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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
IoT: Market Landscape, Companies, Funding, VCs, Maturity Level
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What has @Facebook Wrought: No More Six Degrees of Separation
Facebook: How connected is the world? Playwrights [1], poets [2], and scientists [3] have proposed that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people. In honor of Friends Day, we’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph … Continue reading
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102 Startups Digitally Disrupting Banking
CB Insights: Digital banking startups have secured more than $10.3B in funding since 2010, as they disrupt the banking value chain, providing consumers with new alternatives for services traditionally dominated by consumer banks, including lending, bill pay, personal finance, and investment … Continue reading
Industrial IoT Market to Reach $151.01 Billion by 2020
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market was valued at $93.99 Billion in 2014, to reach $151.01 Billion by 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.03% between 2015 and 2020. IIoT is the integration of complex … Continue reading
The Myths of Disruptive Innovation and Accelerating Speed
The Economist: More creative destruction would seem to imply that firms are being created and destroyed at a greater rate. But the odds of a company dropping out of the S&P 500 index of big firms in any given year … Continue reading