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Baptista Research

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. 

We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>CDW Corporation has moved to deepen its position in enterprise data and artificial intelligence with a planned $525 million acquisition of Lovelytics, a data and AI services specialist and Databricks Brickbuilder Partner.</li><li>Announced on September 2, 2026, the transaction would add more than 600 employees across the United States, Canada, Argentina and Colombia while expanding CDW’s Data & Analytics Practice.</li><li>The timing is notable because CDW is already seeing AI-related infrastructure spending accelerate across large enterprises, with servers, storage, networking, cloud and security all benefiting from modernization and AI-readiness projects.</li></ul>

CDW Corporation has moved to deepen its position in enterprise data and artificial intelligence with a planned $525 million acquisition of Lovelytics, a data and AI services specialist and Databricks Brickbuilder Partner.Announced on September 2, 2026, the transaction would add more than 600 employees across the United States, Canada, Argentina and Colombia while expanding CDW’s Data & Analytics Practice.The timing is notable because CDW is already seeing AI-related infrastructure spending accelerate across large enterprises, with servers, storage, networking, cloud and security all benefiting from modernization and AI-readiness projects.

CDW’s $525 Million Lovelytics Takeover Could Supercharge Its AI Strategy!

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CDW’s $525 Million Lovelytics Takeover Could Supercharge Its AI Strategy!