Sectors / Technology, Media & Telecom

Technology, Media
& Telecom

Capital raising, M&A and strategic advice for technology, media and telecommunications companies.

Axial Technology Top 50 · 2025 and 2026

Sector overview

Services, coverage and team in one document.

The sector

We raise capital for technology, media and telecommunications companies and advise them on mergers, acquisitions and strategic decisions.

Most of our TMT bankers worked inside the industry before advising it, as lenders to media and cable companies, as CFOs, and as founders of technology businesses. They know how buyers and investors in this sector judge a company, and they handle each engagement personally, from the first meeting through closing.

What we do

Mergers and acquisitions

Exclusive sell-side and buy-side advice across hardware, software, media and infrastructure, including distressed businesses and assets. We identify the buyers and the synergies that support price.

Equity and debt placements

Public and private placements with institutional and retail investors to fund growth and acquisitions, give shareholders liquidity, or restructure and stabilize the capital structure.

Strategic advisory

Confidential advice to boards and special committees on strategic alternatives, including options that limit losses for shareholders and secured lenders when a business is under pressure.

Public market advisory

IPO and secondary offering work with management teams on positioning, so institutional investors understand the business and price it accordingly.

Fairness opinions

Opinions under FINRA Rule 5150 on transactions between affiliated parties, where conflicts of interest can arise.

Transactions

$22.27B

total transaction value

60+

TMT transactions

20+

above $100 million

Career totals for our TMT bankers, including transactions completed before they joined Young America Capital. Since 2010, the firm has closed $1.8 billion in transactions across all sectors.

Completed transactions

Sector team

Jon Lunsford

Senior Director, Co-Head of Technology, Media & Telecom

jonlunsford@yacapital.com

More than 30 years in TMT as a leveraged lender, senior financial officer and investment banker. Principal on more than fifty capital raises and M&A transactions for TMT companies, more than a dozen above $100 million. Founded the media and technology group at what is now Truist.

Sean Santa

Senior Vice President, Co-Head of Technology, Media & Telecom

ssanta@yacapital.com

More than 20 years investing in and building companies, and more than five years as a banker at Young America Capital, closing deals in regulated industries and entertainment media.

Ran Zfoni

Vice President, Head of Israel & Europe Technology

ran@yacapital.com

More than 20 years in technology, entrepreneurship and investment banking. Advises Israeli and European tech companies on M&A and strategy. Previously founded and ran a startup recognized by Gartner and Deloitte as a category leader.

Jeffrey Gold

Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking

jmg@goldmarkadvisers.com

More than 30 years in investment banking across publishing and media. As EVP & CFO of Esquire, principal negotiator on its sale to Paramount Communications; then ran corporate development for Simon & Schuster, including the acquisition of Prentice-Hall. Founder of Goldmark Advisers.

Omar Brown

Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking

omar@yacapital.com

More than 25 years in the capital markets, advising institutional investors in public and private markets, including as an advisor and investor in alternative investments for an endowment and a hedge fund.

Nicholas “Claude” Colabella

Director, Head of Placement Agent & Third-Party Marketing

claude@yacapital.com

More than 30 years in financial services, including alternative assets, hedge funds, investment research and P&C insurance, with Titan Advisors and Alpha Beta Alternative Assets among his prior firms. Joined Young America Capital in 2022. MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

Devansh Mangulkar

Investment Banking Analyst

devansh@yacapital.com

Has sourced more than $25 million in deals at Young America Capital, supporting capital raises across sectors. Master’s in Finance from Baruch College; has passed CFA Level II.

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A senior banker takes the first call. Conversations are confidential.

Office

914.777.0100

Technology, Media& Telecom