Disrupting the Car Industry
CB Insights: While self-driving tech — which is included in the infographic above — receives the lion’s share of media attention, a host of less-heralded startups are targeting specific pieces of...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Startups in Healthcare
CB Insights: The startups [above] have raised more than $870M in aggregate funding since 2011. This year has seen some notable deals involving companies on the map: New York-based AiCure raised $12.3M...
View Article62 Startups Disrupting the Hotel Industry
CB Insights: Hotel Booking – Startups like HotelUrbano are making it easier to find, compare, and book hotel stays. Some companies like HotelTonight provide customers with last-minute deals for...
View Article31 Startups Disrupting the Construction Industry
CB Insights: Construction tech, while still nascent, is a growing industry with funding growing 5x in 2015 alone. Collaboration Software – This was the largest category in our market map and includes...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: Most Active Corporate Investors
CB Insights: Artificial intelligence dealmaking has exploded recently, leaping to a new quarterly record of over 140 deals in Q1’16. Corporates and their venture capital groups are among the most...
View ArticleKey AR/VR Acquisitions
CB Insights: Deals to AR/VR startups have seen a massive boom in recent years, with 2015 seeing a record 135 deals and $700M in funding. Acquirers in AR/VR span wide variety of industries, include...
View Article45 startups in the subscription e-commerce market landscape
CB Insights: Subscription e-commerce as a category has seen funding collapse and some companies struggle. At least five of these companies died in 2015, includingBeachmint which focused on...
View Article50 Startups Disrupting the Legal Services Industry
CB Insights: Online Legal Services – This section includes startups that provide a range of online legal services to consumers and businesses. This was the largest category in our map and includes...
View ArticleTop Investors in Digital Health
CB Insights: Digital health continues to be a hot category as the number of investors entering the space globally continues to increase, with more than 1,350 unique investors with at least one...
View ArticleE-Commerce Startups Market Landscape
CB Insights: These are the 120+ companies shaping global e-commerce, including startups selling apparel, used cars, baby care, eyeglasses, and more. We broke down e-commerce into the following...
View Article41 Startups Bringing AI To Fintech
CB Insights: The following are some of the investment highlights in this space: Goldman Sachs has been particularly active in the last 2 years, participating in 6 separate deals to 4 companies:...
View ArticleFood Industry: 93 Startups Disrupting and 10 Companies Dominating
CB Insights: The food and beverage industry is remarkably concentrated, with top companies wielding multiple, sometimes dozens, of brands to capture over 70% market share in the US market in key...
View Article77 Startups Disrupting the Agriculture Industry
CB Insights: We define agriculture tech as technology increasing the efficiency of farms, in the form of software, sensors, aerial-based data, internet-based distribution channels (marketplaces), and...
View ArticleSkills and Jobs for the Digital Future
Moderator: George Westerman, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@gwesterman) Speakers: Gerald Chertavian, Year Up (@yearup) Prof. Tom Davenport, Fellow at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy...
View Article41 WeddingTech Startups Transforming Your Wedding
CB Insights: As US couples’ average wedding spend has grown—to a whopping $32,000+, according to the most recent national survey by The Knot—investors have poured funding into startups aiming to ease...
View ArticleFastest $1B+ Exits For VC-Backed Companies
CB Insights: Walmart bought Jet.com for $3.3B a little over a year after the site was officially launched…Airwatch represents the fastest acquisition post-investment, selling the company to VMWare...
View ArticleRobotics: From Tesla in 1898 to Exits in 2011-2016
Submerged version of Nikola Tesla’s remote-controlled boat PBS: [Nikola] Tesla wanted an extraordinary way to demonstrate the potential of his system for wireless transmission of energy [radio]. In...
View ArticleChina: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
Gartner Hype Cycle for ICT in China, 2016 Gartner: Despite the slowdown in GDP growth to 6.9 percent in 2015, China is still making aggressive investments to drive the adoption of high technology by...
View ArticleBig Auto Self-Disruption
CB Insights: Traditional automotive OEMs have begun making deals at a frantic place, seeking to remedy their shortcomings in auto tech and ride-hailing disciplines. Using CB Insights data, we mapped...
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