Bitcoin and Blockchain Startups
CB Insights: We originally published this infographic 5/22/15 and updated it 3/2/16, as strategic investors across insurance (New York Life, Transamerica Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures), telecom...
View Article26 Largest FinTech Deals of 2015
Bloomberg.com: A new report from KPMG International and CB Insights shows that private funding flowed relatively freely into the fintech industry in 2015, feeding into an overall trend that has seen...
View Article56 Smart City Startups
CB Insights: These are some of the segments that these startups are attacking: Parking – Startups are improving the efficiency with which we park our cars, doing everything from booking (ParkWhiz),...
View Article125 HR Tech Startups and Market Landscape
CB Insights: HR tech startups have seen considerable momentum, raising $2.4B in 2015. The breakdown is as follows: Recruiting Tools: This was the largest category in the market map. It includes...
View ArticleThe Robots Are Coming: Funding and Spending Doubling
CB Insights: Funding to private robotics companies nearly doubled in 2015, reaching a record high in deals and dollars… Our robotics category excludes drones, but includes robotics companies focused...
View Article64 Healthcare IoT Startups and Market Landscape
CB Insights: Investor interest in IoT startups working in healthcare has grown hand-in-hand with the broader boom in digital health. Increasingly, Internet of Things startups are finding new...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence (AI) Exits 2013-2016
CB Insights: More than 20 private companies working to advance artificial intelligence technologies have been acquired in the last 3 years by corporate giants competing in the space, including Google,...
View ArticleCannabis Startups and Market Landscape
Cannabis News: Bang Holdings Corp. announced that it is aggressively targeting the enormous cannabis advertising void created by Google, whose restrictive advertising policies prohibit...
View ArticleConsumer Goods Companies Disrupting P&G
CB Insights: [The] companies attacking P&G’s brand portfolio, many of which are venture capital or investor-backed, ranging from cosmetics startup brands like Glossier, Stowaway and Julep Beauty,...
View ArticleA Growing Share of IoT Investment Goes to Industrial IoT
CB Insights: A growing slice of deals to Internet of Things startups are going to applications relevant to asset-heavy industries, including manufacturing, logistics, mining, oil, utilities and...
View Article106 Ed Tech Startups Disrupting Education
CB Insights: Our map illustrates the following ed tech categories: Broad Online Learning Platforms – Perhaps ed tech’s most visible segment, these platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and Khan Academy host...
View ArticleTop 5 Investors in the Industrial IoT
CB Insights: The industrial IoT (IIoT) accounted for more than one-third of all IoT investment last quarter. But while the Industrial side of IoT is taking an increasing share of funding, the startup...
View ArticleQ1 2016 VC investment in AR/VR 45% higher than previous quarter
Digi-Capital: Almost $1.2 billion was invested by VCs in AR/VR in the first quarter of 2016, with around $800 million going into Magic Leap. To put this in perspective, $1.2 billion dollars is 25x the...
View ArticleApple, Uber, and the Ride-Hailing Investment Landscape
CBInsights: Just last week, Apple made waves by investing $1 billion into Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, its first disclosed private investment in recent years. The deal was just the third...
View ArticleForrester and IDC on Consumer Interest in IoT
IDC-IoTAPril2016 Consumer IoT is lagging behind industrial IoT in terms of interest, investments, and successful applications. CB Insights has found that in 2011, the industrial IoT accounted for 17%...
View Article53 Startups Defining the Commercial Real Estate Landscape
CB Insights: Listing & Search Services – This was the largest category in our market map, and includes startups that help users search for commercial real estate. This section includes 42Floors,...
View ArticleStartups Mining New Data Sources for Investors
CB Insights: The proliferation of mobile devices, low-cost sensors, and technologies like AI-assisted image-processing have led to an explosion of new and potential data sources. Hedge funds and other...
View Article72 Startups Disrupting Retail
CB Insights: Transforming bricks-and-mortar shopping is a high-stakes endeavor for retailers given Americans still do over 90% of our shopping in physical stores. In fact, one of the latest trends in...
View ArticleFood Tech Market Landscape
CB Insights: The food tech category encompasses everything from Grubhub-Seamless competitors to laboratories designing plant-based meat. The bulk of funding has gone to food delivery startups, which...
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