Public ad tech is disappearing and an investment banker just explained why. According to Josh Wepman, managing director of technology investment banking at Houlihan Lokey, it isn’t a performance problem. It’s a size one. Most public ad tech companies, he said at Exchanewire’s ATS London conference yesterday, sit at market caps too small for the investors who move real money to bother with. “It’s hard to be a $7 billion company, right?,” he said in response to being asked whether all publicly-traded ad tech companies should be taken private. “You’re looking at trying to attract investment dollars from different indices or mutual funds, they…
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