Patel: Startup valuation expectations will normalize and decline in 2022
Sujan Patel · Startup Acquisition Stories with Sujan Patel - Managing Director at Ramp Ventures · Mar 14, 2022 · at 18:47
Sujan Patel, Managing Director at Ramp Ventures, discusses macroeconomic shifts and valuation adjustments in tech startup M&A with Andrew Gazdecki in March 2022.
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“I do think the market will normalize this year. It's already had a bit of a correction. And I think when I say normalize, I think it's been pretty stable. Like buyers like myself have kind of had a formula for how much we evaluate a company for a while. But the discrepancy between where the founders think it was, and then the buyers is very high. I think it's going to kind of go in the middle now or come back down a little bit more.”
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