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Estikmal
Buy and sell businesses in Saudi Arabia.
A verified-only web marketplace for SMB acquisitions with structured offer flows, deal rooms, and Arabic-first UX — professionalizing the Saudi M&A market.
Launched
April 2025
Market
Saudi Arabia
Platform
Web
Role
Full-cycle from scratch
Status
Live
Live
Manual listing audit
Verification
Moyasar integrated
Payments
Salla ecosystem
Integration
Commission & subscriptions
Model
The brief
M&A transactions in Saudi Arabia happened over WhatsApp with no verification, structure, or escrow — serious buyers and sellers had no trusted digital platform.
The challenge
Every listing requires manual verification, every buyer needs qualification, and deals close over months — all had to be systematized and digitized from zero.
Our solution
A structured marketplace with ops-assisted listing verification, formal offer flows with escrow, deal rooms, and a premium visibility tier for sellers.
What we built
Six things that make Estikmal work.
01
Verified listings
Manual finance and document review by Estikmal ops before any listing goes live.
02
Structured offer flow
Formal offers with expiry dates and real-time status tracking (Pending → Completed).
03
Smart discovery
Filter businesses by price range, employee count, company age, city, and sector.
04
Buyer KYC tiers
Tiered verification gates access to listing details — unqualified buyers see limited info.
05
Premium visibility
Subscription upgrade highlighting listings and unlocking deep-dive data for buyers.
06
Salla integration
Seamless connectivity with Salla Partners for e-commerce merchant listings.
Visuals
What it looks like.
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Listing Details
Listings
Notifications
Services
Premium Subscription
Tech stack
The tools we picked, and why we kept them simple.
Boring tech where boring is right, sharp tech where it counts.
Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBAWSMoyasarMailgunAuthentica (OTP)Salla PartnersGoogle Maps
Results
What changed after launch.
565 live businesses
Listings
3,486 registered
Users
$48M brokered
GMV
Live at estikmal.com
Status
The response time was great and they were very cooperative.
MA
CEO & Founder
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