Press releases, current trends, perspectives

ARTHOS Industry Insight – Software Sector Report 07/2024: The stock market rebound in the software industry and relaxing interest rates imply a strong outlook for the rest of 2024. Increased M&A activity is driven by the ongoing strength of megatrends such as AI or distributed ledger technology and regained investor confidence.

CoCoNet (Düsseldorf, Germany), a leading corporate banking platform provider with a focus on payments and cash management, has been acquired by EMERAM (Munich Germany), a leading German mid-market growth investor.

ARTHOS Industry Insight – Vision Technology 04/2024: We see Vision Metrology, low-light imaging, and space as market segments in which double-digit growth rates can be expected. Market opportunities are huge; the challenge is identifying attractive vision companies.

ARTHOS Industry Insight – IT Hardware Q1/2024: Private Equity is increasingly realizing M&A transactions in the IoT sector. They drive consolidation and participate in shaping the future of the IoT industry. Prepare for that!

Transition Technologies MS (Warsaw, Poland) acquires 55% of the shares in the Swiss software development services company Pixel Plus (Zurich, Switzerland) and strengthens its position within software development and AEM in Switzerland.

inno-spec GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany), a leading provider of industrial hyperspectral imaging systems, has been sold to Headwall Photonics, Inc. (US), a global leader in spectral imaging solutions for remote sensing, industrial machine vision, and advanced optical components.

ARTHOS Industry Insight – Semiconductor 12/2023: In the current market environment, valuations of public companies vary a lot. Semiconductor Equipment and Semiconductor companies which are successfully addressing IoT applications drive market valuations and M&A transactions.

From 2 – 4 November 2023 the AICA members from Europe, Middle East and Africa met in London, UK, for the 14th AICA EMEA Conference. The ARTHOS managing partners Arne Tödt and Arno Pätzold participated and contributed to the event.

The shareholders of MOTHERSHIP (Cologne, Germany), a leading German agency specializing in video games marketing and digital entertainment, have sold a majority stake to You First (Madrid, Spain), to expand MOTHERSHIP’s service strategy and offering on a global scale.

ARTHOS Industry Insight – Digital Services Sector Report Q3/2023: The digital transformation cycle is driving the Digital Services M&A market growth. In this report we focus on Digital & Marketing Agencies, which could benefit from the new technologies and trends related to AI and data platforms.