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Archive for Author: Ken Marlin

Aug 7, 2017

AI Will Change Everything. Be Prepared. Our August M&A Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on the dozen+ segments of the information industry that we following and sometimes lead. Please click here for our August M&A Update. When I was about 16, I read Robert Heinlein’s book, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. Besides espousing some libertarian ideas that I thought were pretty interesting at the time, it also was my first exposure to what we now call “artificial intelligence”. In the book, a series of linked self-learning super computers becomes a single self-aware being – called Mike. A few years later we got HAL, the self-protective, self-aware…

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Jul 18, 2017

Lies, Statistics, Analytics, and Intuition – Our July 2017 Enterprise Data & Analytics Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here gives our sense of the current m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. We’re big fans of firms that provide Enterprise Data and Analytics. They help others to gather massive amounts of fast-moving structured and unstructured data from dozens of sources (marketing, sales, web interactions, transactions, social media, weather, news, etc.) and then clean, integrate, aggregate, optimize, and analyze that data in an effort to find correlation, causation and anomalies. The result is better insights, inspiration, and…

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Jul 12, 2017

Why US Trade Policy Matters for Cross-Border M&A – Our July M&A Market Report

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our latest report, found here, contains an update on m&a deals, values and trends in the dozen+ segments of the information industry that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our July M&A Market Update. One of the trends you will notice is the continuation of cross-border m&a transactions – especially in the Fintech, Marketingtech and Infotech arenas. That trend has been good for much of the world – as innovations and improved efficiency have brought benefits to many – and many US and international firms have expanded beyond their native borders. Read more here.…

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Jun 26, 2017

Fintech Demand Remains Strong – Our June 2017 Fintech Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Fintech demand remains strong. Our report found here highlights some of the m&a trends and transactions in the seven segments of the Fintech world that we follow and sometimes lead. Please find our latest Fintech m&a Market Update here. The Fintech world is rapidly changing. It is being reshaped by innovative, fast growing companies that have found effective, new ways to solve old problems – and those who would partner with them to help reinvent this world. This week, we announced the completion of our sixth transaction in as many months; our client Investment Metrics, a…

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Jun 21, 2017

Facts can fool you. Our June 2017 Market Update.

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on m&a deals, values and trends in the industries that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our full June Market Update. Recently, we saw an interesting set of charts put out by PitchBook on m&a trends in the PE industry. We like PitchBook and respect their work. But sometimes, their data overwhelms us. Several of the recent charts were put under the heading “An expensive market contributes to declining activity”. It showed that transaction multiples for PE-related deals have risen from 8.1x EBITDA in 2010 to…

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