Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Author: Acquire.com July 3, 2024 Duration: 30:30

Curious what a professional small startup acquirer cares about when scouting a business to purchase?


There are a growing group of people who make a living out of acquiring growing startups and taking them to new heights. Pascal Levy-Garboua, founder of Noosa Labs is one of these experts.


Pascal started Noosa after 20 years in tech – mostly startups. He sold his first chatbot more than a decade ago and later went on to become an early investor in Notion and other startups in SF.


Pascal thought he wanted to become a venture capitalist, but he missed the thrill of building. He discovered business marketplaces like Acquire.com let him buy an already operational business and take it to the next level and was hooked.


Now Pascal makes a living buying profitable growing startups and flipping them if they stall. He’s already acquired four and is always looking for a new purchase.


Tune into Pascal’s interview with Andrew as they discuss:

  • Pascal’s perfect acquisition targets on Acquire.com
  • Why he prefers buying to investing
  • His favorite startup he’s acquired
  • The three things he likes all buyers should avoid like the plague

  • Pascal is just getting started and you can follow his journey through the following links:


  • Behind every successful startup acquisition, there's a story-a complex mix of strategy, emotion, and paperwork that rarely gets discussed openly. Startup Acquisition Stories, from the team at Acquire.com, pulls back the curtain on those real-world transactions. Each episode features founders and entrepreneurs who have personally navigated the process of selling or buying a business through their platform. You'll hear them recount the nuanced decisions that don't make it into press releases: the challenging conversations around valuation, the subtle art of vetting the opposite party, and the critical, often overlooked, steps after the handshake. This podcast digs into the practicalities of due diligence, structuring terms, and managing the transfer of assets, all the way through to escrow and the crucial post-deal transition. It’s a grounded, detail-oriented look at the mechanics of a business exit or expansion, straight from the people who’ve lived it. For anyone curious about the actual path to a deal, beyond the theory, this series offers a rare archive of lived experience and hard-won advice.
    Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

    Startup Acquisition Stories
    Podcast Episodes
    How to Sell Your Startup for a Life-Changing Payout [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 22:23
    What does it take to sell a music software startup and walk away with a life-changing payout?Emmett Cooke says it comes down to four things:1. Leveraging existing relationships to acquire your first customers2. Building…
    Are You Selling an Asset or Selling a Job? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 19:40
    If Ian Fourie could give two pieces of advice to founders selling their SaaS startups, he’d say: Register your business in only one country Start pushing founder responsibilities to employees as soon as you canIan sold h…
    How Gabby Rosen Flipped a Newsletter for 18x in Under a Year [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 16:12
    What does it take to sell a startup for almost 20 times what you paid for it?Gabriella (Gabby) Rosen says it comes down to three things:Having an unfair advantage when you buyListing on Acquire.com for slightly less than…
    Want to Build an Agency Worth Buying? Spend a Decade Saying Yes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 29:23
    While working full-time as a pharmaceutical sales rep, Bobby Dimovski noticed that medical professionals were: Always looking for new ways to grow their business. Usually 10 years behind on marketing trends. Hard to acce…
    Look For This When Acquiring Startups, It Could Triple the Resale [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 12:07
    After building and selling one of the first ChatGPT plagiarism checkers on the market in 2024, Tomer Tarsky decided to search Acquire.com for another project in the edtech AI space. He found a promising business, grew it…
    Turning Your Weakest Skill into an Acquire’d Startup [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

    Duration: 16:58
    Are you a developer who’s bad at email marketing? Ironically, you may be in a great position to build the next big email marketing tool. Onur Genes wanted to promote his software development agency but couldn’t write goo…