PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pacific Crest Securities, the premier investment bank for technology, held its 10^th Emerging Technology Summit in San Francisco on March 3-4. The investment bank hosted more than 1,100 participants at the conference, including executives from more than 250 public and private technology companies and 500 investment professionals from industry-leading venture capital, private equity, mutual and hedge funds.

Pacific Crest’s team captured insights from technology thought leaders and reports the following emerging trends will transform the competitive landscape for several tech sectors, including Security & Data Analytics, SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure and Consumer, Internet & Digital, through the next several years.

• Private companies in Security Software & Data Analytics will continue to experience triple-digit growth due to high-profile breaches and the willingness from enterprises to invest in security infrastructure.
• The SaaS space will experience a continued infrastructure shift from software-defined to developer-defined.
• CIOs are increasingly willing to move mission-critical applications to the cloud.
• New e-commerce companies are avoiding Amazon and finding unique ways to partner with traditional retailers to create compelling experiences and gain customers.

“The landscape of the technology industry is always shifting, but lately we’ve seen even greater volatility than usual as established players are increasingly under siege from disruptive, well-funded startups,” said Scott Sandbo, chairman and chief executive officer of Pacific Crest Securities. “We were excited to expand the roster for this year’s event to include even more disruptive, growing private and public companies that are defining new delivery models into traditional industries and connecting them with the investor community.”

The results of Pacific Crest’s exclusive Annual SaaS survey were also released at this year’s event. Among the survey findings are an expected significant increase in IT spend in the coming year; and market share gain by traditional top vendor incumbents (such as MSFT, Oracle) after being taken on by new comers (including Brightcove, Netsuite) in the past few years.

“Our annual Emerging Technology conference brings together the next wave of private companies in the fastest growing sectors of technology, and serves as a ‘pre-IPO’ showcase of who will impact the markets in the near future,” said Terry Schallich, co-COO and co-head of Investment Banking. "Last year, 75 percent of our clients were software deals and the majority of those were cloud applications or infrastructure deals. Based on conversations at this year’s event, we expect that level of dealflow to continue or grow in 2015.”

For more information on Pacific Crest’s exclusive SaaS CFO Survey, click here.

About Pacific Crest Securities

Pacific Crest Securities is the premier investment bank for technology, operating at the leading edge, where global connectivity is fueling an unprecedented expansion cycle. The firm applies its knowledge of the drivers of value creation and its global network of relationships to technology’s high-growth sectors, such as global Internet, mobility, software as a service, cloud and big data, next-generation infrastructure, and energy and industrial technology. As a result, Pacific Crest’s clients – technology’s foremost institutional investors and market-leading companies – rely on it to achieve superior returns and gain competitive advantage from the seismic shifts occurring in technology.

Pacific Crest is a subsidiary of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) and has 140 employees headquartered in the United States, with offices in Boston, New York, Portland, San Francisco and Stamford, along with a Representative Office in Beijing and Pacific Crest Securities UK, Ltd.

Learn more at www.pacific-crest.com or follow on Twitter @PacCrestSec.

LANE (for Pacific Crest Securities)
Jeff Segvich, 503-546-7870
jeff@lanepr.com

Source: Pacific Crest Securities