Primary wedge
SME full exits
Pharma, garments, F&B, retail, and digital businesses with verifiable TTM and clean cap tables. The seller wants out, the buyer wants an operating asset, and both want a name-protected first conversation.
Closed marketplace, by design
A Bangladesh
M&A marketplace
that earns the room.
Exit.bd is the first closed, match-driven platform for buying and selling businesses in Bangladesh. No public listings, no tyre-kickers, no leaked sale rumour. The seller controls every gate, the buyer earns every disclosure, and Hold.bd holds the BDT until the share certificate moves.
- Coverage
- Bangladesh first
- South Asia expansion: IN, PK, LK, NP
- Wedge
- SME exits
- Pharma, garments, F&B, retail, digital
- Success fee
- 3 – 5%
- Tiered by deal size, ৳ 50k floor
Anonymised teaser
EXT-2026-00482
Q&A open
- Category
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Region
- Gazipur, Bangladesh
- Asking
- ৳ 18 – 24 crore
- Revenue
- ৳ 9.4 crore TTM
- EBITDA band
- 23 – 27%
- Buyer matches
- 14 verified
Trust ladder
Gate 2 of 7
- G-01
- G-02
- G-03
- G-04
- G-05
- G-06
- G-07
Identity, name, and financials reveal only at NDA gate G-04.
NDA-bound
NDAs signed
6
Off-platform attempts blocked
3
Days on platform
11
What is Exit.bd
A closed M&A marketplace,
purpose-built for Bangladesh.
Exit.bd is operated by KaritKarma Limited from four production surfaces: the public marketing site, a buyer and seller dashboard, an admin console, and a partner portal for brokers and mediators. The platform's core conviction is that the first conversation in a business sale should be protected by anonymity, not by hope.
The wedge is the South Asian SME, where there is no Acquire.com equivalent and where Acquire.com itself cannot route BDT, cannot generate a Bangladesh-enforceable NDA, and cannot file a Form 117 with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. Exit.bd is the local rail. Hold.bd handles the money at the close.
Marketing
exit.bd
Anonymous teaser previews, market reports, valuator
Buyer + seller
dash.exit.bd
Match inbox, Q&A, secure chat, NDA, deal room, offers
Admin
console.exit.bd
KYC review, listing approval, dispute mediation
Broker portal
partner.exit.bd
Partner-led deals, commission ledger, referral tracking
A KaritKarma product. Identity by Wenme, authorisation by Darwan, escrow by Hold.bd at Prime Bank PLC.exit.bd · operated by KaritKarma Limited
The trust ladder
Seven gates,
each one earned.
Every Exit.bd deal moves through a fixed sequence. A buyer cannot skip a gate by paying more, and a seller cannot waive a gate to a buyer they have only met on the platform. The audit trail is the deal.
Every action is timestamped to the Hangfire audit projection.
- G-01
Teaser
Anonymised industry, region, revenue band, and asking range. No business name, no founders, no financials.
Public to verified buyers only - G-02
Q&A
Structured question packet routed through the platform. Seller decides which buyers earn a chat.
KYC + buyer-profile gate - G-03
Secure chat
Regex-filtered messaging that blocks email, phone, and external handles. Off-platform contact attempts are flagged.
Seller-approved match - G-04
NDA
Counter-party NDA generated and e-signed in-platform. Audit trail tied to the buyer's KYC identity.
Both-party signature - G-05
Deal room
Folder-based virtual data room. Every PDF and image is watermarked with the viewer's name on download.
Post-NDA only - G-06
Offers
In-platform offers with counter-offer chain. Every revision is timestamped and immutable in the audit log.
Open to NDA-cleared - G-07
Escrow + close
Hold.bd routes BDT into a partner-bank trust account, releases on milestone verification, including the share certificate handover.
Hold.bd milestone release
Where Exit.bd works
Built for the deals
Bangladesh actually does.
The country's M&A flow is full SME exits, founder secondaries, and brokered acquisitions, not VC-style exits to US acquirers. Exit.bd's primitives are designed against that ground truth.
Founder secondaries
Partial exits and acqui-hires
Tech founders running cash-flowing products who want to take chips off the table without a full exit. Buyer can be a strategic operator, a regional acquirer, or a PE house.
Brokered deals
Broker and partner network
Brokers, mediators, M&A consultancies, and corporate development teams operate from partner.exit.bd. Commission tracked on-ledger, referral attribution is automatic.
How a deal runs
From anonymised teaser
to a verified release.
Five sequential steps from listing creation to a Hold.bd escrow release. No step can be skipped, no document leaves the deal room without a watermark, and no Bangladesh-resident transaction touches a foreign trust account.
Audit trail, immutableHangfire projection
Documents, per-viewer watermarkedMinIO + Hangfire
BDT, bank-custodial onlyHold.bd · Prime Bank
- Step 01
Create a teaser
Seller drafts an anonymised teaser, defines a verified-buyer profile, and chooses which industries and geographies see the listing. Nothing publishes to a public directory.
- Step 02
Open Q&A and chat
Verified buyers raise structured questions. Seller approves matches into a regex-filtered secure chat that strips off-platform contact attempts.
- Step 03
NDA and deal room
Both sides e-sign a Bangladesh-enforceable NDA. The deal room opens with watermarked PDFs and folder-level access control mapped to the diligence checklist.
