# Raincatcher

National sell-side shop, listings behind a login.

National sell-side brokerage and M&A advisory for businesses from roughly $3M to $100M of revenue, with a brokerage arm for companies under $2M of earnings, plus buy-side advisory and valuations.

- Category: Business Brokers & M&A Advisors
- Pricing model: Success Fee
- Where it fits: Source & Screen Deals
- Website: https://raincatcher.com

## At a Glance

A credible national option to interview alongside a local [CBI](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/cbi); make them state the fee and the minimum in the first call.

- Kind: One firm, one bench of brokers, one process.
- Footprint: Works nationwide.
- Sells: Lower middle market owners at $3M to $100M of revenue for advisory, and businesses under $2M of earnings for brokerage, across most industries, with 100-plus transactions and $1B-plus closed. The two bands use different measures, and the sub-$2M lane a self-funded buyer would use is the one not advertised.
  - Publishes a size, and not one a buyer can use.
- Seller Fee: Publishes the structure. It says when a fee is owed and on what basis, but names no number, so the amount takes a call.
- Buyer Fee: Says nothing about a buyer fee. Its buyer-facing pages say nothing either way about what a buyer pays.
- Works For: Represents buyers. Names a buy-side service a buyer engages, so somebody on this list can be working for you. None of them publishes what it costs, so ask that first.
- Before It Shows You Anything: Wants an account rather than an NDA. An account is the real gate rather than a signed document, and the registration form is where the qualifying questions live.
  - Registration rather than an NDA. The form asks source of funds, capital available and accredited-investor status, and the gate stands in front of the LIST rather than the financials: every listing URL serves a login page, while the home page publishes revenue and earnings for each business it represents. The numbers are visible and the listings are not.

## What It Costs

Its about page states a success-based fee model in its own words, with no rate or minimum published; its service pages quote the industry's 5 to 15 percent ranges, which are not its rate. Third-party figures circulate without a primary source behind them.

## Best For

Owners preparing a sale in the $3M-plus revenue range who want a national process; buyers who want revenue and earnings before registering anywhere

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Publishes revenue and earnings to the dollar for every business on its home page, before any registration, which most national shops do not
- Pro: Team mixes former owners, public accountants, and middle-market bankers rather than pure salespeople
- Pro: Offers both a broker opinion of value and certified [valuations](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/valuation), useful before committing to a process
- Pro: Named to Axial's top-broker lists in 2024 and 2025
- Con: Fees are consultation-gated: a seller cannot compare their cost against a local broker without getting on the phone
- Con: Success-rate and award claims are self-reported or drawn from lists with their own commercial interests; treat them as marketing
- Con: [Sell-side](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/buy-side-versus-sell-side) first: a buyer in their process is the counterparty, not the client
- Con: The listings themselves sit behind a buyer login: every listing URL serves the same login page, so the home page [teaser](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/teaser) is as far as an unregistered buyer gets

## What Searchers Say

Recent community threads surface no verified complaint pattern, and no client-review aggregate is publicly reachable. Axial's own league tables ranked the firm ninth on the 2024 and first-half 2025 lists and do not list it on the two most recent, a trajectory worth asking about. Fee specifics reported by review sites could not be verified against any primary source and are omitted per the directory's pricing rule.

## Compared With

- Which brokerage is worth a buyer's time, and for what? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/midstreet-vs-raincatcher.md)
- Which brokerage lets a buyer see the numbers without signing anything? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/murphy-business-vs-raincatcher.md)

## Sources

- https://raincatcher.com
- https://raincatcher.com/mergers-and-acquisitions-broker/
- https://raincatcher.com/testimonials/
- https://raincatcher.com/about-us/
- https://raincatcher.com/buyer-registration/

Also on this site: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/category/broker.md
Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/raincatcher
Last checked: 2026-09-19

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