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Joash Boyton

Melbourne
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Covers:  Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Finance Startups Private Equity Venture Capital Fintech Business

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Joash Boyton’s Biography

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Joash Boyton is the Founder and Managing Director of Acquiry, an M&A advisory firm specialising in the acquisition and sale of digital businesses globally. He executes buy-side and sell-side mandates ranging from USD $1M to $500M across technology, SaaS, fintech, payments, gaming, content, and emerging digital verticals.
Joash works closely with strategic acquirers, listed entities, private investors, and founders across Australia and Asia-Pacific. His current mandates include structured acquis…

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The AI Acquisition Wave: How $4.9 Trillion in M&A Is Reshaping the Tech Stack

The AI Acquisition Wave: How $4.9 Trillion in M&A Is Reshaping the Tech Stack

Global M&A hit a record $4.9 trillion in 2025, with AI capability acquisition driving the largest deals. Acqu…

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How AI Is Transforming M&A Deal Sourcing: From Spreadsheets to Intelligent Pipelines | Acquiry

How AI Is Transforming M&A Deal Sourcing: From Spreadsheets to Intelligent Pipelines | Acquiry

AI is fundamentally changing how M&A advisors and corporate development teams source, qualify, and prioritise…

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SaaS Valuation Multiples in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows | Acquiry

SaaS Valuation Multiples in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows | Acquiry

SaaS valuation multiples have stabilised after the 2021-2023 correction. This analysis covers current revenue…

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Fintech M&A Consolidation in 2026: The Payments Infrastructure Land Grab | Acquiry

Fintech M&A Consolidation in 2026: The Payments Infrastructure Land Grab | Acquiry

Fintech M&A is accelerating in 2026 as payments infrastructure, embedded finance, and digital banking converg…

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Exit Readiness for Digital Business Founders: What Acquirers Are Actually Checking in 2026 | Acqu...

Exit Readiness for Digital Business Founders: What Acquirers Are Actually Checking in 2026 | Acqu...

What does exit readiness actually mean for digital business founders in 2026? This guide covers the specific …

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Sovereign Wealth Funds as Digital Acquirers: The Capital Shift Reshaping M&A in 2026 | Acquiry

Sovereign Wealth Funds as Digital Acquirers: The Capital Shift Reshaping M&A in 2026 | Acquiry

Gulf sovereign wealth funds and Asian state investors are now primary acquirers in digital M&A. This analysis…

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Joash Boyton of Acquiry on Why Buying Software Can Beat Building It

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By Joash Boyton
| HackerNoon
I have always thought the build-versus-buy question is framed too narrowly. A company decides it needs a new product, capability or market position, then someone asks what it would cost to build internally. That number becomes the benchmark for whether an acquisition looks expensive. The problem is that the cost of building is not just engineering salaries and infrastructure.
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What AI Cannot Buy: The New Scarcity Map for Fintech and Digital Acquisitions

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By Joash Boyton
| Finextra Verified
The dominant narrative in digital M&A right now is one of destruction. AI is killing SaaS. AI is collapsing publisher traffic. AI is compressing multiples. The data supports parts of this story, but the destruction narrative misses the more important one. Value is not being destroyed. It is being redistributed. And the redistribution is happening along a very specific fault line: the line between what AI can fabricate and what it cannot.
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SaaS Valuation Multiples in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows

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By Joash Boyton
The SaaS valuation correction that began in late 2021 and accelerated through 2022 and 2023 has largely run its course. Public market SaaS multiples have stabilised, private market transaction multiples have repriced to reflect the new reality, and a new bifurcation has emerged: AI-native SaaS businesses are trading at a significant premium to their non-AI peers.
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How is social media changing news?

Speed has overtaken accuracy as the default metric. In M&A, that creates real problems — a rumoured deal can move markets before anyone has verified a term sheet exists. The journalists who add value are the ones who slow down enough to get the structure right.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

Our 2026 M&A research report on AI-driven transaction frameworks. It maps how machine learning is reshaping deal sourcing, due diligence, and valuation across digital M&A — and where human judgment still determines outcomes. It is the most rigorous piece of original research we have published at Acquiry.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Cover deals, not press releases. The most valuable M&A stories are in the structure — who is buying, why now, and what the capital stack reveals about where an industry is heading. Primary sources beat wire copy every time.