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Hampleton’s newest Healthtech report makes for happy reading for founders in the industry.

E-commerce helped get us through the pandemic, but many commentators have been wondering how companies in this space will fare now that lockdowns are (largely) a thing of the past.

Even if the days of being asked to prove your age are long behind you, chances are you’ll remember having to fumble around for your ID while trying to get into a venue.

An unsurprising side effect of the pandemic was the huge rise in investment in healthtech companies. As recorded in Hampleton’s latest sector report, healthtech companies raised an impressive $57.2 billion in funding in 2021, which was an almost 80% increase from 2020. But was this a temporary spike fuelled by a global health crisis, or will growth be sustained?

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

We’re living in an exciting era of technological disruption across countless industries. One of the most striking transformations – which promises to be radically consequential for both society and the environment – is occurring within the automotive world.

Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised akquinet enterprise solutions GmbH, a leading provider of SAP cybersecurity & access governance software, on its acquisition by Pathlock backed by New York-based Vertica Capital Partners, a growth-oriented private equity investor with a focus on the software sector.  

You don’t have to be directly involved in the business world to know that the phrases “B2B” and “B2C” refer to business-to-business and business-to-consumer transaction models. But what, precisely, does “B2B2C” refer to?

Tech innovators working within the mental health subsector have been seeing significant interest from investors. As our newest Healthtech M&A report discusses, investment in mental health-related tech companies hit more than $5.5 billion in 2021, a rise of 139% from the year before.

Following a marked slowdown in 2020, there’s been an uptick in M&A activity involving firms specialising in hospitality vertical software.