Total technology industry internet of things deals worth $2.45bn were announced globally for March 2022, with Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners X $1.38bn private equity deal for 7.5% stake in Splunk being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 76.3% over the previous month of $1.39bn and a drop of 59.6% when compared with the last 12-month average of $6.07bn.

In terms of number of internet of things deals, the sector saw a drop of 27.91% with 62 deals in March 2022 when compared to the last 12-month average of 86 deals.

In value terms, North America led the activity with internet of things deals worth $1.95bn in March 2022.

technology industry internet of things deals in March 2022: Top deals

The top five internet of things deals accounted for 75.8% of the overall value during March 2022.

The combined value of the top five internet of things deals stood at $1.86bn, against the overall value of $2.45bn recorded for the month.

The top five technology industry internet of things deals of March 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners X $1.38bn private equity deal for 7.5% stake in Splunk

2) The $200m venture financing of Axonius by Accel,Alkeon Capital,Alta Park Capital,Bessemer Venture Partners,DTCP USA,ICONIQ Capital,Lightspeed Venture Partners – US,Owl Rock Capital,Silver Lake Waterman and Stripes

3) Coatue Management,Ibex Investors,Intel Capital,Osage University Partners,Prosperity7 Ventures (Saudi Arabia),Qualcomm Ventures,Samsung Ventures America,SK Hynix,Spark Capital,Sutter Hill Ventures,Western Digital Capital and Xilinx Ventures $175m venture financing deal with SiFive

4) The $50m venture financing of Datagen Technologies by Scale Venture Partners,Spider Capital Partners,TLV Partners and Viola Ventures

5) Battery Ventures,Cisco Investments,Lightspeed Management Company,NeoTribe Ventures,RingCentral Ventures,Salesforce Ventures and Zoom Video Communications $50m venture financing deal with Theta Lake