Since the markets began their freefall in mid-February, the global financial community has been looking to history for answers as to what comes next and how to best prepare for uncertainty.
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In this blog we look at what we would expect in the coming months and how best to prepare for a recession, which seems inevitable at this point.
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We’re excited to announce that we’re opening our first US office in Austin, Texas. In this blog post we explain why we picked Austin over other locations and why we are so excited to add this location to our existing presence in other amazing tech hubs like Toronto and Ottawa!
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But what makes Canada a great country for investment? With the explosion of private capital availability in global capital markets over the last decade, Canadian technology companies have attracted venture capital investment at an annualized growth rate of 23% per year, far surpassing our southern neighbor’s growth rate of 15% over the same period.
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The growing trend of companies in traditional non-technical industries acquiring technology companies
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One sector where private equity has become more active over the past decade has been Software. Private equity’s share of total software M&A deals has nearly doubled from 2010 to 2019 and now accounts for over a third of all Software deals.
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With the holidays behind us and another year on the horizon, it feels commonplace to polish up the crystal ball and look towards predictions for the upcoming year. After all, there are many factors at play that could impact the broader economy and the M&A environment.
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On the back of a record year for M&A and another strong year for the equity markets, we thought we would share our predictions for 2020 in this short blog post.
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November was another strong month for M&A with $9.9bn announced. In terms of notable transactions, StubHub’s sale to Viagogo accounted for nearly half the total, coming in at $4.1bn. OpenText also made a large acquisition, with its deal to acquire Carbonite for $1.4bn, or 3.5x revenue.
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October was a busy month and we saw a nice rebound in both the software VC and M&A markets. Let’s dive a little deeper into both.
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While it's been encouraging to see some of the big Venture Capital (VC) investments into Canadian technology companies over the last few months, the headlines cover-up a much more alarming trend. If you look at dollar volume of VC investments as a % of the activity in the US, the trend has actually been in the opposite direction - i.e. there is less money being invested today in Canada as a % of the money that's being invested in the United States that there was in 2012.
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We thought it was worthwhile to start blogging once a month on the topic of the tech VC and M&A markets, highlighting the trends we are seeing and how well the overall VC and M&A markets are doing in general.
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While we don’t often see Canadian buyers in our sellside processes, we ask ourselves in this blog post if our buyside work is an isolated occurrence or is this a pick up in Canadian buyers part of a bigger in trend.
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Getting into Podcasts but don’t know where to start? Well, hopefully we can help, because we’re podcast addicts!
There’s so many tech podcasts out there and its hard to find the ones with the best content. So, we’ve listed our favorites below and why.
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We had a really good response to our recent post about the Rule of 40, with several CEOs reaching out to us to discuss the implications for their business. As a result, we thought it made sense to take a look at the public SaaS companies and see which ones were performing well versus this metric and how their respective valuations compared.
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Given that the second quarter earnings season is largely behind us, we wanted to take a look at how the largest technology stocks performed this quarter.
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In previous blogs we have talked about the importance of metrics other than just revenue growth. This is particularly important for established software businesses that are looking to pursue M&A. Some buyers (and investors for that matter) use the Rule of 40 when evaluating prospective investments. But what is the Rule of 40 and why should you care?
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If you looked at the year-to-date software M&A volume of $64.6bn and compared it to last year’s full year amount of $183bn, you would probably conclude that there has been a dramatic slow down in M&A activity for software companies this year.
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We come across numerous examples where CEOs have challenges leading up to the sale of their business – an emotional journey that often comes with any M&A transaction
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Given Sampford’s recent achievements in the Canadian tech community, I saw an opportunity to be part of something unique, while further learning more about my interests in various niche tech sectors.
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