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Is global financial volatility causing company CIOs to tighten their belts when it comes to spending on IT & business services? Quite the opposite. 

In 2021, the online marketing platform Mailchimp was sold to Intuit for $12 billion, in what was the biggest ever exit by a bootstrapped tech company. 

This has been a bumpy year for various tech markets. But if there’s one vertical that’s been weathering the storm, it’s fintech. Exactly a decade on from 2012, the year that, in the words of a recent TechCrunch article, “fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically changed how most people manage their money”, the sector has managed to defy the downturn.

Hampleton's reports have recently been featured in the Wall Street Journal and other media publications. 

When it comes to the range of solutions offered across countless verticals, the tech industry has never been more diverse. But there’s still plenty of scope for improvement when it comes to gender parity among founders and leaders. 

The Proptech M&A Market Report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, reveals that the first half of 2022 saw 55 property technology (Proptech) deals, 57 per cent up on 1H2020 and 12 per cent up on 1H2021 numbers.

Tech aficionados of a certain age will have vivid memories of the original virtual reality boom of the 1990s. The emphasis back then, as far as most people were concerned, was squarely on the entertainment possibilities of this futuristic, sci-fi technology. 

Hampleton Partners has advised Omnio.net ApS on its transaction with IBM (NYSE:IBM).

What do investors expect from the startups they plough money into? Lots of money back, naturally. But in recent years we’ve seen a significant paradigm shift, with those brandishing big bucks increasingly looking to propel companies that yield a positive societal impact as well as financial returns.

Now that we’re in the final quarter of 2022, it’s a perfect moment to pause and assess this year’s tech market trends. This has certainly been a dramatic period, with inflationary pressures, hiked interest rates and geopolitical issues all affecting the global M&A market.