The second quarter of 2022 will also be accompanied by the Ukraine conflict, which has led to great difficulties and challenges, for business, leads. These include increased raw material prices, their scarcity and complications along the supply chain.

In the focus of this report, we would like to take a closer look at the completed funding of sensiBel AS by Trumpf Venture GmbH and, in the course of this, present the current M&A trends and movements in the European market for semiconductor chips.

M&A activity and the transaction volume per deal show a slight decline in the second quarter of 2022. Investors continue to use acquisitions as a growth strategy, however, one notices that valuations, especially for listed companies, have corrected sharply downwards, with valuations in the private sector usually only following with a time lag.

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