Cardin Partners

Technology M&A experts with a management pedigree. Globally connected – subsector focused

We are technology M&A experts with a management pedigree; collectively, we have decades of on-the-ground operational experience across a variety of key 'founder' roles, including product management, product marketing, software development, and business development. In the modeling, marketing, target list generation, and preparation phase of a sell-side M&A advisory engagement, we analyze your business through the same lens as the buyer; we think like the strategic and PE firms that will be your ultimate acquirers, surfacing the best offer and terms by establishing the positioning, growth levers, and supporting financial model that will resonate with their specific strategic rationale for acquisition. We go beyond process-oriented, traditional transaction advisory; we have a unique approach to helping companies well before they are ready for sale, with outsourced corporate development services. These bring marketing automation best practices to automated, 'drip feed' corporate development service engagements, which are long-term projects executed on our proprietary software platform to establish firms in the minds' of future buyers, long before it's time to consider a liquidity event. Often, these Cardin-originated relationships germinate as accretive channel business development relationships, as a prelude to the ultimate acquisition overture. We maintain unique, automated, data-driven lists of the private companies within technology sub-sectors, including both the active buyers, and the growing sell-side targets. We leverage proxies for private company growth and measure them quarterly, to qualitatively determine which of these are the emergent leaders in the space.