First Quarter 2015 Report

Executive Summary
Overview

USD18.3bn of deals tracked in Q1 2015, around 39.3% decrease from USD30.1bn in Q1 2014
881 deals tracked from public sources in Q1 2015, an increase from 856 in Q1 2014
The average deal value for investments has increased roughly 23.6% to USD23.9m in Q1 2015, from USD19.3m in Q1
2014
The average deal value of acquisitions has decreased significantly from USD446.3m in Q1 2014 to USD133.2m in Q1
2015

Deals by region:

Asia/Pacific leads all other regions with an average deal value of USD49.3m. The Middle East comes second at
USD40.0m.
Asia/Pacific leads average deal values for investments at USD50.6m
Average deal values have increased in Asia/Pacific, Europe, and the Rest of World. However, the average deal values in
North America and the Middle East have decreased significantly by 52.0% and 48.4% respectively.

Deals by sector:

The number of deals dropped in most of the sectors except in the Marketing, Mobile and Apps, and Transactions
sectors where the number slightly increased.
The total deal values increased in Marketing by 23.2%, Media by 23.1%, and Transactions by 49.8%. Total deal values
decreased in all of the other sectors with the largest decreases recorded in the Games and Hardware and Infrastructure
sectors at 90.1% and 89.4% respectively.
The average deal values of acquisitions have decreased in all sectors except for Transactions with a 6% increase
compared to Q1 2014.

Key Statistics:

Description

Q1 2015

Q1 2014*

Number of deals

856

881

Deals disclosed

676

679

Total deal value

$30,145,728,336

$18,295,505,977

$44,594,272

$26,944,780

Total investment value

$12,293,186,534

$15,763,826,817

Total acquisition value

$17,852,541,802

$2,531,679,160

Average deal value

Note: *Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp was excluded since it was an outlier.

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Deal value growth by sector Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

60%

50%

40%

23%

23%

Media

Marketing

20%
0%
-20%
-40%
-45%

-60%

-37%

-36%

Mobile &
Apps

Ecommerce

-80%
-100%

-89%

-90%
Games

Hardware & Software &

Infrastructure Services

Transactions

Deal value growth by region Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

60%
41%
40%
20%
3%
0%
-20%
-40%
-60%

-50%
North A merica

-47%
Rest of W orld

Europe

Asia/Pac

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Deal number growth by sector Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

40%

33%

30%
17%

20%
10%

6%

0%
-4%

-10%
-20%

-15%

-11%

-13%

-20%

-30%
Ecommerce

Media

Games

Hardware & Software &

Infrastructure Services

Marketing

Transactions

Mobile &
Apps

Deal number growth by region Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

8%
6%

6%
4%
1%

2%

0%

0%

-2%
-4%
-6%
-8%
-10%
-12%

-10%
Asia/Pac

Rest of W orld

Europe

North A merica

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Average deal value by sector Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

$250

$229

$200

Millions

$150
$100
$50

$43
$7

$17 $21

$36

$50
$27

$23

$21

$36

$31

$27

$31

$29

$41

$0
Games

Marketing

Software & Mobile & A pps Hardware &

Services
Infrastructure
2014

Ecommerce

Media

Transactions

2015

Average deal value by region Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

$70

$63

$60

$52

$49

Millions

$50
$40

$35

$30
$20

$19

$21

$32

$25

$10
$0
Europe

North A merica
2014

Rest of W orld

Asia/Pac

2015

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Average deal value growth by sector Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

250%

195%

200%

150%

100%

81%

59%
50%

29%

23%

0%

0%

-15%
-50%

-100%

55%

0%

6%

0%

-22%
-48%
-78%

-89%

-90%

-150%
Ecommerce

Mobile & A pps

Software &
Services

Marketing

Investments

Games

Media

Hardware &
Infrastructure

Transactions

Acquisitions

Average deal value growth by region Q1 2014 - Q1 2015

150%
111%
100%

50%

29%

21%

10%
0%

-50%

-100%

-36%
-78%
Asia/Pac

-23%

-73%
North A merica
Investments

Rest of W orld

Europe

Acquisitions

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