Digital and Technologies Sector Statistics: Volume 1 - Financial Statistics
Financial statistics about the Digital and Technologies sector
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This release provides statistics on the following financial metrics for the UK Digital and Technologies (D&T) sector:
- Value of fundraising – the aggregate value of private-equity fundraising raised across recorded fundraising rounds by non-publicly listed D&T companies.
- Number of fundraising deals – the total number of discrete private-equity fundraising rounds completed by non-publicly listed D&T companies.
All statistics refer to private-equity investment only and exclude debt financing.
These statistics are based on a company‑level definition of the D&T sector, rather than Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. For more detail on the D&T company list please visit: Digital and Technologies Sector Statistics – Sector Definition.
The D&T sector is defined as a combination of the frontier technologies and a digital component. The definition for the digital component is different to the Digital sector definition used in the Digital Sector Economic Estimates series.
Frontier technologies comprise 6 priority technology areas identified in the Digital and Technologies Sector Plan within the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy:
- Advanced Connectivity Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cyber Security
- Engineering Biology
- Quantum Technologies
- Semiconductors
Further detail on the definition and construction of the company lists is provided in the accompanying technical report and definitions page of this collection.
In this publication, we provide statistics for the D&T sector and for frontier technologies as a whole. We do not present statistics for individual frontier technologies or for a “digital” component. Due to overlaps between the underlying company lists, the digital component cannot be derived by subtracting frontier technologies from the overall D&T sector. Statistics on individual frontier technologies are available in DSIT sector studies linked on the definitions page of this release.