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How Companies Get Acquired - Lessons from 45,000 Startups

How Companies Get Acquired –
Lessons from 45,000 Startups
 
We’re reaching out to share Woodside Capital Partners’ new report “How Companies Get Acquired – Lessons from 45,000 Startups”. In the report, we reveal new insights about investments, ROI, time-to-exit, exit size, impact of capital raised, success factors, and about company failures from a large proprietary data set supplied by Pitchbook. We also review tech M&A in the first half of 2024. Preview below.
 
Click here to download the report
 
In case we haven’t met - we’re Woodside Capital Partners, and we’re a different kind of investment bank.  We advise tech companies with capitalizations of $30M-500M on M&A and private placements. We’re Palo Alto-based with offices in NY, LA and London, we were founded in 2001, and we’ve worked on over 400 successful client engagements.  Before our team members became investment bankers, virtually all held senior positions in industry, including:
 

  • Mark Bagley (cloud & software advisory) - previously the Global Head of Strategic Alliances at British Telecom·      
  • Nicholas Kim (consumer and enterprise advisory) - previously the Head of Global Strategy at Publicis Groupe·      
  • Radha Amalraj (consumer and software advisory) - previously the Global Head of Business Partnerships at Facebook·      
  • Andrew Bright (IoT, semiconductors, devices advisory) - previously Group VP, Head of Corp Dev & CTO at ABB·      
  • Jon Shalowitz (AI, cloud infrastructure advisory) - previously CEO of five different software companies that exited successfully·      
  • Nishant Jadhav (cloud, cybersecurity advisory) - previously Head of Corporate Development at Brocade, and venture investor
 
We work with companies in AI, computer vision, consumer, cybersecurity, defense & aerospace, enterprise, fintech, health-tech, HR-tech, IT services, IoT, marketing tech, semiconductors, and other tech sectors.  We’re tops in the field at getting companies acquired and financed. 
 
Hope you enjoy the report.  We’d love to work with you.  Please be in touch if we can help! 
 
Best,
Kelly
 
Kelly Porter | Lead Managing Partner | Woodside Capital Partners