FinTech Businesses for Sale.
The subscription revenue tells you what the business earns today, but the real value lives in hard-won state licenses and compliance infrastructure that took years and real money to build and that competitors can't simply buy their way into.
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Due diligence
What to Look For
Practical guidance from hundreds of real acquisition conversations.
Subscription Revenue Quality
- Ask for the last 12 to 24 months of revenue broken out by type: subscriptions, transaction fees, one-time setup charges, and anything else.
- Net revenue retention over the last three years tells you whether existing customers are expanding their usage or quietly contracting.
- Steady subscription revenue with strong renewal rates commands the highest multiples and gives you the most predictable starting cash flow.
- Net revenue retention above 100% means existing customers are growing, which is as good a signal as a fintech business can send.
Licensing and Compliance Position
- Pull together the full licensing file early: which states, what license types, registration dates, and any audit findings.
- Ask specifically which licenses transfer automatically versus which require regulatory approval of the ownership change.
- Licenses with clean histories are genuinely hard to replicate and represent years of operational investment.
Integration Depth
- Ask for a list of every major integration: what it connects to, which customers use it, and what it would take to replace it.
- Platforms deeply embedded in a customer's workflow through live bank or brokerage integrations have significantly lower churn than those that sit on the periphery.
- Working integrations with financial partners create stickiness that advertising and pricing alone can't replicate.
Proprietary Data and Models
- Ask what data the company has accumulated, what it's used for, and whether those models are documented in a way a new owner can understand and maintain.
- Transaction data and trained models built over years are assets no competitor can simply purchase.
- Get clarity on data ownership and whether any customer contracts limit how the data can be used or transferred.
Valuation
What Should You Expect to Pay?
3x-6x
SDE
Mixed revenue, some licensing, owner-operated
6x-10x
EBITDA
Strong recurring revenue, multi-state licensing, management team
The spread reflects how much of the revenue comes from predictable subscriptions and how transferable the licensing and compliance infrastructure is, with businesses that combine strong retention and clean regulatory standing consistently reaching the top of the range.
What drives a premium
Annual or multi-year subscription contracts with strong renewal rates and low churn
Active state licenses and a clean compliance history representing years of regulatory work
Deep integrations with financial partners that make the platform sticky and difficult to replace
Proprietary transaction data and trained models that competitors cannot replicate
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