Typical UAE-domiciled SaaS businesses transact at 2x to 5x revenue, with higher multiples reserved for businesses with >70% gross margin, low concentration risk, and a credible second-line management team. Marketplace and platform plays are valued lower (1x to 3x revenue) due to higher take-rate fragility.
Tech acquisitions need a different process than asset-heavy businesses: customer concentration, contract churn, IP ownership (especially around freelance contributors and offshore development teams), and trade-licence-vs-residency complications need clean handling before any letter of intent is signed. SHARH's tech-deal process layers these checks into a structured pre-marketing brief.
Buyers include regional strategics expanding their stacks, founder-operators looking for synergistic acquisitions, and family-office-backed search funds. Marketplace listings show high-level metrics; full revenue waterfall, customer concentration, and codebase audit are released only after NDA execution.