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There is a window open in tech M&A right now. Most founders will read about it after it closes. Our Mid-Year 2026 Tech M&A Report shows who it is open for: feinternational.com/blog/tech-ma-m…

Two Shopify brands. Identical profit. One sells for $500,000 more. The gap? The multiple. Owner-run brands sell for 2-4x earnings in 2026. The prepared ones reach 4-6x. Most founders learn their brand's worth after selling. feinternational.com/blog/shopify-e…

Some tech businesses sell for 24x revenue. Others in the same market: 5x. The difference is not growth. McKinsey found the metric that separates them. Most founders are optimizing for the wrong number. What buyers underwrite first in 2026: feinternational.com/blog/quality-o…

Starting an ecommerce business means running experiments with your own money. Buying one means someone else already paid for those experiments. Our 2026 Buyer's Guide lays it out, in the order you'll face it: feinternational.com/blog/how-to-bu…

Selling your business yourself is not free. It just hides the invoice. You pay it back in a lower price, a longer timeline, and a deal that may never close. In a record $4.93T M&A market, that trade has never cost more. Read more: feinternational.com/blog/sell-busi…

For years, the fastest-growing fintech won the highest valuation. In 2026, that stopped being true. Buyers now pay a premium for proof: recurring revenue, clean compliance, profit, and a business that runs without its founder. Our FinTech M&A Outlook: feinternational.com/blog/fintech-m…

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Clubmate by FishPal, part of the SpeedyBooker group. Congratulations to Owen Chapman and the entire Clubmate team on this successful acquisition. A special thank you to our partner, Max Alderman. Read more: businessnewsrelease.com/fe-internation…

Prepared agencies sell for 1.5x to 2x the multiple of unprepared ones. Same earnings. Same market. The gap is built in the 12 to 24 months before the sale. The full 2026 playbook: feinternational.com/blog/how-to-se…

The entire playbook is in one first-time buyer's guide. Find deals, value them, verify, finance, run your first 100 days. Whether it's your first $200K content site or your first $5M SaaS platform, the principles hold. Read it: feinternational.com/blog/how-to-bu…

Successful acquisitions follow the same disciplined path: → A clear evaluation screen before you commit → The right valuation method for the business type → Six parallel due diligence workstreams → A layered financing stack (often 10-15% down) → A deliberate first 100 days

Buying an online business doesn't end when you sign. It begins there. The best owners treat the first 100 days as the most important part of the deal. The strongest returns come from how well you run the business after the deal, not just the price on the contract.

The best person to prepare a founder for a buyer is someone who has been the buyer. Marina Vizdoaga has joined FE International as Partner, leading software, data, and AI deals. A decade on the buyside, now on the founder's side. Read more: feinternational.com/blog/marina-vi…

Buyers don't pay for what your agency has done. They pay for what they think it'll keep doing without you in the room. That's why two agencies with the same EBITDA can sell for very different prices. Our 2026 valuation guide: feinternational.com/blog/digital-m…

EdTech M&A is back. But the surprise of 2026 isn't that deals are happening again. It's which EdTech businesses are getting bid up, and which ones get ignored entirely. Read more here: feinternational.com/blog/edtech-ma

Two agencies. Same revenue. Same clients. Same team. One sells near the floor of its range. The other near the ceiling. The gap isn't growth or pitch polish. It's 5 things founders miss until they're at the table. Full 2026 agency M&A breakdown: feinternational.com/blog/agency-ma…

Three buyers. Same SaaS company. Offers come back 30-50% apart. The difference is not your metrics. It is who is across the table: feinternational.com/blog/pe-vs-str…

Most SaaS founders obsess over acquiring new customers. The metric that actually determines your exit price is what happens after the sale. We broke it down here: feinternational.com/blog/net-reven…

Most ecommerce founders think the hardest part of an exit is finding a buyer. It is not. It is being ready when the buyer shows up. We broke down what buyers want in 2026. Read it here: feinternational.com/blog/ecommerce…

The AI wrapper era is over. Acquirers stopped paying premium for ChatGPT bolted onto a commodity workflow. What they want now is the opposite: proprietary data, domain depth, defensible moats. Most founders are still pitching the old playbook: feinternational.com/blog/ai-ma-tre…

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We are excited to announce the acquisition of @MemberLeap, a cloud-based association management software company, by @ValsoftCorp through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lighthouse Software Group.