Tag Archives: CB Insights
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
Consumer Goods Companies Disrupting P&G
CB Insights: [The] companies attacking P&G’s brand portfolio, many of which are venture capital or investor-backed, ranging from cosmetics startup brands like Glossier, Stowaway and Julep Beauty, hair color firms like Madison Reed and eSalon and men’s razor and facial care providers … Continue reading
Cannabis Startups and Market Landscape
Cannabis News: Bang Holdings Corp. announced that it is aggressively targeting the enormous cannabis advertising void created by Google, whose restrictive advertising policies prohibit cannabis-related companies. After almost two years and more than a million dollars invested in building the first … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Exits 2013-2016
CB Insights: More than 20 private companies working to advance artificial intelligence technologies have been acquired in the last 3 years by corporate giants competing in the space, including Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Yahoo, Facebook, Intel, and, more recently, Salesforce. … Continue reading
64 Healthcare IoT Startups and Market Landscape
CB Insights: Investor interest in IoT startups working in healthcare has grown hand-in-hand with the broader boom in digital health. Increasingly, Internet of Things startups are finding new applications within healthcare and leveraging connected sensors to better diagnose, monitor, and … Continue reading
The Robots Are Coming: Funding and Spending Doubling
CB Insights: Funding to private robotics companies nearly doubled in 2015, reaching a record high in deals and dollars… Our robotics category excludes drones, but includes robotics companies focused on process and manufacturing automation, agricultural automation, surgical applications, and personal/social robots. Together, … Continue reading
56 Smart City Startups
CB Insights: These are some of the segments that these startups are attacking: Parking – Startups are improving the efficiency with which we park our cars, doing everything from booking (ParkWhiz), parking analytics (Parkifi), and smart metering (MeterFeeder). Grid/Energy – These … Continue reading
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
26 Largest FinTech Deals of 2015
Bloomberg.com: A new report from KPMG International and CB Insights shows that private funding flowed relatively freely into the fintech industry in 2015, feeding into an overall trend that has seen startups opt to stay private for longer. Investment in venture capital-backed fintech companies … Continue reading
Bitcoin and Blockchain Startups
CB Insights: We originally published this infographic 5/22/15 and updated it 3/2/16, as strategic investors across insurance (New York Life, Transamerica Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures), telecom (Verizon Ventures, Orange Digital Ventures) and payments (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) among others dive … Continue reading