InvestGame team is pleased and excited to share with you our Global Gaming Deals Activity Report FY’21.
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2021 proved to be yet another record-smashing year for the Video Games industry, with the total closed deals value surpassing $71.3B across the whooping number of 937 transactions, plus the additional $9.1B in 30 announced deals.
Video Games industry continued to prosper across all segments and all types of deals through FY’21:
— Exit activity remained bullish, with M&As setting a new record of $34.5B value (vs. $12.6B in 2020) across 309 closed deals, representing almost half (48%) of the total deal value.
— Private investments doubled in the deal value ($12.0B vs $5.9B), and made a healthy step up in the number of closed deals (560 vs. 363), with the Late-stage transactions accounting for 72% of the value.
— As for Public offerings, there was a 1.6x increase in the deal value ($24.8 vs. $15.6B), while the number of transactions slightly declined (68 vs 82), with the three biggest deals including Krafton $3.75B IPO, BiliBili $2.6B PIPE, and ironSource $2.3B SPAC.
The investment focus had also noticeably shifted to Blockchain gaming, with the segment occupying 26% of the private capital raised in FY’21. Blockchain gaming indeed had the absolute breakthrough year: the total deal value blasted off 68.1x YoY ($3.1B vs $46m), with the total deal count growing 11.3x YoY (135 vs 12).
FY’21 was also another remarkable year for the gaming VC ecosystem, with $891m capital raised by gaming-related funds throughout the year. The top-15 gaming VCs invested $4.3B of the disclosed deal value in FY’21, across 160 deals, showcasing an ever-growing venture interest in the gaming industry. BITKRAFT Ventures yet again led the VC chart with 30 closed deals of $345m total value, followed by a16z and Makers Fund.
For the first time ever, Embracer nudged Tencent from the first place in our Strategics rating, closing a total of 26 deals with the overall disclosed deal value of $6.7B, announcing such notable deals as Asmodee ($3.1B), Gearbox (up to $1.4B), and Easybrain (up to $0.8B).
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