- Step 04
Offer chain
Offers and counter-offers flow inside the platform with full timestamping. Every revision is locked into an immutable audit log linked to the listing.
- Step 05
Close on Hold.bd
Final agreement triggers a Hold.bd escrow. Funds sit in a partner-bank trust account and release on verified Form 117 lodgement and share certificate handover.
Exit.bd vs the alternatives
Why Acquire.com cannot
close a Bangladesh deal.
Local classifieds were never built for confidentiality. International platforms cannot route BDT, cannot generate a Bangladesh-enforceable NDA, and cannot lodge Form 117 with RJSC. Lone brokers carry the trust but not the infrastructure. Exit.bd combines all three.
| Capability | Exit.bd | BD classifieds | Intl platforms | Lone broker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match-driven, no public listing directory | ||||
| Verified-buyer KYC required before any contact | ||||
| Regex-filtered chat blocks off-platform contact | partial | |||
| Bangladesh-enforceable NDA generated in-platform | partial | |||
| Per-viewer watermarked deal-room documents | partial | |||
| BDT bank-custodial escrow at close via Hold.bd | ||||
| Form 117 share-transfer flow built into closing | partial |
The plumbing
.NET 10 Clean Architecture,
four Next.js 16 apps, one rail.
The backend follows Clean Architecture with MediatR CQRS and EF Core against PostgreSQL 18. The frontend is a Turborepo of four Next.js 16 apps sharing types and a UI package, fronted by Traefik 3.6.
- Backend
- .NET 10 Clean Architecture, CQRS + MediatR
- Frontend
- Four Next.js 16 apps in a Turborepo monorepo
- Database
- PostgreSQL 18 via EF Core
- Identity
- Wenme OAuth 2.1, Ed25519 + PKCE
- Authorisation
- Darwan RBAC and ABAC
- Escrow
- Hold.bd at Prime Bank PLC
- Storage
- MinIO with watermarked download pipeline
- Jobs
- Hangfire for KYC, NDA, and audit projections
Frequently asked
The questions every
buyer and seller asks first.
Answers are intentionally short. The signed NDA is the authoritative document for any specific deal, and a partner broker walks each transaction through the longer form.
- What is Exit.bd?
- Exit.bd is Bangladesh's first dedicated M&A marketplace, built by KaritKarma. It is a closed, match-driven platform for buying and selling businesses across the country and the wider South Asian region. There is no public listing directory: every interaction runs through KYC-gated verified buyers, an NDA gate, a watermarked deal room, and a Hold.bd bank-custodial escrow at closing.
- Why is Exit.bd closed, with no public listings?
- Open business-for-sale directories leak the fact of a sale before the seller is ready, push tyre-kickers into the seller's inbox, and create a permanent record that a company was on the block. Exit.bd inverts that. The seller publishes only an anonymised teaser, the platform matches verified buyers against the buyer profile, and the seller decides who gets a Q&A, who gets a chat, and who reaches the NDA gate.
- How does Exit.bd protect confidentiality before NDA?
- Teasers strip the business name, founder identities, and exact financials, replacing them with an industry, a region, a revenue band, and an asking range. The Q&A and chat layers run on the platform with regex filters that block email, phone numbers, and external contact handles. Off-platform-contact attempts surface in the admin queue. The NDA gate produces a Bangladesh-enforceable counterparty agreement before any data room access opens.
- How does the share-transfer and escrow close work?
- When the offer chain settles, the deal moves to a Hold.bd escrow. The buyer deposits the agreed amount into a partner-bank trust account at a Bangladeshi scheduled commercial bank under Bangladesh Bank's 2023 Merchant Acquiring and Escrow guideline. Funds release on milestone verification, including Form 117 lodgement with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and share certificate handover. Hold.bd never touches the money.
- What does Exit.bd cost the seller?
- Publishing a teaser is free. The success fee runs 3 to 5 percent of deal value, tiered by transaction size, with a ৳ 50,000 minimum per close. Featured listings and Seller Pro analytics are optional monthly add-ons. Hold.bd's escrow fee is a separate tiered charge that runs from 2.5 percent on small deals down to under 1 percent on transactions above ৳ 5 crore.
- How is Exit.bd different from Acquire.com, Flippa, or BizBuySell?
- International platforms are built for US and EU sellers with US dollar deposits and Stripe Atlas style buyer profiles. None of them can route BDT into a Bangladesh trust account, generate a Bangladesh-enforceable NDA, or handle Form 117 share transfers at the registrar. Exit.bd is built for the local regulatory ground truth: RJSC filings, foreign-control transfer approvals through Bangladesh Bank, and BDT closings via Hold.bd.
Start with a teaser
Publish without revealing,
match before you commit.
Draft the anonymised teaser, define the verified-buyer profile, and decide which gates you want before opening Q&A. You can take it down at any time before the NDA gate.
For brokers and M&A consultancies
The partner portal at partner.exit.bd handles broker-led deals, commission attribution, and white-glove buyer introductions. Commissions are tracked on the same audit ledger as the underlying deal.
- Portal
- partner.exit.bd
- Attribution
- On-ledger, automatic
Already brokering? Apply for a partner account at partner.exit.bd.