As a Los Angeles eCommerce M&A firm, Creative Biz Exchange specializes in M&A for online retail businesses across California, helping founders navigate transitions with clarity, precision, and AI-backed data.
E-commerce Industry
E-commerce deals move on different terms than most businesses. As a California eCommerce M&A firm, we help you position, benchmark, and close around the numbers that actually matter to a buyer.
Explore NowGMV & Margin Benchmarking
Buyer & Aggregator Sourcing
Channel & Retention Analysis
Deal Structuring & Close
Valuation
Revenue multiples only tell part of the story. Here's what buyers dig into before they ever talk price.
Repeat Purchase Rate
A high repeat rate tells a buyer growth doesn't depend entirely on paid acquisition.
Channel Diversification
Revenue spread across owned site, marketplaces, and retail reduces platform dependency risk.
Gross Margin
Landed cost, fulfillment, and returns all show up here, and buyers scrutinize every point of it.
Customer Acquisition Cost
CAC trending down relative to LTV signals a scalable, not just growing, business.
Inventory & Supplier Terms
Clean supplier relationships and healthy inventory turns reduce a buyer's working-capital risk.
Brand vs. Founder Equity
A brand customers trust independent of the founder's personal following transfers cleanly.
Why Us
E-commerce M&A rewards a team who actually understands the business model. Here's what that looks like at a boutique M&A firm in California.
E-commerce-Fluent Team
We understand GMV, contribution margin, and channel mix natively.
Data-Backed Valuation
Benchmarked against real, comparable e-commerce transactions, including active buyer activity.
Confidential Process
Your team, suppliers, and competitors stay in the dark until you're ready to tell them.
Qualified Buyer Pool
We bring the business to strategics, aggregators, and private buyers who understand e-commerce.
AI & Modern Methods
Creative Biz Exchange runs channel and margin analysis, aggregator and buyer research, and comparable-transaction benchmarking through a modern, AI-enabled process, while every negotiation and strategic decision stays in the hands of a team who understands e-commerce economics.
Our Process
Five stages. One point of contact the whole way through.
Business
review
Valuation
benchmark
Sourcing
buyers
Diligence
& offers
You're
closed
Testimonials
Real outcomes from online sellers who trusted us with a transaction that mattered to them.
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
We typically work with e-commerce brands from around $500K to $20M in revenue across Los Angeles and California, whether you're selling, raising, or acquiring.
We benchmark GMV, margin, repeat rate, and channel mix against recent comparable e-commerce transactions, supported by AI-assisted market research, not a flat revenue multiple.
It affects positioning, not eligibility. Shopify, Amazon-first, and multi-channel brands are all valued differently, and we account for that.
Yes. We work with buyers too, sourcing and vetting e-commerce opportunities that match your criteria.
