Inorganic Podcast
By Christian Hassold & Ayelet Shipley
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Episodes: 73
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Ayelet Shipley and Christian Hassold host the Inorganic Podcast. Ayelet and Christian have combined 20 years of experience helping venture and private equity sponsors execute mergers and acquisitions in SaaS and digital agencies in the U.S. and Europe.
On this podcast, Ayelet and Christian discuss M&A strategy, sourcing tactics, and other dynamics around mergers and acquisitions. They also report on market activity, emphasizing larger companies buying smaller SaaS or agencies and discussing the rationale behind the deals and economics. We sometimes invite guests to join our discussion, building on our mission to make the art and science of M&A more transparent for buyers, sellers, and financial sponsors.
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E70: Accenture x Whalar (Agency), plus Walker Sands, Channable, Sitecore Deals Announced
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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E69: "Just Ask, Was Good or Bad": Kevin Simonson on His Second Exit, Selling adMixt to Interluxe Group
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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E68: Sprinklr acquires ViralMoment, Asana Pays $75M for StackAI, Interluxe x adMixt
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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E67: Why NewEngen is Buying What Other Agencies Don't Understand ft. Justin Hayashi
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May 31, 2026 |
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E66: What the $100M Shetty Deal Means for M&A + $21M in funding for an AI-led Agency
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May 29, 2026 |
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E65: Four Acquisitions in 9 Months, $700M in Retail Media Spend: Podean's M&A Tear
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May 26, 2026 |
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S1: From Employee 20 to Bootstrap CEO: Joe Gadreau on Building the Data Layer Nobody Wanted to Build
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May 26, 2026 |
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E64: Anthropic Just Pulled Off Competitive Denial M&A + KPMG M&A Market Update
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May 22, 2026 |
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E63: Publicis Acquires LiveRamp: Data War, Holdco Identity Race and What It Actually Means
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May 21, 2026 |
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E62: 5 AI Tuck-Ins, & 3 Deals to Know: Brands at Work x Chorus, Smartly x INCRMNTAL & OpAd x Broad
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May 15, 2026 |
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E61: BREAKING: Accenture's Next M&A Imminent, Recharge x Skio for $105M & IREN x Mirantis for $625M
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May 08, 2026 |
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E60: The M&A Truths No One Tells Founders | Advice from an Operator w/Brenda Jacobsen
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May 07, 2026 |
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E59: A Mystery Strategic Buyer Is Coming for Independents, Brkthru's x Gigawatt & Instacart Deal
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May 01, 2026 |
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E58: AI Commerce is Coming, SaaS Moats, and Startup Survival with Scot Wingo
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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E57: Deal Review: Amex x Hyper, Viant x TVision, The Real Story Behind "Declining" Ad Tech M&A
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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E55: 3 Strategic M&A Deals: Harvest + Cartograph, Enginr + Nuqleous, and Carry’s $80M Exit
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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E54: Deal Review: Podean's 3rd Acquisition, Mountaingate's 4th Platform Play & MiQ Goes Mobile
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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E56: AI Agents Are Coming for Agencies: EverWorker’s $10M Bet
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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E53: From No Fraud to Wyllo: A $1.3B Exit Vet on Tuck-In M&A & the Future of Risk Intelligence
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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E52: Who's Going to Pay $1B+ for a Scaled Independent Agency?
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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E51: The Origination Edge: How Herringbone is Buying Agencies at Velocity
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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E50: From Acquired Founder to Serial Acquirer at Veza Digital
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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E49: Silicon Valley's Next Target: Agencies, plus Details on the New Engen+Grapevine.ai Deal
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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E48: Scaling a Global Marketplace Agency ft. Travis Johnson, co-founder, Podean
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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E47: Solving Problems Through Acquisition ft. Tom Shipley
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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E46: The UK Independent Agency Scene w/Robin Skidmore, CEO Journey Further
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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E45: M&A Frenzy in the AI Era
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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E44: Inside a Social Media Agency Pioneers Exit: Earnouts, Post Close, Lessons Learned
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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E43: State of Holdcos and What it Means for Independents w/Chloe Cotoulas of Everos
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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E42: Deal Reveal - Wpromotes' Acquisition of Giant Spoon
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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E41: KPMG Tech M&A Conf & SaaS M&A Market Update
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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E40: The Art of Tuck-in Deals w/Brian Burt of Canopy Management
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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E39: The Future of Omni & Retail Media w/Jeff Cohen
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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E38: Valuations Deep Dive w/Matt Bodnar of Eidolon Capital
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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E37: DealCon Roundup Part 2: Earnouts in Agency M&A
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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E36: Deal Con Roundup: Capital Access, Culture Fit in Deals, and Access to Capital for Inorganic Growth
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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E35: Correction! Update on Details of Verisk's Planned Acquisition of Acculynx
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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E34: Syndigo & 1WorldSync Explainer: What do these companies do?
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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E33: Syndigo’s Billion $ Acquisition of 1WorldSync
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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E32: So, You Want to Be a Platform? ft. Anthony Costanzo
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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E31: Plan for Exit from Day One
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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E30: Agency Deal Report - August '25 ft. Podean & Accenture Song
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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E29: SaaS M&A Market Report - July '25 ft. Verisk & Descartes
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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E28: Digital Agency M&A Market Roundup Q225
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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E27: Agency Valuations & Structuring 201b w/Ayelet Shipley
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Hot Take: First Time Sellers - Don't count your winnings until the deal docs are signed!
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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E26: Agency Valuations & Structuring 201a w/Ayelet Shipley
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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E25: The Art & Science of Sourcing Deals
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May 14, 2025 |
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E24: Centric SW $223M Acquisition of Contentserv ft. Armin Dressler
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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E23: The Take Private of a Zombie by Bending Spoons for $233M
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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E22: Case Study on Getting M&A Right in Early Stage SaaS ft. Crisp
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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E21: Deal Review - Amplitude's $45M Acquisition of Command.AI
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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E20: The How: Taking Smartsheet Private for $8.4 Billion with Erik Morton
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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E19: Kantar Divestment Deep Dive with Keith Anderson
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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E18: Why Mastercard Acquired Recorded Future for $2.6 Billion
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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E17: Deal Report: SPS Commerce $206M Acquisition of SupplyPike
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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E16: SaaS M&A Market Trends Q324
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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E15: Inside the Mind of a Serial Founder with 3 Exits
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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E14: Ecosystem Mapping 101 (f.k.a. Market Mapping)
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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E13: Getting the First SaaS M&A Hire Right
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May 08, 2024 |
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E12: Field Report from Deloitte M&A Exec Forum with Kimberly Baird
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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E11: Running a DIY Sale Process with Jon Gregg
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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E10: Integration Success for Team Sizes of Less Than 1,000
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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E9: Running a Rollup Play in a SaaS Co with Chris Barnes
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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E8: From Zero to One: M&A Function Basics with Loran Gutt
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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E7: Why SaaS M&A Will Skyrocket in 2024
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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E6: Getting Stock Deals Over the Line with Lesley Adamo and Meredith Beuchaw
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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E5:AM&A: Running Early Stage BD with an M&A Mindset with Alyshah Walki
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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E4: M&A Strategy for Category Defining SaaS with Rob Gonzalez
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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E3: Expanding from Europe to the U.S. with Marcel Hollerbach of Productsup
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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E2: Anatomy of a Sell Side Banker with Juan Mejia of Bright Tower
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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E1: Art of the M&A Funnel with Erik Morton of CommerceHub
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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E0: The "Why" on The Launch of this Podcast and What to Expect
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Oct 03, 2023 |