For business owners
Sell us your commerce business.
We buy and take stakes in good South African commerce businesses, then help them grow with the whole Artive group behind them. Sell it all, sell a majority, or sell a stake and grow with us.
What we look forGood businesses. Plainly run.
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Commerce
An online store, a brand, a marketplace seller, a service merchants rely on, or the infrastructure behind them.
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South African
Built here and selling here, or selling from here to the rest of Africa.
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Profitable, or close
Real customers paying real money. We’d rather a small business that works than a big one that doesn’t.
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An owner who cares
Whether you want to step away or grow with us, you care what happens to it next.
What you getKeep what makes it work.
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A simple process
Plain questions, a straight answer and a written offer. No drawn-out games.
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Your brand and team stay
We keep what makes the business work, including the people who run it.
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Your choice of role
Stay and run it, stay part time, or hand over and step away. We plan it with you.
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The whole group behind it
Brand, stores, growth and commerce data from Artive Commerce, Capital and the lab.
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Built to keep
We buy to hold and grow, not to flip.
How it worksFive steps to an offer.
Tell us
A few questions about the business. Headline numbers are enough to start.
Talk
A call to understand the business and what you want from a sale.
Look closer
We go through the numbers together, under a confidentiality agreement.
Offer
A written offer: for all of it, a majority or a stake.
Handover
A plan for you, your team and your customers that suits everyone.
QuestionsGood to know.
Sometimes, if it’s close and the reason is clear. Profitable businesses are where we start.
Fit matters more than size. Tell us about it and we’ll say whether it fits.
Yes. Share headline numbers first. Before you share detail, we sign a confidentiality agreement.
Yes. You can sell us a minority stake and keep running it, with the group behind you.
Got a commerce problem worth a company? We want to hear it.
A few lines is enough: the problem, who has it and why now.