saas.group buys bootstrapped B2B SaaS and runs it through a shared operating platform, mostly out of Europe. We buy software companies in the US, venture backed or bootstrapped, and operate each one as itself. Both are permanent-capital models. The differences show up in who you'd be selling to and what the company becomes.
Long-term holding company. Each company operates independently under its own name.
Portfolio group with shared central functions supporting the companies it owns.
United States, headquartered in Bend, Oregon.
Centre of gravity in Europe, with a distributed team and a largely European portfolio.
Software companies, $2M to $10M in ARR, B2B or B2C, vertical agnostic.
Bootstrapped B2B SaaS, typically $1M to $10M in ARR.
Routine. Preference stacks and investor consents are ordinary work for us.
Stated focus is bootstrapped companies.
We close within 60 days and pay cash.
Process length varies by deal.
No earnouts. No ghost equity or complicated structures, just cash for your business.
Structures vary; ask directly about earnouts and deferred consideration.
The company keeps its name, product, team and roadmap. We bring capital and operating experience.
Companies join a group platform with shared marketing, finance and operational support.
Founders decide whether to stay with the business or hand it off. No golden handcuffs.
Transition arrangements vary by deal.
Five majority-owned software companies, all still operated by us.
A larger portfolio of B2B SaaS brands run through the group model.
Everything else on this page is detail. The decision underneath it is whether your company should join a shared operating platform or keep running as itself, and there are good arguments on both sides.
A group with central marketing, finance and hiring can give a six-person company capabilities it could never afford alone. If your bottleneck is that there's nobody to run paid acquisition or close the books, a platform genuinely fixes that on day one.
The trade is standardization. Shared functions work because they're shared, which means your company adapts to the platform rather than the other way around.
Our companies keep their own name, team, roadmap and way of working. We bring operating experience and capital and otherwise get out of the way, because the thing that made the company work is usually the thing a platform would standardize away.
The trade is that we're smaller. There is no in-house function for everything, and some problems you'll still solve yourself.
For a US-based software company, often yes. Both of us are permanent-capital buyers holding indefinitely. The clearest differences are geography, whether your cap table has venture money on it, and whether your company joins a shared platform or keeps running independently.
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