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Dealmakers in Technology, GP Bullhound

Alexandra Jarvis

Dealmakers in Technology

Growth companies in the Technology sector

GP Bullhound

GP Bullhound is a technology investment bank providing independent strategic advice on Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital raising to leading technology entrepreneurs, companies and investors across the globe. Our passion for technology, our financial acumen and our understanding of the entrepreneur’s journey differentiate our advice from other investment banks. We help exceptional people build exceptional businesses to create more billion-dollar technology companies across Europe.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Kazakhstan Internet software and services / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>GP Bullhound has established a quarterly market report on the Software as a Service (“SaaS”) space to provide quantitative insights into public and private market valuations across the transaction spectrum and qualitative insights into company business models, technology and customer trends</li><li>The report examines the SaaS public company landscape, M&amp;A, private placement and IPO trends</li><li>The software sector has disrupted technology and many other industries over the last several decades; first providing a global wave of onpremise software to all industries in the 1980s and 1990s; then modernizing traditional businesses through cloud-based platforms and enabling growth in business-to-consumer technologies, from mobile, to banking, to real estate, to consumer products</li><li>The shift of business applications to the cloud, decentralized IT operations and infrastructure software have percolated through organizations large and small creating a Software Eating the World paradigm</li></ul>

GP Bullhound has established a quarterly market report on the Software as a Service (“SaaS”) space to provide quantitative insights into public and private market valuations across the transaction spectrum and qualitative insights into company business models, technology and customer trendsThe report examines the SaaS public company landscape, M&amp;A, private placement and IPO trendsThe software sector has disrupted technology and many other industries over the last several decades; first providing a global wave of onpremise software to all industries in the 1980s and 1990s; then modernizing traditional businesses through cloud-based platforms and enabling growth in business-to-consumer technologies, from mobile, to banking, to real estate, to consumer productsThe shift of business applications to the cloud, decentralized IT operations and infrastructure software have percolated through organizations large and small creating a Software Eating the World paradigm

Global Software Market Perspectives 1H2017