Megabuyte CEOBarometer Podcast: January 2025 – Insights for UK Tech CEOs and Boards

In this month's podcast: As we enter 2025, this month’s Megabuyte CEOBarometer adopts a slightly different format. Like last January’s episode, this month’s show runs to an hour to provide a comprehensive round-up of the past year and set the scene for the year ahead.

The podcast begins with a 12-month retrospective, revisiting key technology and growth trends, corporate activity data, and a look back at our 2024 predictions to assess their accuracy. Building on these insights, we then turn to our forward-looking predictions for 2025, offering perspectives on the themes that will shape the year ahead.

This month’s predictions touch on all the usual topics covered in the podcast but also feature a focused segment on AI, which remains a pivotal agenda item for UK tech leaders.

So, in summary, we were pretty bullish at the start of last year about the outlook for 2024. However, while the year proved stronger than 2023, persistent corporate caution and political uncertainty limited the pace of recovery. Deal activity remained more muted than expected, with capital markets notably poor, while private equity remained relatively robust. Looking ahead, with the exception of capital markets, we expect a gradually improving picture for corporate activity and valuations.

This month’s show captures all these themes in detail, providing a balanced look back at 2024 and forward to what lies ahead in 2025.

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About this podcast

The CEOBarometer podcast is a quarterly publication hosted by Ian Spence, Founder and Chairman of Megabuyte. In each episode, Ian provides expert analysis of key trends in UK tech M&A, capital markets, private equity, and venture capital, and explores their implications for the boards of UK tech companies.

Megabuyte supports UK scale-up and mid-market Software and ICT Services companies to develop robust growth strategies, understand their competitive landscape and customer sentiment, benchmark their financial performance and valuation, and identify and track M&A targets.

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Tech Trends 01m 05s

      - AI Predictions for 2025 04m 50s

Growth Outlook 19m 47s

Capital Markets 27m 29s

Private Equity 37m 00s

Venture & Growth Capital 39m 12s

M&A 41m 41s

5 Key Recommendations for Boards 44m 16s