Trend Analysis

Analyze selling reasons, financing types, and business models across thousands of listings to identify market trends and opportunities.

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