World-renowned Barcelona-based business school IESE recently announced it was funneling €3 million into a seed fund to help MBA students launch startups. While there’s no question that the notion of being the next tech wunderkind is becoming more glamorous, it’s the IESE’s mention of also earmarking the funds for financing and promoting search funds that […]

There’s a misalignment going on, a void between the business fundamentals at the core of tech-enabled companies and the out-of-touch software-sized valuations they’re being emblazoned with. It’s proving a weighty thing for these tech-enabled companies to carry. In March, Shyp, the so-called “Uber of shipping,” announced it was shutting down after failing to live up […]

McKinsey’s annual Private Markets Report for 2017 showed Private Equity firms that raised over $5 billion for buyout funds had grown by a stunning 93% in 2017, climbing to a total of $173.7 billion of fundraising. These so-called “megafunds” are reshaping the PE industry, with ramifications across not only how business is being done, but […]

The tech initial public offering (IPO) hype machine has once again whirred to life on news that Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China’s largest music-streaming company, could be looking to assemble an underwriting team in the coming months and ready an IPO for the back half of the year. If Tencent goes through with it, analysts […]

The mega-deal between German energy giants E.ON and RWE doesn’t just shake up the UK’s energy sector, it props up a shift towards renewables which could fuel a new wave of mergers and acquisitions in the mid-market. E.ON, Germany’s biggest investor in renewable energy (the company has more than US$12.4 billion in wind and solar […]

An IPO can create huge fast-paced growth, but it's is not always the best move for startups and big companies alike. Here are the pros and cons. 

Sequoia Capital recently announced their intentions to raise $8 billion for a new fund to invest in tech. The VC firm, most famous for its early backing of Google, is on the record as saying they need a “bigger war chest” with how valuations in the sector have shot up. Of course, while the technology […]

It’s no secret that e-commerce is a hot space today – recent retail sales data out of the US shows the space experiencing double-digit growth, year over year, a bright spot in an otherwise lackluster data release. In a fast-paced, winner-take-all arena like this, M&A activity is bound to pick up, and not just in […]