Decoding Discontinuity

Decoding Discontinuity

January by D’Ornano + Co.: what’s in store for European Tech this year and the birth of the “Jellyfish”, CES 2023 edition takeaways, and a look at winners and losers across Public and Private markets

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Raphaëlle d'Ornano
Jan 12, 2023
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Dear all,

First I would like address you my most sincere wishes for this new year, and would like to take a moment here to thank all our clients and partners at the firm. We constantly strive to anticipate your changing needs and to develop new services, and will continue to do so in this next year. Also a huge thanks to my team members who demonstrate continued dedication to the project and whom make it all possible.

2022 was hard, and perhaps more than hard I would say brutal. After two years of strong growth across the Private Markets, this was put on pause in large part due to macro-economic and geopolitical headwinds. These will remain in 2023 as we are still in the middle of the macro-economic cycle we entered in Q2 2022, and macro-economic timelines may seem longer than what Tech has used us too. But we are much more prepared and aware at this point which allows for cautious optimism in my view.

Tech was hit perhaps the hardest in 2022. The fact that money has become much more exp…

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