Tag Archives: CB Insights
Big 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 out the key auto tech partnerships, investments, and acquisitions of these … Continue reading
China: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
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 local enterprises and organizations, according to Gartner, Inc… The massive consumer base and the … Continue reading
Robotics: From Tesla in 1898 to Exits in 2011-2016
PBS: [Nikola] Tesla wanted an extraordinary way to demonstrate the potential of his system for wireless transmission of energy [radio]. In 1898, at an electrical exhibition in the recently completed Madison Square Garden, he made a demonstration of the … Continue reading
Skills and Jobs for the Digital Future
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MZ288onbs] 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 (@tdav) Karen Kocher, Cigna (@kkocher) Steve Phillips, Avnet, Inc. (@Steven_phillips) Are … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence is the New Big Data
Source: CB Insights Trends
Artificial 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 active investors in this category (tech corporates have also been … Continue reading
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
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
Forrester 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% of all IoT funding dollars. In 2015, the share of industrial … Continue reading
A 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 agriculture. Q1’16, for example, saw financings to enterprise drone developer Airware and industrial augmented-reality … Continue reading