Conference Overview

Learn about market dynamics, market maps, partners, key sectors, trends, multiples, industry consolidation, new business avenues, liquidity options & more.

Learn the M&A process, roadmap, and steps to successfully plan for both sell-side and buy-side acquisitions. Learn how to operate and run your business while embedding process that will improve M&A outcomes.

Learn why you need to be “M&A Ready” from day one and how to start preparing for a potential knock on the door – even if you have no plans to exit.

Learn everything you need to know when buying a technology company. How to spot strategic opportunities, what to look out for, what to avoid, how to successfully onboard acquired companies and how/when to build your corporate development team.

Learn everything you need to know when it comes to early-stage M&A without an in-house corporate development team.

Learn about recapitalizations and other liquidity options that may allow you to take chips off the table. Learn all about secondaries: when do they happen (as early as series A?)? How much is appropriate to sell and at what price? What is the appetite from VCs given the current market change and conditions?

Learn about common deal types, expected agreement terms, and ways to retain and enhance bargaining power.  Deep dive into how a professionally managed process can exponentially increase proceeds.

Understand the different drivers when it comes to your company's valuation. Learn historical and future valuations including the metrics that matter to buyers and the ones that are most likely to lead to a favourable acquisition. It is not the go-go days anymore. Are there still opportunities to be sold?

Learn tools and advice to avoid acquisition pitfalls including how to avoid “deal fatigue,” how to handle confidentiality and how to ensure things don’t go off the rails during the due diligence phase.

Understand what the ideal M&A team is, how to select the best external advisors for your business, what your M&A team will cost and how they are compensated.

Many M&A tractions don’t integrate well. There is a mass exodus after the acquisition happened and your entire team is gone in quick order. How can you avoid this? How and what can you prioritize to protect and grow the value of your asset?

There are a lot of opinions out there on M&A advisors. Do you need an advisor? When is an advisor useful (and when isn’t it)? Hear from a Founder who used an advisor and one who did not. Hear from a buyer that used an advisor and one that did not.

When a company goes through an exit it affects people. You will learn how to get ready for a transaction from a people perspective.

There are a number of active, global PE players in the Canadian market. You’ll hear and learn from a number of PE people that write the big checks.

Some companies (and industries) skyrocketed during the pandemic. And now we are seeing consolidation. Learn how you can play in a market that is consolidating.

As a country, we don’t talk about Intellectual Property (IP) enough. How do you assess IP strength? How do you value your IP? If you don’t think about it in the early days, are you missing IP when it comes to valuation? There is a whole IP strategy when it comes to acquisitions and exits. We will give you a toolkit to be IP prepared.

No, tax planning is not the sexiest topic. But the tax payable on your exit could be the largest one-time expense you will ever pay. Learn some key tax planning approaches to minimize tax and maximize the sale of your business.

Understand different potential buyers for your organization including strategic and private/growth equity, financial buyers and their motivations. Dive into the metrics your potential acquirer is looking for.

TechExit.io is the go-to event for technology industry players who want to understand the ins and outs of both selling and buying technology companies.