Germany’s technology industry saw a rise of 19.05% in overall cross border deal activity during February 2022, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by Carlyle Europe Technology Partners (CETP) IV and PayPal Holdings’ $100m private equity deal with shopware, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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A total of 50 cross border deals worth $403.8m were announced in February 2022, compared with the 12-month average of 42 deals.
venture financing was the leading category in the month in terms of volume with 26 deals, which accounted for 52% of all cross border deals.
In second place was M&A with 20 cross border deals, followed by private equity with four transactions, respectively accounting for 40% and 8% of overall deal activity in the Germany’s technology industry during the month.
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By GlobalDataIn terms of value of cross border deals, venture financing was the leading deal category in Germany’s technology industry with total deals worth $229.98m, while private equity and M&A deals totalled $100m and $73.8m respectively.
Germany technology industry cross border deals in February 2022: Top deals
The top five technology industry cross border deals accounted for 65.7% of the overall value during February 2022.
The combined value of the top five technology cross border deals stood at $265.1m, against the overall value of $403.8m recorded for the month.
The top five technology industry cross border deals of February 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) Carlyle Europe Technology Partners (CETP) IV and PayPal Holdings $100m private equity deal with shopware
2) The $60.1m acquisition of Daedalic Entertainment by Nacon
3) Cherry Ventures,DN Capital,Headline Ventures,Kreos Capital Group,Scope Hanson,Soravia Group and TruVenturo $45m venture financing deal with numa group
4) The $30m venture financing of Flip by Cavalry Ventures Management,Daniel Krauss,Fritz Osterle,HV Capital Adviser,Jochen Engert,Jurgen Hambrecht,Kurt Lauk,LEA Partners,Matthias Muller,Notion Capital and Roland Berger
5) Ahren Innovation Capital,M Ventures,Metaplanet Holdings,Project A Ventures and Vsquared Ventures $30m venture financing deal with micropsi industries
