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Fintech M&A Market Report: Q4 2025

The final quarter of 2025 has been remarkable for FinTech M&A activity. We’re seeing strategic acquisitions become the dominant exit strategy, with companies that have strong AI capabilities fetching significantly higher valuations. Meanwhile, consolidation is fundamentally changing the competitive landscape in payments, digital banking, and blockchain.

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Fintech Valuations Report: Q4 2025

Fintech valuations have stabilized around 4.2x revenue as we close out Q4 2025, but that headline number is pretty misleading. When you dig into the data, you’ll find lending companies scraping by at 2.5x while blockchain platforms with AI integration are pulling 17.3x multiples. The spread is enormous.

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Payments SaaS & Merchant Services Valuations Report: Q4 2025

The payments industry is standing at a major turning point in 2025. After years of frankly explosive growth, powered by digital transformation and that huge pandemic-driven surge, the sector is now settling into a more mature phase. The focus has decidedly shifted toward disciplined expansion and, critically, profitability.

Digital Assets & Blockchain Infrastructure Valuation

Digital Assets & Blockchain Infrastructure Valuation Report: Q4 2025

We’re watching a major turning point in global finance. Blockchain technology and digital assets aren’t just speculative gambles anymore, they’ve become legitimate investment options for serious institutions. This shift didn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of real regulatory progress, like Europe’s MiCA framework, the approval of spot ETFs, and big-name custodial banks entering the space.

SaaS M&A Report Q4 2025

SaaS M&A Report: Q4 2025

The SaaS M&A market reached unprecedented transaction volumes in 2025, with Q3 setting a new quarterly record of 746 transactions—a 26% year-over-year increase that puts the industry on pace to exceed 2,500 total deals for the full year. This surge in deal count represents a fundamental shift in acquisition strategy, with buyers prioritizing smaller, more targeted acquisitions over mega-deals that dominated the 2020-2021 period.

Saas Valuation Report

SaaS Valuation Report: Q4 2025

SaaS valuations have settled at a median of 8.5x revenue as we close Q4 2025, but this headline figure obscures the most dramatic valuation bifurcation in the sector’s history. The market has fundamentally restructured itself around profitability, operational efficiency, and sustainable unit economics, abandoning the growth-at-all-costs mentality that defined the 2020-2021 period and creating unprecedented dispersion between high-performing and struggling companies.

Vertical SaaS Valuation Report

Vertical SaaS Valuation Report: Q4 2025

Vertical SaaS valuations have stabilized around 8.1x revenue as we close Q4 2025, but that headline number masks significant variation across industries and business models. The best-in-class vertical SaaS companies are commanding 12x+ multiples while horizontal SaaS companies struggle at 5.2x, reflecting a fundamental shift in how investors evaluate software businesses based on market specialization, workflow integration depth, and embedded revenue opportunities.

Construction Tech SaaS Valuation Report

Construction Tech SaaS Valuation Report: Q4 2025

Construction tech SaaS valuations have reached an average of 8.2x revenue as Q4 2025 concludes, reflecting the industry’s unique position as one of the last major sectors to undergo comprehensive digital transformation. This valuation reflects both the substantial opportunity ahead and the complex challenges inherent in modernizing an industry where workflow complexity and regulatory requirements create significant barriers to software adoption and competitive moats for successful platforms.

Artificial Intelligence M&A Market Analysis Report

Artificial Intelligence M&A Market Analysis Report: Q4 2025

Q4 closed with conviction and velocity. Strategic acquirers and sponsors moved decisively (some would say aggressively) to lock down positions across the AI stack, from models through to infrastructure PitchBook. The quarter logged north of 280 deals globally; disclosed value approached $85–95B. Mega-deals came back: Skyworks paid $11.5B for Qorvo, semiconductor consolidation in full swing.

AI Software Valuation Report

AI Software Valuation Report: Q4 2025

Pricing AI software hasn’t gotten easier. If anything, Q4 brought the contradictions into sharper relief. On one side: LLM and generative AI assets with defensible data or inference advantages still pulling 12–20x revenue—sometimes higher when strategic buyers see distribution fit. On the other: enterprise AI applications normalizing back to 3–6x, right where mature SaaS sits when growth moderates and services mix creeps up.

AI Data Platforms Valuation Report

AI Data Platforms Valuation Report: Q4 2025

Deal volume ticked up. Not a spike. A steady climb. We tracked a 12% increase over Q3, but the composition shifted. The mega-cap consolidators paused for breath after a busy summer. The middle market—specifically sub-$500M transactions—drove the count. That’s where the plumbing lives. That’s where the real work is getting done. Governance became the gate. It stopped being a feature on a roadmap and became the absolute requirement for a term sheet. 

Generative AI Platforms Valuation Market Analysis Report

Generative AI Platforms Valuation Market Analysis Report: Q4 2025

Let’s be honest. For a long time, “enterprise AI” meant a lot of flashy slide decks and very few production API keys. Q4 2025 changed that narrative entirely. The adoption metric jumped—hard. We witnessed enterprise adoption surge from a tentative 33% in 2023 to a robust 65% today. That isn’t just pilot purgatory anymore; that’s the C-suite demanding real ROI.

AI in Fintech Valuation Report Q4 2025

AI in Fintech Valuation Report: Q4 2025

Q4 ’25 funding came back. Not in a chaotic spike. In a steady, deliberate climb. Capital flowed, but it wasn’t spraying everywhere. AI showed up in the right places: Fraud. Lending Operations. Embedded Finance. The infrastructure that actually moves money. The checks got bigger. The mega rounds—Feedzai, Ramp—did the heavy lifting, anchoring the quarter’s volume. Seed rounds finally thawed out. Series A and B reopened for business.

Cybersecurity M&A Market Report Q4 2025

Cybersecurity M&A Market Report: Q4 2025

If there’s one thing we can say about 2025, it’s that this year has been absolutely remarkable for cybersecurity deals. We’re talking about a true watershed moment in the industry. Just looking at Q3 alone, we saw 70 transactions worth a staggering $27.1 billion according to Kroll’s data, and when you add it all up, we’re sitting at 234 deals year-to-date – that’s a record that nobody saw coming.

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