Demystifying M&A
Demystifying M&A: What is an Earnout?
By Alastair Church If and when you sell your business, in an ideal world you would expect to receive a single cash amount on closing. There might be some sort of limited holdback or escrow,...
Thought Leadership
Hazel Moore & Mike Sergeant: PR for Humans Podcast
Our Chairman, Hazel Moore was featured on Mike Sergeant’s podcast, PR for Humans. Hazel & Mike speak about communication from a financial perspective, life lessons from a top business leader and they discuss how the...
Thought Leadership
Getting into Gear: Connected Cars and Beyond
By Jason Purcell and Louis Pullan-Turner In the next 10 years, the automotive sector will see more change than in the previous 100. There has already been tremendous momentum behind the transition to electric vehicles,...
Thought Leadership
Coming to America: US Expansion, Fundraising and Exit
Daniel Glazer, Founding Partner of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s London office, joined FirstCapital as the keynote speaker for our recent SmarterConnections CEO Dinner at The Ivy Clifton Brasserie, Bristol, on Wednesday 17th October. We...
News
FirstCapital advises Belgian software company CoScale on New Relic transaction
Belgian infrastructure software company CoScale, which has deep experience monitoring container and microservices environments, has announced that it will be joining New Relic, the US listed analytics software company specialising in performance monitoring. Both companies...
Thought Leadership
View from the Valley: Technology and the Spoken Word
by Sheana O’Sullivan We have entered an age where biology and technology have intersected. Thanks to AI, Deep Learning software can imitate activities in the neuro-cortex of our brains. The software is continuously gaining more...
Thought Leadership
Investing in AI – Where are the Opportunities?
By Hazel Moore I recently moderated a panel on “Investing in AI – where are the opportunities?” at the AI Congress in London, with venture capitalists Henry Mason from Dawn Capital, Scott Sage from Crane...
Demystifying M&A
Assessing the Right Buyer Type for your Business: Trade or Financial?
By Hazel Moore No two buyers are ever the same. Individual buyers will always have their own quirks and preferences. But it can be helpful to analyse buyer types in terms of broader categories when...
Demystifying M&A
Why SMART Sellers run Auctions
By Piers Hartland-Swann When it comes to selling a business, our aim for our clients is always to ensure that the buyer pays the highest price they can pay for the business, while still being...
Thought Leadership
View from the Valley: Who’s riding the transport tech revolution?
By Sheana O’Sullivan A couple of years ago now, I remember a night when I just couldn’t get a cab. I wasn’t far out of town, barely on the outskirts of San Francisco, but as...
Demystifying M&A
6 smart ways to nurture your network
By David Smith To really benefit from networking, it’s important to flip your approach on its head. Instead of thinking “What’s in it for me?” you need to start thinking, “How can I be helpful...
Smarter Thinking
Making the right contacts: how to improve your networking
By David Smith When I moved to Silicon Valley with Enterprise Ireland in 2006, I did not really know anyone there. I was not a natural networker, but as my role was helping Irish companies...