Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

2023 saw a myriad of factors impact SaaS M&A multiples, including economic developments, technological advancements, and a public market rebound. But what are the key influences shaping valuation multiples in today’s M&A deals? Do you know how potential buyers value your SaaS business?

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Sun Acquisitions

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play a vital role in shaping the business landscape, enabling companies to expand, diversify, and gain a competitive edge. Valuation lies at the heart of every successful M&A transaction, providing a framework to determine the worth of a target company.

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Solganick & Co.

JUNE 2, 2024

has published its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and market update and report on the data analytics sector. It covers the latest M&A transactions, provides a data analytics market map, updates on industry size and growth data, and publicly traded companies and valuations in the sector. Solganick & Co.

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Solganick & Co.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

has published its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) update on the Cloud Computing sector. It covers relavant M&A transactions within the cloud partner ecosystem including AWS Cloud, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Intelligent Cloud/Azure (and others). November 6, 2023 – Solganick & Co.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

SEG’s 2023 Annual SaaS Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the public SaaS market’s performance and M&A activity in the software industry. Our report provides context for private companies to better understand factors influencing their valuations and evaluate how they can position themselves within a changing marketplace.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

The public markets may have taken a beating, but behind the gloom-and-doom headlines, there was still plenty of good news for private SaaS companies in 2022. The SEG Index, a collection of 116 public SaaS companies, fell by 48.2%. Following are some highlights of SaaS M&A deal activity over 2022. 4Q22’s multiple of 5.6x

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

Hopin , the virtual events startup that saw its star (and valuation) rise quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is most definitely coming down to earth. Today the company announced that it has sold its Events and Session business units to RingCentral for an undisclosed sum. Disclosure: TechCrunch has been a customer of Hopin’s.)

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Sun Acquisitions

JULY 21, 2023

Merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions are complex endeavors that can significantly impact the involved companies and the broader business landscape. In this blog post, we will explore the role of due diligence in successful M&A transactions and why it should be a top priority for companies.

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Solganick & Co.

JANUARY 15, 2025

January 15, 2025 – Solganick has issued its latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) update for the Cybersecurity industry sector, covering Q4 2024 and a 2025 outlook. We expect strengthening M&A activity over the next 12 months, driven by ongoing strategic consolidation and escalating cyber risks from AI-powered attacks.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 27, 2023

Uplift had raised nearly $700 million in equity and debt, securing $123 million at a reported $195 million valuation in its Series C round alone. It’s likely not the exit Uplift was hoping for — and a sign of serious consolidation in the BNPL space, which just a few years ago was booming, buoyed by pandemic-era spending habits.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On September 24, Cooley M&A partner, Garth Osterman, moderated a webinar on the current trend in going public: SPACs! Key highlights from the webinar are summarized below and a link to the recording can be found here. compares to the prior two iterations of SPAC activity, with the first (SPAC 1.0) Increased Frequency and Size.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

With record amounts of deployable capital behind them, private equity (PE) investors account for nearly 60% of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in tech today. When looking at an M&A acquisition, there are two types of main buyers: strategic and financial. Making the decision to sell a company is a big one.

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OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

In a roll-up strategy, a private equity firm will attempt to consolidate a large number of smaller firms into a single, professionalized company with numerous benefits, including economies of scale and fixed cost leverage, valuation uplift (so-called “multiple arbitrage”), and acquisition expertise, among others.

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Deal Law Wire

APRIL 1, 2021

As Bitcoin gains increasing traction since its inception 11 years ago, we begin to question whether it will slowly replace traditional dollar funding in M&A deals. Whether Bitcoin will be used to fund large M&A deals will likely depend on its ability to stabilize in value. Headways in the M&A Market.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In today’s economic climate, retention is everything: Software companies with Net Revenue Retention (NRR) rates above 120% are trading at a remarkable 63% premium over the market median. Because in a world where growth is uncertain, retaining and expanding existing customers is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

What is Valuation? Valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning an estimated dollar amount or range to the worth of an item, good, or service. Valuation can be simply defined as the process of assigning an estimated dollar amount or range to the worth of an item, good, or service.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded US corporations (“Covered Corporations”) effected after December 31, 2022 (the “Excise Tax”). [1] This post highlights key guidance from the Notice as it relates to common M&A and capital market transactions.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MARCH 13, 2025

Impact), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the Proposed Merger), Impact has obtained a valuation report from Evans & Evans, Inc. based private company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Fort Products), with Impact Acquisitions Corp. million (approximately US$11.6 million (approximately US$11.6

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. Impact), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the Proposed Merger).

