Europe’s technology industry saw a drop of 17.95% in big data deal activity during February 2021, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by AppLovin’s $1bn acquisition of Adjust, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 32 technology industry big data deals worth $1.92bn were announced for the region in February 2021, against the 12-month average of 39 deals.

Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in February 2021 with 16 transactions, representing a 50% share for the region.

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In second place was venture financing with 15 deals, followed by private equity deals with one transactions, respectively capturing a 46.9% and 3.1% share of the overall big data deal activity for the month.

In terms of value of big data deals, M&A was the leading category in Europe’s technology industry with $1.85bn, followed by venture financing deals totalled $73.02m.

Europe technology industry big data deals in February 2021: Top deals

The top five technology big data deals accounted for 98.2% of the overall value during February 2021.

The combined value of the top five technology big data deals stood at $1.89bn, against the overall value of $1.92bn recorded for the month.

The top five technology industry big data deals of February 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) AppLovin’s $1bn acquisition of Adjust

2) The $450m acquisition deal with Runtime Collective by Cision

3) CrowdStrike Holdings’ $400m acquisition of Humio

4) The $19.37m venture financing of Threadneedle Software by AlbionVC, Citigroup and HSBC Venture Capital

5) Metaplanet Holdings, Monashees, Mosaic Ventures and Notion Capital’s venture financing of Vortexa for $19m.