This AlwaysOn panel, moderated by Victor Boyajian, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.
The panelists were: Lise Buyer, Principal, Class V Group Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Co Drew Guevara, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Jamie Montgomery, CEO, Montgomery & Co
Boyajian: What do you think of the markets today? There was not a single tech IPO last quarter.
With the premise being he would give each of them his sought-after merger and acquisition advice. Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
The startups were:
This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah’s Poolside Cafe/Hotel April 23 2008 for a breakfast panel discussion of the state of venture investing almost half way into 2008.
The backdrop, of course, being an essentially closed IPO market, a buyer’s M&A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US bond and stock markets undergoing continued major turmoil due to the ongoing mortgage derivates triggered financial crisis. But this panel of leading venture and angel investing professionals for the most part characterized the private equity investment business as percolating along just fine, thank you very much.