Tag: Exits
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Spotify, Adyen, Farfetch: what’s next in 2018
Spotify is Europe’s largest VC-backed exit and most valuable VC-backed company ever; Spotify is also ranked among Europe’s top-ten most valuable tech companies. What’s next? By all indications, 2018 is going to be big year for big exits. [report-download index=”1″/] Our latest report provides new insights: Europe’s unicorns have a combined value of €52 billion. Adyen and…
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Unicorns and big exits: European outlook
Today’s pipeline of European unicorns is worth more than €60 billion. But big tech is about more than just unicorns. Europe counts at least 154 tech companies valued over $1 billion (roughly €0.8 billion). We’ve analysed 31 unicorns, 12 tech companies are private equity backed and may exit soon, 35 companies under corporate ownership and 76 publicly traded companies. The following free…
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New: create your own interactive charts
You can now easily create your own interactive charts. This allows you to analyse funding and exit trends by industry, market or any other filter. For example: series-A rounds in London, or VC-backed exits in Europe. To get started, simply visit Transactions (Rounds or Exits), then use the normal filters, and click on Show Stats. You can view data…
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€90 billion in European VC-backed exits between 2014 and 2016. Is it enough?
Only a few years ago, many VCs wondered where the European exits were. But European tech has clearly come a long way. Between 2014 and 2016, Europe had 565 venture backed(1) exits totaling €90 billion in value. That’s €30 billion in VC backed exits on average each year. By number of deals, 2016 was a record with 254 VC-backed…
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2016 tech exits report
In 2016 Europe saw 668 tech acquisitions. With a Dealroom Premium account you can easily explore them in great detail. Here are several useful links to see how (available to all users): In total, 2016 saw 668 tech exits, compared with 727 exits in 2015 Exits includes strategic acquisitions, buyouts, IPOs, and mergers It includes VC backed and not VC backed deals We excluded a few big outside tech deals (traditional telco…
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The highest multiples ever paid in European exits
Venture capital needs exits to thrive. There are multiple ways to analyse exit data on Dealroom. Here are a few examples of what you can do: Valuation multiples: highest revenue multiples or highest EBITDA multiples in tech Exits ranked by deal size (excluding telco mergers) Exits above €250M (ranked by most recent at top) Did we miss any deal multiples? Simply…
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4 ways to sabotage your own fundraising process or exit
Fundraising or selling your company is neither an art nor a science. It is a fairly standardised process. But it is important to avoid some common mistakes and stick to a some simple rules that I summarise here. Many of them may seem obvious to you, but I see these mistakes repeated time after time. Don’t…
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Service-as-a-Software (yes, the other way around)
10 years in banking motivated us to rethink the corporate finance service model and the way it is best delivered. We like to call it: Service-as-a-Software (yes, the other way around, as this used to be a service that we deliver through software). Our platform allows founders to collaborate directly with tech funds on new investments,…