One of the pillars of Baker Tilly GDA, a corporate finance firm, is the technology we use to conduct our market research.
Our team of market research specialists is continuously analysing investments in the most active markets and can provide current insights and identify the most relevant trends for senior management.
We integrate the most important sources of information allowing us to discover the most interesting companies for Venture Capital or to identify investors with the highest probability of acquisition for our sell-side processes.
The reports and deductions of our advisors provide a broad view of the sector, both geographically and from the complementary or adjacent markets perspective.
Below is a list of the latest market research we have carried out in the technology sector, in which we have extensive experience:
Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing industry produces goods from raw materials and sells them after processing, goods are produced in a chain and are usually produced in large quantities of units. The transformation process usually involves the use of machinery, tools or technology.
It is a growing market with high potential. Investment has increased in 2019 and there is a growing trend, the top round of funding in 2019 was from the company Ouyeel with a B series that raised $299M.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is based on the principle that human intelligence can be defined in such a way that a machine can easily imitate it and execute tasks, from the simplest to the most complex. The goals of artificial intelligence include learning, reasoning and perception.
It is a growing market with high potential.
There is a clear trend, each year the amount of funding in the sector is increasing.
Govtech
Government technology commonly known as "GovTech" or "E-governance" is the technological infrastructure that government departments use to perform their internal work or provide services to their citizen "customers".
Both the number of rounds and the money raised have experienced a positive trend. The 2019 funding reached a record high of over USD 0.5 billion.
Information Technology Services
Information technology services refer to the application of business and technical expertise to enable organisations to create, manage, access or optimise information and business processes.
The information technology market has been growing strongly in recent years. In 2019, more than 30 billion dollars were raised in financing rounds.
Two of the biggest rounds in 2019 were: Biz2Credit(75M$) and Sharecare (70M$).
Medical Device
The Medical Device sector covers any instrument, apparatus, appliance, implement, machine, appliance, implant or other similar or related article, intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings.
The market is growing steadily. The year 2018 saw an increase in the number of rounds. One of the most important rounds in 2018 was that of the company Aspen Pharmacare 3.4 billion.
Energy Storage
The energy storage is concentrated and releases energy that can be consumed during or after the storage process.
Both the number of rounds and the money raised have experienced a positive trend. The 2018 funding reached a record high of over 5.5B$ due to a Uniper 4.5B$ POST-IPO round.
The increase in the amount invested in recent years shows a certain maturing process, although the number of rounds remains low, indicating that this is an emerging market.
PaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud service that allows you to order the hardware and software tools needed to develop this product and the space to host the application from a cloud service provider.
Both the number of rounds and the money raised have experienced a positive trend in recent years. The 2013 funding reached a record high of over USD 1.4 billion due to a Series A round of USD 946 million. The increase in the amount invested in recent years shows a certain maturing process, although the amount and levels of rounding are still low, indicating that this is an emerging market.
IaaS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) enables enterprises to use web-based operating systems, applications and storage without having to purchase, manage and support the underlying cloud infrastructure.
Both the number of rounds and money raised have been on a positive trend, with 2017 funding reaching a record high of over $780 million thanks to the rounds Generate Capital ($200 million), QingCloud ($159 million), Options Technology ($100 million).
MHealth
MHealth is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices.
MHealth is in a growth market, where we can see the increase in investment in recent years, with $270 million raised in the last few years.
Software as a service, known as SaaS, is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet.
The SaaS market is a growing market, where the last few years have seen an increase in the amount of funding. In 2019, Infor received private equity financing of USD 1.5 billion.
Information Services
The global information services (IS) industry employs integrated methods to gather, process, communicate and store different types of information to improve the efficiency of society and organisations.
The market for information services is growing and last year, 2020, was the year in which the most money was raised. This increase is due to the number of rounds that the company conducted. Reliance Jio.
AgTech is a nascent industry at the intersection of agriculture and technology. For this reason, what is included and excluded in the analysis of both current market size and future opportunity varies.
Both the number of rounds and money raised have seen a positive trend, 2019 funding reached a record high of over 1.25B$, although the number of rounds has not yet reached the expected number. The rise in rounds shows aggressive growth in the market.