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The European Innovation Council, a body which supports high-impact, super-disruptive technologies in the EU, recently announced a massive €331 million investment windfall for an eclectic range of startups. What they have in common is that they’re all deep tech companies, and the announcement underscores how much interest deep tech is generating in 2023.

Hampleton's reports have recently been featured in the Wall Street Journal and other media publications. 

The number of people who are currently plugged into one or more of the many social media networks out there has never been higher. According to the most recent data, almost 4.8 billion people – that’s well over half the planet’s population – use social media. The numbers are also growing at a rapid clip, with around 137 million new social media users creating accounts in 2022.

The latest Enterprise Software M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, reveals how the sector maintained its high-growth trajectory in 2022 with a record-breaking 1,837 deals, up 8 per cent compared to 2021’s 1,702 deals. 

Hampleton Partners’ newest IT & Business Tech industry report is now out, and one of the key takeaways comes right at the start. Namely: “Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.6 trillion in 2023, an increase of 5.1% from 2022.”

The Digital Commerce sector has experienced precipitous highs and equally stark lows since the coming and going of the Covid-19 pandemic. With Hampleton Partners recently releasing our newest M&A report into this space (which you can read here), this is a good moment to take stock of what’s been happening, and cast our eye over what could be termed the “new new normal” for e-commerce.

“What used to be a slow-moving corporate technology space a decade ago is now a multi-billion dollar market of HR cloud solutions that address the needs for the future of work.” That’s how Hampleton Partners Director Axel Brill has summed up where HRTech is at right now, highlighting the sector’s rapid rise to significance.

Electric Vehicles are the major driving force of the sector. The latest global Autotech & Mobility M&A Market report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, reveals that 119 deals were struck in 2022, up 17 per cent on 2021’s figure.

Software-as-a-service, where companies offer cloud-based applications to their clients on a non-ownership basis, allowing them to avoid splurging on expensive in-house infrastructures, has become thoroughly ingrained in our professional and personal lives. It’s certainly yielded rich rewards for the numerous SaaS startups that have sprung up in recent years, with the “as-a-service” model being continually adapted in eclectic ways.

The latest global IT & Business Services M&A Market report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, reveals that sector transaction volume in 2022 increased by 37 per cent year-on-year with a total of 1,310 recorded deals, up from 899 in 2021.