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2024 Wrapped: how Virtual Vaults empowered dealmakers

Founded in 2014, Virtual Vaults is entering its second decade, making it an ideal time to celebrate successes, review achievements and growth, analyze the trends that have shaped 2024, and set sights on the future.

How to speed up your M&A deals with a Virtual Data Room and deal preparation platform

In the fast-paced world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), speed and efficiency are crucial to closing deals successfully. Jeroen Kruithof, CEO of Virtual Vaults, discusses how to approach this.

The future of M&A: embracing tech to stay ahead

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by technology and innovation. Jeroen Kruithof, CEO of Virtual Vaults, shares insights on what the future may hold.

Product update

Upgrades to streamline your dealmaking process

Over the course of 2024, we have implemented several key upgrades to our platform with that in mind. Below we have detailed a couple of new features and usability improvements that help you make the dealmaking process faster and easier than ever before.

Trends

2024 Mid-Year Review: Leading the data room market through innovation and expansion

In H1 of 2024, Virtual Vaults achieved a rise in new VDR openings, overcoming broader M&A challenges. Our expansion in key European markets and our dedicated deal prepatation tool have strengthened our market leadership and future growth prospects.

M&A

Elevating deals with personalized customer support

During Nationale Klantcontact Week, Virtual Vaults highlights the critical role of human interaction in M&A transactions, supported by advanced customer support to enhance the customer experience within the virtual data rooms.

AI, beyond the hype

With all the hype around AI, its application in M&A stands out, streamlining processes and improving decision-making. Virtual Vaults applies AI wisely, ensuring that its M&A platform remains at the forefront of innovation.

Trends

How pricing transparency can charge your deals

In M&A, VDR pricing can surprise dealmakers with hidden costs. Yet, clear pricing models enable dealmakers to concentrate on deal-making. Virtual Vaults offers transparent pricing, ensuring the focus remains on deal quality, not unexpected expenses.

Trends

Germany's Economic Landscape and M&A Opportunities: Navigating the Current Climate

Germany's downturn uncovers M&A prospects. Explore strategic insights and SME resilience, with Virtual Vaults enhancing deal security.

Second half of 2023 closing: Data room trends, challenges, and a 2024 lookout

Virtual Vaults, the leading virtual data room provider in Europe, reports a substantial increase in VDR openings, with 80% of deals in the Benelux market. CEO Jeroen Kruithof anticipates a rise in 1H2024 deal volumes despite potential challenges. Troubled European companies attract investors, and the energy transition in the EU

M&A

Unlocking the Future of Dealmaking: Trends, Challenges, and the Impact of AI in a Recovering European Market

As the largest virtual data room provider in the Benelux, we see trends in the M&A industry. In recent months, we have observed signs of recovery in the European market, accompanied by shifts in deal preparation strategies and the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, such as

Cloud Archive

A new and speedy, secure way for you to receive your data room archive.

M&A

2022 Report: M&A deals round-up so far

2021 saw an unprecedented number of M&A deals announced worldwide. As confirmed by Statista [https://www.statista.com/statistics/267368/number-of-mergers-and-acquisitions-worldwide-since-2005/] , over 62,000 deals were reported showing an extortionary 24% growth from 2020. This huge boom in the M&A sector has shown signs, in Q1

6 ways to personalise your Data Room

A company's branding is reflected in everything from office stationery to an email signature. So why would you not extend this branding to your Virtual Data Room? Why settle for a simple document sharing tool where not only is the security isn't up to par, but

Insights: What's happening in your Vault?

The new Insights module is a smart set of interactive graphs that show you in a glance what’s happening in your Vault.

Top 5 Virtual Data Rooms offering unlimited data storage

How do you evaluate the cost of your deal? From having to make an estimation of the total cost of the data storage you will need, to later the possibility of your client incurring additional data overage charges. There will always be a small element of guesswork when it comes

Dutch tech scaleup Virtual Vaults opens up to UK dealmakers

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – The Dutch company Virtual Vaults, which offers virtual data rooms based on subscriptions instead of gigabytes and pages, has opened its first international office in London. The privately-held SaaS company is the fastest growing provider of virtual data rooms for Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) due diligence

Product update

Introducing the Q&A Chat

From now on, you'll experience swift and secure communication with your team via our private team chat in the Q&A module.

3 steps from SPAC target to SPAC deal

SPACs are booming. In 2020, half of all IPOs were via a SPAC in the US alone. In the Netherlands, things are also moving quite fast. Is your company also a SPAC target? Do not make the mistake of starting to prepare for the SPAC process too late. Find out

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡: 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 2𝐐21 – 𝐕𝐃𝐑 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

24 June 2021, by Rupert Cocke with analytics by Jonathan Klonowski Virtual Vaults has contributed to the 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡: 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 2𝐐21 – 𝐕𝐃𝐑 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. VDR Insight is a new initiative from DealTech (formerly known as M&ATech), a regular feature that coverstechnology trends aimed at M&A professionals. If you would like to

Product update

Releasing the Office 365 viewer for Excel

In close collaboration with Microsoft we introduce our Office 365 viewer for Excel. Buyers can easily view Excel files online, while sellers keep maximum control

Product update

Summer update | July 2020

A completely new Insights dashboard, labels to categorize users, quick upload for references in Q&A and a new way of sharing documents.

7 essential steps for M&A due diligence in conformity with the GDPR

The GDPR requires you to be aware of the risks and to take adequate safety measures when sharing personal data. As a European data room provider, Virtual Vaults will gladly support you in this process.

Virtual Vaults 5th Anniversary

From 2014 we have been facilitating our clients with smart data rooms. This year we are celebrating our 5th year anniversary. But did you know that our experience in data rooms and software date back to 1999?

Product update

Q&A Theme Wrap-up

Last quarter our product releases were centered around one of the most significant elements in a data room: the Q&A module. Let's take a look at how these releases can add value.