Second Quarter 2015 Report

Executive Summary
Overview

USD30.1bn of deals tracked in Q2 2015, around 28% decrease from USD38.4bn in Q2 2014
1,057 deals tracked from public sources in Q2 2015, a decrease from 1,214 in Q2 2014
The average deal value for investments has increased 46% to USD23.5m in Q2 2015, from USD16.1m in Q2 2014
The average deal value for acquisitions has increased slightly from USD462.5m in Q2 2014 to USD469.2m in Q2 2015

Deals by region:

Rest of World leads all other regions with an average deal value of USD198.8m. Asia/Pacific comes second at
USD45.1m.
Rest of World leads average deal values for investments at USD172.0m
Average deal values have increased in regions of Rest of World, South America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Middle East.
The average deal values in North America decreased by 27.2%

Deals by sector:

The number of deals decreased in most of the sectors except in Ecommerce and Transactions where the number
slightly increased.
The total deal values have increased significantly in Media (570%) and Ecommerce (185%). There were also increases in
Mobile and Applications (69%) and Transactions (14%).
The Ecommerce sector had a high increase in average deal value for acquisitions, up 8,122% to USD60.0m compared to
Q2 2014.

Key Statistics

Description

Q2 2015

Q2 2014

Number of deals

1,214

1,057

Deals disclosed

1,000

847

Total deal value

$38,394,625,570

$30,146,638,879

$38,394,625

$35,592,253

Total investment value

$15,269,892,400

$19,355,578,784

Total acquisition value

$23,124,733,170

$10,791,060,095

Average deal value

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Deal value growth by sector Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

700%
570%

600%
500%
400%
300%
185%

200%

69%

100%

14%

0%

-100%

-42%

-93%

-71%

-66%

Hardware &
Infrastructure

Games

Marketing

-200%
Software & Transactions
Services

Mobile &
Apps

Ecommerce

Media

Deal value growth by region Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

600%

540%

500%
400%
300%
200%
82%

100%
26%
0%
-100%

-38%
North America

Europe

Asia/Pac

Rest of World

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Deal number growth by sector Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

50%

44%

40%

30%

30%
20%
10%

0%

0%
-10%
-20%
-30%
-40%

-37%

-36%

Marketing

Media

-31%

-26%

-24%

Mobile &
Apps

Software &
Services

-50%
Hardware &
Infrastructure

Games

Transactions Ecommerce

Deal number growth by region Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

40%
32%
30%
20%
10%
0%

-10%

-10%

-20%
-30%

-17%

-27%
Europe

North America

Rest of World

Asia/Pac

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Average deal value by sector Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

$300

$243

$250

Millions

$200

$178

$150
$100
$60
$50

$12

$27

$4

$15

$19

$34

$25

$12

$29

$34

$33

$28

$19

$0
Games

Marketing

Hardware &
Infrastructure

Software &
Services
2014

Mobile & Apps Transactions

Ecommerce

Media

2015

Average deal value by region Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

$80

$73

$70

Millions

$60

$49

$50
$40

$45
$36

$30

$20

$25

$21
$12

$9

$10
$0
Europe

North America
2014

Asia/Pac

Rest of World

2015

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Average deal value growth by sector Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

9000%
8122%

8000%

7000%

6000%

5000%

4000%

3000%

2000%

1000%
228%

27%

0%
-33% -97%

-88%

72% 0%

42% 0%

38%

-5%

-7%

-86%

96%

14%

-1000%
Games

Marketing

Mobile & Apps

Software &
Services
Investments

Media

Hardware &
Infrastructure

Transactions

Ecommerce

Acquisitions

Average deal value growth by region Q2 2014 - Q2 2015

1200%

1060%

1000%
800%

715%

600%
400%

272%
155%

200%
26%
0%

65%

58%
-3%

-200%
North America

Asia/Pac

Europe

Investments

Rest of World

Acquisitions

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