Name: Axios' Dealmakers: The 2026 Outlook
Start: 2025-12-09T12:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-09T13:15:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

Dealmakers: The 2026 Outlook

Tuesday

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December

9

,

2025

12:30pm

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1:15pm

ET

RSVPs Closed

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Dealmakers are closing out 2025 on a high note that’s creating momentum for the year ahead. The AI gold rush is driving high-value tech sector deals and a sunny forecast for 2026 even as concerns swirl around macro uncertainty and a possible AI bubble.

Join Axios Live for a virtual Dealmakers event on what’s next for dealmaking in the U.S. We’ll look at the market forces, policy impacts and AI investments shaping opportunities and challenges for deals in 2026.

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Axios Pro Deals reporter Lucinda Shen and Axios Pro Deals managing editor George Moriarty will host one-on-one conversations with:

Ben Beerle

Partner, Cooley

View From the Top moderated by Axios' Allison Murphy

George Mathew

Managing Director, Insight Partners

Marcus Ryu

General Partner, Battery

Shan Shan

Investment Manager, Private Companies, Baillie Gifford

Georgia Room

23 Lexington Ave, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10010

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