FT Partners 2025 Insights
Does anyone have any insight into FTP as of 2025? I know 2022-2024 were pretty rough for the firm, but I'm curious how they are currently viewed within the industry, not just "EB!" or other jokes. Also curious about information regarding any positive shifts in culture, WLB, exit/lateral opps, and current deal flow.
Thanks in advance.
This is the bank which has M&A: Heartland $4.5B, Divvy $2.5B, GreenSky $2.2B, Truebill $1.3B, Finicity $1B, Currencycloud ~$1B, Payrix~$800M
in their email signature. I think you can make an inference based on all of these deals being 2021 or earlier
yes, not wrong, but many fintech valuations have generally declined a lot since 2021, so these are their largest deals. Was just curious if anything has improved since ~2023
largest since early 2022 was a $620mm transaction and that was an outlier. I'm not saying the bank couldn't go back to hitting those homeruns but it is basically entirely dependent on 1) The FinTech sector heating up again and 2) Steve McLaughlin's personal ability to drive business since the word is that everything runs through him. I genuinely think advising on a small VC raise would be interesting but it looks like a very different experience than trad. IB
All their deals are on their website. I see 1 announced in 2025 and another ~20 in 2024. They did the raise for Built and they are one of the hottest companies in the sector. https://www.ftpartners.com/transactions/bilt
Yeah I see that too. I appreciate the input. My concern is a lot of those are smaller financings instead of M&A. It looks like last year was a little bit better than 2022-23 though. Do you have any insight into the culture and if it's improved at all in the past year or so.
I have it on good authority that they are firing on all cylinders. As someone else mentioned, the WFH policy is liberal, and I've heard the in office culture is strong. They have focused on training and culture and it seems to be working. I recently worked on a buy side of $B+ deal and their team was representing the seller. I was impressed with their materials and team. Our client didn't get the deal and we're still waiting to see the announcement on who did. Don't take my word for it though as they have multiple offices and a bunch of MDs so it could be different on different team. good luck!
Great to hear. Thanks so much for the input!
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