Michael Hill is a tech M&A Analyst on the firm’s M&A KnowledgeBase team. His duties include researching, analyzing and proofing financials for relevant deals, performing private company research and writing about transactions. He has worked in research roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Austin Ventures, and has written for The (Tacoma) News Tribune and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington.
Robotic processing automation deals are on the upswing as a growing field of acquirers looks to the technology to enable increased workforce productivity. Rising customer demand has spurred enterprises to add RPA capabilities via M&A.
Healthcare tech vendors are driving an increase in healthcare IoT deals as they seek to address growing provider demand for remote patient monitoring technology. The spread of coronavirus only underscores the rationale behind acquisitions in this emerging market.
As Zscaler's reach for Cloudneeti illustrates, acquirers are upgrading their portfolios with applications that secure cloud-native environments. The growth of these deals corresponds with an uptick in cloud-native deployments, spurring security vendors to add cloud-native capabilities via M&A.
Purchases of computer vision startups have surged over the past 12 months, driven by a slate of marquee buyers that see potential for the technology in the form of new products and services. Use cases for this particular flavor of ML range from AV development to social media-oriented imaging applications to remote diagnosis of home appliance failures.
Hungry for more, food delivery companies are driving up deal spending as they look beyond the usual targets for acquisitions. While buyers are still reaching for other delivery services as they seek to consolidate a fragmented market, they are also branching out, making additional bets on the technology behind those services.
Buyers in the manufacturing space are opening their wallets for Internet of Things targets because they can. IoT budgets in the vertical are increasing and, as a result, companies involved in the manufacturing industry are spending more on purchases than other IoT-friendly verticals. And targets developing IoT technologies for manufacturing and industrial applications are garnering more attention.
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