Venturu - The Zillow for SMBs

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Frequent asked questions:

What is Searchfunder.com?

Searchfunder.com is an online community of searchers, investors, lenders, brokers and other professionals. Over 80% of those involved in searchfunds maintain a Searchfunder account to help them network, hire, and mentor others.

What are the benefits of membership?

In addition to accessing the most active online network of business buyers, Searchfunder licenses research that is simply not cost effective for individuals. Access over 15,000 industry reports and 50,000 transaction financials. You also get monthly credits for contact information for your company sourcing campaign with the option to purchase more at drastically discounted rates. Searchfunder has pre-purchased access from these data providers in order to empower individual buyers and to help searchers level the playing field versus private equity.

Do you have deals?

While we are primarily a buy-side network, we do have hundreds of brokers that regularly post deals to the community.

Can I find an internship on Searchfunder?

Absolutely! We have the industry's largest intern job board. If you are considering a search, the first step is to help another business buyer so you can hit the ground running.

What does it cost?

Searchfunder is a subscription service. We offer flexible monthly, annual and lifetime memberships.

Monthly

$79 / month

Annual

$19 / month

Lifetime

$432 / once

Those who maintain an account with us for over 4 continuous years are permanently added to the community without the need for a membership.

Do I need an MBA to join?

While a large number of our members come from dedicated programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Chicago Booth, and other top programs, searching is no longer reserved for the elite. With the current abundance of dry powder in private equity, and an increasing number of business owners reaching retirement age, good deals rarely go unfunded.

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by a professional from Free University Amsterdam
in Miami, FL, USA

3mos ago

PRODUCT / SERVICE

Deal sourcing

Venturu - The Zillow for SMBs

Free marketplace for buying and selling local businesses. 4,450+ verified listings across all 50 states, sourced directly through partnerships with brokerages like Sunbelt and Miami Realtors — no scraped or stale data. Every listing comes with AI-powered Insights that score the opportunity and break down the financials in plain English. Built by a searcher who got tired of the sourcing process after acquiring 6 businesses.

Product Homepage:

https://www.venturu.com/

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reply by a professional 3mos ago
from Free University Amsterdam in Miami, FL, USA

Hey everyone, Joel here. Just joined the community. A bit of backstory on why I'm here: My co-founder Luis has been rolling up auto repair shops for a while. By the time he closed on his 6th shop, he was basically losing his mind over how painful the deal-sourcing process is. You guys know the drill, you spend hours digging through the usual sites only to find out a listing is stale, already under LOI, or just a ghost post. The data quality out there is honestly garbage. We got so fed up that we decided to build our own tool to fix it, the platform you see above. We knew we couldn't just build another scraper as there were plenty aggregators out there full of stale / dead listings that operate in gray areas, so we spent the last few months doing the unsexy work of setting up direct, verified data feeds with brokerages (like Sunbelt) and associations (like Miami Realtors). We have been attending business broker conferences for the past year and meeting people over and over again in order to accomplish this. But what this means is that every listing on there is directly sourced, actually active and legitimate. To speed up Luis's workflow, we also baked in automatic price tracking and free preliminary business analysis on the listings to kill that initial screening bottleneck. Since we originally built this to solve Luis's headache, I want to know if it actually solves yours. For the self-funded and traditional searchers in here, play around with it and please rip it apart. What are we missing? What features would make this your daily driver for deal flow? Appreciate any honest feedback.