Author Archives: CB Insights

With $1.1B in Ed Tech venture capital financing in 2012, we wanted to take a closer look at which of the larger education companies, both private and public, have been most active in both acquiring and investing in emerging, privately-held … Continued

Late last year, we’d issued a list of Tech IPO Pipeline companies – those which have valuations greater than $100 million and which might be on the road towards an eventual IPO. Today, we wanted to revisit the list to … Continued

We just released our year-end 2012 Halo Report in conjunction with Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Resource Institute.  The full 33-page report recaps the entire year of 2012, including quarterly trends as well as annual comparisons versus years prior. … Continued

In Q3 2012, we’d commented that the 835 deals that took place were the highest number since the dot com boom. Q4 held relatively flat (834 deals) and Q1’13 saw a slight uptick leading to a new multi-year high on … Continued

So did Microsoft’s acquisition of social enterprise software start-up Yammer for $1.2 billion in Q3 2012 and Jive Software‘s IPO the prior winter ignite a firestorm of financing and exit activity in the social enterprise space? Sort of.  On the … Continued

Investment activity into the solar industry fell to its lowest level in 5 years in Q1 2013 with just 18 investments. The $269 million haul by solar companies was the second lowest tally of the last five years (the lowest … Continued

After our Series A Crunch Report calculated that more than 1000 companies would be orphaned as the result of the supply-demand imbalance for Series A funding, much of the conversation and angst was around which startups would fail. However, besides … Continued