Grow Your Business Through the M&A Pipeline
Scaling your business requires understanding the types of investors and knowing the state and status of their portfolios.
The vast majority of venture capital and private equity portfolio exits occur via M&A, as opposed to through an initial public offering (IPO) process, so understanding these investors is a must. Editor’s note: This is piece is the second part of four on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Strategy- Authors note: The activities that lead to the identification and ultimate execution of an opportunity are very intertwined and subject to continuous learning and improvement. With that in mind, I will summarize four main activities in the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) Process Lifecycle over the course of four different articles as follows:- Acquisitions– part 1
- Sourcing- article below
- Approach
- Execution
- Venture capital (VC)
- Private equity firms (PE)
- Investments banks