search_businesses

Search for businesses (listings) for sale on Venturu with 30+ filters.

search_businesses

Search for businesses for sale on Venturu. Supports natural-language location queries, financial filters, business type filtering, and pagination.

This is a read-only tool. No authentication required.

Parameters

Location

Parameter	Type	Description
location	string	Natural-language location query (e.g., “Palm Beach, FL”, “Miami”, “33101”). Geocoded to a bounding box automatically. Ignored if bbox is provided.
state	string	State or region filter.
bbox	object	Explicit bounding box with sw (lat/lng) and ne (lat/lng). Overrides location.

Business Type

Parameter	Type	Description
businessTypeIds	number[]	Filter by business type IDs. Get IDs from list_business_categories.
statuses	string[]	Filter by listing status (only publicly visible statuses are allowed).
listedBy	string[]	Filter by who listed: "owner" or "broker".
saleTypes	string[]	Filter by sale type: "ASSET_SALE", "STOCK_SALE", or "HYBRID".

Financial Filters

All financial filters use flat min/max parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
minPrice / maxPrice	number	Asking price range
minRevenue / maxRevenue	number	Annual revenue range
minProfit / maxProfit	number	Annual profit range
minSde / maxSde	number	Seller’s discretionary earnings range
minSdeMultiple / maxSdeMultiple	number	SDE multiple range
minRevenueMultiple / maxRevenueMultiple	number	Revenue multiple range
minDownPayment / maxDownPayment	number	Down payment range

Business Characteristics

Parameter	Type	Description
minEstablishmentAge / maxEstablishmentAge	number	Business age in years
minEmployeeCount / maxEmployeeCount	number	Number of employees
minOwnerWorkedHours / maxOwnerWorkedHours	number	Owner’s weekly working hours
propertyIncluded	boolean	Whether real estate is included in the sale
buyerFinancingAvailable	boolean	Whether seller financing is available
sbaPrequalified	boolean	Whether the business is SBA pre-qualified
visaQualified	boolean	Whether the business qualifies for E-2 visa

Scoring

Parameter	Type	Description
minOpportunityScore / maxOpportunityScore	number	Venturu opportunity score range
includeMissingMultiples	boolean	Include listings that don’t have multiples data

Pagination & Sorting

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
limit	integer	15	Results per page (max 15)
cursor	integer	—	Cursor for pagination (from nextCursor in previous response)
orderByProperty	string	"recommended"	Sort by: "recommended", "relevance", "price", or "recent"
orderByDirection	string	"desc"	Sort direction: "asc" or "desc"

Response

The tool returns:

• Text content — A formatted summary of matching listings with key details
• Structured content — Machine-readable JSON with full listing data:

{
  "listings": [
    {
      "id": 1234,
      "slug": "profitable-restaurant-miami",
      "title": "Profitable Restaurant in Miami",
      "askingPrice": 450000,
      "revenue": 1200000,
      "cashFlow": 250000,
      "location": "Miami, FL",
      "businessType": "Restaurant"
    }
  ],
  "total": 87,
  "nextCursor": 1235
}

Examples

Search by location

Prompt: “Find businesses for sale in Palm Beach, Florida”

The tool geocodes “Palm Beach, Florida” into a bounding box and returns listings within that area.

Search with financial filters

Prompt: “Show me businesses under $200,000 with at least$500,000 in revenue”

Parameters: maxPrice: 200000, minRevenue: 500000

Search by industry

Prompt: “Find hotels for sale in California”

First call list_business_categories to get the hotel business type ID, then pass it in businessTypeIds.

Paginate through results

Prompt: “Show me the next page of results”

Pass the nextCursor value from the previous response as cursor.