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Top 5 Sectors In Australia For Investing
- Published December 20, 2022 2:22AM UTC
- Publisher Leila Oliveira
- Categories Capital Raising Tips
FIVE sectors together got almost 50% of the 10B dollars invested in Australian companies in 2021. 😵
Here’s a breakdown:
1. FinTech $2.5B (25% of the total)
2. Enterprise/Business Software $970M (10% of the total)
3. PropTech/ RealTech/ Construction $683M (7% of the total)
4. MarTech/ EdTech/ SalesTech $672M (7% of the total)
5. BioTech/ MedTech $573M (6% of the total)
Unsurprisingly, Blockchain/Crypto/Web3 startups saw the largest percentage gain in deal count – $227M in 20 deals in 2021, up from just one in 2020.
Other smaller but fast-growing sectors of note included Marketplaces (36x 2021 vs 9x 2020), Social Networking/Media (23x 2021 vs 8x 2020), and DevTech/Developer Tools (14x 2021 vs 7x 2020).
[data from The state of Australian Startup Funding 2021]
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