Smarter Thinking
By Sheana O’Sullivan The appetite for Europe in the Valley remains hot. Europe is increasingly maturing into a flourishing market for innovative start-ups, growth companies and unicorns alike. At FirstCapital, my role is to manage...
News
Hazel Moore, who is Chairman of FirstCapital, has recently been appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the board of British Patient Capital. British Patient Capital was set up in 2018 to invest £2.5bn into funds...
Smarter Thinking
By David Smith Recently, I joined the M&A 20:20 Outlook panel for IgniteX as part of the Dublin Tech Summit, where 150 global investors and others gathered to discuss technology and investment. Here are a few of the...
Smarter Thinking
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of financial buyers acquiring tech companies. More and more sellers are choosing to include financial buyers in the mix alongside strategic buyers...
Smarter Thinking
The European payments market continues to demonstrate impressive growth. Globally M&A in payments is strong. In Q4 2018, payments registered the fastest quarter-on-quarter growth in M&A deals in the financial services sector (30.8%), despite only...
Smarter Thinking
By Sheana O’Sullivan I recently attended Irish Fintech in the Bay hosted by Enterprise Ireland, the economic development agency of the Irish Government. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the up-and-coming fintech companies...
Demystifying M&A
By Alastair Church Warranties and indemnities are an important part of most M&A transactions. They are the medium by which risk is allocated between the buyers and sellers of a business. Increasingly, Warranty and Indemnity...
Thought Leadership
Silicon Valley remains top of the global ranking when it comes to funding and deal value and is hard to beat when it comes to innovation. Many European scaling companies dream of relocating part of their...
Videos
FirstCapital Chairman, Hazel Moore, was a guest speaker at TechBBQ 2018, an international tech start-up summit which took place in Copenhagen on 24th and 25th September 2018. Hazel delivered her talk on 5 Steps to...
Thought Leadership
We recently co-hosted a Smarter Connections dinner for Chairs, NEDs and CEOs of growth-stage tech companies with private equity firm, Sovereign Capital Partners, on the topic of Digital Transformation, and were delighted to have Dr...
Thought Leadership
By Jason Purcell The fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, is set to transform the manufacturing industry as we know it. Machine to machine communications of “things” connected via the Internet of Things...
Demystifying M&A
By Piers Hartland-Swann So you’ve reached the point in a sale process where you’ve selected a preferred buyer for your business and agreed heads of terms for the deal. Next, the buyer will want to...