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Domo is the Most Undervalued Unicorn, Crowd Says
The readers of CB Insights answered the question Who is the Most Undervalued Unicorn, choosing Domo over Airbnb in the final round.
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Financial Services Firms are Rushing to Invest in Bitcoin and Blockchain Startups
CB Insights: A relatively small number of startups have captured the large majority of financial services investments in the bitcoin and blockchain space. For example, four firms – Coinbase, Chain, Digital Currency Group, and Ripple – count 14 first investments by … Continue reading
41 Tech Startups Disrupting The Car Industry
CB Insights: Connected Car One of the more popular categories for consumer-focused auto tech startups is the connected car, in which companies exploit car data and cloud software to allow drivers and third-party services insights into driving habits, car usage, … Continue reading
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
Bubblelicious: Venture Capital Deals Surge to $37B in Q3 2015, 23 New Unicorns
Venture capital-backed companies raised more than $37B in Q3 2015 across 1,799 deals globally. Q3’15 saw 23 new billion-dollar private companies compared to just 12 in the same quarter a year earlier. North America led all continents with 17 new unicorns created in … Continue reading
The Rush to Deliver Meals to Our Homes
CB Insights: Food delivery is starting to get a little crowded. One-third of the companies in the food-delivery industry received their first round of funding in just the last year. Traditional VCs, celebrity chefs, and high-profile angel investors have all … Continue reading
The Next Billion-Dollar Startup: CB Insights’ Anand Sanwal at DEMO (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-OQ9S36S4&w=560&h=315] In a DEMO Traction presentation titled “It’s Definitely a Bubble. Maybe,” Anand Sanwal, founder and CEO of CB Insights (aspiring to be the “Bloomberg of private companies” in his words), talk about startup valuations, how fast the … Continue reading
Startups Disrupting the Hotel Industry
CB Insights: We used CB Insights data to highlight 52 startups threatening to peel away different niches and services currently occupied by the traditional hotel industry. Hotel Booking – Startups like Hotel Urbano and Splendia are making it easier to … Continue reading
Pure Play AI Startups are Good Candidates for ‘Acquihire,’ not Outsized Returns
Matt Wichrowski on Medium: [Hypothesis:] Pure play AI and Machine Learning startups make poor VC investments because they tend to exit early, before achieving outsized returns. To test this I examined CB Insights data on the 221 VC-backed AI/ML companies since … Continue reading