Allied Advisers is thankful to have advised our unicorn client Standard AI on the divestiture of GoSkip, a point-of-sale software business, to leading Point of Sale Software and Restaurant Software company PAR Technology (NYSE: PAR). Congratulations to Angie Westbrock, Dave Kuwada, Jeff Hsu, Lindsay Aulick and the GoSkip team for a successful exit! We wish you the very best for the future. Savneet S. thanks to you and PAR team for your interest in this acquisition. Read the

Allied Advisers is pleased to release its latest report “Navigating M&A in a Volatile Market”. We are seeing recovery despite the headwinds – we had 4 clients exit in Q1 2025 and advised on 8 transactions in the last 10 months. We currently have several clients who currently have significant interest from strategic and PE firms. This report covers some of the best practices which founders, management and investors of both early and late stages can develop in their tool kit to

Congrats to Amiya Adwitiya and the experienced team of Squadcast for achieving this notable outcome with SolarWinds and seeing their vision in the AI-powered incident response and SRE market come true! Allied Advisers is thankful to have served as sell-side advisor in this process. Read the press release here #IncidentResponse #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Exit #MergersandAcquisitions

In M&A or majority control transactions, deferred revenue of SaaS companies can become a highly negotiated item if the amounts are significant. Deferred revenue is a liability that accrues when a SaaS business gets paid by customers in advance for future product subscriptions. In cash-free debt-free deals, differences in views of the buyer and seller can stem from the fact that the seller has already received cash from customers for obligations that the buyer will have to ful

As founders and investors look at options for liquidity, they may find that neither strategics nor private equity (PE) may be the right fit for them based on their sector focus being too niche or their financial profile not being large enough for PE. In situations like this, software consolidators may provide additional avenues for liquidity. Canada headquartered Constellation Software Inc. (TSX: CSU) has successfully pioneered the consolidator model of buying and building s

We find that valuable business insights on an industry are obtained from successful entrepreneurs who have grown a significant business in that industry (“been there and done that”). Allied Advisers conducted an interview with our former client Jay Nitturkar, who bootstrapped a vertical SaaS healthcare technology company to 8-figure ARR and exited successfully to PSG Equity, a $10B+ fund. Founders and management teams will benefit from learning about some of the playbooks in

The turbulent markets of 2022-2023 and volatility in the M&A environment has brought the topic of valuation to the forefront in many of our discussions with founders and investors. Regardless of market ups and downs, the factors that are most impactful to valuation remain relatively constant, with some standards changing with market cycles as witnessed over the past decade. Safe to say, valuation continues to be both art and science. Allied Advisers put together this artic

Allied Advisers is releasing its inaugural report on product led growth (PLG). As software users, we have had magical experiences with products that allow us to independently explore, test, purchase and expand usage without intervention from the product vendor’s sales team; these PLG strategies have been utilized successfully by leading SaaS companies such as Dropbox, Zoom, Klaviyo and Slack among others. This contrasts with sales led growth (SLG) that relies on direct sales