2023 Recap: The Best of the Conversations Podcast
A look back at our top Conversations episodes of the year
The Middle Market Growth Conversations podcast takes the opportunity to hold deep and wide-ranging discussions from middle-market M&A dealmakers, dealmaking partners and industry experts. As we round up the top three Conversations podcast episodes of 2023, we turn back to a vegetation management expert highlighting the sector as an attractive M&A target, GF Data’s Bob Dunn providing key takeaways from quarterly M&A data, and Twin Brook Capital Partners exploring the evolution of dealmaking in healthcare.
3. Managing Wildfire Risk with AI
As part of our Next Target series, in partnership with Grata, Middle Market Growth explores emerging industry niches with the potential for high growth and attractive investment targets. One of the year’s top Conversations podcast episodes was this Next Target discussion with Buzz Solutions CEO and co-founder Kaitlyn Albertoli. She discussed the value of vegetation management to mitigate wildfire risk, and offered her take on why investors should step into the market.
2. GF Data Report: Q2 Brings Record Low Deal Volume
This year, Middle Market Growth kicked off a new, quarterly series with GF Data to report on the latest statistics and explore what they mean for middle-market M&A. GF Data Managing Director Bob Dunn shares his take on the numbers in every episode, including this one, which rehashed the year’s second quarter—during which transaction volume and value fell. But, he did have some good news to report as well.
1. Taking the Pulse of Healthcare M&A with Twin Brook’s Tim Wentink
The year was marred by high interest rates and economic uncertainty, forcing M&A volume down. One bright spot for dealmakers, however, could be found in the healthcare sector. Twin Brook Capital Partners partner Tim Wentick joined the Conversations podcast—our top episode of the year—to discuss the evolution of M&A in the sector as PE firms and their portfolio companies adjust how they finance deals and approach transactions.
The Middle Market Growth Conversations podcast is produced by the Association for Corporate Growth. To hear more interviews with middle-market influencers, subscribe to the Middle Market Growth Conversations podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Soundcloud.
