2022 and Emerging Technologies

December 24, 2021 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on 2022 and Emerging Technologies

For the year ahead, PitchBook Data Inc. is predicting some interesting activity in emerging technologies. Silicon Angle brought this interesting news to us in their article, “PitchBook predicts agtech and AI will lead emerging technology funding in 2022.”

They are predicting the agtech sector will experience record merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2022. Over the past decade, M&A activity in the sector has been on the rise and a funding shift to fewer larger deals is concentrating capital among key providers, thus priming the industry for increased acquisition activity.

Pitchbook is also predicting that insurance technology activity will see a strong increase in mergers and acquisitions as well. Internet of things (IoT) and operational technology security startups will also be seeing increased activity.

Smart spaces are driving much of this activity. A digital environment in which humans and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.