CNBC: Investing

JULY 2, 2025

"We upgrade ROST to Buy given its wide valuation gap to peers, and the margin opportunity." UBS downgrades Centene to neutral from buy UBS downgraded the healthcare company after it withdrew guidance. "We are initiating coverage of Rigetti Computing with an Overweight rating and $15 price target. " Read more.

Stock

TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 27, 2023

billion valuation during the heady fundraising days of late 2021 (and $100 million earlier in 2021), today announced that it has acquired identity verification service Berbix for $70 million in cash and stock transactions. Socure , the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 million Series E round at a $4.5

Valuation

Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

When you hear the words “healthcare private equity,” two thoughts probably come to mind: Wait a minute, isn’t healthcare a risky/growth-oriented sector? In most of the world, healthcare is either government-run or a mixed public/private sector. Are there many private healthcare companies for PE firms to acquire?

Private Equity

Software Equity Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Based in the Netherlands and with additional offices in Antwerp, Boston, Dusseldorf, and Stockholm, the firm maintains a diverse international portfolio of companies across the consumer products, consumer services, SaaS, information technology, healthcare, and ad tech sectors. The firm currently employs 31 professionals.

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But most coverage suggests generic answers about wanting to learn a lot, liking financial analysis or valuation, or wanting to “understand different industries.” I liked the valuation work and enjoyed meeting a few alumni bankers at firms like [Firm Names] , and I’m interested in working on the types of deals the alumni discussed.”

Investment Banking

Growth Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Despite investment in the first half of 2023 dropping to £4.6bn from 2022’s £10.8bn as a result of rising interest rates, high inflation, a decrease in valuations and geopolitical tensions globally, UK fintechs are still attracting more VC investment than all other EMEA fintechs combined, with a significant percentage coming from US investors.

Investment

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Valuations are high, the returns depend on future growth, and deals are for primary capital , i.e., new cash the business needs. Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. There’s usually a long list of previous VC investors as well. What accounts for the difference?

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Firm-Specific and Process Questions – What do you think about our portfolio? Technical Questions – You could get standard questions about accounting and valuation or VC-specific questions about cap tables, key metrics in your industry, or how to value startups. Market and Investment Questions – Which startup would you invest in?

Capital

OfficeHours

JANUARY 26, 2024

Buyout houses from Thoma Bravo to Permira are putting portfolio company sales high on the agenda for early 2024, as the industry seeks to return money to investors after a challenging period for exiting holdings. s luxury-watch parts maker Acrotec Group, both of which carry potential valuations of more than $4 billion.

Private Equity

Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

MSP is a portfolio company of Persistence Capital Partners, the leading private equity fund exclusively focused on high-growth opportunities in the healthcare field. We work with clients that are interested in the confidential sale, acquisition, or valuation of privately held companies.

Sale

Periculum Capital

MARCH 11, 2022

(“SHHS” “Company”), a leading home healthcare service provider, in its sale to Fortis Home Health and Hospice, LLC (“Fortis”), a portfolio company of Grant Avenue Capital, LLC (“Grant Avenue”). Periculum helped SHHS find an ideal financial partner within an expedited timeline while exceeding stakeholders’ transaction expectations.

Sale

Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, we have seen an increasing interest in technology and healthcare businesses, driven by advancements in these sectors and the ongoing pandemic. Mergers and acquisitions have also been prevalent, particularly among companies seeking to expand their reach or diversify their portfolios.

Business

Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 28, 2024

Whether you’re in the manufacturing, healthcare, or technology sector, engaging local business brokers can streamline the process, providing expert guidance to maximize the value of your business. Assessing the Value of Your Small Business The accuracy of your business’s valuation is essential for a successful sale.

Business

Tyton Partners

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Our focus is on early-stage companies in India and East Africa, in sectors vital for societal well-being – healthcare, climate opportunities, and fintech – all under the visionary leadership of conscious leaders. We first measure our success through the business performance and impact performance of our portfolio. million women.

Capital

The TRADE

DECEMBER 22, 2023

 The widespread application of artificial intelligence will drive innovation and creative destruction in many areas, including healthcare, education, logistics and mobility, as well as being key to semiconductor demand in the coming years. Nonetheless,

Trading

Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 28, 2024

Some PPMs have gotten very large, with partnerships across a broad geographic area and valuations likely north of $1B. Exits” – where private equity firms sell a PPM company from their portfolio – have also been very limited. They are looking for the ideal partner with the best valuation and terms possible. A third group (e.g.,

Private Equity

Growth Business

JUNE 2, 2023

In some cases, healthcare IT. We built a less eclectic portfolio.” Current start-ups in the VC’s portfolio include London-based real estate start-up Plentific , which offers automation solutions to manage real estate operations. We’re more careful about valuations, we’re looking for opportunities.

Funds

Mergers and Inquisitions

AUGUST 16, 2023

In terms of industry focus , technology (especially “general IT,” Internet, and semiconductors) and healthcare have always accounted for a high percentage of deal activity. But even if buyouts tick up, growth deals will still dominate the market into the 2030s. That said, there are some positives of the culture and lifestyle.

