Vendors Pressuring Partners to Move to Services, Says Canalys
Vendors might be pushing consumption-based IT services too hard on their partners, according to channel analyst firm Canalys. As a result, tensions exist between vendors and the channel, says the research firm’s CEO, Steve Brazier. “Vendors are desperate to go to ‘as...
September Update from the IT M&A Frontlines
BY CRISTIAN ANASTASIU Many IT Services and generally IT firms have been only somewhat impacted by the recent crisis, especially when compared to other industries or to the IT industry in previous recessions, like the Dotcom bust of 2001 or the financial crisis of...
How to Prepare for an M&A Transaction
Excendio Advisor’s Managing Director, Cristian Anastasiu, explains how to prepare for an M&A...
Cristian Anastasiu recounts the personal journey that planted the seeds and led to his Mergers & Acquisitions career
Mergers & Acquisitions is personal I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs.… well, actually of ex-entrepreneurs because when the communists came to power after the Second World War in Eastern Europe, they confiscated or nationalized all privately owned businesses,...
UiPath reels in another $225M as valuation soars to $10.2B
Last year, Gartner found that robotic process automation (RPA) is the fastest growing category in enterprise software. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that UiPath, a leading startup in the space, announced a $225 million Series E today on an eye-popping...
Global Venture Funding Through The Pandemic, Late-Stage Stays Strong
Very promising trend for the IT sector! The pandemic is having a very different impact on venture funding this time around in contrast to 2008 Read the rest here:...
What the hell, SaaS valuations?
SaaS stocks are at it again, and I think I’ve got it figured it out. More precisely I think I’ve figured out what other people think is going on. After rigorous fact-checking by both reading tweets, making VCs talk to me on the phone, and chatting with the CEO of a...
The Pandemic Is Turbo-charging Government Innovation: Will It Stick?
The world’s getting more crowded, more interconnected, more complicated. Not surprisingly, the challenges the U.S. confronts today are increasingly complex, fast-shifting, and harder — if not impossible — to tackle with traditional tools and methods. Just consider...