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A Visual Guide to the Startup Universe

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31 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 tools that offer task management, job-site scheduling, and document management … Continue reading

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Artificial 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 in Series A funding and London-based health services … Continue reading

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125 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 company-information service GlassDoor as well as Hireology. This section … Continue reading

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32 Artificial Intelligence Startups In Healthcare

CB Insights: We identified 32 companies that are already applying machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to reduce drug discovery times, provide virtual assistance to patients, and diagnose ailments by processing medical images, among other things. The 32 startups on … Continue reading

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Israeli Internet of Things (IoT) Landscape

Innovation Endeavors: 1) IoT is booming with activity in Israel.  According to the landscape research, there are around 330 Israeli IoT companies.  As Israel is home to approximately 6,100 active startups in total, IoT represents a surprisingly whopping 5% of … Continue reading

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The IoT Startup Landscape (Infographic)

CB Insights: Wearables A category of wrist, body, and head-mounted devices that we have previously looked into. Most of the companies in this subset of IoT are makers of consumer fitness bands and smart watches. Other products in this area include … Continue reading

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The Startup Unicorn Explosion (Infographic)

CB Insights: We looked at all still-private unicorns since 2011 and charted them based on when they first joined the unicorn club. While initially the chart shows unicorns being created at a relatively calm pace, the rhythm accelerates noticeably in … Continue reading

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Startups Disrupting Apple (Infographic)

CB Insights: …we used CB Insights data and analysis to dig in and see which startups have been peeling away at some of the categories served by default iOS apps… We found dozens of investor-backed private companies developing apps that would … Continue reading

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Startups Disrupting Education with New Technologies

CB Insights: Venture capital funding to education technology startups passed $1.6B last year, across 217 deals. With ed tech startup investing becoming so competitive and crowded, it’s important to know where top VCs are placing their bets… Accel Partners, Felicis … Continue reading

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