CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Total Equity Funding ($M). California.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

New research introduces an artificial intelligence-powered framework for “disguised face identification” – abbreviated by the researchers as DIC. Though the DIC research has notable flaws (including a small data set and far-from perfect success rates), the work raises timely ethical questions about anonymity, privacy, and dissent.

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Privacy AI Research Assessments 62

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

download our best of blockchain research. The biggest deal was Ledger’s $380M Series C in June, backed in part by Digital Currency Group — the top blockchain investor by deal count since 2017. The post 80+ Companies Shaping The Blockchain Landscape appeared first on CB Insights Research. First name. Company name.

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Blockchain NFTs Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Multi-Currency 101

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Universities, research groups, and tech companies are sending these machines to space at an unprecedented pace. Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups capitalizing on the potential for small-sats to transform space exploration and intelligence. (We Latest Round: Series C | $70M | Nov 2017. First Name.

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Research On-Demand NOV Database 61

CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Since January 2017, roughly 6 billion confidential digital records have been stolen worldwide. We used the CB Insights database to identify 30+ startups enhancing enterprise data security across 8 categories, including homomorphic encryption, data access management, and more. But now, startups are rising to the challenge.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As had been reported, the project, which traces its genesis to 2017, would have let customers send and receive funds across virtual accounts. The startup uses sharding to break databases into units, and to help with scaling issues that typically are the hallmarks of blockchain. The banks had been in partnership with Fujitsu.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We used the CB Insights database to surface 9 notable early-stage startups leveraging artificial intelligence to serve the enterprise. All of the companies below are seed-stage or Series A startups that have raised funding since the beginning of 2017. First Name. Headquarters: Berkeley, California. Disclosed Funding: $13.6M.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

According to our 2017 CB Insights Corporate Venture Capital Report , the number of new corporate venture capital firms making first-time investments reached record levels in 2017. Below, we highlighted the number of CVCs making investments on a quarterly basis as well as the most active CVCs globally in 2017. Google Ventures.

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Innovation Database Research Technology 68

CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2017

The CB Insights research team welcomed three interns this summer – Kristen Tilley, Jimmy Xue, and Alyce Ge – who used the CB Insights platform to uncover and analyze early-stage trends in hot sectors. Emerging Technology Trends: 2017 Intern Presentation from CB Insights. DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throughout 2017, the total number of enterprise records breached every day, hour, minute, and second each doubled from the year prior according to Breach Level Index (BLI). CB Insights put together a research series on the future of data security. get the 39-page cyber defense report.

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Cybersecurity Data Breach Encryption Data Security 57

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Digitized, secure, and tamper-proof blockchain ledgers are promising to disrupt the database as we know it. Many corporations still work using a web of fax machines, handwriting, and siloed databases spread across disparate countries and contractors. A distributed ledger could insulate climate data from political volatility.

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Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Cryptocurrency Legal 78

CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2018

Download our 63-page deep dive into the acquisition, investment, and research strategy of Amazon. Amazon started aggressively targeting this vertical in January 2017, when it announced contracts with some of the largest auto parts suppliers in the country. The app stores precise measurements for vehicles in its database.).

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Innovation Database Use Case Origination 56

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

KrebsOnSecurity said it was alerted to the leak by Dylan Houlihan, a security researcher that had let Panera know about the issue on August 2, 2017. The report noted that shortly after Panera was contacted for comment on the matter, the information was removed from the website.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

Researchers. It has a resume pool of 100M applicants, from its own database as well as its network of job sites (excluding Linkedin). In June 2017, VCs including Greylock Partners, General Catalyst, NEA, and First Round Capital funded a law firm called Atrium in a $10.5M Human Resources / Recruiting. Software Developers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

However, it is still a hub for blockchain activity, reported CNBC, noting that there are several startups that are partnering with the Chinese government to research or enable blockchain technology. 91 in 2017 and 21 in 2016) and Australia (13 last year and 19 in 2016).

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 3, 2017

Likefolio , a website that uses social media connections to introduce investing concepts, recently began licensing its Brand Mapping Database. The database, which maps every publicly-owned brand and product, is aimed to help investors and financial research firms discover new insights.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

But in business, money is oxygen, and when the flow of money, from venture capital and private equity firms, or investment from companies willing to commit research and development dollars to a sector starts to dwindle, then several projects do not make it beyond concept to the land of reality. Thus, a peak. What Goes Up…. billion.

