Sector focus: IT
Corporate-backed investments declined as total capital decreased to $31.92bn from the $36.32bn in 2015, a 12% fall. The deal count dropped even more significantly, by 28% from 750 rounds in 2015 to 540 last year. Despite this, there are numerous areas of interest for investors in the sector – from artificial intelligence and machine learning through virtual and augmented reality tech to networking technologies and hardware.
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