Acquire.Fi: A Web3 M&A Startup That Found Niche In a $5T Global Market

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) make up a $5.9 trillion market, and their footprints in Web3 reached an all-time high in 2021, with expectations for further growth this year. M&A is the umbrella business term for the consolidation of companies or assets carried out through investors and other web3 companies that help stimulate growth, gain competitive advantages, increase market share, or influence supply chains.

M&A makes up a unique class of financial transactions encompassing mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, consolidations, asset purchases, and management-led buyouts. 

State of the M&A Market

After an all-time drop in the M&A transaction values in 2020, the M&A markets rebounded to reach new heights by the end of 2021 as the total transaction value of the deals was estimated to reach over $5.9 trillion globally. The market witnessed increasing diversity in the map of dealmakers and types of trades.

Corporate buyers, investors in add-on deals, financial investors, and venture capitals significantly participated in M&A activities. Strategic transactions were observed to reach $3.8 trillion in value, a 47% increase from 2020.

As suggested by a recent PwC report, despite a slower start in 2022, there are optimistic expectations for M&A market activities in the second half of the year.

The Need for M&A in the Crypto Space

Traditionally, M&A deals flow within tight circles as private discussions, and retail investors cannot access these opportunities. Further, it needs immense financial, technical, and legal expertise to get involved in M&As and conduct research to find business valuations. 

The lack of access to information about deal-flows, the need for bulk investments, and expertise have been prime factors discouraging retail investors from finding new opportunities to compound wealth. Further, Web2’s due diligence, proof of funds, and escrow processes are complicated, costly, and time-consuming.

Creating a platform for M&A can significantly simplify the processes, and cut costs. Asset tokenization and fractionalized ownership on blockchain present retail investors a unique opportunity to crowdfund and own a fraction of companies or assets.

How Acquire.Fi Found Niche in Web3 M&A

Acquire.Fi rose from native crypto M&A alpha. It was incubated in a boutique crypto marketing agency and growth lab by a team consisting of a crypto unicorn builder, an M&A wealth building legend, web3 legal counsel, and an NFT and DeFi protocol developer. 

Acquire.Fi is the world’s first platform that offers unpublished deal flow, native web3 M&A alpha, investor matchmaking, and buyer support. With fractionalized ownership, retail investors can crowdfund to acquire crypto companies and IPs that are up for sale. Fractional ownership is issued through NFTs that can be sold on a secondary marketplace, offering users easy access to liquidity.

Currently, the project has a listing database comprising over 40 companies with a revenue potential of $82 million. The size of the deal flows on the platform for full acquisition ranges between $120,000 to $12M and Acquire.Fi has reached its MVP funding milestone in just under 2 months of founding. With their investment pools, fractionalized ownership, asset digitization, and NFTs Acquire.Fi is set to advance wealth-building.

Conclusion

Acquire.Fi will be the first M&A marketplace for web3, crypto, blockchain, and NFT companies or IPs. Equipped with its retail marketplace, the project is expected to bring equal opportunities for wealth-building to investors of all sizes.