Looking Back, Looking Forward
To our users, partners, and friends,
As we start the new year, we want to take a moment to reflect on 2025 and share how we see the market evolving in 2026.
2025: A Defining Year
2025 was a defining year not just for us, but for the broader Web3 and tech M&A landscape.
One thing became increasingly clear. A missing layer in the market has started to form.
The Web3 ecosystem has matured. Many teams now operate real businesses with real users and real operations. Yet a large portion of these companies sit below the traditional M&A radar. Deals are often too small or too complex for traditional investment banks, but also too meaningful to be handled informally. Historically, this has left founders without proper access, structure, or guidance.
This is the gap Acquire.fi was built to address.
Our Progress in 2025
Over the past year, we’ve seen a clear increase in high quality middle market opportunities. Infrastructure providers, SaaS-like Web3 companies, profitable niche products, and operating teams that are genuinely worth acquiring. These are not experiments. They are businesses.
Key signals from 2025:
- M&A listings increased by more than 150%
- Buyer activity grew by over 120% year over year
- OTC desk facilitated 8+ figures in transaction volume, with activity continuing to rise
- Team size more than doubled, improving coverage, responsiveness, and execution
- We served as sell-side advisors on one of the year's major Dex-Perp deals.
These signals reflect real demand and real liquidity, not hype.
What We Focused On
During 2025, our focus was on strengthening the connective tissue of this emerging market.
- We deepened relationships with crypto native funds and strategic buyers.
- We improved how founders and acquirers find each other.
- We added structure where previously there was mostly ad hoc activity.
As a result, organic M&A submissions accelerated materially. Not because of narratives, but because founders increasingly see M&A as a real and viable outcome, even outside of venture-scale exits.
Looking Ahead to 2026
We believe this middle market will continue to solidify.
- The next phase is about efficiency and credibility.
- Clearer processes.
- Better alignment between buyers and sellers.
- A broader buyer universe that increasingly includes traditional technology acquirers, family offices, and private capital.
At the same time, we see a growing need for education and clarity around what modern Web3 and tech M&A actually looks like at this stage. You will see us continue contributing to that conversation through content, research, and in-person discussions.
Building this market has never been about speed alone.
It is about trust, repetition, and execution.
2025 showed that the middle market exists.
2026 is about making it work properly.
Thank you for being part of this journey as users, partners, and collaborators. We are excited to keep building the infrastructure that modern Web3 and tech businesses have been missing.
Jan Strandberg
Founder and CEO
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