A VC firm finds businesses through pitch competitions, demo days, hackathons, and conferences. Other channels they use involve digital media like webinars, podcasts, newsletters, blogs, and social networking.

A merger is the where two entities combine to form a new business entity, commonly to achieve synergy, increase market share, or to obtain strategic objectives. To make the mergers a success, valuation, negotiation, and planning of integration commonly accompany the process.

v the values relative of the selling firm(s) under reorganization aimed primarily to assist the negotiators in arriving at a transaction.