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There is a business case for promoting diversity at senior management levels of all organisations. The numbers back it up and psychologists promote cogent explanations for it. The more diverse your top level of staff, the more productive and profitable your organisation will be.

So far in 2019, global fundraising for insurtech has reached almost $3 billion in 1H 2019 and is on track to reaching $6 billion by the end of the year. Insurtech fundraises increased 27 per cent, with 257 deals closed in 2018 vs 202 deals in 2017.

As we move towards a world of smart cities, smart roads and smart homes, data is being shared at an unprecedented rate. But as technology gets ever more intelligent, so do the fraudsters intent on profiting from this free flow of increasingly accessible information.

Following the release of our Insurtech report 2H2019, Hampleton’s principal partner Miro Parizek reflects on the dynamic relationship between insurers, investors and the insurtech start-up ecosystem.

In his latest article, Hampleton director asks: how do you ensure as best you can that you assemble the team that can develop and sustain the culture that’s going to build value?

For a Private Equity (PE – i.e. financial investor) to optimise the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) on their equity investment, they use leverage when it is available. It took over three years after the great recession for banks and other institutions to make debt more readily available. And now, it is once again easier to organize debt financing for acquisitions. Currently, financial buyers are accounting for about one-quarter of mid-sized acquisitions and most are leveraged.

Agricultural technology software M&A is reaping yields, the number of transactions in the past two years is almost as many as the preceding decade. Technology innovations to make production more efficient and flexible, products more customised and customers more integrated into value chains are revolutionising the agricultural sector.

Over the past 30 months (since Mar 2016) , fintech companies have achieved a median enterprise value to sales multiple of 3.2x and an EV/EBITDA of 15.0x. While these figures are certainly positive, this data includes transactions involving software, services, and integrators in both B2B and B2C markets.

2016 is promising to be another great year for cybersecurity M&A. 2015 delivered 112 deals with almost $10 billion in disclosed value, yet YTD2016 has already seen 93 deals completed with $10.6 billion in disclosed value.

Selling a company using a SaaS delivery method? While SaaS multiples are still strong, we have researched three main categories of tech buyers who are willing to pay for a SaaS target; software, services, and private equity. Software companies including Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, etc. are the highest payers with median EV/S of 5x. Surprisingly private equity buyers offer the second highest of 3.2x and services including, Infosys, CSC, Ingram Micro, etc. close behind at a 2.8x median.