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Investors and acquirers are showing renewed confidence in e-commerce agencies and service providers, with the most recent reporting period – 2H24 – seeing deal numbers bounce back to reach the second-highest level on record for this space. This resurgence has come in the wake of a fairly sluggish period for Digital Commerce as a whole. As Hampleton Partners’ Sector Principal Ralph Hübner observed in our most recent market report on the sector, while Digital Commerce M&A numbers have been rising, the pace has been “kept in check by the lingering effects of recent macroeconomic headwinds and the stringent

One of Europe’s most talked-about tech companies right now is Lovable, the Swedish startup which allows users to build apps and websites via prompts. Achieving USD 50m in annual recurring revenue within six months of launching its platform last year, Lovable has at the time of writing over 130,000 paying customers, of which many are enterprise clients paying the highest subscription tier rate. Factoring in the USD 22.5m in funding which the company has also racked up to date, it’s perhaps unsurprising that is co-founder Anton Osika has bluntly said “We’re in a great position where we don’t need cash

In a recent interview with Bloomberg , Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that the company was “remarkably on track” to having more than a billion AI agents deployed by the end of this year. This lofty target had originally been announced last year with the big unveiling of Agentforce, the company’s new platform which allows clients to customise and build AI agents able to autonomously execute processes from optimising media campaigns to resolving customer enquiries. The clearly prolific use of the platform by Salesforce clients underscores how rapidly this technology is impacting how human

The latest IT & Business Services M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals there were 709 transactions in the first half of 2025, up from 597 in the previous six-month period.

The new Digital Commerce M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals a strong rise in dealmaking in 1H2025, with 1,391 transactions recorded.

The new Digital Commerce M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals a strong rise in dealmaking in 1H2025, with 1,391 transactions recorded.

It’s always fascinating to see what Y Combinator sees fit to put on its regular “Request for Startups” lists, which outline the kinds of companies which YC and other investors are particularly interested in backing in a given period. “Unsurprisingly, YC’s summer 2025 request list is entirely focused on AI,” notes Heiko Garrelfs, tech M&A expert at Hampleton Partners. “The accelerator has been intimately involved with the generative AI revolution from the start, being the first investor in OpenAI, and its summer list pinpoints some of the specific AI use cases and startup types which are especially

Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, has appointed Anthony Chow as its newest Managing Director to its London hub, from where he will serve clients across the UK and Europe. Bringing nearly three decades of investment banking experience, Anthony most recently served as a Partner at Strata Partners, prior to which he was a Director at Ardent Advisors. In these roles, he advised on funding rounds, exit planning and business development across the SaaS, e-commerce, digital media and fintech sectors.