Here we share our experience in M&A Due Diligence
Almost all investors look at growth rates. But more advanced methods, including product vintages and customer cohorts, Machine Learning for sales drivers analysis and forecasting, can help sophisticated investors to gain an edge in evaluating opportunities and creating real value-add as operators.
EBITDA of eCommerce businesses can be overstated by up to 10-30%. To avoid overpayments acquirers of online businesses should first verify financials based on available data sources - transaction reports, invoices, bank statements and more.
Since 2020, 93 ecommerce aggregators have raised total funding of over $16 billion, majority of which was raised in a single year in 2021. By startups benchmarks fundings rounds in hundreds of millions are rare and draw a lot of attention. Though did aggregators raise too much capital that overheated Amazon M&A market and inflated acquisition prices?
