Posts by Christopher Park:
Intrepid Advises Datassential on Its Growth Equity Investment from Spectrum Equity
Intrepid announced today that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Datassential, a leading provider of food industry insights, trend software, predictive analytics and consumer insights, on its investment… Read more »
09/16/2019:: Consumer Products & Services :: Media :: Press Releases :: Software & ServicesSoftware Bellwethers Signal Adoption of Horizontal Acquisition Strategies as Imperative to Staying Competitive
The Software & Services industry witnessed multiple high-profile deals in the second quarter of 2019. Google made a $2.6 billion (26x revenue) bet on Looker, embedding business intelligence and analytics… Read more »
08/08/2019:: Industry Reports :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & ServicesSoftware & Services Experiences Healthy Start to 2019
The Software & Services sector continues to see strong M&A activity and healthy valuation multiples as sponsors lead the way again in Q1’19. Private equity (PE) buyers have not slowed… Read more »
05/20/2019:: Banker Insights :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & ServicesSoftware M&A Strategies Are Shifting to React to Trends in the Tech Landscape
In our Software & Services industry report of Q4 last year, we referred to 2017 as the year of the non-traditional acquirer. A number of businesses leveraged their balance sheets… Read more »
02/03/2019:: Banker Insights :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & ServicesStrong Quarter in Tech M&A Bolstered by Several Massive Deals
Q3’18 was a whirlwind quarter for M&A and financing activity in the technology sector. The quarter opened with a semiconductor company’s surprising acquisition of a software vendor for more than… Read more »
11/30/2018:: Banker Insights :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & ServicesHealthy Valuations Continue to Create Seller-Friendly Software & Services M&A Market in Q2’18
The year’s first quarter was one of the most active periods in technology M&A in recent memory, but Q2 saw acquirers adjusting to a very seller-friendly environment. In this seller’s… Read more »
08/08/2018:: Industry Reports :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & ServicesSoftware Deal Spotlight—Microsoft Acquires GitHub for $7.5 Billion in Stock
Following weeks of speculation and rumors, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub—the world’s leading software development platform, code repository and code-sharing and collaboration service—on June 4th for $7.5 billion in… Read more »
06/13/2018:: Banker Insights :: Media :: Software & Services
Software Deal Spotlight—Trimble Acquires Viewpoint Construction Software
Following up on its $500 million purchase of e-Builder in February, Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) recently announced a deal to spend more than twice that on Viewpoint Construction Software. This transaction,… Read more »
05/10/2018:: Banker Insights :: Media :: Software & ServicesSoftware & Services M&A Activity Starts the Year Strong in Q1’18
After a relatively slower technology M&A market in 2017, 2018 started off strong, lodging the highest cumulative deal value of any first quarter in years. In our Q4’17 industry report,… Read more »
04/24/2018:: Industry Reports :: Industry Reports: Software & Services :: Media :: Software & Services