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📈 Ecom Rising
Our off-market ecommerce deals, plus the week's digital asset news and top discussions in the community
Richard Patey
September 20, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Hey there 👋,
The first two of weeks of launching Patey.Capital has predominantly been about ecommerce deals. I’m working in partnership with an experienced M&A advisor who has a background in corporate finance who has closed 7, 8 and 9-figure ecommerce transactions. Together, we are unlocking a lot of Amazon and website based ecommerce dealflow from our combined networks.
You can see three 7-figure deals below, and we have more in the pipeline. It feels as if ecommerce is coming back, if not at the previous aggregator fuelled multiples.
If you are an ecommerce store owner but still need to scale to get to a 7 figure exit, you can access a free course by Nate Ginsburg of SellerPlex that sets out a roadmap to get you there. Sign up on beehiiv here and you’ll get access to the course inside their Skool community. (Funnel built by Monetize.Community).
And if you want to attend the ecommerce network event of the year, check out the Cross Border Summit 2024 in Chiang Mai by entrepreneur and ecommerce veteran Mike Michelini:
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📰 Digital Asset Industry News
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🤝 Current 7 Figure Deals
Just hit reply if interested in finding out more on any of these deals. We also pay referral fees for introductions.
🏷️ Sell Side
1/ D2C Health Subscription Ecommerce [SELL]
🏷️ Asking Price: €2,125,000
💼 EBITDA: €550K
📊 Revenue: €2.1M
📍 Location: UK, EU
📅 Established: 2020
📝 Overview: Holistic wellness and supplements business with over €2M in total revenue TTM, with €65K/m in MRR from 2000+ active subscriptions. Great brand name on a .com, 60K+ email list. Scale opportunities to increase lifetime customer value, improve SEO and expand to more countries in the EU. An operations manager coordinates the supply chain and staff, and fulfilment is handled by a logistics partner.
🛒 Buy Side
2/ Furniture or Interior Design Ecommerce [BUY]
We have a UHNW billionaire client with a conglomerate of companies, who recently moved into ecommerce. We supported the initial acquisitions (Retail ecomm + 3PL business) with a transformation plan and the full suite of senior team hires. The company has hit its growth plan and consequently our client is looking for acquisitions to foster further growth in this part of his portfolio.
We’re looking for e-commerce acquisitions in furniture, home furnishings and interior design, up to £5m in Enterprise Value per transaction.
3/ Ecommerce Store or Marketplace [BUY]
💼 SDE: $500K-$750K
📍 Location: SBA qualified (or potential to qualify)
📅 Established: 3+ years
📝 Overview: Search fund looking for ecommerce business where the website/store is the majority revenue channel.
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🧑🤝🧑 Digital Asset Marketplace Posts
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That’s it for this week, until next time, catch me in the community.
Cheers!
Richard (@richardpatey)
Disclaimer: Nothing in this email is financial advice and I am not a professional investment adviser. I send weekly updates on digital asset news and what I'm doing personally - consider it informational and for entertainment purposes only. There are likely affiliate links in this issue.
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