M&A
9 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2020 by Sanjay Nath · across every show →
Everything said about M&A, oldest first
Apr 19, 2020 negative
May 11, 2020 positive
Gupta: Startups on weaker footing during prolonged crises should pursue M&A
“I would actively urge companies who are slightly in a weaker footing to think through potential M&A possibilities. Because, ah, you know, if raising capital is going to be difficult, and they will lose some competitive advantage during the, if this crisis is s…”
Jun 7, 2020
Kaushik: Most of Aavishkaar's successful exits are secondary sales to PE
“So there have been M&A as well, but actually most of our successful exits have come from trade sales to other private equity or other larger funds who have bought out our states. So most of our successful exits have been those so not, not so much on M&A.”
Apr 6, 2021 neutral
Attempting to proactively shop a startup typically yields terrible acquisition offers
“And the key to thing is that companies are not, you know, sold, they are bought. That is a, I think that is super critical to remember because at that point we wanted to actually went to all the folks, all the large companies saying, you know, we want to buy a…”
Jun 12, 2024 negative
Raggl: IPOs are unrealistic for European B2B startups compared to B2C
“I think that's not a too realistic way. Especially when being a B to B company, I see also IPOs being more realistic for B to C companies in general, because you just have put a lot of time in building the brand, which helps you a lot with them. I'm also selli…”
Aug 31, 2024 negative
Aug 31, 2024 positive
Nadhani: M&A and secondaries offer cleaner angel exits than IPOs
“Between a financial exit of IPO versus M&A, M&A has turned out to be cleaner for me. So most of the exits that I have made were either a secondary sale to the next round of investor Or companies got acquired by other public companies because it's very clean. I…”
Aug 31, 2024 neutral
May 10, 2026 positive
Kumar: Startup M&A works like closing a long-term enterprise deal
“When somebody is you know, is looking to buy a company at the end of the day, you know, they're buying, you know a platform, a company, to essentially make it part of the bigger entity and really grow it, right? And so I think it's a large deal at some level, …”