GPCA has published 2025 Trends in Global Tech, a comprehensive report on cross-border tech activity across Africa, India, China, Southeast Asia, Latin America, CEE and the Middle East. With data and investor insights covering AI and enterprise SaaS to late-stage capital and exits, the report also covers digital infrastructure, private credit and private equity.
GPCA Members can log in to download the accompanying Data Pack, which includes disclosed investments over USD20m (sortable by tech vertical and HQ), VC fundraising and disclosed fund closes by region and exit breakdowns by geography.
GPCA’s Managing Director of Research Jeff Schlapinski moderated a session on successful infrastructure investments in growth markets at the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit in Berlin. The panel featured Augment Infrastructure’s Viktor Kats and ICA’s Alper Akar.
Here are some key takeaways:
►Investors expressed optimism about the global pipeline of investible infrastructure assets, driven by structural trends like digitalization and rising energy demand from AI. However, fundraising for infrastructure, PE and VC has slowed in recent years.
►Shifting trade patterns are expected to create new opportunities in transportation and logistics.
►Declining costs, integrated storage and rapid deployment timelines are keeping solar energy commercially competitive globally, despite shifting climate policies in key markets like the US.
►Sovereign and pension funds from Europe, the Middle East and Canada are seeking large-scale opportunities (USD500m–USD1b+) beyond the US and Europe.
