Union Square Advisors Releases 2018 Outlook Report

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Square Advisors, a technology-focused boutique investment bank, has announced today the release of its inaugural Outlook report.

With technology representing one-quarter of the value of all public equity markets, it's increasingly essential for emerging and established organizations to stay attuned to advances in the sector. The Outlook report addresses a myriad of trending issues across tech M&A and capital raising including:

• Drivers for technology M&A and investment: What's driving M&A activity in 2018, including increased corporate confidence and potential tax bill savings.
• Opportunities in cloud computing and software: Investment in cloud and software will be driven by digital transformation, workplace automation and the convergence of once-discrete network, compute and storage technologies.
• Co-opetition between the Fab Four: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will continue to expand in overlapping technology sub-sectors, including: digital media, the cloud, smart home, autonomous vehicles, alternative payments and virtual and augmented reality.
• The benefits of a "hybrid" equity-debt fundraising approach: This combined approach offers the opportunity for firms to raise a targeted amount of capital, with a lower combined cost and less dilution.

"This year, we are embarking on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, particularly as firms shift from technology transformation to optimization," said Carter McClelland, Chairman and Co-Founder of Union Square Advisors. "This report highlights our team's insights amidst this transformation and touches on the convergence, connectivity, security and software changes happening across the technology sector." 

The 2018 Outlook report is introduced on the heels of Union Square Advisors' tenth anniversary. Since its inception, the firm has completed more than 95 transactions representing $95+ billion in value.

"Over the last decade, we've experienced a global financial crisis and its dramatic recovery, geopolitical changes and tremendous technological innovations that continue to transform nearly every industry," added Ted Smith, President and Co-Founder of Union Square Advisors. "Given the abundance of capital available to tech companies, and the increasing pervasiveness of technology, we believe the next ten years will be more even promising than the last."

To view the report in full, visit: https://www.usadvisors.com/news/.

About Union Square Advisors
Union Square Advisors LLC is a leading technology-focused investment bank that offers strategic mergers & acquisitions advice and execution, as well as agented private capital financing services. Founded in 2007, with offices in San Francisco and New York, Union Square Advisors works with leading public and private technology companies, venture capital and private equity firms across the technology landscape with a primary focus on Software, Software-Enabled Services, IT Infrastructure and Internet/Digital Media/Marketing Technology. Since its inception, the firm has completed more than 95 transactions representing $95+ billion in value. For more information, please visit www.usadvisors.com.

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