How many startups have been acquired on TrustMRR?

How many startups have been acquired on TrustMRR?

TrustMRR has now reached acquisition #158, making 158 the current number of completed deals on the marketplace.

TrustMRR’s seller page currently reports the same total over the past 365 days. More importantly, the public acquisition feed has kept numbering transactions one by one. Its latest deal was a marketing-automation SaaS generating $3,700 over the previous 30 days. It sold for $20,000 after nine days on the marketplace.

That gives us a much firmer answer than an old founder post or an outdated TrustMRR description. Earlier pages still mention lower milestones, but the live marketplace and the latest transaction sequence have moved beyond them.

The number itself is clear. What needs more scrutiny is what TrustMRR calls an acquisition and how substantial those deals really are.

What does TrustMRR actually count as an acquisition?

TrustMRR counts a deal as an acquisition once the buyer has paid, the agreed assets have been transferred and the transaction has reached completion through the acquisition workflow.

According to TrustMRR’s current FAQ, a buyer and seller can first negotiate an offer, sign an LOI and go through due diligence. They then sign an asset purchase agreement and move the payment through Escrow.com. The deal only reaches completed status after the buyer funds escrow, the seller transfers the agreed assets and the funds are released.

An accepted offer therefore does not automatically enter the acquisition count. Neither does an LOI.

One nuance: TrustMRR’s Terms say the platform coordinates the process but does not personally inspect or guarantee that every asset was transferred correctly. The buyer and seller remain responsible for the transaction itself. So 158 is a count of deals completed through TrustMRR’s process, rather than an independently audited M&A registry.

Are all TrustMRR acquisitions actually revenue-generating startups?

No, TrustMRR acquisitions currently include everything from profitable SaaS businesses to tiny apps and products making no money at all.

TrustMRR’s own weekly acquisition data makes this very clear. One B2B SEO SaaS with zero monthly revenue sold for $10,000. A pregnancy-tracking app with no revenue sold for $1,150. An AI content tool making nothing at the time of sale changed hands for $3,000.

Other deals look much more like conventional small-business acquisitions. An AI English-practice product making roughly $4,000 per month sold for $40,000, while a health app generating about $2,000 per month sold for $60,000.

So when we say that startups were “acquired on TrustMRR,” startup has to be understood quite broadly. Some buyers are acquiring a functioning cash-flowing business. Others are buying code, users, distribution, an app-store presence or simply a product that would take time to rebuild.

How much money has changed hands through TrustMRR acquisitions?

TrustMRR currently reports $914,000 in total acquisition volume, which works out to roughly $5,800 per completed deal on average.

That puts the headline acquisition count into perspective. Hundreds of millions of dollars are not moving through this marketplace. These are mostly relatively small internet-business transactions.

TrustMRR also reports a 2.0x average acquired multiple. That fits the type of businesses being sold: small SaaS products and apps where a buyer can often recover the purchase price relatively quickly if revenue holds up.

The $5,800 figure should not be treated as the price of a normal startup, though. A few $60,000 to $85,000 exits pull the average upward, while TrustMRR’s newsletters regularly show sales below $5,000.

How big is a normal TrustMRR acquisition?

Most TrustMRR acquisitions appear to be small, and the public deals suggest that a transaction in the low thousands is much more ordinary than an $85,000 exit.

We cannot calculate a reliable median because TrustMRR does not publish one clean dataset containing the final price of every acquisition. But its weekly newsletters give us enough transactions to see the shape of the market.

At the bottom, businesses have sold for a few hundred dollars. In one weekly issue, an AI music app making around $500 per month went for $400. Another issue showed a SaaS marketing tool selling for $800.

Then there is a middle group in the low thousands: a travel marketplace sold for $2,300, a freelance job board for $2,700 and a B2B analytics SaaS for $3,600.

The large exits get more attention, naturally. TrustMRR currently highlights SocialKit’s $85,000 sale, and previous public deals include Directify at $85,000 and DropPop at $63,000. These are clearly the upper end of the marketplace rather than ordinary transactions.

TrustMRR acquisition example	Revenue around the sale	Sale price
AI music app	~$500/month	$400
SaaS marketing tool	~$50/month	$800
Travel marketplace	~$500/month	$2,300
B2B analytics SaaS	~$500/month	$3,600
AI English-practice tool	~$4,000/month	$40,000
Health app	~$2,000/month	$60,000
SocialKit	~$3,300 MRR plus one-time revenue	$85,000

What are TrustMRR buyers actually paying for?

TrustMRR buyers are often paying for a head start rather than simply buying a stream of MRR.

Recurring revenue obviously helps. The marketplace shows revenue, MRR, margins and valuation multiples precisely because buyers use those numbers to judge a business.

But TrustMRR’s acquisition process also tells us what else changes hands. Asset purchase agreements can include the source code, domain, database, payment accounts, hosting setup, brand assets and social accounts.

That helps explain why a product with little or no revenue can still find a buyer. Someone may prefer spending $2,000 or $10,000 on a working product instead of spending weeks building the same software from scratch, setting up payments, publishing it, attracting the first users and fixing the early bugs.

The larger deals add another layer. Directify had reached roughly $2,000 MRR before selling for $85,000. SocialKit was around $3,300 MRR plus additional one-time revenue when it sold for the same price. At that level, buyers are clearly paying for an operating business and its future upside as well as the code.

How quickly do startups actually sell on TrustMRR?

Successful TrustMRR acquisitions currently take 23 days on average, but individual deals can close in four days or sit on the marketplace for months.

The word “successful” is important here. TrustMRR’s 23-day figure describes businesses that eventually got acquired. It does not include every startup still waiting for a buyer.

