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3 AI programs to talk at TED 2020: $5 million competition announcement
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Smart Home Market $56.18 Billion by 2020
MarketsandMarkets: The smart home market is estimated to grow from $25.38 Billion in 2015 to $56.18 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 17.2% between 2015 and 2020, while the assisted living market is estimated to grow from $1.20 Billion … Continue reading
63 Fintech Startups Targeting Millennials
CB Insights: Fintech startups prominent in the millennial demographic range include “robo-advisors” offering low-cost alternatives to brokerages, to lending firms innovating in credit risk, and stock-picking and automated savings apps. Many of the fintech startups are leveraging existing technologies already … Continue reading
Beyond Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google: Intelligent Assistants Landscape
VB: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise… In 2015, the … Continue reading
Funding per Internet of Things Category
Venture Scanner: We are currently tracking over 803 companies in 16 categories across 43 countries, with a total of $6.82 Billion in funding. HT: Noric Dilanchian
Internet of Things (IoT) Predictions
For the third year in a row, the Internet of Things has dominated CES. More than 900 companies out of 3,800 at the show said they had Internet of Things products. Andrew Begin at Mirum observed that the IoT has … Continue reading
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Virtual/Augmented Reality: Commercial and industrial applications account for most deals
CB Insights: The number of VR/AR startups is increasing as venture capital dollars continue to flood in, with investment reaching an all time high in 2015 of $658M in equity funding across 126 deals, according to CB Insights data. Even as VR/AR … Continue reading
The Evolution of Digital Capacity by Country
The Fletcher School, Tufts: The Digital Evolution Index (DEI) analyzes the key underlying drivers and barriers that govern a country’s evolution into a digital economy: Demand, Supply, Institutional Environment, and Innovation. A longitudinal analysis of these four drivers during the … Continue reading