SaaS and software
Recurring-revenue businesses where ARR quality, retention, concentration and product defensibility drive underwriting more than top-line growth alone.
Founder profile
Founder and Managing Director, Acquiry
Digital M&A advisor working with acquirers, investors and founders on buy-side and sell-side mandates across technology-driven businesses.
Joash Boyton is the Founder and Managing Director of Acquiry, a specialist M&A advisory firm focused on buying and selling digital businesses. He works with strategic acquirers, listed entities, private investors and founders across SaaS and software, fintech and payments, blockchain and digital assets, gaming and iGaming, and media and content.
Before advisory work, he built and operated digital businesses in search, domains and online asset markets. That operator background still shapes how he looks at deals — strategic fit, revenue quality, distribution ownership and execution risk, not only the headline price.
Acquiry advises on mandates from roughly USD $1 million to $500 million. That is the firm’s working range, not a personal deal-volume claim. For introductions, briefings or mandate conversations, use joashboynton.com/connect or Acquiry’s contact page.
Joash’s path into digital M&A started on the operator side. He founded SEMimpact as an SEO-focused domain supply business, then expanded that platform as Rank Networks — covering sales and acquisition operations, joint ventures, affiliate relationships and systems for managing large digital inventories.
That work meant sourcing assets, judging quality, packaging inventory and closing commercial relationships in markets that move quickly. Those same instincts now sit underneath advisory mandates: what is actually transferable, what a specific buyer can use, and where process usually breaks.
Founded an SEO-focused domain supply business spanning sales, acquisitions, joint ventures and technical systems for large-scale domain and data management.
Expanded market services, affiliate relationships and deal flow across domain and digital asset acquisitions.
Founded Acquiry to apply operator judgement to buy-side and sell-side mandates for digital businesses, backed by research and structured process.
Day to day, the work is the practical sequence of a digital M&A mandate: clarifying what a buyer or seller actually wants, building a qualified pipeline, scoring strategic fit, framing valuation and structure, sequencing outreach, preparing materials, coordinating diligence, and driving the process through close.
On the buy side that usually means multi-target programmes for strategic and financial acquirers — see Acquisitions. On the sell side it means preparing and running confidential sale processes — see Exits. Capital and process design questions sit under Capital. How mandates are run end-to-end is on How We Work.
These are the verticals Joash spends the most time in — the same markets Acquiry covers on the firm site. Each link opens the dedicated sector page for more depth.
Recurring-revenue businesses where ARR quality, retention, concentration and product defensibility drive underwriting more than top-line growth alone.
Payment, lending and financial-technology businesses where licensing, compliance posture and capital structure shape valuation and transferability.
Exchanges, wallets, infrastructure and related businesses where regulatory posture, custody risk and strategic rationale have to be explicit.
Operators, affiliates and related assets where licence quality, jurisdiction and channel economics shape process design and buyer pools.
Audience and content businesses where distribution ownership, organic acquisition cost and platform dependency dominate diligence.
Adjacent technology-driven models assessed case by case against the same standards of strategic fit, revenue quality and transfer risk.
Briefing on major announced AI, crypto and blockchain transactions — strategic rationale, structure notes and execution implications.
How AI is reshaping deal sourcing, valuation and execution across digital business M&A.
IntelligencePractitioner guide to valuation dynamics in iGaming transactions.
IntelligenceValuation and process considerations for crypto exchange transactions.
FrameworkScorecard thinking for recurring-revenue diligence.
PlaybookReference framing for structure choices in digital M&A.
EssayScarcity map for digital acquisitions in an AI-shaped market.
Joash is available for commentary and background briefings on digital M&A, SaaS valuation, fintech consolidation, blockchain acquisitions, gaming and iGaming transactions, AI’s impact on dealmaking, and cross-border process.
Press resources and brand assets live in the Press and Media Kit. Interview requests: press@acquiry.com.
Everything is meant to connect — Acquiry for firm work, personal sites for Joash directly, LinkedIn and press profiles for public presence.
Client identities and private deal values are not published here. For live mandate visibility for qualified counterparties, see Current Mandates and the Deal Room.
Buy-side programmes, business sales, introductions and media requests — start wherever you already are.