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Blockchain Use Case Research Bitcoin 55

CB Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The top exit in 2017 YTD was Expedia-backed Despegar ‘s IPO in Q3’17, which valued the company at $1.8B. Join us for a research briefing to see the startups disrupting the industry. M&A transactions represent the vast majority of exits 2013 – 2017 YTD. How is Tech Disrupting the Travel Industry? First Name.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Moller-Maersk, which suffered a major cyber attack in June 2017, have doubled down on their efforts to integrate technology into their businesses to increase efficiency and security. Maersk partnered with IBM earlier in 2017 to design a blockchain solution geared toward increasing transparency and security for the global shipping industry.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

“The core problem is that most organizations do not fully understand what data they possess across their vast corporate databases, product catalogs, email systems, budget spreadsheets and HR records, not to mention countless Word documents, slide presentations and social media postings,” wrote Bussie.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Download our 24-page deep-dive into the the acquisition, investment, and research strategy of Amazon. Amazon’s Echo Show, which debuted in May 2017, could provide a prototype for the technology in this patent. Get the PDF: The Amazon Strategy Teardown.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

10) that the ECB is ramping up its effort to develop a real-time cross-border payments system across the European Union and is looking at 2017 as a critical moment in that trajectory. The European Central Bank (ECB) is moving closer towards its goal to streamline payments across EU Member States and to make those transactions far cheaper.

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CB Insights

JULY 13, 2017

Dubbed Toyota AI Ventures, the new arm will slot in under Toyota Research Institute (TRI), hewing closely to its parent’s research focus areas of AI, cloud & data, robotics, and AVs. However, the company and its research arm has already been actively ramping up private markets investment. Auto Tech Trends.

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AI Research Database Origination 41

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

The app compares this information against the driver’s license database record. Likewise, IBM’s commercial security research team checked its spam traps and discovered an over 6,000 percent increase in the number of common tax scam emails from December 2016 to February 2017.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

To better understand auto suppliers’ moves, we identified the 5 automotive suppliers most active in private markets since 2014 and used our social graph tool to analyze this cohort’s bets through 2017 to date (10/31/2017). Auto Tech Trends.

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Cybersecurity Acquirers Database Automation 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

That statement seemingly set the stage for a discussion on reform — and, not surprisingly, the Committee mentioned the infamous Equifax breach disclosed in 2017, which exposed data tied to at least half of all Americans.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) CFPB Breach Law Enforcement 63

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have exploded in popularity, closing on $3B+ in funding in 2017 alone. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.

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Blockchain Technology Bitcoin Participant 78

CB Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2017

RESEARCH BRIEFING: RISE OF ROBO-ADVISORS. Neurable demonstrated its prototype for a brain-controlled VR video game at the Siggraph conference in August 2017. The company says that creating a “brainwave database” can provide a school- or district-wide approach to quantitatively measuring student engagement in class.

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Research CHIPS Risk Procedures 61

CB Insights

JULY 18, 2017

Deals to drone companies reached an all time quarterly high in Q1 2017 while funding is on pace to exceed year prior. We used the CB Insights database to round up the most active investors since 2012 in the drone space and ranked them by investments into unique drone companies. Flying High: The State of Drone Technology.

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Database SWIFT Processors Research 37

PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

This is something Jarae is working on preventing through his nonprofit called The Identity Institute, which is slated to launch in 2017. A study from Lux Research indicated that mobile payments will need to incorporate biometric authentication features in the next few years in order to stay popular with users. Biometric technology.

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Due Diligence Online and Mobile Banking Verification Financial Inclusion 42

CB Insights

AUGUST 17, 2017

Using the CB Insights database, we examined a few startups working in fields from refueling ICE-powered (internal combustion engine) vehicles to selling vehicles to individual consumers. Using the CB Insights company comparison tool, we took a closer look at four gasoline refueling startups that have raised capital in 2017.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform, integrated with Middesk, will give financial institutions access to real-time verification data sourced from multiple databases including the offices of all fifty Secretaries of State, the IRS, the USPS, OFAC, and more.

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Innovation AI Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking 64

CB Insights

AUGUST 7, 2018

Using CB Insights data and firsthand experience working at a clinical research site, we analyzed the promises and limitations of AI in clinical trials. R&D costs — not just of successful drugs, but also ones that failed during the research process — is an oft-cited reason for exorbitant drug prices.

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AI Enrollments Research Payment APIs and Integration 77

CB Insights

AUGUST 24, 2017

Corporations of all stripes are heavily engaged in their own research here as well, with a range of insurers linked to autonomous vehicle patents and Amazon detailing plans for an airborne warehouse for drone fulfillment. Date published (application): 8/24/2017. Date published (application): 4/27/2017. Date filed: 2/22/2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Park, said the complaint, was part of a hacker group backed by the North Korean government (where operations were conducted in part through Chosun Expo Joint Venture, a state-owned entity), and the charges unsealed by the United States tied him to other attacks, including headline-grabbing 2017 WannaCry 2.0

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

Data from Dimensional Research shows that many companies – in fact, a majority of them –are not yet in compliance with the mandates. ” Other research shows similar sentiment as the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike noted that supply chains are being targeted by bad actors – increasingly so, it seems. How low are the rates?

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CB Insights

JUNE 5, 2019

Veritone, an AI company, has developed facial recognition software known as IDentify, which compares images to those in an offender database to help match potential suspects. Chrysler took this concept a bit further with the Portal minivan, which debuted at CES in 2017.

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Technology Law Enforcement Online and Mobile Banking Authentication 78