The recent transactions show how wide the range can be. JobBeacon, a hiring SaaS, sold for $2,300 only four days after being listed. The latest marketing-automation acquisition took nine days. DivineTalk, by contrast, needed 180 days before closing its $10,000 sale.

Price, revenue, buyer fit and the seller’s expectations can therefore change the timeline dramatically.

TrustMRR deal	Sale price	Time from listing to acquisition
JobBeacon	$2,300	4 days
Marketing-automation SaaS	$20,000	9 days
DivineTalk	$10,000	180 days
Completed acquisitions overall	—	23 days on average

Is TrustMRR actually closing acquisitions regularly now?

Yes, TrustMRR is currently closing enough deals for acquisitions to look like an ongoing marketplace activity rather than a handful of launch-period wins.

The current 365-day acquisition total works out to just over three completed deals per week on average.

TrustMRR’s newsletters broadly match that pace. One recent weekly issue reported five acquisitions: a B2B SEO SaaS, a sports analytics platform, a pregnancy app, an AI English-practice product and a B2B analytics SaaS. An earlier issue also contained five completed deals ranging from $275 to $3,000.

The public acquisition feed has kept moving lately too. JobBeacon appeared as acquisition #153, DivineTalk as #157, with several other deals closing between them.

There will obviously be busy and quiet weeks, but we no longer have to infer whether transactions are happening repeatedly. They are.

Does TrustMRR’s verified revenue make these acquisitions safer?

TrustMRR’s verified revenue gives buyers better evidence than a founder screenshot, although buyers still need to check the business themselves.

TrustMRR connects to payment providers and reconstructs revenue, MRR and other metrics from transaction data. That makes it harder for a seller to create a fake Stripe screenshot and claim revenue that never existed.

Interestingly, TrustMRR’s own FAQ is quite open about the limits. It says its calculated metrics can differ from a payment provider’s dashboard by as much as 30% in some cases because providers handle refunds, trials, prorations and currencies differently.

And verified revenue tells us very little about several risks a buyer actually cares about. It does not prove that customers will stay, that SEO traffic will survive, that the code is good, that the intellectual property is clean or that the founder has disclosed every operational problem.

TrustMRR gives buyers a stronger starting point for due diligence. Buyers still have to do the due diligence.

Can we actually verify TrustMRR’s acquisition count?

We can verify TrustMRR’s acquisition count unusually well for a small private marketplace, although we cannot independently audit every single transaction.

There are several overlapping records. TrustMRR publishes a live marketplace total. Its public account assigns sequential numbers to individual acquisitions. Weekly newsletters show batches of completed sales with revenue and purchase prices. Older posts also preserve earlier milestones, so we can see the number rising over time rather than appearing suddenly as one marketing claim.

Public identification becomes patchier at the individual-company level. TrustMRR lets both parties decide whether they want the acquired startup named publicly. If either side declines, the platform can announce something generic such as “B2B analytics SaaS” together with its revenue and sale price.

TrustMRR’s Terms go even further and state that the company is an intermediary rather than a party to the acquisition, and that it does not guarantee the underlying assets or financial information.

We would therefore call the acquisition total well supported as a TrustMRR platform metric. Calling it independently audited would go too far.

Does all this mean it is easy to sell a startup on TrustMRR?

No, TrustMRR clearly has active buyers today, but the public data still does not tell us what percentage of sellers eventually get acquired.

This distinction is easy to miss. The marketplace currently contains roughly 2,100 businesses, while TrustMRR promotes a 23-day average closing time for completed acquisitions and says well-priced startups receive several offers quickly.

Those numbers describe different populations. The thousands of marketplace listings are current inventory. The closing-time statistic only looks at successful deals. We do not have a cohort showing, for example, 1,000 startups listed during the same period and exactly how many of those 1,000 eventually sold.

Without that denominator, there is no defensible TrustMRR sell-through rate.

What we can see is genuine liquidity at the low end of startup M&A. A founder with a small SaaS can now point to repeated examples of buyers paying $500, $2,000, $10,000, $40,000 or occasionally much more for businesses that would have been difficult to sell through conventional M&A channels.

That’s already meaningful. It still does not mean every listing will find a buyer.

Is TrustMRR becoming a serious startup acquisition marketplace?

TrustMRR is already a real marketplace for micro-acquisitions, although its deal sizes still put it in a very different category from traditional startup M&A.

The marketplace currently has around 2,100 businesses available, advertises roughly 200,000 monthly visitors and has produced a steady stream of completed transactions. Buyers are paying actual money through an escrow-based process, sometimes within days of a listing going live.

At the same time, the economics are unmistakably small. Total transaction volume remains below $1 million, and many businesses change hands for less than the price of a used car. Even the biggest public TrustMRR exits we found top out around $85,000.

That combination is what makes TrustMRR interesting. It is creating liquidity in a part of the startup market where traditional brokers have little reason to get involved. A $3,000 SaaS acquisition is tiny for an M&A firm but potentially meaningful for a solo founder who has stopped working on the product.

TrustMRR currently looks much more established as a marketplace for those micro-exits than as a destination for conventional six- or seven-figure startup acquisitions.

So how many startups have actually been acquired on TrustMRR?

As seen above, 158 startups and digital businesses have been acquired on TrustMRR, and the evidence is strong enough for us to use that as the current answer.

The latest public deal numbering reaches the same figure shown by TrustMRR’s live seller statistics, while the platform’s newsletters and older milestones give us a reasonably continuous trail leading up to it.

We would only change the wording around what those acquisitions represent. Calling all of them “startup exits” can make the market sound much bigger than it is. The underlying deals range from zero-revenue apps worth a few hundred dollars to established SaaS products selling for tens of thousands.

So the headline number holds up. TrustMRR really has completed 158 acquisitions. The more revealing finding is that it has created an active market for a type of company that was previously awkward to sell at all: the tiny bootstrapped software business.