Gaurav Bhasin, Managing Director at Allied Advisers is a panelist on TiEcon 2021 “Journey from inception to exit”, speaking about " Three things to do and Three not to do for international entrepreneurs today. Lawyers, accountants and investment advisors offer lessons on what has changed for entrepreneurs." Learn more on TiEcon 2021

Allied Advisers writes about Customer Concentration and its impact on valuations, type of buyers and more. Download the full article here

Gaurav Bhasin, Managing Director at Allied Advisers shares insights about this important issue. "There comes a time for most entrepreneurs when they ask themselves one of the age-old questions: “Raise capital or exit? This is a highly strategic question and as expected, the answer is “it depends.” This discussion can be complex and there are many factors which go into addressing it properly." Read more on Crunchbase News

Allied Advisers was a recent panelist on the interesting topic of "To SPAC or not to SPAC" following a recent report we published on SPACs. Download our report on SPAC

Written by Gaurav Bhasin, Managing Director at Allied Advisers. " When a portion of the purchase price in M&A consists of contingent payments that are payable after closing within a specified period of time, such payments are commonly referred to as an “earnout.” Read More on Crunchbase News

Ravi Bhagavan, Managing Director at Allied Advisers write about a very interesting trend: IT Services companies are quietly becoming active acquirers of Software businesses. Read more on Medium

Itay Sagie, our Senior Advisor in Israel writes on CTECH by Calcalist: American buyers made up 63% of M&As of Israeli tech companies as Europe did well and so did Asia. Read more on CTECH

“Software is eating the world” was a phrase coined by Marc Andreessen. Byron Deeter at a recent conference astutely said “Cloud is eating Software”. The robust valuations of subscription software companies compared to legacy software business reinforce this. To keep things exciting in SaaS, there are flavors in SaaS – Horizontal SaaS or Vertical SaaS. As advisors who have worked across both flavors, we see interesting differences. While Horizontal SaaS companies generally hav

September was amazing for the Technology sector – we had the largest software IPO (Snowflake) and the largest semiconductor M&A (ARM), underscoring an increase of 51% in M&A deal volume from same period last year. While tech M&A deal volume dropped in Q2, 2020, there were marquee deals and significantly increased activity in certain mission critical / Covid beneficiary sectors. We had 4 of our clients across cloud security, compliance, collaboration software and encryption e

Technology companies are increasingly using Debt as a growth tool thereby enhancing equity value. While equity financing gets a lot of buzz, debt financing has been growing at a steady clip. Pitchbook notes US venture lending accounts for 10 to 15 percent of the total VC capital. Debt stepped in during the Pandemic allowing companies to borrow at cheaper rates than would likely be available for equity financing. We recently saw Internet companies like Airbnb, Eventbrite, Wayf

Allied Advisers client Kaptivo acquired by Lifesize, mentioned on WSJ article titled: Remote-Work Technology Fuels M&A Activity During Pandemic Read more on WSJ

Gaurav Bhasin presented at the Latham and Watkins London on US-UK (M&A / Investments) and CVC discussion. Download the presentation here

Allied Advisers serves as sell-side advisor to Kaptivo on their exit to LifeSize, backed by Marlin Equity Read the full Lifesize Press release

Join the exciting session with Gaurav Bhasin , Managing Director at Allied Advisers, as he talks at TiEcon with a former client Sid Yenamandra , CEO of Entreda, a category leader in Vertical SaaS for Wealth Management who went through a successful exit. Learn more on TieCon 2020

"A good portion of buyers and investors were not sure about how they could do M&A or Investments if F2F meetings were not possible. However, M&A and Investments still happened for companies in sectors which were COVID-19 beneficiaries or mission-critical." Read more on Medium