Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software
Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure. LinkedIn: Dawn Kopecki LinkedIn:...
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity
Dealogic: foreign capital in China's VC industry fell 60% YoY to $3.7B in 2023, just 10% of the 2021 peak, leading to an expansion of state-backed funds
South China Morning Post :
Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade
Dealogic: tech M&A activity in SE Asia hit $19B in H1 2021, up 114% YoY, and is forecast to reach a record $75B in 2021, up from $17B in 2020 and $23B in 2019
Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times :
Despite tensions between the US and China, more than 20 Chinese companies went public in 2020 on Nasdaq or NYSE, raising $4B according to Dealogic data
More than 20 Chinese companies have gone public on the Nasdaq or NYSE this year — The U.S. remains a magnet for initial public offerings … Tweets: @auditchina , @wsjmarkets , @davidamichaels , and @...
Dealogic data: 38 tech and internet companies valued at $1B+ had an IPO in 2018, the most since 2000
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jessefelder and @skupor Tweets: Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : In 2018, to little fanfare, 38 tech and internet companies valued at $1 billion or more...
Dealogic: tech startups are selling just 17% of themselves on average in IPOs this year, with ~44% raising secondary offerings within 180 days of their IPOs
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjmarkets Tweets: @wsjmarkets : Why newly public tech companies are rushing back to the market at a nearly unprecedented clip http://www.wsj.com/...
Dealogic: US tech IPOs, excluding Spotify's listing, raised ~$12.2B in 28 deals in the first half of 2018, nearly double the volume from the same period in 2017
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jason , @cararlombardo , @reformedbroker , and @michaelbatnick Tweets: @jason : This is exceptional for job growth, retirement savings & trickle down ...