Tim Schumacher

Tim Schumacher is the Co-Founder of saas-group. For reference, saas.group specializes in acquiring SaaS businesses with a strong product-market fit and annual recurring revenue (ARR) between $2M and $10M. It is the world’s biggest platform of independent SaaS brands. Founded in 2017 and with over 350 team members across 30 countries, the company has acquired 24 companies to date, including Tower, Rewardful, Prerender, Juicer, Seobility, and Timebutler. 

Topic
As the venture market continues to tighten and interest rates reset startup valuations, the old SaaS playbook—raise fast, scale faster, and pray for a strategic exit—is looking increasingly obsolete. A growing wave of founders with $2M–$10M ARR businesses are discovering that profitability, not hypergrowth, now determines exit value. 

Tim says the SaaS mid-market M&A landscape has completely flipped:

-Exit multiples now follow capital efficiency, not top-line growth. 

-Buyers are scrutinizing Revenue per Employee and Customer Acquisition Payback, not vanity metrics. 

-Founders waiting for a Google- or Salesforce-style buyout are missing the real source of liquidity: financial buyers like Aggregators, PE, and Micro-PE funds.

About Tim:
Tim Schumacher is a German entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years of experience building and scaling global technology companies. He co-founded and led Sedo into the world’s largest domain marketplace before exiting at over €100M in revenue. Tim is also a leading voice in digital privacy as Chairman of Eyeo (Adblock Plus) and a climate tech investor as Founding General Partner at World Fund, Europe’s leading climate VC. He was an early investor in Ecosia and helped establish its steward-ownership model to lock in its climate mission.