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 31, 2024

For example, Thoma Bravo and Vista are technology specialists, and while firms such as Leonard Green have industrials-related portfolio companies, they’re better known for their consumer retail deals. These multiples might seem ridiculously low if you’re used to tech or healthcare deals. trailing EBITDA multiple and a 5.2x

Private Equity

Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Top Strategic Buyers Investing in SaaS Valsoft Corporation Valsoft is a holding company for a diverse portfolio of software and related technology services and currently employs 2,000 employees. healthcare businesses; and the September 2023 deal for Uptake Technologies, Inc.

Investment

Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 19, 2023

Diversified Miners – These companies have a wide global portfolio of mines, and they extract, produce, and distribute just about every metal in the two categories above. Valuation , such as the different multiples used for mining companies and the NAV model in place of the DCF (see below).

Investment Banking

iMerge Advisors

APRIL 15, 2025

Firms like iMerge often help clients assess antitrust risk early in the process, especially when evaluating strategic buyers or PE-backed platforms with overlapping portfolios. based SaaS company serving healthcare providers is approached by a European acquirer with Chinese limited partners. Consider a hypothetical: A U.S.-based

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

Strategic innovation Strategic acquirers are feeling more pressure to consummate bolt-on acquisitions in order to round out their portfolios, enter new markets and fill innovation gaps. Others have pursued less-traditional acquisitions, choosing to instead form alliances and partnerships. billion.

M&A

Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 19, 2023

Also, many long-biased funds tend to have more concentrated portfolios since they often aim to become one of the top shareholders in each company. Think: a deep review of companies’ financial statements, 3-statement models , and DCF-based valuations. hiring MDs to analyze biotech companies). lower intensity).

Funds

InvestmentBank.com

JANUARY 14, 2021

In September 2020, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper including an industry survey citing 900+ VC firms; this paper revealed a consensus that many portfolio companies were performing quite well in the face of Covid-19 and less than 10% were performing at levels that would raise significant concerns [3] [10].

Capital

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Amid depressed valuations, biotechnology companies also saw an increasing number of demands from activist investors that in certain cases led to more deal activity. 2022 was the busiest year for activism in the past four years, and the healthcare and life sciences industry was no exception.

M&A

Growth Business

MARCH 1, 2024

Capital is available, valuations have started to normalise and the debt markets are still supportive – albeit with greater scrutiny and higher costs. This meant that when it came to it, the thorny issue of valuation was well thought through and understood by all parties. Our discussions led to Bridges investing £8.5

Private Equity

InvestmentBank.com

MAY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, the healthcare industry dominated Q2 2020 M&A (which is understandable given the state of the world) with 30% of deal volume — more than double the concentration in 2019 — while most others remained within a few percentage points of their five-year average [10]. So where do we go from here?

Capital Raising

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, deal activity fizzled in the second half of 2022, as high inflation, aggressive anti-inflation monetary policies, geopolitical instability, assertive antitrust regulators and tightening financing markets depressed target valuations, reduced strategic acquirer confidence and sidelined private equity sponsor buyers. trillion. [2]

M&A

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

Midsize pharmaceutical buyers pursuing opportunistic acquisition strategies, with robust capital markets and high valuations having limited the pool of attractive assets available in recent years. approved prescription cannabidiol medicine to its portfolio. billion to enhance product diversification by adding the first and only FDA?approved

M&A

InvestmentBank.com

MAY 18, 2021

The healthcare sector in the United States is a large driver of economic output. The World Health Organization notes that the United States spends more on healthcare as part of its GDP (17%) than any country in the world. What is the healthcare industry and its major subsectors?

Healthcare

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 5, 2025

While plenty of bankers and equity research professionals from healthcare teams enter biotech hedge funds, people with advanced degrees (M.D., In technology, as a startup keeps raising capital, it normally does so at gradually higher valuations as its customers, users, and revenue grow. also find their way into the industry.

Funds

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., to a strategic buyer confirms the value retina practices hold for healthcare investors and operators.

Private Equity

Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Overcoming Marketplace Uncertainty Rising interest rates introduced a difficult environment for private equity recapitalizations (where private equity groups sell a portfolio company to another buyer), so few of the older PE-backed ophthalmology organizations traded hands over the last few years.

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Reference any deals you’ve worked on that required analysis of these points and talk about how they affected the valuation or client’s decisions (this is more grounded than just saying, “I like high-growth companies!”). Notice how “price” and valuation are not on this list. Q: Which portfolio company of ours would you have invested in?

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 30, 2025

Portfolio Company Exits Does the parent company acquire many of the groups portfolio companies? Financial Modeling and Valuation: When you analyze a potential investment in CVC, you might look ahead to potential synergies if your firm ends up acquiring the startup in the future. If so, the group is more of a business unit.

Capital

Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Field Service Management (FSM) has long been essential for industries like Utilities, Telecommunications, Transportation & Logistics, Home Services, Construction, Manufacturing & Equipment, Oil & Gas, Healthcare , Facility Management, Energy , and so on.

M&A