saas.group specializes in acquiring promising SaaS businesses with a strong product-market fit and annual recurring revenue (ARR) between $2M and $10M. Founded in 2017 by serial tech entrepreneurs, the company has acquired 25 companies to date, including Tower, Rewardful, Prerender, Juicer, Seobility, and Timebutler. With a team of around 400 people across 30 countries globally, saas.group provides products across Online Marketing, HR, Dev Tools, Customer Experience, and more.
saas.group was founded by Tim Schumacher (previously co-founder and CEO of Sedo.com, one of the world’s largest domain marketplaces), Ulrich Essmann, Tobias Schlottke, and David Khalil. The company’s first acquisition was DeployBot.com, purchased for approximately $1M from Tim’s personal funds after his Sedo exit. DeployBot was generating ~$50K/month with ~50% margins from day one, proving the buy-and-grow model could deliver immediate returns - unlike the typical venture-backed playbook of spending years before profitability.
The company’s “aha moment” came when Tim was offered a SaaS business at just 4x EBITDA - a valuation far below the sky-high multiples of public SaaS companies. He recognized an underserved gap: businesses too small for institutional investors but too big for individual entrepreneurs. saas.group was built to fill that gap.
Cologne-based SaaS company closed three deals in final quarter of 2025 to bring total acquisitions to 25 saas.group, the platform for independent SaaS companies, has...
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