Software Equity Group

APRIL 4, 2023

During the transition, I remained the VP of Marketing while a new leadership team, including a CEO, CTO, CFO, and VP of Sales, were brought on board. Many marketing departments work in silos – I encouraged cross-functional collaboration with sales, product development, and customer success.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

As for key product categories, SaaS businesses focused on Sales and Marketing led the pack in 2023 with 294 transactions. Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

As for key product categories, SaaS businesses focused on Sales and Marketing led the pack in 2023 with 294 transactions. Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Stock prices and valuations of many leading public SaaS companies have fallen drastically from the beginning of 2022—but while that will affect the private market, it does not necessarily spell doom and gloom. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

Specializing helps a shop build a reputation for excellence in its niche, and bring more services in-house, many of which are highly profitable. It all contributes to perhaps the second-biggest benefit of specialization behind ensuring safe and proper repairs — increased profitability. billion, and its adjusted EBITDA was $368.2

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In recent years, software buyers have been keenly focused on gross revenue retention (GRR) and gross profit margin (GPM) , largely because strong performance in these areas provides security amid uncertain economic conditions. But are they the same KPIs prospective buyers look at as they evaluate acquisition targets?

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Note : Solganick has advised on the sale of three Snowflake Partners over the last 24 months; and advised on the sale of 4 additional data analytics firms. Shift to Profitability over Growth: The market is shifting away from “growth at all costs” to a focus on profitability.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

Top Product Categories by Deal Volume With 306 deals, Sales and Marketing was the most active category in 2022—and in 2021 and 2020 as well. Strategic buyers are publicly traded or privately owned software companies. And quality, according to Austin, lies in retention, profitability, and growth. 4Q22’s multiple of 5.6x

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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. Investment Banking is a very profitable business, being one of the most highly paid careers in the world. How do they do this?

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

To get the best results, you need to go into the process knowing what your goals are for a sale. It’s important to understand the different types of buyers before you begin the sales process so you can have a better foundation for evaluating offers. What are existing shareholders seeking from a sale?

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

billion; Audentes Therapeutics’ sale to Astellas for $3 billion; Ra Pharmaceuticals’ pending sale to UCB for $2.5 billion; and Synthorx’s sale to Sanofi $2.5 billion acquisition of The Medicines Company. Other notable deals that passed the $1 billion mark in 2019 included Vitrolife’s acquisition of Parallabs for £1.9

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it wasn’t all carve outs and concerned investors – even with the headwinds in the industry and beyond, there were still several traditional public M&A deals involving biotechnology or medical device companies, as large pharmaceutical companies continued to have cash to deploy for acquisitions.

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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 29, 2024

Strategic Buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. Key performance indicators (KPIs) like your churn rate , gross retention and profit , and customer lifetime value help you get this message across.

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

WATCH NOW : Craft a Winning Pricing Strategy to Maximize ARR Growth and Valuation Net Retention in Public Software Companies: Insights from the SEG SaaS Index We recently began tracking net retention information in our SEG SaaS Index , which tracks the performance of 120+ publicly traded software companies.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. closing friction. billion (including earnouts). And, by some measures, almost 75% of private?target

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While questions around the ultimate buyers of these organizations have been building, the sale of RCA, the largest retina practice portfolio in the U.S., In RCA, Cencora saw the opportunity to acquire additional profitability downstream of its existing operations.

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Traditional terminal exit routes for private equity-backed companies are to larger strategic acquirers (often public companies) and IPOs, where a private company becomes publicly traded. By acquiring the providers themselves, McKesson is securing a customer and capturing profitability downstream from its current operations.

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