måndag 31 oktober 2016

Private equity firms keep gobbling up ad tech companies — and the trend shows no sign of slowing

"Many private equity firms pursue what’s called a ‘buy and build’ strategy. This means bolting on complementary geographies or technologies to a business they’ve acquired with the intention of taking it to IPO or selling it to a strategic buyer. There are large numbers of sub-scale ad tech businesses out there that would be good targets for this approach."
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Private equity firms have been mostly leaning towards companies with SaaS models — hence the large number of martech acquisitions. 
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It's probably reasonable to assume that data management platform Krux, which sold to Salesforce for a reported $700 million earlier this month, received a better price from selling to a strategic investor like Salesforce than it would have done had it gone down the private equity route. Should private equity interest in the ad tech market be viewed as a good thing?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-private-equity-firms-keep-buying-ad-tech-companies-2016-10?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

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