Serava is built for the other 90 percent: service businesses, trades, and healthcare.
Acquire.com
Acquire.com is an online marketplace where founders list SaaS products, e-commerce stores, content sites, and digital agencies for sale. Buyers browse listings with verified revenue metrics and connect directly with sellers.
Serava
Serava surfaces off-market service businesses, including HVAC companies, dental practices, property management firms, staffing agencies, and MSPs, that have never been listed anywhere, scored by exit readiness before any advisor is involved.
Feature
Serava
Acquire.com
Business type focus
Market stage
Physical vs. digital operations
SBA 7(a) loan eligible targets
Owner tenure signal
AI fit scoring
Revenue verification
Asking price dynamics
Target universe size
Geographic coverage
Industries covered
Cost for buyers
Bottom line
Acquire.com is the right tool if you want to buy a SaaS product, e-commerce store, or digital media business. Serava is the right tool if you want to buy a service business, a healthcare practice, or a trades company with local operations, recurring customers, and SBA financing potential.
Serava focuses on service businesses with physical operations: HVAC, plumbing, dental, property management, MSP, staffing, and similar. It does not surface SaaS products or e-commerce stores. For pure digital businesses, Acquire.com, Flippa, or MicroAcquire are better fits. For owner-operated service businesses, Serava has broader off-market coverage than any other platform.
Service businesses have stable, recurring revenue from local customer relationships that are hard to replicate. They are eligible for SBA 7(a) loans (up to $5M with 10% down), which dramatically lowers capital requirements. They also tend to have lower acquisition multiples than SaaS because they are less visible to financial buyers, especially when sourced off-market.
Serava uses revenue estimates derived from employee counts, public data, and industry benchmarks rather than seller-connected financial verification. This is intentional: Serava targets pre-market businesses where no financial package exists yet. The verification happens during your own due diligence after initial outreach.
A business listed on Acquire.com has an owner who has decided to sell, set an asking price, and is likely talking to multiple buyers. An off-market business found through Serava has not made any of those decisions, which means you can approach before expectations are anchored, before competition exists, and potentially before a broker adds their fee to the purchase price.
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