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Capital Raise Blog Series - Vol 9 Strategies to Raise Capital

RKJ Partners

Given their title and job description, private company chief financial officers (CFOs) are expected to be able to raise capital for their company, yet many often feel unprepared or under qualified for this challenging task. The most common approach to investment banking is for an advisor to be paid more to raise equity than debt.

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Recap: 2023 Midwest M&A/Private Equity Forum

Focus Investment Banking

In particular, companies in the logistics space likely will enjoy an enhancer to valuation if they utilize cutting edge technology. Nevertheless, owners are still holding out for what they perceive as the higher valuations of the previous few years.

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Post ASU+GSV 2023: Signals Are Pointing to Accelerating Deal Activity for the Education Sector

Tyton Partners

Paucity of deals will help sustain enterprise valuations (for some) The inexorable principles of supply-and-demand applied to deal pricing should be in-effect for the balance of 2023. see Renaissance and Curriculum Associates), as the increasing scale – and expected valuations – of new oligopoly players makes for a limited buyer pool.

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Single Store Generalist Shops | Why the Era is Coming to an End with Cole Strandberg

Focus Investment Banking

About 3 years ago, I joined the team at Focus Investment Banking, where I spend my time on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising within the collision repair industry. That valuation depending on how you look at it, boils down to 193% of sales or about 15 times EBITDA. So it’s an industry I love.

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Recap: 2023 West Coast M&A/Private Equity Forum

Focus Investment Banking

Whether due to new technologies supplanting the old, overhyped valuations crashing to earth, errors in judgement, or lack of business acumen, the tech world is rife with the rise and fall of companies and careers. he grandees of Silicon Valley often view Mergers and Acquisitions through a different lens than much of the rest of the country.

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Lower Middle Market

Wall Street Mojo

In addition, many potential buyers seek the LLM for acquisition targets as it reduces competition and allows them to expand in the market with cost reduction and utilization of resources. Since the company is new, it is less in valuation, but Ryan is adamant about offering better products and services.

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Artificial Intelligence: A Must for Small Businesses

Focus Investment Banking

Unless you are still using a flip phone and shopping exclusively in stores, you have probably utilized the most advanced—and controversial—technological advancement since the dawn of the computer – Artificial Intelligence (also known as AI). In fact, it may be more critical for small businesses to embrace AI than large ones.