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

2019 was a banner year for billion-dollar life sciences M&A transactions. A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Although 2022 saw a general decline in M&A activity in the life sciences industry compared to 2021’s frenetic pace (when deal volume was up 52% from 2020 ), life sciences deal flow in 2022 on balance remained strong despite the headwinds.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Solganick Technology Services M&A Update – Q1 2024 Final April 25, 2024 – Los Angeles and Dallas – Solganick & Co. (“Solganick”) has issued its latest technology services industry sector mergers and acquistions (M&A) update report for Q1 2024. of all transactions through YTD.

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Solganick & Co.

OCTOBER 15, 2024

October 16, 2024 – Solganick & Co. (“Solganick”) has published its latest M&A update on the Cybersecurity industry sector. It covers the latest mergers and acquisitions deal announcements, valuations, public company data, and other trends announced in Q3 2024.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

I hope 2024 treated you and yours incredibly well, and I’m looking forward to an even better year in 2025. I’m sitting here at the time of this recording in the North Georgia mountains, spending the holidays with my in laws and reflecting on what a great year 2024 was and how much I’m looking forward to 2025.

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Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Today they are a successful publicly traded international buyer located in Japan. Domenic Rinaldi, Managing Director of Sun Acquisitions, shared, “It was a pleasure representing Joe Thoesen on the sale of Thoesen Tractor & Equipment and Chicago Machinery to Okada-Aiyon, a publicly traded international buyer headquartered in Japan.

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Cooley M&A

MARCH 1, 2019

Even for a thriving business with a viable equity story, committed stakeholders and the right advisers, the final deal terms and valuation are typically guided by factors beyond a company’s control. Exiting an investment is an inherently uncertain process. Do you have buy-in for the transaction from all relevant stakeholders?

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A thorough exit strategy planning process will help you understand your options, define your objectives, get the right metrics and documents in order, and identify areas for improvement that could help you attract a buyer and increase your valuation in an M&A exit. Get familiar with M&A deal types.

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Viking Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 17, 2023

Before joining the Viking M&A team, Jimmy worked for more than 25 years in the technology and manufacturing sectors. He worked with large publicly traded engineering and technology companies, small privately owned businesses, and several government entities. Meanwhile, he saw his dad’s brother approach the world quite differently.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 18, 2024

Throughout the M&A process, SEG provides adept guidance, ensuring clients not only meet but often surpass their financial, strategic, and operational objectives. Skillfully delegating responsibilities, we enable entrepreneurs to concentrate on their core strengths during an M&A process—growing their businesses.

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MergersCorp M&A International

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SPACs are publicly traded companies that raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) with the primary aim of acquiring an existing private company, thereby enabling it to go public without undergoing the traditional IPO process.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

Spoiler alert — I think it should excite you. Strandberg grew up in the collision repair industry. In the late 1980s, his parents started a company supplying equipment to repairers. After college and a foray into investment banking, Strandberg joined the family business, and remained with it after it was acquired by a private equity group.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering. But g oing public is risky – if the public does not respond as well as expected, the business could face huge losses.

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Our focus during this phase was on scaling the business through organic growth and an aggressive M&A strategy. While those strategies provide a firm foundation to build your marketing efforts, they aren’t enough to propel your business to the next level. It is no longer about casting a wide net and hoping for the best.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This sector is the most different in terms of valuation and technical analysis because of nuances around licensing, player salaries, and different revenue streams. It mixes public finance , project finance , real estate , and infrastructure. Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Manchester United or Mark Cuban and the Mavericks).

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Cooley M&A

JULY 9, 2021

In a string of seminal decisions from 2017 through 2019 ( DFC Global , Dell and Aruba ), the Delaware Supreme Court re-shaped appraisal jurisprudence, in each case by overturning the Court of Chancery for failing to give adequate weight to deal price as the most reliable indicator of fair value. share, a 2.67% increase over the deal price.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

Despite dealmaking anxieties in the first half of the year, valuations remained strong, and discount opportunities were few and far between. M&A transactions have always been a balancing act of allocating burdens and risks. A Tale of Two Years. While initial deal flow was merely a trickle (although notably included Alexion’s $1.4

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves. 2] Despite the downtrend, global tech M&A activity in 2022 remained strong relative to pre-pandemic levels and accounted for a record 20% of all global M&A activity. Deal volumes dropped from $531.13 billion [1] during the first half of 2022 to $189.17 trillion. [2]

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